Bachelor Life - In Excruciating Detail

Ginette and Dayla left for the weekend to hang out with my Mom and sister. I realize I haven't had a weekend all to myself in a very long time. Since I am sure I will get bored very quickly I'm going to write everything I do today and bore everyone else unfortunate enough to read this.

• 8:16am - Woke up. Actually make the bed (sort of).
• 8:18am - Check emails on my Blackberry.
• 8:20am - Read the Internet for a while. Think about what I am going to do today.
• 8:47am - Take a shower. Decide not to shave for the second day in a row. Scrufftastic!
• 9:02am - Get dressed. Grab the first Threadless shirt on top of the pile. It looks cold today so I'm going with the skate shoes instead of the flip flops.
• 9:12am - Grab some iced coffee and toast and head out the door
• 9:20am - Arrive at Vons. Pick up a gallon of milk and some cash back on my purchase
• 9:45am - Check out the Farmer's Market in Scripps Ranch. I'm hoping to find some good looking, locally grown produce. I'm disappointed with the selection and walk away with nothing.
• 10:10am - Arrive at Ranch 99 Asian Market. Pick up some basic I can't get at Vons: curry paste, coconut milk, lime leaves, and sashimi grade fish.
• 10:35am - I'm already bored being by myself. Before leaving Ranch I call Kate and suggest a movie. She's in! We agree to make plans in the late afternoon.
• 10:50am - Get home, unpack my groceries, put on This American Life on iTunes, and start making sushi rice.
• 11:01am - The rice is soaking. Time to play some Metroid 3!
• 12:30pm - Sushi's done. Watching the movie "Lucky You"
• 1:15pm - Uuggghhhh. Tooo much sushi. I put the rest in the fridge for later. However I have to say that a salmon, cream cheese, and red pepper inside-out roll is might tasty.
• 2:45pm - Movie's over. Pretty good. An accurate poker procedural with a tacked on romance. I guess no studio would budget a poker procedural without a romance.
• 2:46pm - Time to play some online poker!
• 2:49pm - Hmmm. It looks like the law stuck. No real money for US players. Bahh. What's the point.
• 4:41pm - 441st place out of 840 players in the Omaha Hi-Lo tournament. I really don't know what I am doing when it comes to that game.
• 5:35pm - Kate's here. Time to make some curry and eat the rest of the sushi.
• 6:40pm - The curry (Masman this time) turned out better than usual if I do say so myself. Kate agrees. However she would probably say nice things even if it tasted terrible. We discuss The Omnivore's Dilemma for awhile which we are both in the middle of reading.
• 7:25pm - We arrive at the movie theater to see Eastern Promises. Seriously, seriously, how many commercials how can they show before the movie. Movie Theater Executive: "We are losing more customers to On Demand movies, Netflix, and Tivo. What can we do to increase our goodwill with the public? I got it, more commercials and higher prices. Brilliant!"
• 9:30pm - Very good movie. 4 out of 5. I would say I like A History of Violence better since it did have the same director and lead. I probably would have given this one a 4.5/5 if I didn't have to see so much of Viggo's wang in the shower knife fight scene.
• 9:40pm - Kate drops me off. I'm pretty tired. One Simpsons rerun than it's off to bed.
• 10:17pm - Good night.
  

Cop-out

I haven't posted anything legitimate in a while. I understand that. I don't want to be that guy you consider removing from your feeds list because he never posts to his lame vanity blog.

That being said, here is a cop-out list that briefly summarizes everything I can think of that is awesome or lame that I have done in the past few months. Looking over the list now things have definitely been more awesome than lame, which is, in itself, awesome.

• New baby - awesome


• diapers - lame


• My high school reunion not happening - lame


• Bioshock (PC version of course) - awesome


• Selling my Xbox on Ebay - awesome


• Silversun Pickups - awesome


• Switching cars with Ginette since babies like Volvos more than Integras - lame


• Crosswords - awesome


• Those nasty, freezer burned vegetable potstickers I shouldn't have eaten becuase they made me sick - lame


• All you can eat sushi (twice!) - awesome


• The Sopranos (seasons 1&2) - awesome


• Harry Potter (books 1, 2, 3, and 1/4 of 4) - awesome


• Reruns on my Tivo - lame


• Upping Netflix to 5-at-a-time - awesome

Worst Possible Way to Spend $152.69

Full House - The Complete Series Collection

Why MySpace is like a Nokia 5190

I have a MySpace Account and a (new) Facebook account. Before setting up Facebook I honestly had lost all hope in social networking. MySpace is such a wasteland of animated gifs, 2000-pixel wide images, and broken sound files. It is unfettered customization run amok. Facebook is the exact opposite. The basic functionality is the same but the interface is so much cleaner.

If you give me the option of "pimping" my MySpace account I will probably do it. However I don't have particularly good taste and I am not a professional CSS designer.

This leads me to why MySpace is like a Nokia 5190. You remember the 5190 right? It was that ubiquitous brick phone that also happens to be my first cell phone. It was one of the earliest phones to offer interchangeable faceplates. The "factory" faceplates were pretty tasteful in a few bright colors. However the market was soon flooded with cheaply made, retina burning designs available at every mall kiosk.



Have you noticed that most new cell phones no longer offer interchangeable faceplates? The closest you can get is one of the limited stock color options. This is a good thing. It's like new cars. They don't let you pick out your new Honda with a shoddily painted 49ers logo in hot pink slapped all over the place.

To make a long story longer, Facebook is rad. It lets you (wisely) customize your content and the location of widgets but it doesn't let you directly customize the primary layout and CSS.

In summary, go sign up for Facebook and look me up. I need more friends.

P.S. Simon... thanks for pushing me to sign up. You win. It is better than MySpace.

Guy Pictures

All couples pose for pictures in a standard way. They lean in close, the guy puts his arm around the girl, and they both shine million dollar smiles at the camera while fake laughing so the smile doesn't look forced.

This is not how guys want to pose.

We do it because we love our wives/girlfriends/mothers and that is how they want us to pose. What guys really want to do is throw out two fists of metal to the camera. The juxtaposition of these two opposing poses has never been caught on film... until today.

Ginette's sister Danielle just brought us these two pictures taken at her wedding rehearsal dinner in Victoria, BC.

The Girl Way


The Guy Way


rock and roll