Monthly Archives: September 2003

[Listening to: Cry – Ofra Haza – Prince of Egypt (03:50)]
MUSENMAI “NISHIKI” AND “BOTAN”
New Rice Doesn’t Require Washing

Damn, and I already bought a bag of rice recently. Next time I go shopping, I am def. looking for this stuff.

Woke up this morning and thought about calling in sick, even though I felt
O.K.. Decided not to, which was good since Tim had forgotten his keys. Anyway, work was hot due to the heat wave we are
having here. Still, it wasn’t too bad.

Saw the movie Rushmore. Def. a movie that I have to purchase or put on my wishlist (If it isn’t on there already). I’m not that big of a Bill Murray fan anymore; I thought that What About Bob was horrific. However, in this movie, there is an air about him. I can’t put my finger on it, but he is funny without being over the top, like a reserved funniness. I like it.

So coming home the fog was acting weird. Usually the fog is located along Skyline Blvd and once I get to the top of the hill and start driving down to Pacifica, it is clear. Today, the top of Skyline was clear and it was the city that was foggy. It was kinda
scary driving down into the fog.

**sniff** Hmmm, maybe I didn’t completely get rid of this cold. Well, if I am sick tomorrow, I just miss a manager’s meeting.

Damn, the Raiders are getting spanked.

Oh yeah, I got my 60GB hard drive back. Now the question is what to do with it. “Put it back into you computer and use it, duh!” Yeah, yeah. I’m just worried that it will just make the temp, problem with my computer worse. The computer isn’t in a really good ventilated space and the temps are kinda high, although not critical. Think that I will just hold off until I start building the new computer.

Got another ticket for the Renaissance Faire; planning on going the last week of Faire.

Am feeling kinda tired, mainly cause I didn’t take a nap today. I can either read, play Unreal Tournament, work on my site, or watch a DVD. Options abound….

[Listening to: Piano Black (Ian Obrien Remix) – Original Soundtrack – Cowboy Bebop Remixes – Music For Freelance (06:51
woke up today feeling sick and achy all over. So I just kinda lounged in bed for most of the day, trying to deny to myself that I had caught something from Antonio or Marco. At 2pm, went over to Sea Bowl for Brock’s birthday party. Watched the kids bowl, talked to Paul and some of the other parents, but left after the unwrapping of the gift. My body was just killing me. It has taken me all day just to type out these posts. I have a couple of pictures, but I don’t have the energy to goto the car and get my camera. Besides, you don’t need to see Antonio picking his nose. Anyway, think that I am going to finish my book and then bust open one of my DVD’s, probably Almost Famous since I haven’t seen it yet.

[Listening to: I Wanna Be Your Lover – Prince – The Hits 2 (02:58)]
Drove out to Solano country for various events. Since I left so late in the day (12-1pm), traffic on 19th Ave./Hwy 1 was already horrendous. So I tried driving up Portola and was going to go around Twin Peaks and meet back up with Hwy 1 somewhere after Golden Gate Park. I know, I’m sick in the head (I am really, more below) but it was a good thing that I
did this because once I got to the top Portola and took a good look at the S.F. skyline, my heart once again belonged to the city. **sigh** I love this city too much to leave it, I think. So I took a little mini tour of the city, going down Market to the Embarcadero, Over to Pier 39, back to North Beach, through Chinatown, over to Geary to japantown and onward to the GG Bridge. It was a good little side trip to see some of the neighborhoods in the city

After that, drove up to Cordellia to try and see if I could find Cezner’s parent’s house. No luck, the area is too developed and it’s been too long since I’ve been there (which was only once, I think), which was a shame because I really wanted to see Cezner and catch up. Cezner and I used to work at the SCC bookstore years ago, btw.

Next, I headed to Travis Credit Union to close my accounts. Ever since they switched from a federal credit union to a regular credit union, their service has gone downhill. The funny thing was the teller that was helping me; I swear he looked like he was Shawn Stone’s brother. Wish I would have taken a picture. And then later that evening, I saw him again with his wife at Strings.

Went to Barry/Gabi’s house to hang out with the married couple and the kids. This was the first time that I had seen Marco, or it was the first time that he was awake when I was around. OMG, this kid does not look anything like his parents. I could so see the hospital calling them and telling them that they have the wrong baby. Still, Marco was looking cute as a button drooling all over the place. He also have the biggest cheeks that I have ever seen. They are going to get mercilessly pinched if they don’t go away.

Antonio was acting a little kooky in his own world, picking his nose and
trying to bury himself under the couch. I gather the boys and dad and we went off to Baskin Robbins for ice cream. Personally, I like Cold Stone over Baskin Robbins, however, their are more choices i.e. different colors for a child to pick what he wants. Antonio settled for Cherries Jubilee; not my personal favorite, however he can tell mom or dad that it has fruit in it, so not a bad choice. Barry got pistachio almond and I decided to have a banana split. However, made the mistake of getting flavors that were too busy, just should have stayed with basics flavors. Too messy and sweet. Oh well. Afterwards, we went back to Barry’s for awhile and tried to come up with a plan to dump the kids, however, we couldn’t find any takers. So we loaded up the kids and went to Strings for dinner, which was O.K., however, I wasn’t too happy with the portions of Pork Tenderloin that I got. 🙁

Went back to Casa de Adams for a bit, and then took my leave to go see April and give her the CD’s that I had for her. Went over and got her to go out for a drink at Starbucks. Oh man, while waiting for her, somewhere in her house is a fountain that was making me want to pee really back.
Torturous I tell you, but once I left the house, everything was O.K. Went to Starbucks where she had her soy latte and I had a Vanilla Creme frappuchino, which I decided tastes like a cold steamed milk. Which is
duh, but it’s still good. April was wearing a Twinklebell shirt that was very hot looking on her. It caught the eye of some of the guys that passed us. So, we talked for awhile and then headed to
Wal-Mart. Click here to read the report on that. Still haven’t watched the DVD’s yet, however they won’t be ignored or forgotten like the Pearl Harbor DVD. Also, my Dad is the king of that $5.88 bin, cause he has a
shelf load of those DVD still unopened. And I’m still jealous that April got the High School Reunion 3-DVD set; that is def. going on my wishlist.

Got into the city around 10pm, could tell by the glow sticks, fairie wings, and glitter which cars were on their way to Cyberfest. **sigh** Brings back memories. I want to go Cyberfest, or to any rave, but I think that I am too old. I know, you are only as old as you think, but I’m still a little self-conscious about it, I think.

“You can’t make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth. It’s better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of pride. We spend too much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.”

taken from Superhwa via April

[Listening to: Do What You Have to Do – Sarah McLachlan – Mirrorball (04:11)]
Don’t want to jinx myself, but something is in the air. It is way too quiet outside. And then there is this grey, but sunny day thing going on. Anyway, on my way out to East Bay and North Bay…

Unfortunately, we are human. And the chances of us repeating the mistakes that we made in the past are higher than normal.

There are answers in the past, if one studies and analyzes the evidence. There are hints and clues that lead up to specific events.

“In hindsight….” Hmph, what I need is some fucking “Frontsight”

Still, with the clues and hints that I did find, they still are not enough to answer the questions that I have.

And that’s all I want right now, the answers to questions. Isn’t that what any of us want?

And yet no man, no book, no God has the answers to my questions.

**sigh** This is too much self pitying analyzing for 10am on a Saturday.

This kind of stuff is more suited for a Sunday night,

In those last hours of the weekend before you goto sleep

And go back to the daily work grind.

Went out to San Mateo to once again watch Tim/Mark’s softball game. they kicked ass.

Returned home, had a bowl of cereal and blanked out for a couple of hours….wait. I did some reading, but I couldn’t get into it. Well, it is hard to get into it. The book is Harry Turtledove’s Into The Darkness;
basically it’s about an alternative world that has magic having their own World War. It’s fun looking at the parallels between this book and actual WWII. However, there are so many characters and places and alliances, that it is hard to keep up. Will probably end up reading it again once I’m do to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Also have Robert Jordan’s Crossroad Of Twilight. Not sure if I am going to read it or just start from the
beginning of the series. (This is book 10) All I want to know is when the fat bastard is going to be done with the series. According to Amazon, he is coming out with a prequel to the series. Fuck that, he has better get his fat ass to finishing the series before he starts writing about past stuff.

Popcap games has a new game. However it played very jerky for me. Not sure if I really like it.

Started to clean my room at 1am for some weird reason. If I was at the old place, I probably would have done it. But I don’t want to wake up Barbara, so I will wait until later this weekend.

Plans for tomorrow (or today I guess) is to try and find Cezner’s parents house in Cordilea, drop off April’s CD’s, stop by Barry/Gabi’s, and goto Seabowl for Brock’s (Amber W. son) bowling party.

[Listening to: Possession [Rabbit in the Moon Mix] – Sarah McLachlan – Remixed (05:54)]
A shower is better when there are two people in it instead of one.

Two is always better than one, except for shots, or spiders

So many fun things you can do with two wet, naked people and soap…

Argh, shipping off to the isle of San Mateo to watch the land blubbers hit the softball around the field.