What to do when the morning class gets out early, and it's 3.5 hours before the afternoon class? Why, get in the car, of course, pick a direction... south sounds good, and keep driving for 105 minutes! Out of San Jose, past Morgan Hill, through Gilroy--hey, it's the road over Pacheco Pass. Yes, ol' "blood alley" will do nicely. Now through garlic ( Read more... )

Strange dream last night. Mostly it was a bunch of random, unconnected experiences. Standing on a hill and watching a small tornado below pick up a redwood tree and drop it a hundred yards away. Sorting through a huge box of .22LR cartridges. Applying for a crappy job and realizing I'm not qualified. Watching the news and hearing that Jupiter's ( Read more... )

So four of my coworkers quit on Monday. Half the food ave team. One called in that morning and quit over the phone. Another just stopped showing up. We have just enough people to have one person working at all times. We really need two, sometimes three. We've been using cashiers to make up the difference, but most of them don't know any of the food ( Read more... )

Hooray for streaking around the block at one am!

We would like to apologize for any disturbing mental images this post may have suggested.

This guy customer guest at work today was asking me to describe the different pizzas we sell. That's pretty normal; nobody ever knows what a margherita pizza is (whole tomato slices with parmesan and basil). But then ( Read more... )

Read. Ist gut.

I got a haircut today. It felt good, I was getting shaggy. I walked out of the barber and it was sunny and warm. I was suddenly glad I wasn't in Chicago (or New YorkI walked over to the little overpriced market and got an ice cream bar, then walked down Big Basin Way while I ate it. The village was mostly empty, except for a few ( Read more... )

Well, this journal is pretty dead. Anyway, here's a preview of a little project I'm working on at the moment:


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Holy crap am I sick. Gah! *cough*

So it looks like next semester I'll only have class on Mondays and Wednesdays. Four-day weekends every week! Though the actual course load will be pretty serious ( Read more... )

Look what I stole!


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