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Happy Birthday, girl! How are you spending your birthday? Are you playing hooky from school? You *should* be playing hookyfrom school! You should be playing hooky from school and comingto LA…
Ive hardly been at my desk the last two days except to be yelled at,so I havent had time to update the old clapboard. Im glad tosee that everyone is…
Its only 8:45 and yet Im almost too tired to type, so this is going to be quick. I took pictures of what is very likely to be my house.…
Two-For-One day on Clapboard! Happy Birthday Klee! You may be a day younger than Justin, but dont take it too hard – youve lived enough to fill that days difference.…
After a day like today, nothing beats comfort food. Mac &Cheese with 2 hot dogs (all beef Ball Parks, a la Andrew) and realcheese mixed with the fake cheese is…
Pooch!
Good lord, am I glad you’re older than me. Man. You’re blazing the Wroath-Clan trail, my friend, at the oldest (and possibly shortest) cousin.
Here’s hoping that you take the day off, spend it on your yacht sipping champagne from the vineyard you just purchased central france and eating bon-bons from your chocolate factory in Bristol. Failing
that, at least that youre taking the day off after having told your boss yesterday (before he left for his yacht, champagne and chocolate) that you wouldnt be in tomorow and that any work that needed to be done could be shoved right up his…. Right, well, you get the picture.
This update is sandwiched between the most recent (Christmas 05) and the oldest (Summer 1987? Something like that) pictures that I have of my elder cousin. The picture on the right is the older one. A slightly larger version of that picture can be found (along with a little history) in the Read More link. Happy Birthday, Justin, you’re setting a stellar example for the rest of us.
Even though the housing market is extremely depressing, that was a small blip on an otherwise-awesome weekend. Moms visit reminds me how lucky I am to have the family that…
Not much to post about yet, but yesterday was largely about real estate. The houses that I want to buy in Hollywood are like $750,000. thats like $4500/month in mortgage…
People who can talk about more than the immediacy of their lives dontseem to exist in LA, or else theyre so fleeting that they disappearbefore you can even say their…
Happy Valentines Day! As I sit and eat stale Tostitos and drink beer by myself at my computer, I wonder if I could be having a less romanticValentines Day. Maybe…
Just thought Id update about the snow even though theres nothing toreally say about it. I havent seen any actually falling in along time. W00t snow., w00t UMich with Casey.…
Two things for your Tuesday night. Thing A: Ive been keeping informal track of the cars that park next to me inthe garage (unlike the formal track I keep of…
So Bootie LA was fantabulous, first of all. It would have been way better with someone that I knew, but as it stood, it was fun. Id love to go…
Todays the day! Happy Birthday, Mom! I wish we could all be there to spend itwith you, but the fact that the NFL decided to fete you by throwing aspecial…
I have it, you have it, we all have it. Does it make you sad when you miss out on it? Only if you know youremissing out, right? I think…
Happy birthday! 2006 looks like its shaping up to be a big year for you, and youre taking it by storm, even if you are barelyold enough to vote! Heres…
So
today I finally took my own advice and culled some pics from the herd
and took exactly 200 pictures all over town looking for a drug store or
other photo place with a working digital camera printer. I found
one that was theoretically working and now Im waiting on a call that
will tell me that the pics are ready, although theres a good chance
that the glitch in the system that was worrying the girl is still there
and that my pictures will never print. Annoying! Ah well.
Anyway, the pic on the left is my collage, finally mounted to my
wall. I figured that with the two months I have left here I could
leave it on the floor making a mess of everthing and being generally
big and in the way, or I could put it up and enjoy it while I still
have the space. Theres no plexi on it yet, but I maintain that
it still needs some work. In the Read More link below are two larger pics that show it on the wall above the couch.
In those pics, youll see mounds of laundry that I did during my
late-night clean fest last night. I stayed in to recoup from my
Thursday escapades and managed to get myself involved in a cleaning
frenzy. I put away bills, vaccuumed everything in sight (and this
morning, I even vaccuumed under the rug to get the grit that
had settled out of the carpets backing), and washed tons of
laundry. I even replaced a light bulb. In the dark.
Well, not total dark – I was dragging one of my halogen worklights with
me everywhere to light my cleaning efforts. Today, I went to the
bank to deposit some money (always a good feeling), ate lunch with a
friend that I havent seen in a million years and chased down a place
for my pictures, with plenty of walking. Tonight is supposed to
be some celebratory evening, but, as per usual, no one answers when I
call, and everyone is unlikely to call me back. Its a strange
pattern, this much I know.
Tomorrow I can go to the hill though and to the farmers market, both
things that make me happy. I can come home to my clean room and
be happy that its here and clean. Tomorrow Im also likely to
replace the bulbs in the outdoor light because what the hell,
right? Why not. Maybe Ill even coerce someone into going with me
to Howl at the Moon tomorrow night. Nothing like being tired on a
Monday morning!
It is Friday! Finally!
Oh boy do I need a weekend. I thought last week was long and it was just a four-day week. This week I started to think it was Friday on like Wednesday afternoon. That was out of control. Im looking forward to the weekends imminent arrival despite the fact that nothing is happening. I wonder if its a sign of aging or just of job dissatisfaction that I cant wait for a weekend when Im guaranteed to do nothing whatsoever.
Now, last night was different. Last night was fun. Steve came up on one of his random "Im not working today, so I think Ill go to LA" nights and we went out with Kelley who was in a rare-but-good "lets go out" sort of mood. We went to the Velvet Margarita and then to Barneys, where I proceeded to lose four games of air hockey in a row to Steve. I did beat Kelley in there somewhere, but losing to Steve? Unacceptable. Im going to have to practice and practice until I can beat him.
Below, youll find 3 pictures from last night of Steve and Kelley. It was fun being out with regular people who call themselves my friends. It was almost like having a regular life, or even my old life back. Its going to have to last me awhile though – Im back to the grind now. Thank god for weekends.
To the left is proof. Thats a ticket for
jaywalking. Jaywalking.
Let that sink in for a second.
Then tell me what in the name of friggin HELL is that? Below, in the Read More link, is a detail that reads "Ped crossing against solid red hand/red light." No lie.
Who the hell gets ticketed for jaywalking? I mean it! Im
so annoyed that I almost cant be amused. Okay, thats a total
lie – its hilarious. I was cited under vehicle code. What
if I wasnt carrying my license on me? What if Id just said I
wasnt? Whats going to happen when I go to court to fight the
charges?
Anyway, Im just at the Dime right now updating while I wait for
someone to show up so we can talk websites, and from there, Im
supposed to be going to meet an Endeavor assistant after this at some
place. Well see how it all goes. Im already tired, but
thats life. Lets hope that I can make it all the way home without any
tickets. Im furious. Furious. Heh.
EDIT:
It occurs to me that I didnt at all explain how the thing actually went down. Let me remedy that. There I am, walking to get my car, and I cross against a red light. I
know I did it. I looked both ways and crossed when it was safe, just
like my mommy taught me. Allathasudden, out of nowhere (or from behind me), came these three bike cops. The first one stopped far away, so I didnt think anything of it, then the second (the citing officer, if you will) stopped right in front of me and the third pulled up behind me. It was like a movie. Pretty sweet tactics. I wonder how long they practiced that in the shooting range or wherever. Are there lectures in cop class about the proper technique for stopping jaywalkers? There must be. Anyway, the Citing Officer goes Do you have any identification? right off the bat and I was all Me? as if there might be someone else around. He was all Yes, you just crossed against that red light. and I was dumbfounded. I supressed a giggle as I said Right here in my wallet – are you stopping me for jaywalking? He answered by holding my license out to me and asking if this was still where I lived. I said, Umm, yes. and then waited. He asked if I had any warrants out for my arrest and I was even more incredulous (but avoided saying "like Id tell you that"), but I managed a "no" that I dont think sounded too disgusted. Then I waited ten minutes and the cop did like they always do "sign here, this is not an admission of guilt, just that youve been made aware of your violation etc etc etc and I refused his pen and signed with my own.
So thats the story. Oh, what a day.
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