Tuesday, May 31, 2005
The simple life
Worked and then came home and watched Intacto. Premise: What if there are some people that survive tragedies or live blessed lives because they stole and kept luck from others? Then what if, for entertainment and prosperity sake they started to compete against each other for being the luckiest? The movie was semi-believable and semi-hard to follow but appealing in its originality.
Monday, May 30, 2005
Close to the final
Today was a Amy's organic non-dairy burrito morning. It was also the second morning the car wouldn't start. I'm a half mark off empty so I think the gas might have something to do with it but I'm hesitant to skate to the nearest gas station to fetch a pail of gasoline. I have hopes the car might spontaneously fix itself.
People come to our bar and if little demons don't show their little selves hamstering out of the computer, they say that it feels like going to a mechanic and not seeing a problem. In instance, this occurred today. I said audibly but somewhat to myself, I've never gone to a mechanic with a problem that didn't happen. I wonder how often that really happens to people because if it really happens as often as people perceive, I'm sure there's a business to be had. Perhaps if no trouble is found, you could place a bet on whether it's going to happen again - almost like an anti-insurance ring. If it does happen again and you are able to prove it to the mechanic on a future visit, you get your money back and that much off the repair. If it doesn't happen again, you lose the money. I guess if you lose, you really lose because you lost time and effort too. But there could be some fun in win, lose, or bet again. Although, I'm sure there'd be a new line of business that could ensure your car would have the foresaid symptoms the next time you visit the mechanic. A 'fixed bet on a broken problem'.
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Eh, but I should enjoy skating while it's non-foggy and non-wet. It'd save on gasoline and mile age. But, I think I need to soak my bearings in WD-40 and get another pair of wheels as my 5-wheelers have turned into 4's missing the middle wheel.
Today's mid-day snack is a fruit slushie. I love making fruit slushies as I don't really like eating fruit by itself. It has milk, organic banana, conventional orange, pineapple and organic strawberries. Why I separate them in description while I puree them might be beyond conventional sense. But, it is organic.
Which made me wonder - of course it exists.
People come to our bar and if little demons don't show their little selves hamstering out of the computer, they say that it feels like going to a mechanic and not seeing a problem. In instance, this occurred today. I said audibly but somewhat to myself, I've never gone to a mechanic with a problem that didn't happen. I wonder how often that really happens to people because if it really happens as often as people perceive, I'm sure there's a business to be had. Perhaps if no trouble is found, you could place a bet on whether it's going to happen again - almost like an anti-insurance ring. If it does happen again and you are able to prove it to the mechanic on a future visit, you get your money back and that much off the repair. If it doesn't happen again, you lose the money. I guess if you lose, you really lose because you lost time and effort too. But there could be some fun in win, lose, or bet again. Although, I'm sure there'd be a new line of business that could ensure your car would have the foresaid symptoms the next time you visit the mechanic. A 'fixed bet on a broken problem'.
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Eh, but I should enjoy skating while it's non-foggy and non-wet. It'd save on gasoline and mile age. But, I think I need to soak my bearings in WD-40 and get another pair of wheels as my 5-wheelers have turned into 4's missing the middle wheel.
Today's mid-day snack is a fruit slushie. I love making fruit slushies as I don't really like eating fruit by itself. It has milk, organic banana, conventional orange, pineapple and organic strawberries. Why I separate them in description while I puree them might be beyond conventional sense. But, it is organic.
Which made me wonder - of course it exists.
World View
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Sunday, May 29, 2005
Intracacies of Shu
So, by now you've guessed that I spend a lot of time with my housemate, Shu(pronounced as Sue). If I were to summarize her, I'd say she was a 'tender woman'.
Shu is originally from Guangzhou, China. She's been unemployed for 1.5 years and has relied solely on her savings during that time. That's a great accomplishment by any measure. Granted, she's saved for 6 years while she lived in Boston and she's an accountant studying for her CPA exam. But, she lives in such a way that she'll never turn down an offer to go out to eat at a restaurant and groceries must always be the highest quality.
I've lived in the same townhouse with Shu since December. She lived in an in-law and had a bad experience because the fumes from her housemate's car seeped through her door and into her room. She went to the emergency room and fell down from the wheelchair while there; injuring her right knee. Shortly after, she decided to move out and into this house in Park Merced. We've gone to numerous doctors of both western and eastern medicine and I'm not sure she's become any better today than 6 months ago. After the first month, she had a friend of a housemate come in and massage her left ankle the wrong way, spraining it. Since then, we've been to 3 chinese herbal doctors in Oakland, 1 in Chinatown, 1 in Sutter, and 1 on Noriega for her ailments. She's also been to American doctors at UCSF and the General Hospital. And somehow, she's paid for all these out of her own pocket, though hopefully she gets medicard approval for reimbursement.
The reason I refer to her as a tender woman, is because physically she's a bit well, tender. Emotionally, she's very sensitive to violence or 'evil' in the world. Philosophically, she needs to open up to the real world. Culinarily, she almost always refers to the food we eat in terms of its tenderness. As in, "this is quite tender." Or "that beef dish looks very tender". She's also quite sensitive to how the food makes her feel good or bad afterwards. She's very intelligent but I need to increase her adjective collection or else I start to refer to things in terms of their tenderness. Case in point.
Because of Shu's immobility and our need for groceries, I spend most of my days off driving her to shops and stores. Going to Chinese markets was quite amusing(except for seeing how butchers open up a turtle) but finding parking to go to 3-4 different Chinese markets was almost unbearable. One market may be good for fish, one for meat, and the one for vegetables is always different than the previous market.
Today, we went to the Embarcadero Ferry building because I bought good organic lamb there two months ago. She didn't like the freshness of the fish and we both think the meat is a bit too costly for a week's worth so we went to the wonderous Whole Foods on 4th street. Afterwards, we went to Safeway to get fish, asparagus, oranges, water, orange juice and toothpaste. She wanted to go to Noriega for Chinese vegetables, but I convinced her(and she was persuaded by overuse of her legs) that we'd be able to make do with american vegetables in the form of tomatoes and lettuce. From start to finish, our shopping took 5 hours.
Two hours and a nap later, we went to this close restauraunt on Vicente called the Riverside seafood restaurant. They had good 'bird'(tasty quail looking thing I've had 4 times but still don't know the american name), spinach with preserved egg and egg, and combo seafood in bird's nest. I always let her order because she makes good decisions, always orders a vegetable and the waiters always speak in Chinese/Mandarin.
Besides the time we spend grocery shopping and doctor visiting, we've had dinner together for all but 7 nights in the past 4 months. We keep each other company because we don't have many friends and I dedicate myself to work so much that I don't do much else than skate. But she often drives me crazy. I'm very grateful for her for cooking all the time and I try to best to clean dishes and try to make life easy for her, but whenever she's negative about her health outlook or narrow in her views of the world, I return to that mode of self-questioning that goes, "How did I get here?" "Is it time for me to make some changes?"
Shu quirks:
Words or phrases that need work, "asparagus, olive oil, clam, how do you think?"
Believes that all raw fish will cause worms under the skin.
Believes women's fate is pre-determined by the curved angle of their nails.
Must have a 'green leaf' vegetable for dinner. Must have rice with dinner.
Believes that people from North China or Taiwan are bad.
Thinks that people from SF are untrustworthy and that none compare to Boston
Thinks that Korean people are more attracted to her than Chinese people.
Can not bear violence in movies and will whimper when those scenes occur.
Would not finish movies that I liked, 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sassy Girl, House of Flying Daggers'; only likes Gone With The Wind and A Beautiful Mind(in Boston).
Believes in good luck and bad luck.
Makes quick judgements from few experiences.
Random side-note: I'd like to introduce myself to someone by full name and add, "but you can call me blue."
Watched: Real Genius - Inspiring and yet self-reflecting, "Why didn't I go to that kind of college?"
Shu is originally from Guangzhou, China. She's been unemployed for 1.5 years and has relied solely on her savings during that time. That's a great accomplishment by any measure. Granted, she's saved for 6 years while she lived in Boston and she's an accountant studying for her CPA exam. But, she lives in such a way that she'll never turn down an offer to go out to eat at a restaurant and groceries must always be the highest quality.
I've lived in the same townhouse with Shu since December. She lived in an in-law and had a bad experience because the fumes from her housemate's car seeped through her door and into her room. She went to the emergency room and fell down from the wheelchair while there; injuring her right knee. Shortly after, she decided to move out and into this house in Park Merced. We've gone to numerous doctors of both western and eastern medicine and I'm not sure she's become any better today than 6 months ago. After the first month, she had a friend of a housemate come in and massage her left ankle the wrong way, spraining it. Since then, we've been to 3 chinese herbal doctors in Oakland, 1 in Chinatown, 1 in Sutter, and 1 on Noriega for her ailments. She's also been to American doctors at UCSF and the General Hospital. And somehow, she's paid for all these out of her own pocket, though hopefully she gets medicard approval for reimbursement.
The reason I refer to her as a tender woman, is because physically she's a bit well, tender. Emotionally, she's very sensitive to violence or 'evil' in the world. Philosophically, she needs to open up to the real world. Culinarily, she almost always refers to the food we eat in terms of its tenderness. As in, "this
Because of Shu's immobility and our need for groceries, I spend most of my days off driving her to shops and stores. Going to Chinese markets was quite amusing(except for seeing how butchers open up a turtle) but finding parking to go to 3-4 different Chinese markets was almost unbearable. One market may be good for fish, one for meat, and the one for vegetables is always different than the previous market.
Today, we went to the Embarcadero Ferry building because I bought good organic lamb there two months ago. She didn't like the freshness of the fish and we both think the meat is a bit too costly for a week's worth so we went to the wonderous Whole Foods on 4th street. Afterwards, we went to Safeway to get fish, asparagus, oranges, water, orange juice and toothpaste. She wanted to go to Noriega for Chinese vegetables, but I convinced her(and she was persuaded by overuse of her legs) that we'd be able to make do with american vegetables in the form of tomatoes and lettuce. From start to finish, our shopping took 5 hours.
Two hours and a nap later, we went to this close restauraunt on Vicente called the Riverside seafood restaurant. They had good 'bird'(tasty quail looking thing I've had 4 times but still don't know the american name), spinach with preserved egg and egg, and combo seafood in bird's nest. I always let her order because she makes good decisions, always orders a vegetable and the waiters always speak in Chinese/Mandarin.
Besides the time we spend grocery shopping and doctor visiting, we've had dinner together for all but 7 nights in the past 4 months. We keep each other company because we don't have many friends and I dedicate myself to work so much that I don't do much else than skate. But she often drives me crazy. I'm very grateful for her for cooking all the time and I try to best to clean dishes and try to make life easy for her, but whenever she's negative about her health outlook or narrow in her views of the world, I return to that mode of self-questioning that goes, "How did I get here?" "Is it time for me to make some changes?"
Shu quirks:
Words or phrases that need work, "asparagus, olive oil, clam, how do you think?"
Believes that all raw fish will cause worms under the skin.
Believes women's fate is pre-determined by the curved angle of their nails.
Must have a 'green leaf' vegetable for dinner. Must have rice with dinner.
Believes that people from North China or Taiwan are bad.
Thinks that people from SF are untrustworthy and that none compare to Boston
Thinks that Korean people are more attracted to her than Chinese people.
Can not bear violence in movies and will whimper when those scenes occur.
Would not finish movies that I liked, 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sassy Girl, House of Flying Daggers'; only likes Gone With The Wind and A Beautiful Mind(in Boston).
Believes in good luck and bad luck.
Makes quick judgements from few experiences.
Random side-note: I'd like to introduce myself to someone by full name and add, "but you can call me blue."
Watched: Real Genius - Inspiring and yet self-reflecting, "Why didn't I go to that kind of college?"
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Family of white acrylics
I got iMac #3 today. It's cleaner than its twin and after removal of its sticker, it says "usi"(formerly Business). I got a good price on it and just couldn't pass it up unless another coworker has a son or daughter that really needed it. I think I might rent very affordably it to new coworkers who don't use a Mac.
My collection(*TM) is now composed of: iMac G5 20", two iMac G4 17"s, and an iBook G3. Insane I might be, but I had this idea 2 nights ago of using my one wireless keyboard/mouse across multiple computers, and apparently there's already this new open source software with that aim:
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/index.html
That and I need to deconstruct the window iMac G5 software to see how they sync their screensavers over Airport.
Watched: In My Father's Den - Sad story. I think it was good, but sad.
My collection(*TM) is now composed of: iMac G5 20", two iMac G4 17"s, and an iBook G3. Insane I might be, but I had this idea 2 nights ago of using my one wireless keyboard/mouse across multiple computers, and apparently there's already this new open source software with that aim:
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/index.html
That and I need to deconstruct the window iMac G5 software to see how they sync their screensavers over Airport.
Watched: In My Father's Den - Sad story. I think it was good, but sad.
Friday, May 27, 2005
Friday night skate
Work has been a little tiring the last few days, but that's because I've been having 6 hours of sleep, waking up at 8:20AM, and working 9-10 hours/day.
After work, I skated with a small crew of about 30. It was pretty windy and 60 degrees so I can't blame people for not coming. Overall, it was the usual fun. As a group of us went downhill, I think I discovered that I can sprint faster than most but probably tire faster than the average. It might have to do with never learning to pace in running or skating. Sandra remarked that she was trying to copy my unusual skate stroke and asked if I was double pumping. I need to figure out how to do that sometime because I'm not so I'm probably being inefficient somehow.
Skate stats:
Years skated: 9 years - Chele bought me some while I visited her in New York and I learned between the upper east side and central park.
Number of still visible scars: 6
Oldest scar: 8 years old under left elbow.
Last fall: Last week while trying to skate dance.
Frequency of falls: About once every 4 months.
Most humiliating falls: Rolling over a scrunchie. Rolling into a car parking chain during finals week.
Funniest fall: I was wearing two huge foam fan hands(the kind they give you at school sports events) at Trinity University after a TAC Music event and lost balance.
Favorite skating spot: Central Park's southwest decline.
Longest skate: 28 miles from NYC upper west side to Jersey and back.
After work, I skated with a small crew of about 30. It was pretty windy and 60 degrees so I can't blame people for not coming. Overall, it was the usual fun. As a group of us went downhill, I think I discovered that I can sprint faster than most but probably tire faster than the average. It might have to do with never learning to pace in running or skating. Sandra remarked that she was trying to copy my unusual skate stroke and asked if I was double pumping. I need to figure out how to do that sometime because I'm not so I'm probably being inefficient somehow.
Skate stats:
Years skated: 9 years - Chele bought me some while I visited her in New York and I learned between the upper east side and central park.
Number of still visible scars: 6
Oldest scar: 8 years old under left elbow.
Last fall: Last week while trying to skate dance.
Frequency of falls: About once every 4 months.
Most humiliating falls: Rolling over a scrunchie. Rolling into a car parking chain during finals week.
Funniest fall: I was wearing two huge foam fan hands(the kind they give you at school sports events) at Trinity University after a TAC Music event and lost balance.
Favorite skating spot: Central Park's southwest decline.
Longest skate: 28 miles from NYC upper west side to Jersey and back.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
By oceanlight
There are times that I'll be driving west on these streets and suddenly be smarked in the face that I'm in California by the sight of the ocean not 10 blocks away and yet 10's of miles in visible distance.
I often think that during lunch I could get something to go and then park by the beach and eat on the sand. Everyone I've suggested that to has said that it's freezing by the water's edge. But one of these days I'm going to do it and take a chili hot burrito with me too.
I often think that during lunch I could get something to go and then park by the beach and eat on the sand. Everyone I've suggested that to has said that it's freezing by the water's edge. But one of these days I'm going to do it and take a chili hot burrito with me too.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Missed Connection as the Suns dimmed
Today after work, I was walking out to the western door and saw a pretty young woman with reddish brown curly hair walking in the opposite direction. I smiled and as we passed each other, we both turned our heads so that we weren't looking at each other directly but casually looking out of the corner of our eyes to see if we were looking back. And both of us were! Up until we were 15 feet past each other, she actually did a full 180 and started to walk back to me right as I stopped looking at her and started looking at the door in front of me. And that's when she did another 180 turn and went back to walking in her original direction.
Now, I know I'm green at meeting women on New York streets or in San Francisco malls, but I got into this total self-twist about what I should have done. I mean, it's the first time a woman actually looked back at me and then I never would have believed that she would actually turn back to walk towards me(was I supposed to walk back towards her like that Meet Joe Black scene?) It just blew my mind.
So, after driving my 5 minute home trek, I changed clothes and went to the Fitness USA gym inside the mall for that serendipitous card toss in the hat that I might get a chance to see her again and throw some line like, "I saw you earlier and you caught my eye and I was wondering if I caught yours." But really, if I saw her again I'd just say, "Hello, I'm Brent and I think you're pretty. Would you have dinner with me tonight?". But I don't know myself well enough to even say that I would say that to a 100%.
But sadly, I didn't see her as I went in and didn't see her as I came out of the gym-in-the-mall. So, I hope upon that theory that if you visit a mall and you're not a tourist, you're likely to go back there at some future point in time. Also put on record that this was the first time I had actually used the gym since signing up last November.
At least the Spurs gave me positive reflection after beating the Suns for a 2-0 lead.
Watched: the last half of Elizabeth
Now, I know I'm green at meeting women on New York streets or in San Francisco malls, but I got into this total self-twist about what I should have done. I mean, it's the first time a woman actually looked back at me and then I never would have believed that she would actually turn back to walk towards me(was I supposed to walk back towards her like that Meet Joe Black scene?) It just blew my mind.
So, after driving my 5 minute home trek, I changed clothes and went to the Fitness USA gym inside the mall for that serendipitous card toss in the hat that I might get a chance to see her again and throw some line like, "I saw you earlier and you caught my eye and I was wondering if I caught yours." But really, if I saw her again I'd just say, "Hello, I'm Brent and I think you're pretty. Would you have dinner with me tonight?". But I don't know myself well enough to even say that I would say that to a 100%.
But sadly, I didn't see her as I went in and didn't see her as I came out of the gym-in-the-mall. So, I hope upon that theory that if you visit a mall and you're not a tourist, you're likely to go back there at some future point in time. Also put on record that this was the first time I had actually used the gym since signing up last November.
At least the Spurs gave me positive reflection after beating the Suns for a 2-0 lead.
Watched: the last half of Elizabeth
Monday, May 23, 2005
Blank Tuesday
Watched Layercake and Deadwood finale.
Discovered that some of the characters from Deadwood were real:
http://laststagetodeadwood.nexuswebs.net/hbo.html
Discovered that some of the characters from Deadwood were real:
http://laststagetodeadwood.nexuswebs.net/hbo.html
Sunday, May 22, 2005
From Chinese Foods to Whole Foods
For the past 4-5 months, Shu has taken me on wild journey's to San Francisco's Chinese markets for groceries. These are the crowded stores in Noriega, Irving, Clement, and Chinatown that show many fruits on outside stands and have chopped chicken parts laying in the open ice inside. Whenver I go in and see those choppen chicken parts, I just think that can't be right. But somehow, these markets exist and either pass California food department inspections or are ignored and accepted as San Francisco's history. They must not be too bad because we haven't had any food poisoning yet and we shopped at them every week. ..until today.
After our Italian brunch this morning, we visited 4th street's Whole Foods and Shu loved it. We had a delicious wild salmon, asparagus and a random green chinese vegetable for dinner tonight. I hope that in the future, we could get all groceries from there instead of the 3-5 chinese markets we usually have to visit in a day to get meat, fish and vegetables. However, even after our Whole Foods venture, Shu still had me go to Noriega for 4+ kinds of green chinese vegetables.
Movies watched today: Unleashed and Suspect Zero
After our Italian brunch this morning, we visited 4th street's Whole Foods and Shu loved it. We had a delicious wild salmon, asparagus and a random green chinese vegetable for dinner tonight. I hope that in the future, we could get all groceries from there instead of the 3-5 chinese markets we usually have to visit in a day to get meat, fish and vegetables. However, even after our Whole Foods venture, Shu still had me go to Noriega for 4+ kinds of green chinese vegetables.
Movies watched today: Unleashed and Suspect Zero
Pasta Pomodoro in North Beach
Today, Shu and I went to North Beach because she wanted to introduce me to San Francisco's 'Oldest Italian Restaurant' on Union Street across from Washington Square. I dropped her off at the address and found a parking space within 2 minutes. As I eased in to the parking spot, Shu called and informed me that the restaurant had moved to Mason Street. So, I picked her up and we drove to Mason street where we found out that they were still closed due to a last minute fire and move situation.
So, we decided on whim to go to Pasta Pomodoro that's catty corner from Washington Square. This time, it took me 45 minutes to find a parking space as I vultured around someone who had parked in front of a church. Make note that I had found 2 parking spaces 30 minutes into the search but that you're not going to find me parking on a narrow streeted hill that's has a 60 degree tilt.
As I sat down at the restaurant, Shu had our main seafood pasta ready and was eating a cup of Minestrone soup. The waiter came by and I ordered a bowl of Tortellini with braised beef and spinach. MMm, doesn't that sound tasty? Well, he brought me a bowl of Minestrone and I didn't realize it until he had left and I'd had a spoonful(I thought at first that maybe tortellini could be as green as celery). I'd thought about fighting it but decided that fate had set in and I don't like the idea of returned food being wasted. Shu, on the other hand, notified Jennifer, our new waitress, that it was the wrong soup but by then I had almost eaten it all and declined the offer for a new soup.
We continued eating and Shu was making pessimistic remarks about how she thinks all San Franciscoans are unreliable. I fiercely debated her against her few experiences and that she can't judge the whole population of a city based on 2 or 3 bad apples. She relented a bit, but I don't think she ever quite gets that a few experiences with a few people don't justify absolute stereotyping. Anyway, our waitress overheard Shu say something to the effect of, "they're unreliable" as she was walking up and I had the slightest impression that the waitress might have mistook a different conversation topic. The staff of the restaurant then proceded to come back and forth to us at least 5 times to make sure we had everything we needed and refilled my water 3 times. Jennifer smiled a great smile and tried to make our experience the best.
As Jennifer picked up our plates, she accidentally knocked the table cheese onto my shoe. It was quite a little giggle for me that they were tiptoeing on glass when my personality is a granite slab. Later on when we asked for the bill, I saw Jennifer ask the blonde manager to talk over our bill and then she handed it to us without any mention of her extra credit work to remove the charges for my soup. I thanked her twice with big smiles when she brought the check and the credit card back. And as I walked back across the street to get the car, I had some hearty little laughs at what we do sometimes in the service industry to make people happy, even if they're not unhappy.
So, we decided on whim to go to Pasta Pomodoro that's catty corner from Washington Square. This time, it took me 45 minutes to find a parking space as I vultured around someone who had parked in front of a church. Make note that I had found 2 parking spaces 30 minutes into the search but that you're not going to find me parking on a narrow streeted hill that's has a 60 degree tilt.
As I sat down at the restaurant, Shu had our main seafood pasta ready and was eating a cup of Minestrone soup. The waiter came by and I ordered a bowl of Tortellini with braised beef and spinach. MMm, doesn't that sound tasty? Well, he brought me a bowl of Minestrone and I didn't realize it until he had left and I'd had a spoonful(I thought at first that maybe tortellini could be as green as celery). I'd thought about fighting it but decided that fate had set in and I don't like the idea of returned food being wasted. Shu, on the other hand, notified Jennifer, our new waitress, that it was the wrong soup but by then I had almost eaten it all and declined the offer for a new soup.
We continued eating and Shu was making pessimistic remarks about how she thinks all San Franciscoans are unreliable. I fiercely debated her against her few experiences and that she can't judge the whole population of a city based on 2 or 3 bad apples. She relented a bit, but I don't think she ever quite gets that a few experiences with a few people don't justify absolute stereotyping. Anyway, our waitress overheard Shu say something to the effect of, "they're unreliable" as she was walking up and I had the slightest impression that the waitress might have mistook a different conversation topic. The staff of the restaurant then proceded to come back and forth to us at least 5 times to make sure we had everything we needed and refilled my water 3 times. Jennifer smiled a great smile and tried to make our experience the best.
As Jennifer picked up our plates, she accidentally knocked the table cheese onto my shoe. It was quite a little giggle for me that they were tiptoeing on glass when my personality is a granite slab. Later on when we asked for the bill, I saw Jennifer ask the blonde manager to talk over our bill and then she handed it to us without any mention of her extra credit work to remove the charges for my soup. I thanked her twice with big smiles when she brought the check and the credit card back. And as I walked back across the street to get the car, I had some hearty little laughs at what we do sometimes in the service industry to make people happy, even if they're not unhappy.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Stop and hear the wallflowers
The weekend started out beautifully sunny. The weather the rest of the week is sunny and in between 70-72(I only live in the highs).
I dropped Shu off at an herbal doctor on Noriega, picked up some Dim Sum, and then drove off to meet Bobby Rohdes and Jason Williams from TAMS at the Metreon. They were there to see Star Wars Episode 3. Because I had seen it already, I just went to socialize a bit in the hopes of a larger community of Texans massing together to --.. .bah.. I just wanted to see if I could meet some new smart women. But to my disappointment, Vader did not attract new smart, hot chics from the bay area.
So, I went skating. If the weather is good and my feet aren't hurting enough from a previous day of skating, I'm out for exercise and the constant pursuit of a tan, or something like one. They say that sunlight might prevent cancer due to its Vitamin D love handles. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050521/D8A7MPFG0.html
I skated from the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf, back, to, and back again. They key to parking in the area is to vulture around Folsom, Harrison and Ford. ..but Ford doesn't really exist down there. There was a free outdoor concert today with the Wallflowers and then fireworks at 9pm, but I didn't think I could justify the 4 hour wait.
Movies watched today: Cellular and Elektra
I dropped Shu off at an herbal doctor on Noriega, picked up some Dim Sum, and then drove off to meet Bobby Rohdes and Jason Williams from TAMS at the Metreon. They were there to see Star Wars Episode 3. Because I had seen it already, I just went to socialize a bit in the hopes of a larger community of Texans massing together to --.. .bah.. I just wanted to see if I could meet some new smart women. But to my disappointment, Vader did not attract new smart, hot chics from the bay area.
So, I went skating. If the weather is good and my feet aren't hurting enough from a previous day of skating, I'm out for exercise and the constant pursuit of a tan, or something like one. They say that sunlight might prevent cancer due to its Vitamin D love handles. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050521/D8A7MPFG0.html
I skated from the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf, back, to, and back again. They key to parking in the area is to vulture around Folsom, Harrison and Ford. ..but Ford doesn't really exist down there. There was a free outdoor concert today with the Wallflowers and then fireworks at 9pm, but I didn't think I could justify the 4 hour wait.
Movies watched today: Cellular and Elektra
Friday, May 20, 2005
Friday Night Skate
Tonight, 30-40 skaters and I canvassed the town( http://www.cora.org/frmap.jpg ) for 20+ miles. I really enjoy skating with the group but miss some age diversity.
Channel 2 locally recorded some video of us the previous week. During the broadcast, you can hear the reporter say that the skaters are in their 30's, 40's, and 50's.
http://www.cora.org/2fnsnews.mov
Channel 2 locally recorded some video of us the previous week. During the broadcast, you can hear the reporter say that the skaters are in their 30's, 40's, and 50's.
http://www.cora.org/2fnsnews.mov
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Is it a girl?
It was the usual day at work today except that there was a girl interviewing with us. I didn't get to meet her or even see her beyond her hair but I always think it's a good sign that females could bring balance to our force. I wonder if her first name starts with J.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
We were so hungry, we ate a pig...
well, most of one..
Shu and I went to D & A cafe on 4th Ave/Clement St. and had:
Curried fish balls and pig skin, snails, fried pig ears, pig liver porridge, snails, and fried chicken wings.
Earlier today, James, Nick, Ethan and I had lunch at the motherland in Cupertino. I always love how the dark trees line the inner quad. James remarked how the windows all seem teal tinted and I remarked how that seems to match the fruit color. If I ever get a chance to work there, the first extracurricular project is to put more air in those basketballs.
What genre would you put Shakespeare in Love in at Blockbuster? Drama? Romance?(section doesn't exist) nope - Comedy.
Shu and I went to D & A cafe on 4th Ave/Clement St. and had:
Curried fish balls and pig skin, snails, fried pig ears, pig liver porridge, snails, and fried chicken wings.
Earlier today, James, Nick, Ethan and I had lunch at the motherland in Cupertino. I always love how the dark trees line the inner quad. James remarked how the windows all seem teal tinted and I remarked how that seems to match the fruit color. If I ever get a chance to work there, the first extracurricular project is to put more air in those basketballs.
What genre would you put Shakespeare in Love in at Blockbuster? Drama? Romance?(section doesn't exist) nope - Comedy.
Monday, May 16, 2005
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You should keep a blog. Why? Because there will be things you can't recall and stories will eventually be lost in the wind. There will be times when friends aren't sure they know you anymore because if you don't keep them in tune, you're frozen in a moment of past time. You know you love to be out there where strangers and wild things abound. Lets not escape our eternal sunshine. My mind is full of spots and I like them in every which way.
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