I'm sure you've seen a movie or tv show where someone breaks through a door by slamming against it with their shoulder. They make it look easy, don't they? Turns out it is easy. How do I know? I JUST BROKE DOWN MY OWN DOOR ( Read more... )

I've been really good this week. In an effort to cut down on how much I spend money, I've been rolling back my spending on food lately. The previuos two weeks, I had bought lunch at the company cafeteria every day. It's not very expensive or anything, but it adds up really quickly. This week I've been much better ( Read more... )

Just had a fifteen minute chair massage at work. They had a thing this week where you could sign up for these quick massages for just $8. (I gave him ten cause it was so good.) It's amazing how much of a difference a good massage can make. Walking back from that building to mine I felt like a whole new man, or at least the same old man with a whole ( Read more... )

Had a muy bueno weekend. Anna and Nicole drove up to move a bunch of Nicole's stuff down to L.A. They got to Berkeley around 1 AM Saturday and Anna crashed at my place. In the morning, I made biscuits and we chatted, catching up on things. It was really nice to see Anna again and just sit and talk. Felt like old times. She was a bit weirded out by ( Read more... )

I was just walking home from work. There's nothing to make you nervous like four helicopters hovering low over South Berkeley. There are also two small propellor planes flying back and forth over the area. As I got near my apartment, I could see a smoky haze low in the distance. Starting to get nervous, I turned on the tv as soon as I got home. ( Read more... )

Had a really good visit with Nicole over the weekend. Took a three day weekend and went down to Cypress for a visit. Her parents were had gone to Catalina to go diving so it was just the two of us, her younger brother Cody, Yeller the dog, and some cats. Copper, one of the cats, is the biggest attention hog you've ever seen. It's very surreal to ( Read more... )

One (du du du) Singular Sensation, every little step she takes (do do do ( Read more... )

ah, wtf! That's the fifth little black ant I've discovered scurrying around my room in the last 24 hours. Why why why? There's no food here? They're obviously explorers since each ant was alone. But now they're dead. They better figure out that death means DO NOT ENTER. They won't figure it out though. Why won't they figure it out, you ask? Because ( Read more... )

Sponsored Letter Club was a good time on Tuesday. This month was the letter A and a ton of people came. Me, Andrew, Jenna, Becca, Suz, Erez, Gabe, other Dan, Ruza, Ruza's sister, and RACH! (in town for a wedding, yay) We had ( Read more... )

My Nicole called me at 9:30 this morning. Yesterday she flew home to Orange County from Hawaii. We talked yesterday and both said how great it would be to see each other this weekend, but it can't happen. She has made the drive too many times already this summer and her friends haven't seen her nearly as much as they'd like. Besides, she's ( Read more... )