Get Your Paper Up

On the shuttle, pretty close to the city so this might be quick. Might not, traffic on Friday's is a little iffy. Damn, the y button on my computer is not working well so I have to bang on it to get the y to come out so people think I am an angry typer. Well, I kind of am. Shuttle ride has been mostly consumed with work, but its good that I wrapped the work I have been needing to do (for a week) before this weekend as Kia and I are moving tomorrow. I have been talking a great deal about the move over the last few weeks. Its both because I am excited for the new apartment but also because I freaking hate moving and I am trying to express this frustration.
I got an IM from my brother today. He often IMs me through his wife's IM account so its both a little strange to be called a "little shit" and to know that the ridiculous things that we IM about are logged into her mail account.
So Kia went to the apartment to pick up keys today in the afternoon, did a walk-through with the apartment manager to find that there was no fridge. Now, there WAS a fridge when we saw the apartment a few weeks ago the the fridge replacement process was apparently not finished. Monday they say. Whatever I guess, I will just have to drink my beer this weekend before it gets cold - beer bong anyone?
Man, that y key thing is pissing me off.
OK, about to hop the shuttle at civic center and hang out with my homeless homeboy's while waiting for Kia to show up to pick me up. We are going to do some light moving tonight, maybe the tv and some other stuff, no perishables though, because of the fridge. Maybe I should just buy some ice and do the cooler thing. Yeah, that sounds pretty good.
Oh, and go Nuggets!

In the Jungle like Mowgli

Its Thursday. This week has gone surprisingly fast considering the fact that I feel like I have been catching up on sleep since this weekend because of camping. My ability to not pass out at 10pm worked against me in this case. If you just can't wait for pictures from camping you can check out Albert's poorly named blog (just jokes buddy). My photo set will need to be censored for more sensitive readers.
I signed up for LinkedIn yesterday on the strength of Matt Dougherty's recommendation. I haven't played with it much but I did let LinkedIn harvest my gmail contact list and pull out contacts who had previously signed up for LinkedIn accounts. It was interesting to get "how are you?" emails from people I haven't talked to in a few years.
The big move is this weekend. I have the Uhaul scheduled for Saturday starting early so I will need to drag myself out of bed and drive the rig back to the apartment. I am hoping that it has an air horn like on a big rig, you know, with the pull down. I actually think its going to be kind of small. I guess my dreams of big-rigging will have to be put on hold - for now.
Kia is off for Hong Kong on Monday for about a week. We have been rethinking the Caribbean trip in favor of a trip back to AK to visit the fam. I haven't been back to Alaska in the summer in a couple years so I am looking forward to that. Maybe a quick camping trip will be in order.
Oh and for those of you keeping track, I lost my fantasy basketball final to Allan. Its OK though, he cheated :)
Getting closer to work now. Busy day ahead of me.
Stay on your grizzly.

Mmmm Mango Smoothies

I've been pretty gassed this week. The weekend long beerfest was not particularly restful. I guess its my own damn fault.
Work has been reasonable this week, busy but not too apeshit. Still trying to get the house packed up and ready to go for the Saturday move. I hate moving. Its perhaps one of my least favorite things but I am excited for the new place. Its not as centrally located but roomier and with more light (which I may or may not have to get crazy curtains for to protect the tv from much hated glare...).
I will post some pics of the place when I have them taken. We are doing the lease/key thing on Friday morning so that might offer some opportunities to take a few photos.
Kia is getting ready for her Asia trip next week which should be a blast for her. She is going to spend an extra day or two in Hong Kong hanging out with a coworker who is from the area. I keep trying to talk her into trying the mango smoothies they have but she isn't sold on it yet. I will keep trying.
Speaking of mangoes, I always impressed the Chinese speakers in Beijing with knowing when they were talking about mango smoothies in Chinese. Uh, yeah guys, the word is the same in both languages. Whatever though, I will take credit for being multilingual.
Shuay fan pi.

Show and Prove

Got back from camping yesterday. Some of my knuckle-headed coworkers and I went down to Big Sur and acted a fool for a couple of days. It was pretty damned entertaining. The weather was beautiful this weekend and it felt good to be outside for the weekend. I think it helped alleviate some of the Spring fever I have been feeling. Maybe I will be good for another week or so.
On the shuttle to SF, just finished a little work and have almost made it to Monster park. The bus is pretty warm so most of the people around me are in various states of sleep. Even the guy across me who has been blasting techno music for the last half an hour. I tried to give him the non-verbal cues of "where the hell is that music coming from" even though I knew it was his computer. I looked at my computer, took my headphones off, looked at other people around us, he didn't get it. Or maybe he thinks that we are all into electronic music. Or maybe he is wearing snap pants and is actually Party Boy.
Packing up the apartment right now getting ready for the move this weekend. Its pretty amazing how much shit we have accumulated. Looking forward to the new apartment. The kitchen is bigger, with room for a table and some chairs which will be a major step up for us.
OK, now the electronic music guy just made more space for my laptop, so he isn't all bad. I'm still not willing to delete my earlier comments though. Do you like to party? I like to party.
Looks like another nice evening in the city. We were out at Fort Funston yesterday afternoon and right at 5pm the fog rolled in. I mean rolled in. Kia looked up and said, wow, its getting a little cloudy and the fog was on top of us in a matter of seconds. It was pretty cool to watch.
About to hop off the shuttle. Turkey burgers and packing tonight.
Giants vs. Arizona tonight - Go Giants!

Running with Fire

So "San Francisco is Bracing" for the impending protests at the torch running today. Apparently San Francisco is the only city in the US where they will be doing any Olympic torch related activity. Yeah, whoever didn't see the Tibet/human rights/environmental protest implications of this should lose their job. Its basically going to be ape. I am envisioning a gang of police trying to hold back bandanna-masked activists with super-soakers. Actually, that could be pretty entertaining. Maybe they should just give the torch runners some water balloons and have some fun with it. Not sure what time that is going on today, but I imagine it will make some of the major news outlets so I am probably not needed on the ground reporting my findings.
Football this evening. I am going to try not to tear my hamstring again, good times. Its all worth it to see Hiro's fluorescent UnderArmour outfits.
Keep it grimey.

*Update - check out what the official China Olympics website has to say about the torch in San Francisco
"San Francisco embraces Olympic flame with pride" Hmmmm.

**Update number 2.
Check out the courage (from official Olympics site):

I Rep More D than 12 Eminems

Most people know that I am mildly (all the way up to completely depending on the sport) obsessed with fantasy sports. I play fantasy sports for sports that I only passingly pay attention to (NCAA basketball, to a certain degree the NBA, the World Cup). Its with great shame that I admit getting fully smoked by the vast majority of my coworkers in the NCAA pool. That said, I was pretty pumped to see that hometown hero Mario Chalmers drained a three pointer to put the championship game into overtime where Kansas ran away with it. He did what Trajan Langdon couldn't do however many years ago he was playing for Duke. Trajan did go on to be the first Alaskan to play in the NBA and has had subsequent success in Europe - seriously. Boozer is by far the most successful Alaskan NBA player but shoot, he is from flipping Juneau (like the movie). Chalmers apparently went to my high school for a while. Wikipedia says he graduated from Bartlett though. Either way Chalmers gets the thumbs up from me - good shot buddy - the kid played well the whole damn series too.
I am playing pretty well in the fantasy NBA league that was started as I was leaving Beijing though. Allan - you are going down buddy! Also playing in an NL only baseball league. Should be pretty interesting.
Speaking of baseball, how about them Giants? Trying to stay positive. Its still early and all that, but I am starting to get ripped on by people who don't even follow baseball at work (Dougherty). Not that Dougherty's fair-weather fan mentality is rubbing off on me, but damn, lets go guys. They started the day with a 1-6 record, one Detroit win away from being tied for the worst record in baseball. I am OK with the small ball approach they have taken with the line-up, but small ball only works if the pitching can hold the other team to under four runs. Lincecum starts tonight, he is on my fantasy team. See, tied it back together.

The Shoobidoo'op Hop Strictly Hardware

Headed back to SF on the shuttle right now. Traffic has been pretty light so I will try to do a brain dump here pretty quick.
Today was fairly unproductive. I am feeling quite Spring Feverish at this point. Its a good thing I am going camping with some of my knuckleheaded coworkers this Friday or I might just be completely useless for the coming few weeks. Work is pretty busy right now, I guess it usually is. Kia and I went to Green's on Friday and had a delicious dinner. I had a cheese plate, some risotto and an apple tarte for desert. Kia had a salad, bbq tofu and chocolate pudding, it was pretty much fantastic.
Spent the majority of Sunday packing up our living room. We got some boxes from Kia's old work on Saturday and promptly ran through all of them packing our books and living room stuff. My lower back is already sore from moving boxes of books, getting old. Our move date is a couple weeks out but we need to get our place packed and ready to go because I am out this weekend - see above - and Kia is headed to Asia right after we move for about a week.
Albert is back from Beijing - he seemed to have a good time which is not unexpected. He brought back some of the Chinese hats with the braid sewn into the back for the team. In my opinion this is not as good as the duck tongue, yak meat and fake leather hats that I brought back. I mean, I brought three things.
Made some seafood for dinner last night. Boiled shrimp and pan-fried scallops. It was pretty tasty if I don't say so myself. We also roasted a chicken last night so that we would have food ready to go this week so that's what we will probably eat tonight. The wife and I have been shopping a lot at the semi-close Whole Foods, its been responsible for a major upswing in my willingness to cook. Also a major upswing in my expensive cheese purchasing. Mmmm, expensive cheese. I feel like Groo the Wanderer - picture included for reference in-case you are unfortunate enough not to know what I am talking about - although Groo's obsession was with cheese dip, not expensive cheese.


Yeah, that's two comic book references in two posts, so what?
Keep it really real.

Vanglorious

Man, I got some flak today at work about my blog. Top complaints:

1. I don't have my own domain (I think the implication was I can't afford one - this is actually kind of true if I got my name thanks to the actor who plays Neville Longbottom in Harry Potter, what a tool. I have been thinking about getting a domain but then again it would cost me money while blogspot is free....)
2. Prevalence of YouTube videos on the blog (Come on guys, even I bust on myself for this one)
3. Use of default Blogger template (Uh, have you seen the latest updates? They are looking bad ass)
4. Quality of my plug-ins (OK, this one is just painfully nerdy)
5. Something about ghostriding the whip (I am pretty sure this came from Pat and he thought it had something to do with the guy below)


Thats a pretty sick image. Actually, now I kind of wish ghostriding the whip did have something to do with that guy.
Other than verbal abuse from my coworkers, things are good. We got approval on that apartment we are looking at so that's pretty exciting. Move in date is the 19th of April. Pretty pumped about the extra space. Maybe we will get a new living room chair. Yeah, that sounds good.
Dinner reservations tomorrow evening at Greens. Looking forward to that. We haven't been out there for a while and for veggie cuisine, hell cuisine in general, they do it up. I have been meaning to try Suppenkuche too so we may have to hit that this weekend too. Other than that I have big plans to pack up/go through and take to Goodwill a ton of the stuff in our apartment.
Giants pulled off a win yesterday so they went 1 and 2 for the opening series. In my opinion this is not a bad start. Considering they were tied in the 9th on the second game, I kind of feel like they split the series. Stupid Dodgers.
Bonds has been in the news. I did the ESPN survey (mostly to see the results) and 55% of responses felt that Bonds is a hall of famer. I don't disagree.
Getting close to the my stop, sort of.

If it were a dog our relationship would be 70

Still waiting to hear back on that apartment. I wouldn't normally be anxious about this but we put our notice in a couple days ago so I am feeling a little bit up in the air. I am sure it will be kosher though. Trying to figure out the moving thing. Kia is headed to Asia in a couple weeks so if and when we get the apartment we will have to hustle on the move thing. Oy.
No new Lost tonight which is pretty obnoxious. I kind of feel like that show is popular enough at this point that they can kind of do whatever the hell they want.
Things are pretty good. Fairly insanely busy right now and trying ot fight off a cold. These things tend to be in direct opposition to each other and one, usually the cold, wins out. Extra sleep should help with this.
So today is Kia and my anniversary, well our second anniversary, we keep track of both the wedding and the dating dates. This one is the dating anniversary and its actually our tenth anniversary which is pretty awesome. Its making me feel a little old though, but its exciting. Actually, Kia and I have lived together for the vast majority of this our time together so its beginning to rival the time I lived at home. Its pretty amazing to think back over the last 10 years.
My boss said today that my wife must have great patience. Uh, duh.
Love you wifey.

*Update - Special thanks to Seth who said he would be watching Lost tonight, misleading me into thinking it was Thursday for the last 2 hours. Jerk!

Rep Yo City!

So I got an email from Sara today - well I sent her an email and a I got a response - anyway, she asked something to the effect of: "Is there anything going on in your life that you aren't blogging about?" It made me a little sad that people could consider the sum total of my life happenings to be contained in the blogosphere. It made me think that I should begin to take my blog more seriously and put some effort into genuine consideration of my life. Basically it made me think, maybe I should stop posting videos of Kweli and the SAS crew blazing and talking about reality tv and stop posting about ODB. Then, in my moment of contemplation (it wasn't actually this moment, but go with me here) I read Dougherty's blog post about the University of Florida moving up three spots in the national MBA school rankings. Uh, yawn. Dougherty, buddy, I know this thing is linked off of your resume, but come on, spice it up a little. I am going to stick with ODB.
Speaking of hip-hop, I have been abusing my ear drums the last few months with any songs I can find from Sean Price. I was a pretty big Heltah Skeltah fan back in the day but Sean P.'s new albums are basically insane. Get that mess.
OK, going to round out the Dilla interviews with the last few here.





The fifth one (first one above) is actually not posted by Stonesthrow directly on Youtube, but somebody else threw it up there. Not sure why. I will avoid speculation. The last video is pretty entertaining but features drug use - not for the kiddos.
Pulling into my stop so I am going to wrap up.

Turn up the Bass and let the Trunk Rattle

Whew, a fairly busy day. Missed my usual shuttle back to the city because of some operational inefficiencies. It was actually the first time I missed the shuttle because the shuttle to the shuttle (don't ask) was late and didn't get me to the shuttle in time. I guess I shouldn't complain. It just means I will have to leave the extra 10 minutes early to ensure I have a big fat buffer.
Busy today but I had some time with my headphones on and I have been listening to a bunch of indiefeed podcasts that I haven't heard yet. Indiefeed is where it is at. I have been turned on to quite a few artists from those feeds. I have been listening to the alternative channel lately and there are some good bands sprinkled in there (there is some garbage too).
A few things to update:

Wifey and I are moving about a mile from our current house. We are in the application stage on an apartment in Laurel Heights which is north and a little west from our place now. Its bigger, not huge, but a nicer building and quieter area. Should be legit. Lets just hope those car-jacking charges don't come back to bite me.

Google released street view in Anchorage - w00t! Mom was pumped about this. If you search for her house you can see her house, and her car, parked the wrong way, on the street in front. Pretty rad, they covered almost the entire city which is quite impressive.

Kia is going to Hong Kong and China in about 3 weeks. She is headed to Asia for work to check out some of the production sites and make sure things are cool. She's going to do an extra day or two in Hong Kong at the end of the trip to tour around a bit. Should be fun. Mmmm dim sum.

We booked tickets this weekend to go to Germany in September with Kia's grandparents. Going to Bavaria. Apparently there is like a huge rivalry between Bavarians and people who rep Berlin. For my money I am going with the Bavarians. Not only because their name rhymes with barbarians but also because this is how I imagine most Berliners.


We are looking for another vacation spot for late May, somewhere beachy, maybe the Caribbean. We were looking at islands this weekend and it looks pretty much awesome.

Its both Christopher Walken and Kia's grandfather's birthday today. Two of my favorite older dudes.

Man Trip camping trip upcoming the weekend after next. Going to Big Sur with some of the usual knuckleheaded suspects. Should be fun.

That's that. About to get off the shuttle in the city. It turns out that if I commute during slightly off peak times I can make the trip much more quickly. This shuttle left MV at 6:40ish and is arriving in SF at 7:15ish. A 35 min commute is unthinkable between 5 and 6. Perhaps I will adjust my schedule....
Stay on your grizzly.

Dilla Interviews

I made some updates to the blog today. I was pretty jealous of Albert's image backed header until I found out that it was just a new feature of the Blogger customization modules. So I updated. I may play around with it so get pretty pumped for that. I threw in the last.fm widget so you can all keep up with my listening to's.
Work is busy but good. Highlights include my being last in the company NCAA tournament pool. I am losing to a team who made their picks based on ranking and then how "cool" the mascots are. Actually that team is first. Jesus.
So, I am going to post a couple more of the Dilla interviews because they are awesome. The first one features J-Rocc talking about how awesome it is to have cassettes. The second one is about the Ruff Draft album. Its pretty cool to hear what the musicians have to say about the album. Rhettmatic is in there. I included a picture of Rhettmatic and my boy Mike that I took a couple years ago on my camera phone. Actually the show I took this at was a Dilla tribute. See? Full circle.







Throw your dubs up.

The Marina sucks, but at least its not LA

On the shuttle northbound on the 101 about to go apeshit and bark (bark like a dog, kind of a DMX type of thing) at the very undeserving people sitting around me. I am on a shuttle which stops at civic center, then Sacramento and Gough and then Cow Hollow. For those of you who don't know, Cow Hollow basically means Marina which basically means pretentious. My unnatural and unhealthy obsession with distrusting all things associated with the Marina has few exceptions. One is Chrissy Field, which if we are splitting hairs could be associated with the Presidio, the other is Judy's Cafe (oh wait, I don't go there anymore because their service sucks and the crowd is overwhelmingly full of buttholes), so officially I am over the Marina. I have had this discussion with other San Francisco residents and they point to the fact that the Marina contains very few people who are non-white. This is kind of true, but the whiteness of the Marina is less obnoxious to me than the "who the F are you" looks I get when I am dressed like a homeless person on the weekend (mind you I am likely rocking a crispy new era cap, but still, the bumminess is hard to ignore). Yargh!
OK, that's enough of that.
Kia and I are headed to look at an apartment which is showing. On the way out of the office Evan said that I shouldn't move to the Richmond because its basically the suburbs of San Francisco. This from a guy who lives in Cupertino.... Either way, looking for a little bigger spot so if people have leads let me know.
Lots of people are out on vacation next week. The reasons I heard were that it was around spring break. I don't know about that. Maybe all the people who are on vacation next week are actually meeting up in Cancun. I will keep an eye out for people in the background on the MTV spring break shows. Speaking of MTV, I have gotten busted numerous times over the last week or two at work for watching and keeping up with MTV and VH1 reality shows. I blame my wife very publicly for this, but I have to admit, I get sucked in pretty quickly. At least I don't watch Craig Ferguson - yeah I said it Sara - that guy stinks.
Feeling much more centered now. Keep it crackin'.

Clack Clack Clack!

What a day. A long day at work today, started at 8 ended at 5:30, I guess that's not so bad really, but I was only in SF last night for 9 hours after getting back to the city at 9pm. Fine, I will stop bitching. Riding the shuttle towards San Francisco right now watching an idiot hold one hand with a cigarette out of the window while talking on the phone with her other hand driving 70 miles an hour through traffic. At least she's not reading. From the elevated vantage point of the shuttle seat you can see all sorts of idiot behavior. Reading is by far the worst violation.
Today probably felt long because of the volume of meetings. All day in fact. By the end of the day I was babbling incoherently. That said, I felt like I had some meaningful discussions, so it was useful in that sense.
Lots kind of going on right now. My three year anniversary at el Goog is coming up in a few days, which is weird. Two days before that is the 10 year, yes, 10 year anniversary of Kia and I dating. We have been thinking about something epic to do... more to come, perhaps.
I started an account on last.fm which has been pretty interesting to play with. Limited information there so far, but I am interested to see what comes of it. Maybe I will embed my playlist on the blog, maybe not. Check out my profile here.
Laundry tonight. Partaaay. OK hopping off the shuttle, that was a fast commute.
Byeeeee.

Stonesthrow Videos of the Day

So this is the second post today, so what? Yeah, I should probably be doing some NCAA tournament research so that I don't pick Kent State to win it all but then again, I don't know the first thing about college basketball, so who cares?
Youtubing on the shuttle home (late shuttle that is, so I am less motivated to work). The shuttle wifi is slow but I gleamed out a few gems. Both are Stonesthrow posts, the first is a Madvillain video that I hadn't seen before and its pretty awesome.



The second is the first installment of the J-Dilla interviews. Now keep in mind here that I make no claims to not be a bandwagon fan of J-Dilla's. Now mind you, I was hip to his Pharcyde and A Tribe Called Quest collaborations, even his Common collaborations were on major rotation on the ipod but this was before I knew what the score was. That said, this video is pretty awesome in kind of a heart breaking kind of way.



Other people were complaining today that they were sore too so that made me feel better.
Enjoy the videos, don't get too crazy with the boozapalooza tonight.

Mmmmm Monday

Monday morning, hurtling towards Mountain View on the 101. Getting a little bit of a late start today but its on purpose. I have a vc with India at 7:30pm and an 8am meeting tomorrow morning. Basically, I should just sleep at work. Had a decent weekend, lots of hanging out and recuperating from my trampoline experience on Friday. For those of you who weren't there, I spent Friday afternoon bouncing around like a rabid monkey at a trampoline room warehouse. My initial concerns about cracking my head in were not realized but I managed to rack my body fairly well from flailing around and wiping out quite badly and regularly at my attempts to bounce like a Gummy Bear. I kind of thought of myself as the big one with the hat, you know what I'm talking about.


Anyway, I was limping around like an old man for most of Saturday and Sunday but feeling better now. Went out to Citrus Club last night and had some coconut chicken which is now my favorite dish at that restaurant. Mmmmm. Started watching the Simpsons movie last night and had to go to bed right when they arrive in Alaska. The part where they handed Homer $1000 for crossing the border was pretty hilarious.
OK at work.
Have a good week. Oh and Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Scrapers and 2pac Shoes

OK, I need to diversify my posting a little but whatever, here are some more awesome hip-hop related items.
I mentioned a few posts ago that I am obsessed with scrapers, Kia knows, its likely an obsession that I will never indulge (very likely) although if I do it might be much later in life so I would be like a weird old guy with the dumbed out scraper. What is a scraper? Thanks for asking dad. A scraper is a large American car, usually from the 70s, 80s or 90s although I have seen some recent models scraped out. Cars from the 50s and 60s are usually not turned into scrapers as much as straight out low riders. So, you get a big ol' American car, you put some candy colored paint on it, and you slap some 20-24 inch rims on it (bigger has been done, but its tough). Imagine Escalade rims on an '89 Impala, heck why imagine?

OK, so now you have a visual. This has been a fairly common automotive trend in the bay area with the hyphy youngsters and makes me very jealous - seriously. Further illustration.







There are scraper bikes too apparently, but come on, that's just ridiculous.
On an entirely unrelated note, I am trying to get one of my coworkers to sport some 2pac shoes. They look like this:




So if you work with me and are dying to see Dan Chow sport these feel free to donate a few dollars to the fund and peer pressure him into rocking what very well might be the baddest sneakers of all time.
Word.

I Come Old Like Toe Fungus Mold

So I caught a little flak from Seth when I changed my blogspot profile pic to the ODB album cover. I wasn't sure if it was Seth's puritanical views on swearing or his utter lack of hip-hop where-with-all since US3 stopped making records but it prompted me to get my thoughts on ODB on paper.
In my mind, ODB is one of the greatest rappers of all time. Pac, great, Biggie, great, ODB was better than both of them because of his raw creativity and impeccable timing. Raw energy, not overly cerebral, punchy and willing to bust out on some soul singing when the time called for it.
Dirty has a special place in my heart. I played "Hippa to da Hoppa" as my senior song at graduation. His first solo album is by far, the best Wu-Tang album of all time and amongst my all time top five favorite albums.
If you don't know, now you know. Go pick up "Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version" have at least 6 beers and see what happens. I bet you end up dressed as Rick James, putting in some gold fang fronts or breaking something (actually, I bet its all three).
OK a couple of embedded files. First one is "Hippa to da Hoppa" which I couldn't find a video for so its like one of those lame youtube montages - oh well, second one is the "Brooklyn Zoo" video.






Go crazy.

'Tis the Luck of the Irish

Alright, doing the Dublin post. Seth said that I wasn't going to post on the topics that I listed. I'm not sure why he said that, perhaps because he is excited to read what I have to say on ODB. I spent some time on youtube this morning doing some ODB searches and was catching up on some Yo MTV Rap hey day videos. Man, Ed Lover in a Starter cap brings me back!
OK, some photos from my trip:

This is like the Guinness brewery or something in Dublin. j/k

Mo' Dublin.

Random church in Howth - outside of Dublin. Took the DART out there on a Saturday. DART = fake BART.

Random castle, everyone lived in a castle, it was like Shrek. There is a friendly leprechaun waving in the photo, I chased him but couldn't catch him. He was wiley.

Castle + fence = awesome photo.

Howth was on the coast.

Town.

Boats.
Good times were had. I didn't take the standard photo of the Guinness because that would have been silly and I forgot, mostly because its silly.
Things are good in the bay. Yesterday was pop's birthday, happy birthday dad! Try not to get too crazy with the birthday cake.
Hope things are kosher with everybody.

"I think I pulled my groin!"

Haven't posted in a little over a week. Lots going on out in the bay, lots to update on, but none of it terribly exciting. I have about three posts that are backlogged at this point.

Dublin photos
ODB
Why other people I work with are copying my blog
Pineapple Express trailer
etc.

I probably won't get to any of these. Actually, I am going to post the Pineapple Express trailer at the end of this post basically because it looks awesome. Credit goes to Dan for sending this out to me earlier today. The movie looks like a combination of The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, and Half Baked. Uh, can you say best movie of all time? Why wait, here it is:



What else? Hauling back to the city right now sitting in the back of the bus about to barf from spending the bus ride working and bouncing like mad because I am in the back. Why the back? Funny you ask, its one of the places where there is a table so that I can type and the tables in the front had people sitting at them who had their backpacks in the seats next to them and I wasn't in the mood to get one of the "There are plenty of open seats/I live in the Marina and deserve whatever I want" looks that accompanies that request.
Sara is in Iowa now and her blog has taken a turn towards optimistic. Its nice to see but she made a post the other day about how if she ends up being a positive person because of her leave that she risks losing friends she made during a period of high stress and pressure where she may have been more cynical. We can still be friends Sara.
Albert's blog is turning out pretty well in terms of being a public forum for his trip to China. Plus it features Yiteng and Kunan heavily which is fantastic. That's right Albert, you earned a link.
Got some new jamz yesterday on my way home. Finally picked up the new(ish) Wu-Tang - 8 Diagrams, Strong Arm Steady - Deep Hearted, Redman - Redman Gone Wild: Thee Album, Madlib - Beat Konducta vol. 3+4: Beat Konducta in India, J-Dilla - Welcome II Detroit, etc., etc..
OK. Getting closer to the city. Going to try to not stay at work late anymore this week. In fact, I might just bounce early once or twice this week, thats right, I said it, do something.