sorry, sorry, ive been super lazy lately and i need to update my pictures. i have been bad about syncing my treo up and getting the pictures up here with a good story.

however, i have found inspiration with Family Guy clips on the web. Here's another classic:



Here's a spoof on the A-Ha music video from "Take Me On"



and here's the original music video for reference.

i love it.



more on the weekend later. check this out in the mean time.

So last night i hung out with my HS friends Noelle, Rishi, and Lizzie. We went to this place called Tere's Mexican Grill on Melrose. its a little hole in the wall in a mini mall, and at first you dont really know what to think. but then you take a look at the menu, and you can see that this place is good. they have really good chile verde and pretty good mole. the mole isnt as sweet as you would expect, but its got great flavor.

anyway, we got to catch up, which is nice. its pretty interesting how we can all still relate to each other even though we have totally different jobs/lives. Noelle works for the Little Tokyo Service Center, a non-profit organization, raising money to build a receration center in Little Tokyo. Rishi is a law student at USC who is gonna graduate this year and probably end up doing campaing work around the country. Lizzie owns a dog walking business and goes to school right now.

we talked a bit about work, school, living in LA, relationships....etc. it was nice. and in talking about that stuff, i kind of realized a bunch of stuff about myself and how ive grown over the past few months. its funny how talking about things allows you to really see progress. its weird.

in the end, we i think we all came to the conclusion that everyone needs therapy. EVERYONE.

so...its been a long time already. so sorry. things have been crazy since my last blog about my facility being closed down. i spent some time interviewing at another company where my old boss works. hopefully everything works itself out.

so, to end the week off right, we went out drinking, but first had to stop at a nike party. its a yearly holiday sale where they give you 20% off for every $100 you spend. now, i made a promise to myself that id trim down the shoe collection, so i just picked up some new bball shorts, work out shorts, and a air max tshirt. however, ken and his crew came home with a few pairs of kicks and some other stuff. baaallllllers!

after that, the gang headed out to tokyo delves. now i dont know how to really describe the place, but they had some show, lots of beer and sake, and some dude that danced to nsync. i remember eating lots of sushi, lots of sake bombs, and meeting some dude from pimp my ride. you can see him down below there.

saturday started off pretty nicely, as my dad and i picked out a new 42"plasma for the living room. i know it's weird to have a tv in there, but really, in all reality, there's no point not having one in there. it's a room that we never really use, so we rearranged the room on sunday to fit it. i love it. HD and 16:9 is the bomb! i just need to pick up a small home theater sound system to make finish it off.

i didnt get to go to my friend alyssa's bday party b/c i was feeling soooo crappy. i headed to another friends that was much more calm, so i could just sit and vegitate b/c my allergies were out of control. i dont really have any pics from that night, but wes has a few on his blog (http://westhelife.blogspot.com).

thats about all ive got for today. tonight im going out with my HS friends for dinner, so hopefully i will have a good story or two from that.

BAE Systems officials today advised members of Platform Solutions' Los Angeles-based workforce that it will close that facility by mid-2007.

While about 50 employees at the product design and development facility will be offered the opportunity to relocate, most of the 260 positions will be eliminated as work is relocated to Ontario, Calif., and Johnson City, N.Y. Laid-off employees will be eligible for severance benefits and outplacement assistance.

The decision was in response to the company's inability to penetrate key targeted markets - marked by reprogramming of customer funding and program delays, and competitive losses - sufficient to sustain the 150,000-square-foot site near Los Angeles International Airport.
"While decisions of this type are always difficult, this move will allow us to be more efficient and responsive to our customers' needs and are necessary to remain competitive in a dynamic marketplace," said Mike Heffron, Platform Solutions president. He added that the move takes advantage of the available infrastructure and no new positions will be created.

These are pretty hilarious Burger King commercials.

BigBuckin Chicken


Eat Like a Snake

so....my entry on friday and saturday were non existent, so ill have to make up for it with a big weekend recap.

this past friday was a working friday, so i ended up staying at work pretty late and got a fairly good workout in before going out. i ended up at Temple Bar in santa monica, which ended up being pretty rasta-ghetto as my friend alyssa had predicted it. they had some good live music, i dunno if it was worth the $10 cover though. either way, the night ended with a visit to Leo's taco truck on eagle rock blvd. if you have never had it, you are definitely missing out.

So saturday ended up being a shoe shopping day with my friend wes. we hit up flight club la, a consignment store where you can basically pick up any shoe ever made. you can sell your shoes there, but FCLA takes a 20% fee, but its worth it i think to get rid of kicks you dont want without having to sell online on ebay or niketalk or something. so wes dropped off 3 pairs of Jordan XIs, one of which sold within hours of dropping them off. here's a picture of the inside of flight club.

after FCLA, we headed out to Niketown to return my favorite bball shoes (all-star lebron IIIs) that just tore themselves apart. i was pretty sad to part with them, however i did pick up some nice new PE Air Jordan XXIs that feel pretty good. hopefully they will help kill my shin splints. after a full day of cruisin LA for shoes, i was pretty beat, so i took a nap and woke up just in time for the second half of the Texas vs. Kansas State game, which was pretty crazy. i'm so glad texas got bumped, i'm so tired of seeing them all over on TV. also, i was pretty stoked to hear that Nebraska clinched the Big 12 North, so they might have a chance to get their revenge on Texas if Texas can win out.

the night brought me and my co-worker johnnie out to venice to meet my other co-worker kyle and his gf for drinks at james' beach. it was a pretty tight spot with a diverse crowd, well kinda diverse. it was failry upscale, a little older than the hollywood club scene, but still edgy. it was cool, i would definitely go back. www.jamesbeach.com

the night wouldnt be complete though without another late night run for mexican food. if i ever move out of LA, the new city better have some good late night mexican food. i think everyone knows this spot, so no explination is needed.

anwyays...thats pretty much the weekend. sunday was pretty chill, not much happening except some NFL football and a clearing out of my DVR.

i shall leave you with this retarded truck i saw on the 110S freeway. i mean really....is that really necessary?

so, here we are on day 4 and im still going strong. Woot!

so i am finally going to order this armband for my shuffle. i am tired of draggin the shuffle around my neck and getting all tangled while im trying to lift. also, the white cord gets so freakin dirty all the time. hopefully this new thing will be better but wont make me look like a toolbox. i'll let you know in a week if it's tight or it sucks.

Also, my coworker brought me some McDonalds this morning for breakfast. I love surprises! It's just too bad that the rest of the day went to shit.

**PS - toolbox isnt really my word, so i can't take full credit for it. props to mia for the word.

BAPE (A Bathing Ape) is overrated. See all of the clowns in the pictures below? They look retarded, except they dont know it. Those hoodies, $800 each. That's alot to pay and still look retarded.

I don't know what this guy is doing or who he thinks he is.

Anyways....that's the retarded update for today. Thanks for looking.

well today was pretty uneventful and unproductive. here's all the crap that has been on my desk for the past few months. it's a bunch of electronic units i've designed for our big R&D project here and that's all i can really say about it. i can't wait to get rid of it. actually, it should all go away this week, which is good, but bad because i won't have anything else to do. oh well.

ooh....and for dinner...i had some bomb ass sashimi, so mad props to mom for hooking that up. i should have taken a picture of that before i ate it. sorry, i'm still new at this.

So this is the first post. We shall see how many end up being worthwhile.

So, I'll move this along. Since I'm scurred to put this picture on myspace, I'll post it up here. It's the 1985 Prom King and Queen of Ridgemont HS.

So thats the end of my magical first post. Was it worth the 1 minute you spent reading it, probably not. At least my wig is funny.

*PS - I suck at spelling. My fingers are so fat I hit too many keys when I type, so dont laugh at me if i spell shit wrong.