So I saw Sicko the other day, as I mentioned. Then today I found this great interview with Michael Moore on CNN. I love how he just goes off on this rant. Very hilarious.
Also check out this very interesting Google Earth pics.
Everyone knows I’m always looking for new ways to work out. Well the other day I stumbled upon this exercise page. You click on a muscle group and it tells you what exercises you do.
I love the TV show Kyle XY. But you have to give a huge props to the music director. They always have amazing music that’s just perfect for the scene that’s going on during the show. I found a site that lists all the music from the first season. Hopefully they will soon have one for the second season!
ALC posted a new video to honor the roadies. Go and check it out here.
Want to buy me something? Get me the This is why I’m hot t-shirt! I love it!
I found this cool app a while back that’s call the Google Image Ripper. I was able to find these sweet photos from it:
This is a fascinating look at what’s on people’s dinner tables across the globe, and is a telling visual of why the health of the Western world is in rapid decline from all our prepackaged, chemically processed and sugar-laden goods, and how much we’re actually paying for the privilege. What the World Eats. Really cool quick read!
This morning I was backing out of my parking spot and ripped the right mirror clean off my car. God damnit! I looked at it quick before coming into the office and it looks like I might be able to replace it myself. I’ve called a few NAPA stores here in Cali, but they are all of no help. So I’m trying to hunt down my cousin who works at NAPA in IA.
So remember that whole investment mess from a while back? Well today it continues! I got a letter in the mail saying that duplicate statements are now being sent to some Retirement Strategies company here in Cali! I didn’t authorize this! Time to figure this shit out again!
My Site was hacked on Sunday at 12:11pm and the compromised continued until 7:00am this morning (6/25/2007) when my hosting provider was able to finally remove the infected code from the site. I realized there was an issue at 8:30pm Sunday night and uploaded some new code which should have stopped the infected code from being executed on my visitors computers. If you visisted the site between 6/24 and 6/25 PLEASE run a virus scanner (Link to free online virus scanner)to be sure you are not infected!!!! You can read about the issue here or watch a video about it here.
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So Friday I had my yearly review at the office. Usually something has been going on at this point in the year and I just happened to get a raise anyways. But this year nothing was really going on so I brought it up to the boss. It ended up being pretty good. We got to talk about what happened with the client’s office closing and where things were going. I got some really good feed back as well. In the end I got a 7% raise which is nice. We also talked about the possibility of me moving to London still. Apparently two of the people there want to come back. However, it’s a REALLY long shot. So I’m not going to get my hopes up for it. But I’ll still be hoping it does happen.
Friday night I went out with Nick and Dustin to a concert in Laguna. This guy Trevor Hall. He was very good and oh so hot! You should all go check out some of his music. I bought his album on iTunes this morning. And he’s also in the Shrek The Third movie.
While we were there I tried this really good new desert called spanakopita. It was so good. I’m going to have to make myself some. Left there about 10 and went home. I got home and my neighbor was just getting home as well and we were outside talking for MAYBE 5 minutes, and we weren’t being very loud either when some bitch up stairs came out and said. “Can you keep it down, I’m trying to sleep” all bitchy! UGH! I wish I knew who it was. We think it was one of the girlfriends of the guy upstairs.
Saturday I slept in late and then went to brunch with the neighbor and Erick. There’s a crazy street fair going on here, so we hung out at that for a while as well. Erick and I found these CUTE ass gifts that we each got for the little people in our lives. Keira’s B-day isn’t till August, but I’m going to send it to her this week because you need it for summer! OMG! It’s soo cute, I wish I could tell you all about it! After that Erick and I hit the beach for an hour.
Sunday I was going to get up at 7 and bike up to Santa Monica to meet Team 100 then ride back to Hermosa for brunch. I went to bed at 9 Saturday night and when 7 rolled around I was just still way too tired. Ugh! I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I’ve been sooooooo tired! So I just lounged around the house for most of the day. That afternoon I drove up to Santa Monica to meet up with Charles Phoenix. We were talking and I mentioned this amazing 1961 Ford F-100 Stepside Shortbed that is for sale at a dealer down the street form me. He got me all excited about it and said that I should really stop and check it out. So on my way home I did They want $20,000 for it! NADA says that the high retail value is about $16k. It would be interesting to see how much they actually get for this truck. It’s not even a very good restoration job either (The seams are not even at ALL, you can see where they just painted over the rust, etc). I found another one on CL that’s only $9,000 but who knows how much work it would need. I would _love_ to have one of these things though!
After CP I met up with this guy Aurthur from the valley. We hung out for like 3 hours. He brought his HUGE dog which has to weight almost as much as he does. That was fun times though.
Here’s a perfect example of why I did the ride… Watch to minute 3, where they interview Tom
I mentioned Tom in my Lifecycle write up. He also did a bunch of training rides that I did. He’s a great guy and really gave me a lot of inspiration to get through the ride, even when my knee was killing me and I just wanted to stop.
Nothing else to really report in the world. I’ve been working crazy hours and haven’t had time to do anything else. I was here till 7 last night, got home at about 8:30 went to bed after cruising the internet for a while and then was up at 3:30 this morning to be in the office by 5am. Thankfully I am going to head out about 12:30 so I can hit the gym and then the beach hopefully.
Wow what a weekend! Let’s see, so Friday I worked and then went down to Laguna to apartment search with Nick. We found some ok places, one really nice place in Dana Point, but I think that is just too far south! After that we went to Harbor House and had dinner then went and picked up Dustin from his “Private Client”.
We headed out to Irvine to see La Vie En Rose. Which is an amazing movie. Totally not the type of movie I would go and see on my own. But it was so sad and moving and what not. Great movie. I did _HATE_ the subtitles though! From there we headed to the Boom Boom and met up with Austin there. Thankfully no Joel this time, but lots of other cuties out. My bartender boyfriend was there, so I stared at him for a while. Austin of course made me dance, which was ridic.
[private]After the Boom I headed back to Austin’s place and we ended up getting high for the second time in my life. It was tons of fun. But soo bad. I always hate hanging out with him alone though because I always just want to grab him and make out with him and what not. Ugh. He’s so adorable! So I ended up spending the night there and we cuddled all night long.[/private]
I got home Saturday morning and did laundry and some other stuff and then ended up taking a nap pretty much all day. Sunday morning I got up and drove all the way to Santa Monica to go on a bike ride with Team 100. I got up there, got my bike out put it together and all that and then realized I forgot my shoes at home! UGH! How annoying. So I drove back home and ended up just going on a short 10 mile ride with Mok, we rode up to Manhattan Beach and ate breakfast, the whole ten miles took about 3 hours to do cause we wasted so much time at breakfast. On my way back some asshole totally took me out on the Beach path. I was riding along and he was going the opposite direction. Then all of a sudden he slams on his brakes and totally cuts me off. So I slammed him right in the side. Stupid people!
Got home from that, showered and hung out for about an hour and then headed to the Beach with Mok and these two guys he knows. That was a good time, ate dinner with them and then came home and took a nap till about 9ish. Went out with Nick and one of his friends in WeHo and we met up with some random guy from Malibu who was pretty hot, but he was 36!! Anyways, it was a lot of fun to go out and look at the boys up there again.
While I was waiting to head up there though I ended up watching about 10 minutes of like the “Hannity Hour” or something on Fox. I cannot believe that anyone listens to this idiot! What the hell is wrong with people that they would give this guy a fucking TV show? UGH!
Today I came into work at 10, as I’m covering the evening HD shift. We had our official meeting about the whole mess with the other office closing. Apparently they are taking this as good news for us. We’re taking on 6 of the displaced contractors from the client and then sub-contracting them back to the client. Seems strange to me, but whatever works! I guess we also have 2 years left of contracts that it appears they are not going to try and get out of, so that’s good. However the new contracts is that we have to cut 2 FTEs by the end of this calendar year. However we went over some of the new potential clients that are in the works, so hopefully if even a few of those pan out, we’ll actually end up hiring more people then losing the 2. So it’s all a wait and see game now to see what’s going to happen! JT did make fun of me and called me the “barefoot boy”. lol. We were talking about cleaning out my desk up in SM and he said, “Be sure to get your shoes.” haha. Thankfully I went in on Sunday and cleaned out my desk up there.
