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Sydney, 2001.02.17

We just had a great day up at the home of Sara's coworker Jo's parents. We went up last night, I had several home-brew bourbon sours (recipe below), needed to take a Cafergot cos of a mysterious headache that formed at 4 AM, then we headed to the beack. And I had my first surfing lesson from Jo and Sara's coworker, Rob.

It was lots of fun. I never attempted to stand, but caught one wave just right and it took me about fifty metres into the shore. Really quite amazing.

Recipe for Michael's bourbon sour:

1) Get a 'Stoly' (lemon Ruski drink produced by Stolichnaya) and quickly drink 1/3 of it

2) When 1/3 has been consumed, top up with bourbon

3) shake

4) consume

These get better as you go along. Or so it seems, anyway.

rand()m quote

I'd see the publicity guy come on the set and I'd go hide in the rafters. The crew would be like, ‘I haven't seen him.' And then they'd leave and I'd go back to work. Because that's what's fun: the doing, not the talking.

—Kurt Russell