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Today is Cyber Monday, the day for shoppers to surf the Web for special deals. As more people feel comfortable making purchases online, Web retailers expect to draw a rising share of holiday purchases. But with the credit crunch and financial meltdown contributing to the massive pullback in spending, will Cyber Monday be an Internet boom or bust? "I would say bust," says Jon Vincent, founder of BlackFriday.info, an online-deal site. Analyst Ken Cassar of Nielsen Online is little more optimistic. "Cyber Monday will likely be disappointing," he says...
...next day if the waves are happening, I'm out there again. It's not something that necessarily gets old. You push yourself to a certain limit and once you've done something new you've want to keep going, you want to do something further. I surf, I walk, I sleep. It's that much a part of my life. In that way it's very addictive...
What's the longest you've gone without surfing? I've gone like 5 weeks before, without being injured. Maybe 35 days? I like to step away from it sometimes, but if there's been good surf and I miss something then I get agitated. If friends are calling me going, "Oh, you missed this," then I get irritated. It starts to eat away at me and I have to get out there...
...life in 1998 and retired but then you ultimately returned. Why did you feel burned out? I'd been doing the same thing every year for a number of years. I was probably - well, not even probably - I was definitely tired of it in the end. I mean, for surfing, our year is not like a 4- or 6-month thing, it's basically a 10-plus-month tour, so that is tiring. You go to the same places each year, surf the same spots, see the same guys mostly. It just got to a level of monotony...
...your comeback year: you won a world title seven years after your last win. What were your expectations going into that? It was a little daunting because I had come really close in 2003 to winning a title and literally lost out in the last surf of the year. It was very upsetting. And then the following year I didn't have a very good year. But in 2005 I was doing well, things were good and it was scary to think I might get close but not pull it off again. When I did pull...