Dave Chappelle
So I saw Dave Chappelle tonight. Dave was classic, hillarious. It was his new standup routine. Almost all the jokes were new, only a few old ones. No Rick James impressions, but lots of wannabe's in the crowd. It was kinda funny listening to 'hWHAT?' and 'Yeaaaaauuuuhh!' (Little John) coming from the seats. Greer Barnes was on before him, he is the first person to ever make me break a sweat laughing. It was SO funny, the stuff about the 'virginia' being all serious. "Flaps and shutters and a doorbell." ROFL!
No cameras allowed, so I didn't get a pic with Dave. And it was too dark at the RIMAC for my poor camera phone to take a decent shot:
The lines at the RIMAC were horrendously long. Tracy and I were running late but somehow beat every body there, we were in the first 500 or so, with a few thousand behind us. Geoff and Karen joined us in line a little later with a few grunts from the people behind us. Whatever, they had a crew of 20 join them! Keith, Houman and Herman showed up late and were near the back of the line, but made it in and got decent seats anyway. Zac and his friends missed the first guy, too bad, he was great. Jason, UCSD student and an intern in my group at work, scored us these tickets back in Feb for $20 a pop. I saw them on ebay for $150 for 2 'front row' seats (it was open seating). And they were going for $200 a seat at the show. Almost saw a fight break out but somebody slipped up and used good judgement. A few people were carted out for using cameras and one dude was escorted away with a video camera.
Tracy and I went out for drinks with Geoff and Karen afterwards. It was a good night.
Wow, the Astronomy Picture of the Day is rad today. And yesterday too.
blah! memorial day
This pic is me in the bed reading magazines this morning after the pager woke me up at 5am.
So this weekend has been kind of a wash. David couldn't come down. Bummer. 1) traffic from LA <-> SD sucks ass 2) We're both getting sick or getting over being sick 3) I am still on call and 4) gas is expensive. So he may have to wait a month till I move into the new house. That will be really fun, we need to initate the place anyhow with a few cannonballs off the roof into the pool. I just hope he doesn't find a job and move away before then. Hopefully not. I am trying to get him a job at Qualcomm, but it's a challenge because I don't have contacts in the right departments. But I'm gonna see what I can do this week. We talked about jobs and stuff a lot last night, I guess that it's just a hard job market right now, especially for people fresh out of school.
A pic of my (new) sandals as I was walking over to get a Rubios burrito for lunch.
Tracy and I went to the beach tonight to watch the sunset. But we screwed up and went to the wrong part of the beach at Del Mar, north, near the cliffs. The water was a lot closer to the top of the beach than what I'm used to, and since it was 6:45ish when we arrived, it was already at pretty high tide. And it smelled like seaweed and fish and featured lots of junk in the sand. As the sun was setting near 7:45, we were getting water lapping at our feet. We drove back home thru Del Mar and looked at all the houses we'd love to own. It's hard to believe that people live in such a beautiful place. I can't believe I'm only 7 miles and as many economic levels away from it. I sure hope the housing market continues to do well. Or bad, or whatever it's doing now.
Back to work after a long weekend and 3 days home sick. Hope it's not too much of a shock to my system. ;)
I see Dave Chappelle tomorrow. Woot!
My first photo-blog
(edited later)
Yes, yes, done entirely from the phone. But I wasn't at the beach, I was at home in front of the computer. Cool eh? Now, to put some good words in the T9 database...
attack of the sneaky cold
So I've been home sick for the last 2 days. Cough, sore throat, headache, sniffly, sneezy, sinus pressure, all that great I-feel-like-shit jazz. Usually you can tell when you're getting sick. Not this time, it was a total sneak-attack. 7pm on Tuesday I was still at work, feeling fine. 8pm I had stopped by IN-N-OUT and by the time I got home to eat my bounty, my nose was a spigot. I got out of the car just in time for it to drip on the garage floor. Seriously, I was freaked out. It was so bad that I would go get a tissue, blow nose, turn around, walk 10 feet and have to go back for another tissue. Burned thru a whole box of tissues the first night. I had to put my laptop away because I was afraid snot would just pour out my nose on it. I was even thinking about converting to a cloth snot-rag so I could wring it out and keep going, save the trees whatever. I got it on my clothes, the couch, magazines, the carpet. I even sneezed suddenly and shot a spray across the room. But don't tell Tracy that, she'd freak out, dang germophobe. ;) So I called in sick to work Wed. Then I went on-call Wednesday night. And wouldn't ya know it, pager hell from moment one. I'm pretty sure that Will jinx'd me with his talk of an easy on-call week. I've had a few hundred pages since then. I made a run over to Longs just to get Sudafed and came back with all this other junk.
Poopy.
Got a call today from my home insurance agent. Apparently there was still something left that I needed to sign. And if I didn't do it today, then they would cancel my policy. And they'd have to give notice to the bank that the property was no longer insured. And the bank would freak out and take my loan away. And I sure am glad that I wasn't out of town or something. Jeez. So I got all cleaned up, went over there, signed the papers and came home. He had laringitus so he was cool with me being sick too.
So I am 1 month away from moving into my new house. Yay. I'm so excited, I can't wait. The first thing I'm gonna do is a cannonball off the roof into the pool as initation. I can't wait.
David is supposed to come down this weekend, we'll go over to the new house, check it out. Tyler's gonna show us how he takes care of the yard and all that jazz. Should be a fun time. I haven't seen my brother in a while.
Easter Island
Is a really cool place. Apparently it has no trees because the natives cut them all down. After they cut down the last trees, war broke out, they turned to cannibalism and then vanished. Nobody knows how they moved the 10 ton stone moui's into place, nobody knows where they vanished to. NPR was doing a story on them today on the radio. They talked about at some point, some dude was asked to cut down the last tree on the island. And that action sparked the downfall. PBS is doing a special on it, sounds interesting.
*sure, people have theories
What'd you say bout beer?
Man, I really do like beer.
Tonight, I made a 12:15 run to Albertsons to pick up some Dos Equis and a bottle of water for Tracy. But they changed hours (again) without posting signs or anything and had closed by 12. So I went next door to Longs, open 24 hours. But they couldn't sell past 11 because they're within 100ft of a residential area. And Jimbo's Liquor, my next destination, was closed. AM/PM only has domestic piss. So Ralph's was my last bet. They are open till 2, stock the beer, and can sell till 2. AND they have Shiner Bock. My favorite beer. Wow, all that work just for a sip of the stuff?
God-damn straight. I like beer.* :)
*Not domestic swill.
a nice weekend
A nice, lazy, weekend. Too damn short. Saturday, Tracy and I went up to Del Mar to eat at Board & Brew. Sunday, we went on a Hornblower Cruise. Pretty fun. Got to see this gnarly 140 foot sailboat from New Zealand. And the USS Midway was down at the harbor too, getting prepped to open as a museum attraction on June 6th. Only $13!
Got the Sysadmin Happy Hour pics up. That sure was fun. We were missing a few ppl, but for the most part, everybody showed. Good times.
Found out that Obie works at ADN, where UnixMechanix keeps it's servers. I need to get him a job at QC, he doesn't like it at ADN and he's a smart dude.
Found a really great link on how to install dual carbs in my Fiat: here. Looks like a lot of work.
..Speaking of which, I so don't want to go to work tomorrow.
Interesting reading: http://tjsplace.blogspot.com/
I suck at this
Guess I'm just bad at blogging. Whatever. I'm still working on it.
So, some neato stuff that's popped up on my e-mail or IM's lately:
Seinfeld and Superman together at last
Getting a few new people in my group at work. That's good, we've been needing them.
Bought a house, I move in the first week of July. Yay. Hope the market continues to do well.
Last night was the Sysadmin Happy Hour. Lots of peeps showed. It was the bomb.
New weblog
Well, hopefully I can keep THIS log updated. Livejournal was suckin ass as a blogger and I like blogger.com better anyway.
I am a lame journal type person
But, to make up for it, I am submitting these friendster freaks:
http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=2405451 http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=2486135 http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=2567972 http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=2243327 http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=1245519 http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=1951655 http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=1730675
If they're not in your network, you should be my friend!
So, let's see what's changed since I last posted...um....
Job: I'm full-time now. Yay. Things are good.
Tracy: Over a year. We celebrated by going up to Big Bear for the weekend. It's freaky though...EXACTLY one year to the day from when we met (in the hospital, Tracy taking care of me), I was taking care of her in the ER. Guess she got some sort of kidney infection. Woke up that morning at 5AM freaking out, and we flew about 100mph down La Jolla Village Drive in the RX-8 to the hospital. She turned out fine and we continued on the trip later that day. But freaky what a conincidence it was. I don't even want to guess at the implications of that.
Cars: After a lot more work, I got the Fiat running again. Rebuilt the carb, installed an electronic fuel pump and all new hose lines. Turns out I had burned out the old fuel pump, it had nothing to do with an overheating ignition computer. Then the starter solenoid completely died. So I after pulling the starter for the 3rd time, I got that replaced and it starting correctly again. I ordered some new wheels. Gotta get bolts tho, that's been a chore. I am generally not interested in working on cars right now. Even the 8 is really dirty.
Fires nearly burned down all of So Cal. It came within a half mile of my apartment. Pretty scary that morning to wake up to all that smoke. My step-grandmother was evac'd as her bushes burned, but somehow her house and her daughter's house both survived while the rest of the neighborhood melted to ash.
My old company, MP3.com is finally going away away. Sold the domain to C-Net. It has been gone for a while, but killing the site had yet to be done. Most of my friends that worked there now work for other Vivendi properties, or have found other jobs. I feel lucky to have gotten out when I did.
Went to Sevenstock this year with Sander. Kinda fun, saw some cool rotary cars.
Getting back into Amateur Radio. Pretty much as a directly result of Eddy getting his license and listening to the emergency nets during the fire. It was my first real hobby, and a love I've always had. Too bad I haven't been into it the last 4 years. It's so neat, sending radio signals from a little wire. Anyway, just got a new radio, put up an antenna and am learning morse and studying for my General class license upgrade. Pretty exciting to finally get to where I was hoping to be 10 years ago.
That's all for now. Thanks for the booty kick Judy. Maybe I can start updating this with a bit higher resolution.
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