Bathroom Beautification

They said this week would be a scorcher, but I’ve barely noticed because I spent all morning yesterday and today holed up in the bathroom, painting.  It’s just now hitting me that I might be the designated house-painter in my family.  It’s true that my Dad and my uncle painted the outside of the house [...]

Whining on Education

Edit: One more robbery this morning.
Trying to combine many thoughts into something cohesive…
Lately, in the East Bay, there has been a string of armed robberies of restaurants.  They’ve been takeover-style and there have been at least five a dozen of them.  One even happened during a neighborhood march to demonstrate solidarity of merchants against the [...]

Photo Album

Today, I went through all of the photo prints I had stashed away and digitized most of them with the scanner.  They are all up on Flickr now. Ignore most of the dates because many are incorrect, but there are dozens of photos showing many friends and happenings over the years.  Imagine if I took [...]

My Hairstyle Goal

I’m trying to grow my hair out again — the last time was probably back in 2002 or ‘03.  It’s unclear whether it will even grow out to several inches.  It is growing all around but that on spot right on top doesn’t feel quite as thick as the rest and it’s a bit alarming.  [...]

Rolling Rock

My Dad and I were at the house doing home repairs and cleaning everything up.  His attitude caused me to furrow my brow several times today.  He is like many fathers; gruff at times, but sincere and fair.  Anyway, he was being unusually nice as we worked.  I raked the leaves and he said: “Wow, [...]

Dated

Because I twisted my ankle playing basketball on Monday I’ve been going on long walks instead of runs.  Nothing like pumping that Daft Punk through the headphones at high volumes while waiting for cars to stop at the crosswalk.  It’s has been a little frustrating, given that I’d actually dropped below 200lbs. for the first [...]

Completely Unrelated

I’ve gotten into this bad habit lately, of not having cash on me when going out to eat.  It’s been accidental every time and I don’t mind paying; I throw my money away on so much other stuff.  But somehow I’ve just been beaten to the punch with the credit card or the bills I [...]

Levels

1:25am.  It’s so good to be not working.  But I can’t honestly say that I wouldn’t be up at this hour if I needed to be on campus at 7:30; it’s just that instead of slogging through papers, I’m sitting here in my boxers happily listening to Mary Carillo at the Olympics and typing this.  [...]

More-Than-Decent Friday

It’s nearly 3:30am and I’m at Happy Donut instead of on my way home after watching the Opening Ceremonies and a little Dreamcast with Captain E.  It’s just that Friday was such a good day — one of those where every task I’d set out to do was accomplished.  Out the door at 8:30 to [...]

Clutter of Treasures

Sorting through all of the junk in my bedroom was a pain yesterday.  It kept me awake until 1am again, wasting all of the sleep I had recovered the night before.  But, of course, it was good to look through all of the stuff.  For a while, I’d been saving my movie ticket stubs and [...]