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Outdoor weekend!

Wow this weekend has been busy!

Friday, Ben, Sirin and I met up with Jess in WeHo for his birthday! Had a great time at OBar and then went down the street tot his piano thing. It was a really fun night. On the way home Sirin and I got to talking and are going to try and figure out a way that we can buy our building. So all weekend I’ve been really excited about that and what not. Sadly I got online this morning and looked it up and the guy has increased the price by $600,000 for the building!! So now each unit is $325,000. I’m not sure I can afford that much! But I’m still going to make a few calls and see what’s going on.

Saturday Ben and I got up, I dropped him off at home and went to a business meeting. After that we met up again and went hiking in Red Rock Canyon and then hung out in Santa Monica area for a while. Went back to his place and had dinner. We laid down for a 15 minute nap at like 8:30 and didn’t wake up again till 8:30 Sunday morning! Opps!

While I was out driving in LA on Saturday I found a gas station that was at $3.45 for REGULAR gas! Insane!

Sunday we got up and headed down to my place. Went for a bike ride and then hung out in RB area. Lots of crazy stuff going on at the Pier. It was an amzing weekend 80 degrees and what not. He left about 4ish and then I spent the rest of the day relaxing on the couch.

As always, photos from the weekend are up on the Photodump

Halliburton is planning on moving it’s head quarters to Dubai. I really think that if they do make this move, that EVERY government contract they have should be revoked. They have access to WAY too much sensitive information.

Remember the game You Don’t Know Jack?. Well you can now play them online! These games wasted away MANY hours of time at BSA staff camp every year! Soo fun

25-Code Snippets for web designers. Some very cool and useful things. I wish I had found this before we demoed a few of the past projects I’ve been working on

Time Sensitive CSS Switcher. This idea has been around for a LONG time. I remember in HS having a website that printed out “Good Morning”, “Good Afternoon” etc depending on the time. But this is a realy cool implimentation of that idea.

Need a menu? 71 cool CSS menus.

Web 2.0 Tutorial Roundup!. I’ve been trying to learn photoshop lately and this has been a great resource!

Later.

Prostitutes in Germany

So remember that time I told you about how I stood outside a whore house for an hour? Well JDub wrote a nice blog about the exact place, and some of the girls. Go read it.

Summer is still months away, but this morning I drove past two gas stations that were 3.09 for regular gas… UGH! Not already! This has really got me started thinking about buying a hybrid again. I’m guessing that gas will be over $4 a gallon by the summer months. I found a nice Civic Hybrid with just over 1,200 miles for 20k on craigslist. I really want it!

Speaking of cars, my very first credit card was a GM Card. I haven’t used it since 2004, but I still get mailings and what not. I have about $200 in “car credit” or whatever it’s called on that card. Which means I can use that $200 towards any GM car. Well, the other day I got a mailing saying they would add $1,500 onto that. So it’s basically a FREE 1,700 down payment or what not. So I started looking through the GM cars.. It’s really sad, because there’s not a SINGLE car that I found that I would be willing to buy! And they wonder why they are going broke.

My company website is coming along. I’m having a really hard time writing things about my past work. It’s so hard to write about it and stuff. Ugh. Anyways, along with that I’ve been hard core checking out the Gigs section. I really hate when people write things like this: “We are not interested in someone writing the code on their own without our presence.” If you can’t trust your programmer then get out of it. My god, I do NOT work well with someone sitting over my shoulder saying. “Do this, do that” blah blah blah.

I bought a MegaMillions ticket.. sadly I’m not a multi-millionaire!

Ben’s coming over tonight and the weekend is packed. I’m thinking about taking tomorrow as a comp day. We’ll see. Later!

All About Driving…

OMG. I’ve had some horrible driving experiences over the last few days.

Let’s start with this morning…. I was driving into work PCH this morning going about 45. This asshole in a Chrysler 300 comes flying up from behind me. There’s an open lane to my left. But yet he doesn’t seem to get the hell over. He’s ON MY ASS. Now, we all know that I tail gate, so I have a pretty high tollerance for it. But this guy was ON MY ASS. So I brake check him. He doesn’t back off. I brake check him a few more times and the asshole backs off a little bit (about to the point where I usually tailgate slow ass moving people). Then all of sudden, the asshole flys out to my left, comes up beside me and starts to flip me off. In typical LA fashion I flip him off and start screaming at him. Then he starts weaving his car in and out as if he’s going to slide slam me…. After a little bit of this and him realizing he’s not scaring me, he speeds off. I keep track of him…. Anyone wanna guess WHERE he was speeding off too?

STARBUCKS! Asshole! When I saw that I soooo wanted to fucking follow him in there and scream at him some more!

Then the other night when we were going to Ben’s house this idiot tourist van tried to turn right from the left lane.. Only issue. I was trying to turn right as well.

The other day while I was biking this stupid soccer mom in her giant SUV, tailgates me, speeds past me and then slams on her brakes with her right turn signal on… And stops. Excuse me? You seriously just passed me to make an immediate right turn?!?!? So I start screaming at her. Then she rolls down her window and yells at me. “I’m waiting for you asshole.”… How am I the asshole? you’re the fucking bitch that just cut me off!?!? People in LA!

And lastly. I was driving home from work last night doing about 85 in the far right lane. When all of a sudden I come up on a CHP. I slam on my brakes… but when I passed him I was still going 75+. Amazingly he didn’t even blink. I about had a heart attack.

In other news.

The pic of Harry Potter naked is a confirmed fake. It’s by the same person that did this one of Draco as a Naughty Devil (NSFW).

I finished my HUGE project at work. Today is hopefully going to be a lazy day.

I’ve been listening to the new Val & Lisa on Star 98.7 the last few days just to see how it’s going. Plus, I have to admit. I like star’s music. Anyways, they are SO ripping off everything JJS did! Bastards. Oh well. I will continue to listen to JackFM as my primary station.

Paris Hilton Gets Arrested again…

UGH! I just had a huge post here about stuff… And then my computer froze. That’s what happens when you are running 8 million applications.. UGH!

So I will try to recreate now:

Ok, the last week or so has been UBER stressful at work. Lots of high priority projects all due at the same time and people blasting me for stuff to be done yesterday basically.

Anyways, so last night was a night to go blow off some steam. Ben, Jason, some guy from TN named Robert and I all went out to dinner in WeHo. Went to Marix and had a couple drinks and all you can eat tacos. Very yummmy. After that we walked over to Fiesta Cantina and chatted it up and had a good time. About 11ish we all got in the car and were driving to Beige when Jason screams. “There’s Paris Hilton“. She had been pulled over yet again. And we were some of the first to see… No cameras or anything yet even. What a stupid bitch.

Beige was tons of fun. No Asian to deal with, some random black girls came and joined us and we all had a great night.

Got home about 2:30ish and crashed. I woke up at 7am and my door was standing wide open again. I really have to remember to lock that sucker. I’m surprised that my cats haven’t run away one of these times. Drove into work at 10am and some idiot decided it’d be smart to close half the freeway to do bridge inspections. UGH.

The other night Ben and I watched notes on a scandal.

Ok, the rest is just going to be interesting links:

– 405 The Movie. Very funny

– Bill to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ coming. Lets hope this passes!

– RedBull NASCAR Team is HOT!

– 101 Amazing Earth Facts. Very cool read.

– Crazy Gas Station. I will attempt to find this in LA!

– Gadget Theft. Very cool service. I’ll have to sign up for it for my next iPod.

I know I’m forgetting a ton of stuff that I wanted to write about but… That is all for now…

Suze Orman is GAY!

OMG! I always got vibes from her, but thought she wasnt!… But Suze is GAY! Noooo way! So cool!

In other news. It’s snowing like a mofo back home. Check out this amazing pic:

I wish I could be there now!

photo credit to:wicked messenger.

This weekend Ben came over on Sat afternoon and we hung out all day. Went to Chinese New Year and then Olvera Street. Had a really great time. He spent the night and then today we went out biking with the Team 100. Just did an easy 20 miles. It was nice and sunny but only 50ish when we started. By the time we got back it was cloudy and colder. Just as we were pulling out to go home it started raining. Good thing we didn’t go longer!

It was really great to hang out with him this weeknd. As always pictures on the photodump.