consolidation

i'm getting tired of checking all these dead blogs. not that the effort to click my finger on the bookmark is too much...nor is waiting for the page to load...but it just gets kinda depressing checking again and again and finding the same message everytime. i blob almost every day (in case you haven't notice) and check all the other blogs when i do (sometimes more) since i'm here. so i do check a lot. i deleted drew's blog off the bookmark list a while ago 'cause he never blogs (dunno if he even reads), and have just recently deleted eric's and liu's since eric lost interest and liu blogs every two months when sarah (or sveta) is pissin' him off.

just fyi : ) gimme a holler if you'd like to remedy this.

the loco moco tourney was spectacular, i had a great time. by the end my back hurt barely a hair more than it had when i'd started, so good deal....it seems i can make it through a tournament : ) two-day though...i don't think so. prior to today, whenever it even started to hurt i stopped and babied it, but today i played through four very high intensity games (these old guys can RUN...and throw like machines). we came in second out of six teams....losing to the same team twice...the first by luck (bastards caught so much swill) and the second they just outran us. i was one of the bottom players on my team....they're really good. but i feel like i made a huge difference on D. i got lots of compliments on crazy-ass bids and basically runnin' EVERYWHERE. good shit.

tomorrow is the oroku picnic, a picnic for my okinawan clan. there's enough of us here in hawaii (made up of five families, my family name is 'menokanigushku') to fill a large portion of ala moana beach park, it's pretty amazing, actually. kids, parents, grandparents, great, great great...it's amazing. good fun, games and such. i'll probably bail towards the end to go surfing for a few hours at kewalo's which is a five minute walk from the picnic.

oh and rachel finally emailed me like....a month after i last emailed her. she confessed that she hates blogs (mine especially) and doesn't read them (mine) so i can bitch about her all i want!!! sweeeeeet. she was talkin' some gibberish about bein' cold in new zealand 'cause she didn't bring any winter clothes. DUH (southern hemisphere). then she was asking me to clarify something about myself. apparently i'd told her at some point that i should not be told things because, even when specifically asked NOT to bring it up, i will bring up something that someone else said....despite being asked not to. first of all, rachel is blonde :) don't trust her

but, CLOSE to what she said is, in fact, true. if someone asks me not to, i'll definately try my hardest not to, but i am inherently a chatty guy and i don't like to filter my thoughts....so when i get drunk, it sometimes slips out *shrugs* i'm sure lots of us are guilty of that.

on top of that, though, i'd almost rather you didn't tell me something that you really wanna keep all hush hush. i like to be friends with everyone. one thing rachel mentioned that it was about you-know-who and she really didn't want him hearing about it. i hate that shit. she and i had been through this before, and when i tried to talk about it to austin (with him asking what i thought) i had to see how little i could tell about what she said and still tell him how i felt...even though 'how i felt' is, of course, related directly to what i know she thinks...or at least told me (lying bitch : )....and i hated it. in the end i usually told austin that it was something he should be talking to HER and not me about, despite how much i'd like to be there for him to discuss. it happened a lot to me in high school...i had to pick who i was going out with, and who wasn't gonna get along with someone else comin' along.....i hated it. so i try to avoid getting into all the little secret gossip circles 'cause then i don't have to think about it. i'll let the ones who care worry about it.

that's also one reason i like blogs and the newsgroup. if EVERYONE knows, then i's all good.

and everything's here, so i.......am all good.

good.