Take a Ride to the Land Inside of Your Mind

     The fin boxes are in! After a delay caused by missing tools, missing sandpaper, missing time, and a homemade Futures router jig that I deemed inadequate so I had to make another, I finally got the boxes in 005. I have to say, it's a little daunting plunging a router into a board that's not mine for the first time, but everything went well and now I just have to finalize the logo and then I'll be on my way to glassing.
     More thoughts on the missing tools: it occurred to me that when you misplace something, it is in fact your past self, be it your self five minutes ago or a week or a month, misjudging the person you would become by the time you are looking for the misplaced item in question. When you placed the keys in the flower pot, for example, you thought that that would be a logical place for your future self to look for them. But, alas, your self changed just that much in the interim so that now you would never dream of looking in the flower pot for your keys, and end up wandering around the house for fifteen minutes thinking they must be gone for good. So yeah, it's an interesting testament to how much your self changes from one moment to the next, and how unpredictable those changes can be. From now on, try to be a better judge of your future self, and you'll lose less things.

     This picture was taken in darkness, the light that you see is lightning from the thunder storm that came across the Island at 5:15 the other morning and turned the winds from offshore to sideshore and ruined the chances of surfing that morning. Still, being on the beach and watching a thunder storm come up the Island, and then suddenly being in the middle of it on the edge of the Atlantic, made it almost worth it.

Eggplant.

     While driving home from checking the surf this morning (small waves + extremely low tide + hard offshore winds = no surfing for me) this song came on AM 1340. "Journey to the Center of Your Mind," the sixth track off of The Amboy Dukes' 1968 album of the same name. It's rare you get to hear a song like this on a radio station that isn't college radio. The Amboy Dukes launched the career of one Ted Nugent, which is kind of funny, considering the character he's become today. But, even then, he still clung to his conservative views, as he supposedly banned the band from partaking in any drugs whatsoever, which is kind of funny for a band from the sixties dressed like that playing music like that and talking about taking journeys to the center of your mind and all that. Nugent himself said he "never smoke a joint...never done a drug in my life. I thought 'Journey to the Center of the Mind' meant look inside yourself, use your head, and move forward in life". Fair enough Ted, but c'mon, the cover of the album has a bunch of pipes and other drug-related paraphernalia. But yeah, their first three albums (The Amboy Dukes, Journey to the Center of Your Mind, and Migration) are all pretty good psych albums. The Dukes' career went on for at three more studio albums, one greatest hits, and one live album, albeit under the name Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes. I don't think they're very good, and mark the beginning of Ted's love of hunting and the wild in general, with plenty of songs about guns and woods and stuff like that, and album names like Survival of the Fittest, Call of the Wild, and Tooth Fang and Claw. Ridiculous guy? Yes. Great guitar player? Also yes.

Take a ride to the land inside of your mind
Beyond the seas of thought
Beyond the realm of what
Across the streams of hopes and dreams
Where things are really not

But please realize
You'll probably be surprised
For it's the land unknown to man
Where fantasy is fact
So if you can, please understand
You might not come back