Saturday, October 29, 2005

And now you know

And knowing is what?

Well last week Maya definitely learned something new. The other week we met up with her and gave her a dvd set for her B-day present. She opened it in the car and left the plastic wrapper in the backside. I knew she was going to leave it there. SO when we dropped her off, yep, she left it there even after I was yelling at her to pick it up. So I grabbed it and left it on her doorstep, and rang the doorbell. She came back out and threw it back in the car through an open window. I ran it back to her door and tried driving away, but she lives in a court and I couldn't drive too far. She stuck in under the doorhandle on the passenger side.

So by that time, I was tired to run around so Jen and I left. Needless to say I was pretty annoyed at the garbage left in the car. I looked in the cupholder and saw another foil top she left earlier. SO by the time I got back, I was plotting my revenge and then it hit me! I went back to the apt, put both items in an enveloper, threw a stamp on it and mailed that shit back to her. It was perfect.

Now, I know what you're thinking, why in the world did he spend 37 cents to mail garbage to someone? Well let me tell you what made it worth it, I mailed it on Saturday and come Wednesday night, I get a call on my cell phone with her yelling on the other side. Now, I was laughing a bit so I didn't quite hear everything she said but yeah that made it totally worthwhile. So yah Maya learned a valuable lesson, don't leave garbage in my car or I'll mail that shit back to you.

Until next time......................

Monday, October 24, 2005

Happy Birthday tooooo............ME!

AAHHH yes, one of my favorite times of the year. My Birthday! I always liked my B-day, not because of the presents (which rock), or the dinner (which super rocks), but I like it the best because I can normally get most of my friends together to hang out.

This year was very cool since my actual B-Day was on a week day, I got to move the big celebration dinner around a bit. It was pretty cool, I got to celebrate my birthday pretty much over the entire span of October. My parents were going to be out of town on the weekend of the 15th, they wanted to dinner the weekend before. So I got a nice piece of prime rib on the 8th. Then my b-day happened on a Thursday and Jen and I went to Todai for a free B-day dinner. Which sucked. Todai is kindofa rip off. The damn buffet costs 24 bucks for dinner and 25 on a Friday and sat. And those days are the only real ones to go on because they have the Lobster on the buffet. But I digress, the other cool thing was that since it was my B-day, I was able to take that Friday off from work. So Friday I had it all planned out where Jen and I go to B-fast at this place called Stacks which has some pretty good pancakes, then we took a trip to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Which, if you've read Jen's website lately was conveniently closed. Making me look like a Jackass. But the Arcade was open so I was able to play a game or two before resigning to defeat and driving home.

At the beginnig of Oct I took a quick poll of everyone if the weekend of the 15 or the 22nd would work better for them and everyone pretty much said the 22nd. Which leads me up to this next part about dinner.

If you haven't been to one, I normally get about 15-30 friends together and have a big dinner at a cool resturant. Aside from the disastrous, but educational 21st B-day, all of them have totally rocked. This year, I got 15 people together at Tony Roma's, which co-incidently, is a pretty good place for ribs. I always get the Beef Ribs when I go there. They are almost the size of my forearm and I feel like I'm in the Flintstones when I get them. And they taste good too. My first impulse for dinner though was the Texas Roadhouse up in Union City, but when I called those hillbilly bastards, they couldn't handle a party of 15 to 20. So that sucked because that place has the best Prime Rib I've ever had.

After the dinner, I planned to have everyone who could, come down to the Corn Maize over in Fremont for some haunted corn maize fun. But when we got there, we found that the damn place closed at 9 (we got there at 10). SO that totally sucked ass. Instead we decided to go bowling at the 4th street bowl.

Now I know it's been a while since I've been bowling, so I expected to suck for a bit, but my first frame I went up, my approach was good, the backswing solid, but the release didn't quite work as well as I thought. My feet slipped out from under me and I fell onto the lane. Now, I've been bowling on and off since before High school and this is the first time I fell on the fucking lane. I didn't do a full face plant and slid down to the pins or anything, but I smacked my knees on the passline and my hands went right into the oil on the lane. It was totally embarrassing and don't worry, Jen got a good picture of my ass on the floor. But I always like denial, so if someone asks about the picture, I'm going to say I was sacrificing my first frame to the bowling gods in an attempt to appease them.

So, in the end my almost month long celebration of my b-day was totally cool. I always enjoy hanging out with everyone and eating a lot of meat. Now normally I would take this time to reflect on the fact that I'm 26, which is a stone's throw away from the big 30. Most people would start to panic at that fact, would start to panic and question themselves like where am I going with my life? Am I working at the place I want to call "My Career"? I thought I would start to have the same questions about my life, but for some reason I don't care that much about dumb questions. I know I'm still kinda starting off and I still have time to work that crap out. I'm almost thinking I'm glad I'm one step closer to 60, so I can finally retire and be done with this work shit that I'm currently doing.

So in the end, I always enjoy the time around my B-day, I get to celebrate the day I was brought upon this earth, to begin my journey into this life and my work towards immortality. But more importantly, I get to have fun with my friends and eat good food.

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Trip

Well Kiddies,

It's certainly been a while since I find myself pecking away at the keyboard telling you all of my dribbles that come from this convoluted mind of mine, but I think I'm way overdue.

SO, as I know you have been wondering, the big question is what have I been up to? I guess the biggest thing was I just got back from a trip from Europe. If you haven't read from everyone else's blogges, we took a week and a half trip over to a few places over there. We started in Amsteram, then hopped over to Munich, took the train to Paris and ended up in London. To say the least it was a blast. It definatly was the life experience that everyone says needs to be done. I had a lot of fun hanging with everyone and seeing everything.

I call this trip the Shotgun trip across Europe. Althought we're not students anymore, we definately did the Student Backpack trek. We stayed in cheap Hostels, lived out of our backpacks and did everything we could as fast as possible.

So, as it will take me a long time to get everything down on this blog as to what we did, I'd have to start at the beginning. The first part of this trip was a long-ass flight from San Francisco to London. This took like 11 hours to get over there. Normally I would try to sleep on the way over, but I had the classic long flight entertainment. Yep, you guessed it, right next to me for the whole trip was the screaming 2 year old! She was sitting on her dad's lap the whole trip. To make it even better, in the seat in front of them was Mom with the screaming 1 year old. So needless to say, I got shit worth of sleep on the way over. I saw a couple of cool movies but that's about it. So we landed at Heathrow Airport, and from there we had to take a bus to Gatwick Airport for our connecting flight to Amsterdam. The Heathrow airport sucked big time. It was stuffy and hot. There were a lot of escalators and moving sidewalks that were taking us deeper and deeper. I told Maya as we were schlepping down there it felt ilke the fourth ring of hell. We finally made it out and took a very boring bus ride from one airport to another.

Well, I'm getting tired of typing, so I leave the story at the boring beginnings. I will do my best to log in sooner than a month, but until then.......ROCK AND ROLL!