Work, Sleep, Work…

Well, I have some down time right now. They are moving my computer back at the mother ship, so I’m stuck not being able to do any work right now. It’s been a very busy week, although I feel like I haven’t done a thing!

Lets see, Monday work work work. Went out to Lunch with Jesse so that was nice. We went to the Crepe place again, but didn’t get Crepes! Damnit. Oh well. After work I started mapping out all the locations we’re going to in Germany and arranging the schedule to have the least amount of travel time. I think I’ve got them all pretty well laid out now. I realized I made a horrible mistake and Angel and I are flying into different airports! Opps! But it seems like the trips should be easy for the both of us. I’m on the U-Bahn for 9 minutes and she’s on for 12. So not bad at all. The itinerary is located here.

Tuesday I worked again, after work I talked to a few Property Managers and was a sleep by 6:30pm. Opps!

Wed I worked, no surprise there, had lunch with Jason and Austin, went biking and though I was going to DIE and then had a date with this guy. He was ok. We had a good time, but there was a little wierdness, and he’s vegan. I’m not sure I can deal.

Today I’m working, no surprise! I’ve put in bids on a few more contract jobs. One of them that I had a meeting with like a month ago just called me back last night and said they are still working on getting the new hardware. So that’s good. I thought I had lost them. I need the money! Going to go the gym tonight and relax in the sauna. My back is killing me, my legs are killing me, my side is killing me. Basically I hurt all over the place!

Friday I’m heading down to NB, lunch with Robert and hopefully going to try to hang out with some other people. I was supposed to go to Palm Springs this weekend with Austin, but he cancelled because of his unruly work schedule. THen I was supposed to go camping with this guy, but I haven’t heard anything from him. So who knows! Sunday is a bike ride. And HOPEFULLY this weekend I can get the clock finished! The boards are “Out for delivery” now!

Vacation from Vacation!

Ok, well I’m back in Cali everyone.

I had a GREAT time back home. But I’m so socially exhausted. So much shit going on back there, so many great friends, great boys, great people!

Lets see, highlights:

Friday: Hung out with Angel, helped her move. Met the new guy, who’s very nice and cool. Had them over to my place that night and we all got drunk

Saturday: Hung out with the Parents, went hiking with them and got interviewed by the DM Register. My mommy got quoted! Went to sushi with them that night and then went out with David at the Frat, had an amazing time. It’s nice being back cause I’m the new hot guy, and everyone wants to talk to me. πŸ™‚ David kept getting all these boys trying to get him to introduce me to them. So that felt nice. πŸ™‚ I also got really drunk and then drove home! So much fun. haha.

Sunday: Hung out with the PU’s again, we went to the new Science center to the Titanic Exhibit. I lived! Went out to dinner with them again. Our waiter told us like every 5 minutes that his name was Dwaine. My dad made fun of him. He was REALLY cute though. πŸ™‚ After that Ginny came over and we went hot tubbing. I was really tired so she didn’t stay too long.

Monday-Wed: Spent these days down at the Grandparents. Had fun times with them. Went out hiking, learned about the Blow Job girl, ate TONS of cookies and other yummy yummy food. Also read a lot. It was a bit stressful bieng down there and having to make all the small talk with them. Oh, also planted lots of flowers and did some other general yard work. Played with Gpa’s guns some. My Gpa has a derringer, which I want so bad! Apparently someone also stole a Nazi Gunbelt from him too, cause he can’t find it anywhere.

WedNight: I went out to the Parade with my cousin and the child. We had a good time, but the parade was way too long.

Thursday: I spent most of the day at home, that night I went out with Zach, Nic, Mandy, and Mellisa. Some random straight boy talked to us all at The Lift. Yay for cheap martinis! We also hit up the Royal Mile that night! πŸ™‚

Friday: I got up fairly early, went to the fair with the cousin and the child, had a good time there. Then took her home and then met up with Angel again and we went back to the fair. Had some more fun and looked at all the HOT Iowa farm boys! Yum yum! After that I went to Angel’s showered and then met up with David, Dusty and Jen at the Frat. Had another great night.. Was out till about 5am, went home and finished packing then went to the airport. Got back to cali about noon.

The new airport stuff is stupid as hell! I walked RIGHT THROUGH security with a Nalgene full of water, no one even blinked. So cleary they are not doing much really about this. Then, apparently you can’t even take water, food, etc onto the plane that you BUY in the airport! WHAT?! This is retarded. Then once we got to LAX, they were searching EVERYONE’s carry one right before getting on the plane. I think this is overkill AND Stupid! Ugh!

I found some fun new websites too:

1) Amazing fast change.

2) FareCompare.

3) AirFareWatchdog.

4) BlueFly.

5) StubHub.

6) TheaterMania.

7) SmartDecorating.

Oh, and I am NOT a fucking jungle gym. I was sitting on the floor in Phoenix, and this small child came up to me and just stood there staring at me. I was like, “Hi” and then went back to reading my book. Then he started grabbing at my book. (He couldn’t have been more then 2). By this time the mother came over and started talking to me, I replied to her, but acted annoyed. She said that he kid likes to tear pages out of books. I was like.. “Great, then get the fucker away from my book”… Well I didn’t really say that, but it’s what I thought. So I just handed him my bookmark, hoping that would make him happy and he’d wonder away.

Nope, then he started CRAWLING all over me! I was like. GET THIS CHILD OFF ME. How could a parent seriously let the child do that shit. How fucking annoying.

Ugh.

Anywyas, I’ve spent the rest of the weekend hanging out at home. I’ve really needed some alone time.

Adios ya’ll!

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. πŸ™‚ 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! πŸ™‚ 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. πŸ™‚

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! πŸ˜€

Anyways. I’ve rambled enough. Adios!

LaCie Drives SUCK!

So, a little under a year ago, I bought 250Gig LaCie Porche HD Drive. The thing has been nothing but trouble. It constantly needs to be re-formatted. It doesn’t show up in the Drive list a lot of the time. It forgets it’s partitions, etc. Finially it totally just crapped out. I called the Support line, they said to mail it in. So I did. A couple days later, I receive a brand new drive in the mail. I plug it in, format it to MacOSX (Journaled) and then backed up my laptop to it. Unplugged it and sat it off to the side for the move. Got up here, plugged it in and nothing….

So I called and they said, mail it in. Again i get a brand new drive… I plug it in. Format it in FAT 32, and put some stuff on it. Unplug it. Set it off to the side for a few days. I set up my new desk yesterday. Plug the drive back in, and all it does is sits there and spins… NOTHING! So I’m going to have to get another new one! Ugh!

This weekend has been stressful and yet relaxing. Friday night I went out with Andrew. We started off on a bad foot with him yelling at me for apparently hanging up on him. And then yelling about my driving. It went down hill from there. We saw a horrible play called “Miss Firecracker Contest” at which he told me I hated everything. The night ended with us yelling at each other and then having a nice chat on the phone.

Saturday I just chilled at the beach and then at this cute street fair they are having here in RB. It was so fun! I just wish someone would have come with me. πŸ™ I also saw The Lake House. It made me cry. πŸ™ I love chicago

Same thing today, beach street fair.Β  I have a date with a really hot boy tonight too! I’m very excited about it. He seems really nice so far too. We’ve talked on the phone a bit and stuff. He’s taking me out to Houston’s and then a movie.

Lately I’ve really been wanting to just go home! I miss it so much!

Gpa’s 80th B-day tomorrow!

My parents haven’t heard from my brother since Mothers day. They are both pretty pissed. He didn’t call for Fathers day or my Mom’s B-day. My theory is that he’s dead. lol.

OH! Saturday I pretended to be straight and installed a CFGI outlet in my apartment! I now have a 3 prong plug, so I don’t have to use those stupid converters anymore!

I saw this today over at AutoBlog.com: The ten worst freeway interchanges are:

  1. Los Angeles 101 at the I-405
  2. Houston I-610 at the 1-10
  3. Chicago I-90/94 at the I-290
  4. Los Angeles I-405 at the I-10
  5. AtlantaΒ  I-75 at the I-85
  6. Washington I-495 at the I-270
  7. Los Angeles I-10 at the I-5
  8. Los Angeles I-405 at the I-605
  9. Atlanta I-285 at the 85

What have we learned? Avoid L.A. at all costs.Haha. I love that… Avoid LA at all costs! It’s so true, and so sad that I drive through the number 4 spot twice a day!

Adios!

Stupid people.

Hmm, so what have I been up too? Nothing but work! Work! and MORE WORK!

I’ve been putting in 12 hours days lately. Although I still find time to hit the beach and bike. πŸ™‚ I’m really going to have to put some hard core time into the gym. I’m just not sure when I could fit that into my schedule. Like, I want to do it right after work, since I’m already out and about. But then I miss out on prime beach time. But if I do the beach first, then I’m too lazy to change and go to the gym. Also if I wait then it’s prime gym time and the place is packed. Ugh. Such hard decisions I have in my life!

Yesterday was deadline 1 of my project and it got shown to the AMs. So after work I hung out with Robert and didn’t have to think about it. That was nice for once! πŸ™‚ Deadline 2 is in two weeks, so starting Monday it’s back to coding for 12 hours a day!

It felt really good showing off this project to everyone and they were all like amazed. I took the small requirements they asked for and made this thing amazing. Usually when you get to this part of the project and show them the mock ups they always want to add TONS of things. I only got a few minor requests. So that was really nice feeling. Today I’m just relaxing at work, taking care of some things that have had to be put on hold during the first part of this project.

So yeah, here it is Friday. I’m working in NB today. It’s nice to have my window office back. It gets really bad sitting in the office with no windows. Though, I suppose it’s better then a cube, which I’ll be in soon. :'(

I’m a bit annoyed about today though. The week before Dustin left for home we talked about what I’d do when I came down on Fridays. He graciously offered up his place for me to crash. I’ve been trying to contact him all week to try and figure out what’s going on and he won’t respond at all. I finially got out of him that he is going to the boom, but I still don’t know if I have a place to sleep or not, so it’s kinda annoying.

This seems relevant to today’s drive to OC:

“Pay more attention to what you’re doing. Look down the road ahead of (you) not right at the end of the hood,” Casey said.

The other day I was driving home from work and saw a lady stopped in the middle of a three lane side street… Right behind her was an AAA truck, filling her up with a gallon of gas. Anyone want to venture a guess as to what’s on either side of her? That’s right, A GAS STATION on both sides of the street! Why couldn’t she have just WALKED to either side of the street and purchased a gallon of gas instead of calling AAA!?

Carlito wants to drink in my bed…. ;D lol

BTW, this is hilarious! Lynn Westmoreland is a dumbass!

Ok, it’s seriously taken me all day to write this! I’m out.