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This pic is me in the bed reading magazines this morning after the pager woke me up at 5am.

So this weekend has been kind of a wash. David couldn't come down. Bummer. 1) traffic from LA <-> SD sucks ass 2) We're both getting sick or getting over being sick 3) I am still on call and 4) gas is expensive. So he may have to wait a month till I move into the new house. That will be really fun, we need to initate the place anyhow with a few cannonballs off the roof into the pool. I just hope he doesn't find a job and move away before then. Hopefully not. I am trying to get him a job at Qualcomm, but it's a challenge because I don't have contacts in the right departments. But I'm gonna see what I can do this week. We talked about jobs and stuff a lot last night, I guess that it's just a hard job market right now, especially for people fresh out of school.



A pic of my (new) sandals as I was walking over to get a Rubios burrito for lunch.

Tracy and I went to the beach tonight to watch the sunset. But we screwed up and went to the wrong part of the beach at Del Mar, north, near the cliffs. The water was a *lot* closer to the top of the beach than what I'm used to, and since it was 6:45ish when we arrived, it was already at pretty high tide. And it smelled like seaweed and fish and featured lots of junk in the sand. As the sun was setting near 7:45, we were getting water lapping at our feet. We drove back home thru Del Mar and looked at all the houses we'd love to own. It's hard to believe that people live in such a beautiful place. I can't believe I'm only 7 miles and as many economic levels away from it. I sure hope the housing market continues to do well. Or bad, or whatever it's doing now.

Back to work after a long weekend and 3 days home sick. Hope it's not too much of a shock to my system. ;)

I see Dave Chappelle tomorrow. Woot!

(edited later) Yes, yes, done entirely from the phone. But I wasn't at the beach, I was at home in front of the computer. Cool eh? Now, to put some good words in the T9 database...

So I've been home sick for the last 2 days. Cough, sore throat, headache, sniffly, sneezy, sinus pressure, all that great I-feel-like-shit jazz. Usually you can tell when you're getting sick. Not this time, it was a total sneak-attack. 7pm on Tuesday I was still at work, feeling fine. 8pm I had stopped by IN-N-OUT and by the time I got home to eat my bounty, my nose was a spigot. I got out of the car just in time for it to drip on the garage floor. Seriously, I was freaked out. It was so bad that I would go get a tissue, blow nose, turn around, walk 10 feet and have to go back for another tissue. Burned thru a whole box of tissues the first night. I had to put my laptop away because I was afraid snot would just pour out my nose on it. I was even thinking about converting to a cloth snot-rag so I could wring it out and keep going, save the trees whatever. I got it on my clothes, the couch, magazines, the carpet. I even sneezed suddenly and shot a spray across the room. But don't tell Tracy that, she'd freak out, dang germophobe. ;) So I called in sick to work Wed. Then I went on-call Wednesday night. And wouldn't ya know it, pager hell from moment one. I'm pretty sure that Will jinx'd me with his talk of an easy on-call week. I've had a few hundred pages since then. I made a run over to Longs just to get Sudafed and came back with all this other junk.

Poopy.

Got a call today from my home insurance agent. Apparently there was still something left that I needed to sign. And if I didn't do it today, then they would cancel my policy. And they'd have to give notice to the bank that the property was no longer insured. And the bank would freak out and take my loan away. And I sure am glad that I wasn't out of town or something. Jeez. So I got all cleaned up, went over there, signed the papers and came home. He had laringitus so he was cool with me being sick too.

So I am 1 month away from moving into my new house. Yay. I'm so excited, I can't wait. The first thing I'm gonna do is a cannonball off the roof into the pool as initation. I can't wait.

David is supposed to come down this weekend, we'll go over to the new house, check it out. Tyler's gonna show us how he takes care of the yard and all that jazz. Should be a fun time. I haven't seen my brother in a while.

Is a really cool place. Apparently it has no trees because the natives cut them all down. After they cut down the last trees, war broke out, they turned to cannibalism and then vanished. Nobody* knows how they moved the 10 ton stone moui's into place, nobody* knows where they vanished to. NPR was doing a story on them today on the radio. They talked about at some point, some dude was asked to cut down the last tree on the island. And that action sparked the downfall. PBS is doing a special on it, sounds interesting.

*sure, people have theories

Man, I really do like beer.

Tonight, I made a 12:15 run to Albertsons to pick up some Dos Equis and a bottle of water for Tracy. But they changed hours (again) without posting signs or anything and had closed by 12. So I went next door to Longs, open 24 hours. But they couldn't sell past 11 because they're within 100ft of a residential area. And Jimbo's Liquor, my next destination, was closed. AM/PM only has domestic piss. So Ralph's was my last bet. They are open till 2, stock the beer, and can sell till 2. AND they have Shiner Bock. My favorite beer. Wow, all that work just for a sip of the stuff?

God-damn straight. I like beer.* :)

*Not domestic swill.

A nice, lazy, weekend. Too damn short. Saturday, Tracy and I went up to Del Mar to eat at Board & Brew. Sunday, we went on a Hornblower Cruise. Pretty fun. Got to see this gnarly 140 foot sailboat from New Zealand. And the USS Midway was down at the harbor too, getting prepped to open as a museum attraction on June 6th. Only $13!

Got the Sysadmin Happy Hour pics up. That sure was fun. We were missing a few ppl, but for the most part, everybody showed. Good times.

Found out that Obie works at ADN, where UnixMechanix keeps it's servers. I need to get him a job at QC, he doesn't like it at ADN and he's a smart dude.

Found a really great link on how to install dual carbs in my Fiat: here. Looks like a lot of work.

..Speaking of which, I so don't want to go to work tomorrow.

Interesting reading: http://tjsplace.blogspot.com/

Guess I'm just bad at blogging. Whatever. I'm still working on it.

So, some neato stuff that's popped up on my e-mail or IM's lately:
Top Gear Mercades SLR
Seinfeld and Superman together at last

Getting a few new people in my group at work. That's good, we've been needing them.

Bought a house, I move in the first week of July. Yay. Hope the market continues to do well.

Last night was the Sysadmin Happy Hour. Lots of peeps showed. It was the bomb.