I have moved. about a mile and 1/2 NNW from uop. sucks having a safeway and trader joe's (read overpriced food) instead of the smart. i definitely need a car now. the bus stop is 50 ft away in the am, and 10 ft in the pm, but getting on the bike to do 2 miles in a few minutes was better than catching the 64 at ~7:15 am to get to work 3.5 miles away (after transfering to the 80) 4 minutes early each morning (5 block walk). and on the way home..shit. wait until ~5:20 to get on a bus that drops me off at 6 pm.
speaking of moving. it sucks donkey ass unless you have a friend neamed dave with a big truck and do it in one day. still, i was sans 'fridge for a week (asshats) but managed. It's a 2/1 upstairs with w/d area. now to buy w/d set and get cable...$$...bye
I called in sick yesterday. more or less i didn't feel like going in. went to Safeway and got robbed at the checkout. and also HELLO! WHATEVER YOU DO MAKE YOU STORE UNBIKE FRIENDLY. asshats. I had to lock it to the entrance/exit hand rail. this store is trying to compete with another for upscale customers (read driving Hummers and german cars) so the prices are ridiculous.
Pippo is getting bigger. and he scratches a lot less, though he still likes to bite my arms. I look like a spedball freak some days. I let him out at night for 30 mins or so. he usually really want's in badly. he just walks around sniffing then detects something and comes running and jumping on the security door, mewing.
work is fine. thank god the damn hs football books are finally over. then again fu adobe indesign team for making stuff lame as shit. If they mad Illustrator multi page, i;d never use ID again. (id = guano)
well I blogged. ttfn
things are not well here and haven't been for a year. i am probably going to screw up again and just bolt this whole place. i'll call my bro to come get his guns though.
Gas Prices! Man o man, I am laughing at you. Fact: the amount of money spent by the Federal Government on Public Transportation is based on revenues from gas taxes. So drive less = less Public Transit Funds. Make sense in a fucking 12 dimensional world where Uthulu's are our Lords and Masters. Fuck, who though this up? Asshat politicians.
Commute! It's been better lately. They installed HUGE speedbumps by the park to slow traffic down. I think people have figured out that you just can't take this shortcut and save time anymore. Very few speeders anymore, on the worst part of my commute. I have also noticed that people seem to be LOOKING AT/for cyclists a bit more. MY TRACKSTANDS IMPRESS EVERYONE. (on that note, if you come to a stop sign first, please go in order, and don't wave me on, you wouldn't do it to someone in a car, now would you?) And what's up with all these squeaky bikes? Spend 50 bucks and get it tuned up. I love coming up in back of other riders and scaring the shit out of them because my chain doesn't sound like a Greatful Dead soundcheck. Just pull into their draft, blow buy 'em and say 'dude, Pedro's'!
Work! It is swell. Not much money (pop's said I should ask for a raise [he's senile, methinks]). But not much hassle. Some pressure, but I pretty much kick ass at what I do, so no worries here. Taught a client about InDesign today. The basic lesson was don't overthink it, and give me the cover in a seperate file. Still the worst part is getting 72 (or 96) dpi RGB images and then having to explain to people that I can't make dogshit into gold without 300 dpi CMYK tifs or psds). dunbasses.
Enough for now, as no one reads this fucking drivel anyway. Looking for Amtrak destinations for a short vacation (I am not going to my folks place) somewhere near CA. UBI bike mechanic school is very expensive, but I may talk to my employeer about paying for part of it (though my job has nothing to do with bikes or mechanicalbike thingys). I dunno just a thought, as I haven't asked for a raise in over a year.
If you read this please tell me to A) STFU, B) GTHO or C)zzzzzzzzzzz
Hola
The weekend went well, Giants beating the crap out of the Dodgers was the best part. They need to start handing out 'Croix de Candlestick" pins to us that sit there. Zito, ftw!
The air here sucks, but the people in Sacramento are getting screwed. It's like Jakarta x Mexico City there.
Started 'We were soldiers once...and young' last night. the only things i have ever read more depressing is "The Gulag Archipelego" and anything by Emile Zola. Then again I have read the gulag many times. it's not a children's story by any means, but if I ever feel bad, i can pick one of the books up, read a bit and then realize that my problem is nothing compared to these souls.
Playing a new scenario in RT3. Yes I play games, every once in a 3-day weekend.
Pippo says hi (he's chococat!)
Fires? we gots fires! dry lightning, spot on. o'er 756 by last count. we'll trade you fer floodwater. sans toxins, etc.
Tomorrows forecast: lots of fires, more smoke, bring pets inside, don't go out unless necessary. i have to be in at 7:15 am PST. fuckoff i ridez my bike.
165 is the pollution level. now i get smoke and cinders besides the usual cow manure spores. yeah, come out to the coast, blah blah blah.
in other exciting news i may NOT be going to the Giants game on the 5th and AM NOT going to Tahoe this weekend. What are friends for.. for them....white stripes video
asshats
george carlin will live forever in my brain cells.
look out 'higher power' the truth is about to smack you in the head
besides, no one lives at the airport
Yes yes yes, i have gotten a feline as a 'bonus' (i fear) at work. I just call him Pippo (Filippo's nickname is 'Super-Pippo" [Forza Milan!]).. He goes mad when i put on the 'Really Bend it like Beckham' dvd. I could have named hiim Kaká (Ricardo Izecson Dos Santos Leite) but who the hell can pronounce that? Plus shit is nothing to name a cat.
In other news, commuting is going well. I am still on the specialized with canti-brakes. Gas will soon be $7.50 a gallon (if not $10.00) and I don't need insurance. I am thinking of fixing the Honda, but then again I want another bike.
I am supposed to be going to Lake Tahoe in a couple of weeks if only my friends could operate computers for themselves (they manage on cell phones...hmm). Ooh, am going to Giants v Dodgers on July 5th with 29 other people. I have never been to Pac-Bell Park. I am looking forward to seeing the kids area where you can get real 'Barry Bands Type' swipes from some Balco rep. I hear they taste like paste. I shall drink beers. and hope the dodgers kick their asses. n.b. I am an A's fan and the Giants suck! :P
Big debate on whether the qoutes go inside or outside parenthesis this week. Apparently it worked out to how anal you are about language (and my ass has hemmeroids now you fuckers!).
I still can't get back into my flickr account. EAT ME YAHOO! (merge accounts, what a swell idea...FAIL!!!)
It was friggin hot today, asif, 97F (thats 347.97Canadian).
Carls Jr. radio ad: "Remember to keep those windows open, and the air-conditioner on". Crappy food and pollution all in one, who'd have thunk it??? Dive yer suv's to walmart and save...fuck. asshats
or so our masters tend to lead us to believe. MMA fighting instead of a Saturday Night Movie. I was kind of able to watch the hockey game earlier too. another brilliant sport. I want them to fight at curling matches now!
[hyper kitty] Pippo was good today, though he was bouncing off the walls a bit earlier. He's asleep in my lap right now.
[red hair] My brothers girlfriends boss (i detest that word) had pictures posted online today. She's probably married though. Alack poor Rodrigo....
Right, it was 100F here today, but I rode my bike. then again i have to.
'Bike to Work Day" was lost in a haze of peat dust and bullshit.
I saw no commuters, pussies!
Hello buttercup
Felt Dispatch is on it way to me, but not soon enough.
Freewheel and Fixie are same 39/13, I cannot wait (its a 51cm)
Wheelstands
I am getting better, the people in cars on my commute are getting better too. they know me and don't try to run my ass over anymore. I don't unclip at the 4 way stop, I just take my turn. One day I will be hit by a Coca-Cola truck....
Nerds
Facebook is fun. I was going to go to the Khaaaan in Chicago, but a certain bike got in my way (ITS NOT MY FAULT, THERE WERE LOCUSTS!!!! I SWEAR TO GOD)
