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[jul. 9-a, 2009|08:12 am] |
The awesome thing about San Francisco is the way that when you walk* to work, everyone on the street looks you in the eye, smiles, and wishes you a good morning.
*Walking to work also awesome. |
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| Desert |
[jul. 7-a, 2009|08:03 am] |
I just spent four days in the desert. It was great. Highlights:
- Bumping into Dana on the way out as I was on the way in, and getting out to the ranch to check on Gigstuff.
- III and M indulging me by bringing out the vast collection of stuff I needed to feel "right."
- Girl Nest!
- Fizzball!
- Jovino's awesome spinning.
- Ride on top of Rpoodle's car!
- Ridin' in Dan's truck!
- Frogbat!
- Bootie at Fandango!
- Bar Pockets!
- No hangover!
- Beer in the morning in the shelter of a big truck.
- People's generosity in sharing a huge amount of water with me when I apparently had an "I gotta drink 4-gallons of water" afternoon.
- Trego hot springs.
- The Mithratron.
- Seeing the way people came together to help B when his car blew a head gasket.
- The silence on the last night.
- Jet and Roxy sharing corned beef hash.
I got a little cranky on Sunday afternoon because I was hungry and couldn't make myself eat (note to self: eat bigger breakfasts and force a couple cliff bars down during the afternoon regardless). It's hard to believe that so much awesome could be packed into that few days. One more trip and then I can be home with my honey! |
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| Very Mobile |
[jun. 28-a, 2009|11:05 pm] |
Ever since ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) random_stabs came out to help with the GCI, I've lusted after his Samsung NC20.
On Thursday, work issued me an EVDO card, which means I'm pretty much expected to be on-call anywhere for managerial biznez. That pushed me over the top, but I didn't have time to get out and check out netbooks in person before my massive multi-office business trip. Also, it looks like most people offer Netbooks only as online purchases anyway.
Well, guess who's got two thumbs, a credit card, and will have a Samsung N120 (it's smaller than the NC20) arriving Tuesday at our DC office? That's right -- THIS GIRL! The N120's gonna be much nicer for travel, and it was only $413 -- plus another $26 for next-day air.
Yeehaw. |
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| Travel Queen |
[jun. 27-a, 2009|04:08 pm] |
Last Weds: LGB > OAK
Last Thurs: SFO > LGB
Mon: LGB > IAD
Thurs: IAD > RNO
Fri: RNO > BRC
Mon: BRC > RNO
Weds: RNO > OAK
Fri: SFO > BUR
It's gonna be quite the two weeks. I'm just glad I get to spend this weekend at home with my friends and Erich relaxing. |
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| MISSION TIKI!!! TOMORROW!!! |
[jun. 17-a, 2009|02:23 pm] |
Join me at Mission Tiki this Thursday to see a double bill of “the Hangover” and the new Terminator movie. Mission Tiki drive-in is awesome, they don’t care what food or drink you bring in, you can smoke while you watch the film, the old guys working the gate I think are stoned half the time and IT’S A DAMN DRIVE-IN.
They also have corn dogs.
I like to bring chairs and sit outside when the weather is nice, and when it isn’t, you can huddle in the car and neck.
Mission Tiki Drive-in: http://missiontiki.com/#/now/
First movie starts: 8:30pm |
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| I don't have butt-cancer! |
[jun. 10-a, 2009|01:06 pm] |
So, this is a followup for those of you who wanna hear about my insides. The short version is that I'm still sick a lot, but the doc has suggested some changes that we hope will help. Also, while the polyp they found would likely eventually have become cancer (they can tell these things, apparently), it had not yet metastized. That's some pretty good news, especially considering recent developments in a number of friends' lives.
( more bootycam details )
When I signed in at the doctor's office, the surname of the patient in front of me was "Mangina." This is possibly the first time I have ever regretted not owning a cameraphone. |
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| Summer Travel Season |
[maj. 29-a, 2009|03:49 pm] |
Summer Travel Season has started! Or is that Spring Travel Season?
Last weekend, it was off to Bishop for the Mule Rodeo.
This weekend, the Bay Area for Maker Faire. We're staying with Splat and Andrea, and have tickets for both days, although we might just go on Saturday. |
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| Swing down, sweet kitty cat... |
[maj. 27-a, 2009|12:33 pm] |
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Sometimes the best way to spend your lunch hour is rewriting the lyrics for "Let Me Ride" to be about your cat. |
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| Let's Play A Game! |
[maj. 22-a, 2009|11:13 am] |
Apropos of a conversation I had last Saturday, I looked in my iTunes library today for songs containing the word "Amoeba." Turns out, there are two songs in my iTunes library called simply "Amoeba," and a third that contains the word "Amoeba" as part of its two-word title.
Without looking anything up, can you name the songs/artists?
I'll be gone camping all weekend, and will score the results upon my return! |
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| Listen to meeeeeee! |
[maj. 18-a, 2009|05:11 pm] |
I'll be celebrating "I can drink again day" with a very special guest appearance on the Army of Drunks Internet Radio Talking Funny Show tonight.
You can hear me by going to:
http://theoryradio.org/ |
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| CELEBRATION! IT'S LIKE MARDI GRAS! |
[maj. 18-a, 2009|08:38 am] |
So, for six weeks, my doctor has told me I was not allowed to drink alcohol due to all the various medical procedures and so forth I've been going through. That prohibition* expires today, which coincidentally is also a day off for me because I work Saturdays. I kicked the morning off with an excellent bottle of Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA Ale my sister brought over on Saturday.
I now present to you the "Yay, Beer" song:
This is the "YAY BEER" song:
YAY, BEER!
YAY, BEER!
You taste so awesome!
I missed you so much!
I think you making me tipsy faster than before I left!
YAY BEER YAY!!
*U C whut I did thar? |
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| Kitteh Gamer |
[maj. 11-a, 2009|11:25 pm] |
Here's Erich teaching Izchak to play Arkham Horror back in 2006, when he was just a little kitty:
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| Neighbor Music |
[maj. 9-a, 2009|10:34 pm] |
Starting around this time every year, and lasting all summer, we get to listen to our backyard neighbors' parties. Because of the way our lot is situated, our backyard abuts roughly seven other back yards, so we get a wide selection of genres, all of them good. The neighbors who hire live mariachi bands have the most parties, but they mix it up with a nice collection of 80s music once dark sets in. Someone in that family has a birthday around this time of year, so springtime party season usually kicks off with a big mariachi party and lots of singing about "cumpleanos feliz." They did it last Saturday, and it sounded awesome, as always. It's one of my personal harbingers of Spring.
A different neighbor is having a loud, raucous hip-hop party tonight, with a good selection of rap and funk from the last ten years or so. Earlier they had it turned up way too loud, then softer, then too loud again. It went on like that for about twenty minutes, at which point it appears someone with good sense stepped in. Now the music is just loud, but not so loud that it will interfere with sleep when we decide to do that. It makes we wanna go over and ask if I can dance at their party, but I don't really know them other than occasional hellos over the back fence.
In the tiki room, we can hear it well enough that it was fun to listen to while Erich and I played Lost Cities.
Erich noted that it's a pity we don't have a bullhorn, so we could make requests. I just think it would be funny to pull out a bullhorn and compliment the DJ on his musical selections. |
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| I Hate Amateur Nights |
[maj. 5-a, 2009|10:02 pm] |
Man, I hate booze-themed pseudo-holidays. Saint Patrick's Day, Cinco De Mayo, can we please fucking celebrate our ancestral ethnicity without having it be an excuse to clog up our bars and roads with people who can't hold their liquor?
Name the big Italian holiday in the US and the way it's celebrated. C'mon, I dare ya.
( answer behind the cut ) |
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