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next week is THANKSGIVING [Nov. 16th, 2007|01:01 am] [ Current Mood | packing, again ] [ Current Music | Conway Twitty - That's My Job ] If things go the way they were discussed tonight, I will have the car again next week. So... If anyone needs a ride to Chico between 2:30 and 5pm the Wednesday before T-day, I am offering. I'm looking at you, boys in the Mission. And I could even swing through Davis. Just lemme know. Peace. Link Leave a comment

my mom forgot to tell me [Nov. 7th, 2007|06:24 pm] [ Current Mood | - ] [ Current Music | - ] My grandfather's Memorial Service is: 2:00pm Nov. 17th at the CARD Center in Chico I know most of you did not associate extensively with him, but if you'd like to come, you are more than welcome. I'm still trying to figure out if I'll be able to speak at it, and if so, what to say. Someone called into the Chico Enterprise Record - not one of our family members - and told them they had better do an article on him and his passing. So the paper is currently pursuing a story. We're uncertain whether it will pan out, but it's a possibility. For more sad news, Terrace Pharmacy closed their doors last Friday. It was an inevitable occurrence, but kind of sad nonetheless. Link Leave a comment

... [Nov. 2nd, 2007|06:29 pm] [ Current Mood | - ] [ Current Music | - ] My grandpa passed away a little after 4pm today. I left town at 11:30am. I don't really want to talk about it as I'm trying my hardest not to be emotional right now. I have an overnight shift tonight. And tomorrow I will spend the day in bed. I will be going back to Chico very soon. Link 2 comments|Leave a comment

[Sep. 19th, 2007|09:08 pm] [ Current Location | not so deep underground ] [ Current Mood | concerned ] [ Current Music | The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? ] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20838944/ This past weekend, a meteorite crashed into a remote area of Peru near the village of Carancas. According to a national radio station, about 600 people have fallen ill since the meteorite's arrival. So I have to wonder: Zombies? Superheroes? Or pod people? Which one is it going to be? I really don't think people are worried enough about this. This could be the start of something huge. Is this not the beginning of way too many movies, including the most recent remake of Invasion Of The Pod People? This could be the end of the world, but nobody seems to have taken notice because it's in Peru. Perhaps I'm overreacting - perhaps. But when you're hopelessly running down the street from the zombie horde yelling, "Help me," I'll be laughing from the arms of a flying Peruvian superhero because I was aware enough to yell, "Ayudame," instead. Anyway, you've been warned. Link Leave a comment

ohh those crazy Russians... [Aug. 16th, 2007|05:44 pm] [ Current Location | the office ] [ Current Mood | a little painful ] [ Current Music | Roy Orbison - Running Scared ] Don't you love learning new things about your body? Today I went to the dentist for the first time in like four years. So as the dentist is looking at a possible defect in one of my molars, he quietly makes the comment that the molar is "180 degrees backward." After four years of orthodontia and twenty years of dental visits, why has no one informed me I still have one tooth that is backwards? So there's an Americas show tonight, and Lizzie comes in tomorrow. Should be a fun weekend. Peace out. Link 1 comment|Leave a comment

the mind wanders when stabbing clothes... [Jul. 23rd, 2007|11:48 pm] [ Current Mood | sorta ] [ Current Music | 69 Eyes - Framed In Blood ] Five words: International Ice Cream Flavour Database That was my great idea for the day. A user-submitted database that catalogs the flavour and the location of different ice creams. From taro root (Philippines) to burnt sugar & butter (Massachusetts) to garlic (Gilroy, CA) to Hokey Pokey (New Zealand), it will eventually list them all. The database will be searchable by both flavour and region. Anyway, that's the idea. So far people have been receptive to the idea. Now if I could just go from the concept stage to the follow through stage, I'd be golden. Link Leave a comment

on disasters... [Jul. 20th, 2007|06:20 pm] [ Current Mood | jeopardizing ] [ Current Music | The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony ] There was an article in the Chronicle today about the trailers that FEMA gave to displaced Hurricane Katrina victims. It turns out that these trailers have 75-times the allowable amount of formaldehyde gas in them. People have filed complaints and lawsuits are in progress. FEMA's response has been to ignore the problem and hope it solves it self or goes away. Here's my favourite quote from the article: Another FEMA attorney on June 15 wrote, "Do not initiate any testing until we give the OK. ...Once you get results and should they indicate some problem, the clock is running on our duty to respond to them." Because if there's one thing we shouldn't expect from FEMA, it's for them to respond quickly to a problem. That's just not how they do things. So there was an earthquake this morning at approximately 4:40am. I didn't find out about until after I got to work at seven - nearly three hours later. The thing is my alarm started going off at 4:30 this morning and I didn't get up til 5:30. So that means I spent an hour hitting my snooze, during which the quake happened, and I still didn't feel it. I tend to do that. Link Leave a comment

it lists your current balance [Jun. 19th, 2007|08:45 pm] [ Current Mood | appropriately tired ] [ Current Music | Wilco - Jesus, Etc. ] If you hate your life, realize I just set my alarm for 3:30am. Fuckin' inventory. Today a bird tried to land on my head, and not one of those parrots people flaunt down on the Embarcadero. I was walking along - minding my own business - toward the 24th St BART station when I felt what I initially thought were fingernails spreading across my scalp. My natural reaction was to lower my head out from under the foreign fingers. My eyes dropped down to my shadow where I saw my head and the shadow of a bird flapping directly above it. By the time, I turned around to see my attacker, the bird had flown off in a direction unknown. By the size of the shadow I would say it was a Brewer's blackbird, but its motive is still unclear. Fuckin' birds. Well, time for bed. Link Leave a comment

home again [Jun. 17th, 2007|09:53 pm] [ Current Mood | regretful ] [ Current Music | Underworld - Born Slippy ] I went to Chico this weekend. Have you ever gone to a restaurant that you haven't been to in a while and the food just isn't as good as you remember it being the last time? That pretty much sums up my recent trips to Chico. I didn't relax enough. I didn't enjoy enough. I didn't eat enough good food. I didn't drink enough. And I spent too much money. And this is pretty much how it has been the last couple of times I've gone to Chico. And yet I'll probably go back again next month because I'm still searching for that taste I still recall (and I'm not comfortable with my current living situation). It took me 5 hours to get home today. A fifth of that time was waiting for the bus to take me the couple of miles uphill. Bullshit. So yeah, Beastie Boys. Greek Theatre. $50.50. Anyone think this is worth it? Link 2 comments|Leave a comment

nearly a month old [Jun. 14th, 2007|11:25 pm] [ Current Location | where else? ] [ Current Mood | late nighting it ] [ Current Music | Donna Summer - Hot Stuff ] This should answer a few questions and clarify a few mental assumptions. So here are: ( Pictures Galore ) I'll get to the Almanor pictures eventually. The Proclaimers: "This is the story of our first teacher, Shetland made her jumpers, And the devil made her features, Threw up her hands when my mum said our names, Embroidered all her stories with slanderous claims, it's over and done with." Link 3 comments|Leave a comment

photos I stumbled across this week [Jun. 9th, 2007|01:56 am] [ Current Location | still cave ] [ Current Music | The Rascals - People Got To Be Free ] Article Article Link 2 comments|Leave a comment

snoring away the day [Jun. 2nd, 2007|09:52 am] [ Current Location | not in bed - for the time being ] [ Current Mood | still yawning ] [ Current Music | ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - It Was There That I Saw You ] I slept for fourteen hours last night - not straight though, as I remember looking at my clock at 12am, 3am, 7am, 8am, and 9am. However I didn't get out of bed between 7pm and 9:30am. I didn't realize I was that tired. I'm wondering if I bottomed out after excessive caffeine inducement. I was struggling to stay awake at work, so by the time my shift ended, I had consumed a coffee, two cokes, and a Rockstar. Well, this is a good start for this month. Link Leave a comment

for every why there is a because and for every because there is a why [May. 28th, 2007|03:53 pm] [ Current Location | cold toes ] [ Current Mood | redreaming ] [ Current Music | Nobuo Uematsu - One Winged Angel ] So I had this dream as I slept on the loveseat in Matt's room with my legs hanging over the arm and my head tucked in the corner pillowed by my sweatshirt. I don't know what it "meant" and if you wanna figure it out that's fine, but no matter what it's gonna be bad ass. ( So in this dream... ) Yeah, so Val was in town last night. We drank at Rob's with the usual faces. We went in search for bacon-wrapped hot dogs but returned home with empty hands and stomachs. Burritos were had later. Some SNES was played. All very typical stuff. Still, it was a good time. I'm spending my Memorial Monday doing nothing and getting paid for it. So far, I gotta say, it's nice. Cake: "Stickshifts and safetybelts, Bucket seats have all got to go, When we're driving in the car, It makes my baby seem so far, I need you here with me, Not way over in a bucket seat, I need you to be here with me, Not way over in a bucket seat." Link 2 comments|Leave a comment

[May. 22nd, 2007|10:17 pm] [ Current Music | Jimi Hendrix Experience - Stone Free ] So here it is. First of all, the sound is terrible so don't play it too loud. Secondly it starts out sideways for about fifteen seconds until I realized through my drunkenness that that's how the video would come out. I know not many people know Charles, but he dedicated the song to me so it means oh so much. Link Leave a comment

[Apr. 29th, 2007|04:36 pm] [ Current Location | cave ] [ Current Mood | recovering ] [ Current Music | Slayer - Here Comes The Pain ] First off: the overpass collapse in Oakland. Crazy shit. Quite possibly the worst place in the Bay Area for it to happen. I'm so glad I don't have to commute from the East Bay tomorrow, or any day in the next several months. Taylor was in the city last night. You can imagine what ensued. I started off the evening drinking a bottle of Chimay with Rob while watching First Blood (yeah, Rambo). Taylor, Julian, and Corey came over. We then convinced Matt, Rob, and Corey not to film their movie, but instead to come to Delerium. We ran into Courtney, danced with the former Davis crew, and eventually closed the bar down. Deanna came with us back to Matt & Rob's place. We then proceeded to watch some old footage of Rob's - everything from Real World to the Astronomy Video to the Night Of 25 Bowls. There is so much film of Julian in his wrap-around sunglasses saying his Future Man catchphrase: "What are you/we talking about?!" We ended the night watching the forty minutes of film that Rob took the last night he had the Volvo, which even unedited, was really touching. At 6:00am, Taylor convinced me to go with him to the store to get more alcohol; we ran out around four. I was down to get a Sparks, but Cala Foods doesn't carry anything fancy like that. So Taylor bought a bottle of vodka. We got back, and I promptly collapsed on the floor. When everyone got up two hours later, Taylor and Julian began drinking again, and I mustered up the strength to go home (and ordered the first burrito of the day from El Farolito's). So that was the night if you missed it. Van Halen: "Ooh, baby, baby, Won't you turn your head my way, Ooh, baby, baby, Now come on take a chance, you're old enough to, Dance the night away, Dance the night away." Link 1 comment|Leave a comment

lost the battle of will, but won the war on taste [Apr. 23rd, 2007|03:25 pm] [ Current Mood | throbbing cap ] [ Current Music | At The Drive-In - Rolodex Propaganda ] Today I got a bum knee (don't know how), a punctured finger (know how), and a raise (don't know how), and remarkably things are looking up. I cleaned my apartment on Saturday - dishes, laundry, everything. Now when I come home my apartment feels sort of foreign to me. I feel like it's in such pristine condition that I shouldn't move anything otherwise I will disturb the equilibrium that has been created. T-minus ten minutes til the Feud and naptime. Link 1 comment|Leave a comment

confusing post meridiem with ante meridiem again [Apr. 17th, 2007|10:09 pm] [ Current Music | Allman Brothers - Please Call Home ] Will someone fund me $8,000 dollars? At least that is how much I estimate it would cost. Details are a little sketchy at this point still; I still haven't looked into a return flight. I want to ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg - with a few days spent at stops in Irkutsk/Lake Baikal and Moscow. I will also be looking for people that want to join me on this multi-continental journey. If I were to somehow miraculously garner funding (I don't estimate personally obtaining that much for at least the next decade), it would be about a year from now. Chances are though that I will never make this voyage. I think I've got the traveling itch for a number of reasons. A bunch of my coworkers are touring the globe now - Australia, Spain, etc. - which reminds me of how much I have left to see and how I'm not getting any closer to seeing it. Also, the mostly silent train ride home from Davis on Sunday left me feeling a little short-changed. I wanted it to last a little longer than it did. While I still find something new I haven't gazed at every time I travel the tracks, I still yearn for a new and unexpected view. Lastly, I haven't been in the sky in almost six years (Jul. 5th, 2001). As a kid I used to go flying every other weekend - mostly to places like Redding for lunch, but still. I miss looking down on the world. I miss feeling above it all. Hell, I even miss the turbulence. I need to get back up there and right now twenty-five hours of air time sounds wonderful. So yeah, who's down with Vladivostok in 2008? So far on the channel two news tonight, in back to back stories, they have shown a screenshot of both Myspace and Youtube (Guns N Roses concert footage of all things). When did these become acceptable sources of news footage? If I am ever worthy of a news segment, I hope that won't feel it necessary to show my Myspace page. Oh they just showed multiple Facebook and Myspace pages back to back. I can't decide whether to applaud or shake my head in disgrace at the laziness shown by the people responsible for finding photos of subjects by just inserting a name and using the best image that pops up on the screen. I think what bugs me the most about this process is that they then take a camera and film the computer screen (sometimes slowly scrolling to give the added effect of movement) as if that makes up for a lack of actual footage. The least they could do is download the photo and matte it properly. Whatever. Billy Idol: "I'm all out of hope, One more bad dream could bring a fall, When I'm far from home, Don't call me on the phone, To tell me you're alone, It's easy to deceive, It's easy to tease, But hard to get release, Les yeux sans visage, Eyes without a face, Les yeux sans visage, Eyes without a face, Les yeux sans visage, Eyes without a face, Got no human grace, Your eyes without a face." Link 2 comments|Leave a comment

limericks are by far the best poetry [Apr. 2nd, 2007|10:06 pm] [ Current Location | cave... sweet cave ] [ Current Mood | King Of The Hill'in ] [ Current Music | William Shatner - Common People ] What the fuck? I got out of work and joined Rob at the Yerba Buena Garden. We laid around, and when Matt and Amy T. showed up, we laid around some more. After an hour or two, we decided to get up and get back to our responsibilities. As we were leaving the park, three young dudes ran by at a leisurely pace and one of the guys kept adjusting something cumbersome under his baggy sweatshirt. They were followed by a nicely dressed, running man who was yelling, "They just stole from a jewelry store! They just stole from a jewelry store!" I - like many other people - just stood there and watched the events pass me by. Sure, I could have given chase, but I learned long ago that I should not even bother when something requires trying to catch someone. Years of tag, hide-and-go-seek, steal the bacon, football (both flag and touch), and various other games have taught me that running after someone is ultimately a futile act for myself. I used to be "it" for hours or until people would lose interest at watching me hyperventilate behind them at an arms length. And what was I going to do if I miraculously caught the criminals? Despite my sometimes intimidating figure - sometimes - I shy away from forms of physicality that will no doubt give me pain. And what if they had a concealed weapon of some sort? So that's what I thought as I watched these people scramble past me into the crowds of the park. [Of note is that Amy T. went in pursuit for a few hundred feet.] After the theft incident, we stepped inside the Metreon. On our way out the front door, so much commotion happened that I could not process what was going on. There was a large, lively crowd on the corner. Then there was a cab up on the sidewalk with a girl nearly under the front bumper. By the time we opened the glass doors, the cab was driving away to the East. This was all followed by four cop cars and an undercover car speeding through the intersection in pursuit of a car I didn't see (to the South). My initial interpretation was that the cab was hit from behind by the car in pursuit; this caused the cab to roll up on the sidewalk and hit the girl. However, even I doubt my inference of the situation. Matt said that the cab was actually breaking up the fight that was occurring inside the crowd where one girl was kicking another girl in the head (the victim was later walking around with blood on her face), and that the police driving by was completely unrelated and uninvolved. Whatever happened, it seemed to leave everyone in a daze. I went home immediately following that. Frankly, I was afraid something far worse was going to happen (especially when Matt said, "What if that bus right there just exploded?"). So as I was riding the bus up the hill listening to the Velvet Underground & Nico, I looked out the window just in time to see the sight of the day. An older gentleman (but not that old) had decided to ignore the numerous signs and orange cones lining the construction area on Monterey Blvd. When I saw him, his car was up to its wheel well in fresh concrete. Four construction workers were trying to lift the front end of the car out while the man sat in his car stunned and people took pictures from the sidewalk. And that was today. This weekend I took half of Thursday and all of Friday off and went to Chico for no other reason than to get away from my situation here for a moment (work was a little stressful and I don't feel comfortable in the place that I am supposed to be calling home). It was relaxing and uneventful. I did what I normally do there: eat foods I haven't been able to replace, sleep on the most comfortable couch, put my feet up and have my mom's dog fall asleep with his head in my lap, and watch copious amounts of cable television. While I was home, I answered one phone call at my mom's house. It started as such: "Hello. This is Donald Trump and I want to give you 10,000 dollars." It was quite confusing. It soon became an argument between Trump and that guy from televised wrestling. They wanted my mom - or the current resident - to order Wrestlemania, which the Trump was going to be on. I hung up when my lack of interest exceeded the absurdness of the call. Last night when I got home, the irony condom on my March mustache nearly broke. I couldn't bring myself to shave it off. I thought it looked too good to shave off. Then I started wondering if maybe I was just in some sort of facial follicle denial or maybe the mustache had started to control me, like that Kids In The Hall beard skit. This morning though I was able to pull myself together and do the dirty deed. There are no pictures of its beauty during its last days. Well I think that covers the last week well enough. Peace. Blue Oyster Cult: "My heart is black and my lips are cold, Cities on flame with rock and roll, Three thousand guitars, They seem to cry, My ears will melt and then my eyes, Let the girl, let that girl rock and roll, Cities on flame, now, with rock and roll" Link 1 comment|Leave a comment

home again [Mar. 22nd, 2007|06:00 pm] [ Current Location | the reconnected cave ] [ Current Mood | yippee ] [ Current Music | Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla ] It's been a long time - a long, long time. I got connected to the internet again today. It took Comcast over two hours, but I'm back. I haven't been online at home since December 1st. It's good to be back. There's not much to update on my life. I work 40 hours a week. I don't go to school. I do minimal socializing as I've found that socializing costs money and guarantees I won't be sleeping in my bed at night. I also watch numerous Scrubs and King Of The Hill reruns. Today I watched two coworkers - a receiver and a former manager (who stands 4'8" tall) - have a taco challenge. This supposed competition has been expanded on and finessed for over a month now. It finally boiled down to them trying to eat 10 Jack In The Box tacos in Union Square; the only time limit being our lunch hour. It was quite awesome. The manager started double taco'ing so my fellow receiver had to catch up by triple taco'ing his last three. The finally score was 8 to 10. And I made a dollar. I'll be in Chico next weekend to watch movies and do taxes. If you're there, let me know. Link Leave a comment

fondling is the goods [Dec. 17th, 2006|09:58 am] [ Current Location | Rob's room ] [ Current Mood | groggy ] [ Current Music | Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again, Naturally ] Last night, Ill Will Low-core arrived. Tecates were $2 at Delirium. My head hurts now. Rob admitted to storing stuff in his "deep clean." They "resin-nated" the Yin Yang. We ate delicious, delicious burritos at Los Coyotes. Now - supposedly - it's time for more burritos and Rambo. My internet is still down at home. Link Leave a comment

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