San Fran!

Well, I just got back from a VERY long weekend in San Fran. It was really good, I got pretty annoyed a lot it seems. But The trip it self was very fun.

Lets see, Friday Andrew and I left OC about 3pm. It was 2 hours before we had planned, but he got out of work early so that was a good thing. We drove up there and didn’t have any fights.. I was in a really good mood, he seemed to be as well. So it was nice. Got up there and Oksy was at a party, so she asked us to come join. At first we were going to, but then we decided it was just too late and we were both tired and wanted to go to bed. So we got her to come home and just talked for a while. This is where the first annoyance came in though. Was that I just wanted to go to bed and talk about things in the morning and she just wanted to keep talking and talking. Blah.

Anyways, we got up Saturday morning and Andrew and I took the train into San Fran. That was a nice relaxing ride. Got there and got off at Powell, from there we walked up Market to Pier 1, where there was this HUGE farmer’s market! It was so fun. I took tons of pics there. After that we walked all the way down to pier 39 and then Fishermans Warf. From ther we walked down to Ghiradelli Square.

We had amazing Ice Cream there. It was so yummy! From there we walked over to Loumbard (sp?) walked down that and then up to California Street, took that all the way over to Laguna Street and then Laguna street all the way down to Haight and Ashbury. Shopped around there for a while and then Oksy joined us there.

From there we went down to Castro and hung out there. Walked around, bought some UBER cute underwear. Went to dinner there and our waiter was an asshole.. But I said I hated the place, so it’s ok. We also went to this realy cute Coffee shop there.

After that we all went out to this little Woody’s esq place, had a drink and then headed out to another bar. This one was more Dancy and shit. Andrew and Oksy said they were going to go get a drink, and left me to sit and watch the coats and stuff. So I sit there and 30 minutes later they still aren’t back. So I get up and go find them talking to this boy. So I get really pissed off cause ONE of them could have come and got me and said, “We’re over here tlaking to someone, want to come”. But they just left me. So I handed Oksy her stuff and walked out and went back to the damn Coffee shop. Oksy follwed and I told her to jsut go back to the bar. 30 minutes later they both finially come back. And we get into this HUGE argument about what to do. I told them to just freaking leave me alone and I’ll sit there and read and for them to go back to the bar. Oksy starts yelling at me to stop being so difficult, when I wasn’t being difficult at all. I was telling them exactly what I wanted! Hello!

So they all leave and a little while later they come back with the boy they were talking to and of course he and Andrew were making out. Then they went off to some other bar. The came back and got me about midnight and we all just went home.

Sunday we all slept in and then went out to Chinatown with google boy. Oksy missed the 3 signs on the freeway that said Chinatown and then got annoyed when she got lost. We finially got parked walked to china town and ate lunch. It was nice, from there we all walked back to the MOMA (or was it MOCA?) either way. Lots of crazy art. Just the type I like. 🙂 Spent a few hours there and then went back and watche Superman.. The only thing that movie had going for it was that Superman was UBER hot! Even yummier with his hair wet! 🙂 After that Andrew and I went back to the apartment and just hung out and went to bed. Oksy and Google boy went out drinking.

Monday we again slept in and then went out to Badoga Bay, the bridge and redwoods way up north. It was really fun. I honestly think this was the best day for me. It was a really pretty drive and being out in the wilderness mademe happy. We stopped at this crazy place and had REALLy good ice cream again. 🙂

Got back into the city and things started to go downhill again. We all wanted Sushi for dinner, but it was late. I kept saying we should just stop at one of the 8 million sushi places we were driving past, but they kept insisting on going to this place way out in Mnt View that neither of them really KNEW where it was. So we got lost and of course by the time we got there it was closed. As was everthing else around. Finially at like 1030 I just got bitchy enough that we stopped at Jack-in-the-box for food. Andrew and I went back to the arpartment and Oksy and google boy went out again.

This morning we left at 8 and I dropped andrew off at 1:30ish.

Overall the trip was fun, San Fran wasn’t what I was expecting, everyone has talked it up way too much. But obviously, the wife and I are not made to spend weekends worth of time together. haha.

I called the boy after dropping Andrew off. I havne’t had hardly any time to talk to him this weekend, and his txting replys have been few and far between. Which is understandable since he was in Vegas for most of the time too. But we all know I like to over analize things and I always think things are going worse then they are when first starting out… I don’t like to keep getting my hopes up just to have them crushed a month in with some stupid breakup reason… So anyways, he said he’d call me back in 30 minutes… which meant 2:30.. well he didn’t call back till 3:30 which was a bit annoying, but it was a nice convo. short but nice. The other day he said he missed me. which made me feel really good… But he was drunk, so I’m not sure how much feeling went into it. I missed him. He also keeps talking about going out to vegas. which would be tons of fun! I really enjoy him so far because it seems he’s someone who I can say, “lets do this” and he’ll do it.. IE, the bike ride to bridge to no where.. Which we talked about doing this upcoming weekend. so hopefully that’ll happen. I also really hope this vegas trip happens. And I think he’d be a good candiate for that napa trip I was talking about in the spring. Lots of other things I think he’d like to do with me that I have on my list.

My scope today says: “Don’t fret if it feels like a relationship is falling apart. Rather, you are being given an opportunity to clarify your positions before moving forward again.” Lets hope it’s right, cause I don’t want this one to fall apart!

Robert also wants me to go to mexico with him and Mike. as well as a camping trip. i’m very excited for both. There’s not enough weekends this summer for it all! haha. well more like not enough money! 😀

Anyways. I’ve rambled enough. Adios!

Another Great Date!

So last night was another great date! 🙂

I felt really bad for him though, because it took him 1.5 hours to get here from SM, where it normally takes me between 30 and 40 minutes. Poor him, I think I made up for it though!

So he got there about 7:30 and we went over to HT Grill and had dinner. Excellent food! I highly suggest you go there! 🙂 Our waitress was really fun and we had a great convo over dinner. Just talked about all kinds of random stuff, and some not so random serious stuff.

When we went to pay, he kept trying to pay for it. But I wanted to pay since he did last time.. In the end he did cause they didn’t take Discover and he attacked our waitress. It was really nice of him.

After dinner we walked home and did a little window shoping on the way. It’s not quite what I had in mind of sitting no the beach chatting, but it was too cold and too late for that. Either way we got back to my place and I showed him some pictures of things that I had talked about during dinner. And then we just sat on the couch and spent the night talking and making out. 😀 haha.

He’s such a cutie and so nice! It makes me happy…. And to think we met on “MySpace”!

Anyways, he ate only 2 cookies! But I made him take some home. haha. He left about midnight, but not after we went over to the hill above the beach and stood there for a minute looking at the water and making out some more! It’s so pretty there at night! Next time we’re walking on the beach.

I kinda pushed his PDA limit though there… I hope it didn’t bug him.

So yeah, he left and I went to bed. I forgot to turn off my alarm last night, so it went off at 5 and I couldn’t get back to sleep.

Anyways, I don’t think I’ll get a chance to see him again till next Wed. Tonight he’s got practice, and then I leave tomorrow and won’t be back till late Tuesday night. 🙁

Adios!

Another New Picture!

I added another new picture to the to banner. That gets us up to 30! Here’s a list of the pics:

1 – Snow in Palm Springs

2 – Lifegaurd Jeep in San Clemente

3 – San Clemente Pier (Sunset)

4 – NB Office View (Sunrise)

5 – Lake Elsinor (Sunrise)

6 – Sequoia National Park (Sunrise)

7 – Fog in Sequoia

8 – NB Office View (Sunrise)

9 – San Clemente Pier (Sunset)

10 – Iowa State University Howe Hall (Sunset)

11 – Iowa State Fair Midway

12 – Court Ave Des Moines (Winter)

13 – Sunflower at Jave Joes Des Moines

14 – Yucatan Ruins

15 – Yucatan Observatory Ruins

16 – Yucatan Springs

17 – Frog at Rieman Gardens Ames

18 – Orange County Fair

19 – Mighty Blue Grass Shows – Iowa State Fair

20 – Saylorville Lake Polk City (Sunset)

21 – 5th Street Ames (Sunset)

22 – Clouds over Backyard

23 – Roasting Corn Orange County Fair

24 – Rainbow Umbrella Laguna Beach

25 – Homeless Man Ames

26 – Coffee! Java Joes Des Moines

27 – Deer In Backyard

28 – Central Park New York

29 – New York

30 – Museum in Orange

And just remember that all those are original pictures that I’ve taken! 😀 I’ve got a few mor I want to add, but I’ll do that over time.

As you can tell, I’m really trying to avoid doing work right now. I’m just so burned out. This project that I’ve been working on for over a month now has grown to 13,987 lines of code. About 3,000 of that is copied from an OSS project and adapted to work with what I’m doing. The rest is all original code that I’ve written. As you can tell, it’s getting to be HUGE, the biggest project I’ve ever worked on. And considering that it’s not near done, it’s just going to keep growing. I’m estimating 17,000 line by the time we’re through.

I am getting enough done now though that the PM for this project is starting to come back with little nit-picky changes. And they are so annoying. Like some of them, even though they are SMALL changes to him, require lots of added logic in the middle of things.

Another annoyance I’m having right now is that when I graph Responsibility vs Status, I get incorrect numbers, but when I do Status vs Responsibility, I get correct numbers. In theory you should get the same numbers either way! So I’m not too sure why that is! It’s really frustrating me.

It’s also frustrating me because the CEO has thrown one of his projects into the middle of this one, so I’ve been splitting my time between these two very demanding projects. Thankfully the one for the CEO is done, I’ve just got some random JavaScript errors that I can put off for a while to fix.

The cutie sent me a txt message last night that made me smile… I had been planning on sending him one when I went to bed, if not calling him to say goodnight, but I wasn’t too sure if that was being a bit too forward for only being out on one date so far. So I’m glad that he initiated it. Like I said, we’ve got a date for tomorrow. I’m kinda stressing on what to do! I’m thinking Sushi and then hanging out at the pier or checking out the downtownish area around here.

I got the invoice for my deposit on the old apartment today. They didn’t add in the $200 cat deposit that I made, they charged me for a bill they claim I didn’t pay and they charged me $115 for cleaning! When I left the place it was pretty damn spotless, so I’m a bit annoyed about that. The bill they say I didn’t pay is understandable as well because I paid it the day after I moved out. So perhaps the company just hadn’t registered it yet. So I have to call and figure out where I can get that $30 back from. In all I should end up getting $200 back. Which is nice, because I owe a ton on my credit card and I still haven’t got the re-imbursement check from my company yet for the moving costs.

I don’t remember if I mentioned it a while back, but I switched to Camino. I really love it as a browser over all. However A) it still has the memory leak issue of Firefox/Safari, B) It doesn’t have tab-memory after a crash, C) the most annoying one, it doesn’t allow you to save more then one password per-site/page. Very annoying for places where I have two or three logins.

Anyone want to buy a Powerbook G4 1.33ghz, 1Gig RAM, 100Gig HD…for $1,000? PLEASE!

I should get to work, adios!

Great Date!

Soooo. The date last night = AMAZING! 😀

He was so adorable and so nice and we had a great time. I really didn’t want to leave when it was time to go, cause I just wanted to keep talking to him! Like I said yesterday, we went to Houston’s in Santa Monica. Got there and hung out at the bar for a little bit. I had a Jack and Coke and he had Vodka Tonic… He said Jack and Coke was a straight drink.. haha.

Had another during dinner. The convo was really great, at least I thought so! We talked about all kinds of random stuff.

After dinner we walked down to the theater and bought tickets to Nacho Libre. The show didn’t start for another 30 minutes, so we went to this bar across the street. It was a really cute place. I had to go to the bathroom, so I went and came back and he had bought me another drink.

We had talked earlier about the Jack and Coke thing and I had mentioned that I drink 151 and Coke sometimes too, since he thought that Jack was a hard drink. lol. So that’s the drink he got me.. at 151. Needless to say, I was pretty drunk for the movie. But whatever. It was good.

The movie was very stupid but also very funny. It was also so cute, because we got there and he put the arm rest up between the two of us and he was leaning into me the whole time (He claims it was because of the fat man next to him, but I think otherwise. haha) and he held my hand! ::swoons:: I also grabbed his fore-arm at one point, and held onto it.. OMG, so muscular. Yummy! 😀 Must be from all that rowing he does!

We also talked about his last bf for a while, and it sounds like he was in a bad relationship. I guess they went up to SB for a weekend and his boy totally missed his competition. I would have been so pissed if that had happened to me!

After the movie we walked back to the parking structure and up to the thrid floor where he was parked. We said goodbye and I gave him a hug. He kissed me on the cheek, so I gave him a soft peck on the lips… It was so…. nice. 🙂 I was honestly very surprised that he would show that much PDA.

We parted ways after that and he told me to call him when I got home.  So I did and we made plans for a date on Wed! He’s coming down to RB for the evening. 🙂 Sadly after that I then won’t get to see him till the next Wed since I’ll be out of town. Then he’s going out of town the next weekend!

Anyways… As you can probably tell, I had a really great time! AND HOPEFULLY something will come of this one!