here we go

soooo. it begins. first day of work! yay.

did some last minute paperwork...and i'm gonna start reading this book they gave me soon called "the oz principle-getting results through individual and organizational accountability" by roger connors, tom smith and craig hickman. supposed to be some kind of business philosophy. iiinteresting. i get 4 hours pay to read it...

i'm really curious how i'll take walking into a job i'm in no way trained for. reading the job description...they usually only hire civil/structural engineers and architects. i think there's one other EE dude there, and he has his masters degree and he's a project manager...really makes me wonder how this company feels about having me 'placed' with them. either way, i'll do my best. who knows, maybe i'll find a knack in building shit. granted the project i'm working on is telecom (laying of fiber optics)...i imagine they'll just have me do a lotta math...possibly a lotta checking of math...both of which i can do.

more tomorrow.

spent a chunk of today workin' on my baby. what was supposed to be a 10 minute fuse check turned into a 4 hour empty-out-the-toolbox job. well, jobS. gettin' under the dashboard i just found a bunch of other things to fix...and decided to do 'em. read camaro blog for more details (unnecessary).

adios. cover me.

sunburn

so i still absolutely hate ben stiller, but dodgeball was fuckin' hilarious.

of more importance, though, is this movie 'the village' or something with wakim pheonix, the emperor from gladiator. not that he matters much, but i'm pretty goddamn sure i saw saphron from firefly in it...

too tired to look it up of course...that would require two searches...

free food all day from a grad party...that was nice. seeing that i do indeed have friends around, i think i will throw a grad/birthday party (hey eric, 7/27/82). b'day's on a tuesday...not sure if i'll have it before or after...you know...just in case anyone wants to go to another rufio party :)

in other news...realized that writing that post below, i was assuming that nobody from here actually reads this godawful spew fest...heh...i could get in trouble :) oh well. let the soap opera continue...only without the romanticism, perpetual eveningwear (can't remember ever seeing a soap opera set in sunlight), backlighting, nor steamy sex.

...what a shitty soap opera. get back to work!


blue hawaii

ahh, hawaii

i haven't been home in over 36 hours, haha. left yesterday, late afternoon and played poker (lost 15, even, even, lost five, won 4) tournament style games. was good fun :) glad to get back in it. definitely gotta get used to playing other people, though. i was better than a few of them, at least, but some of them were just really solid...

then woke up early (in a friend's extra bed) and drove waaaaaay north to play an ultimate tournament. i show up for pickup last thursday and yeah, a team i played with once last summer picks me up for today. we went undefeated :) we didn't play the finals, though, for various reasons. mainly being that the team we had to play was a buncha' ass holes and that's just not our game. we were satisfied. watching them play another team...we mighta' been able to take 'em, too, haha. fuck it. i had a fuckin' awesome time. my back's gonna feel like SHIT tomorrow, though.

went and saw a rock show, good fun, went and had A beer with some old friends...including BOTH of my hawaii x-girlfriends (lindsay and candace). barely talked to them...may never see lindsay ever again...not sure how i feel about that (she's movin' back to connecticut). candace, oh well.

i tend to make drama in my life. especially with women :) possibility that could come into play again...having renewed feelings for an old flame....arggg...hate when that happens. 'specially when they're already taken. d'oh.

and no, this is neither of the x's :)


god damn. what a weekend.


not even over yet :)

peace out.

good fuckin' day

i think this is my ideal day...

started out by doing some errands (which i can do without) but then went surfing for a few hours. great conditions, got some great rides. i'm definitely gettin' my groove back.

5:30 i went down to ala moana beach park for some ultimate pickup :) damn i suck. but it was nice to get out there again...and i got invited to two tournaments for this month already (they remember me from last year) so that's hot. ultimate's back in my life :) the last thing i would've expected to go was my catching...but yeah...i REALLY can't fuckin' clap for shit anymore. gotta go for everything with claws...weird.

after that, i showered at the park bathroom (ghetto :), dressed a little nicer and went to a bar/restaurant with some friends, two of which i haven't seen in a long time. we ended up chatting for a reeally long time...drinking...more than i'd like to drive on. so we wandered around a bit, then drove to zippy's, a 24/7 plate lunch place (gourmet fast food i guess you could call it)...and here i am, finally, at 2:30am.

i like my car :)


yoink.

updates

added spoots and cat to the list...they're on the circuit these days.

started a blog on my camaro :) bit overkill, perhaps. but i do plan on doing a lotta work on her...i'm gonna keep a log anyway, might as well make it public. haha. what if i sell it again? i'll have a complete history. i mean shit...right now i have no idea what kind of mods this last guy did to her...the engine's a lot shinnier than it should be is all i know...yay chrome.

peace

weeee

up to 18 honolulu gmailers. some other bastard on craigslist was trying to get $4 for a gmail AND orkut invite together. who the fuck uses orkut? geeks. i hope you read this.

ordered a chilton's for my camaro. if you've never heard of chilton's...it's a book on specific cars. there's a chilton's for just about ANY car out there made by a major manufacturer. includes hundreds of photos and diagrams to show you how to take apart, replace, fix, clean, repair everything in your car. be a good help in figuring out where the hell to start. not that i have any money anymore :) but i can plan...

made some huge leaps in claiming this room for myself in my house. very odd..living home again. especially with just my mom. originally my room was right across the hall's from her, in the back of the house (away from the living room) but i decided to take the front room...which is right across from 'my' bathroom and i won't have to wake my mom up everytime i go to sleep late (she sleeps lightly, i sleep late). that and...yeah...it's as far from her as i can get :) i get really antsy when she starts looking through my room...even though i don't really have anything to hide. guess i got too used to having MY room that nobody else goes into. ehh. at least she's trying not to be too motherly.

still thinkin' of a name for my new girlfriend. i was tellin' my sis. sexy, mysterious, and will kick your ass if you rub 'er the wrong way. any suggestions?


*bounce*

yeah...i guess i coulda' figured out how to do this without doing a pic a post...but fuck it. it deserves five posts...and...the like...five posts before it. i think i'm in love! 

hey, i know that guy...but damn that car is hot 

hey look, there it is again 

here's more of my car 

here's my car : ) 

mine.

transferred ownership and reregistered my new baby :)

i gotta name 'er.

but i hardly know 'er.

mmmm...."certificate of title" with my name on it...why are they trusting me with this thing again?



vroom

the lion sleeps tonight

there's a lion in my driveway.

but don't worry it's sleeping now.

black w/ sparkles, 350cu.in. V8, 4 speed manual, born 1978 to cheverolet.


my new baby.



awimoweh

google's takin' over the world

and i'm gonna help them :)

what i decided to do when i heard all these people can't find invitees for gmail is to just post it on honolulu.craigslist.org saying i'd give them a free gmail account if they simply emailed me (under the 'free' category) asking for one. one thing i've noticed about hawaii is that they rarely use blogger. most people around here are apeshit over myspace for some reason. funny how that happens. what that means is that nobody has gmail accounts here yet...

in 12 hours i got 7 requests. hawaii's craigslist is much smaller than nyc. i'm actually kind of impressed...and i feel like i'm makin' a buncha' people happy :) which is always nice. i like makin' people smile.

someone said that i get my 6 invites renewed every day since i'm part of the little clan of ongoing bloggers. fun. long as they keep comin', i'll keep dishin'. gmail makes it even easier to give out invites to emailers with a handy hyperlink next to 'reply'. how nice.


google hail *hitler hail type arm thing, pronouncing hail hayle or something*

trippy

it's odd...now that i finally have internet again, i don't have much of a desire to spend the endless hours in this chair as i used to (although it was phsyically a different chair...). mostly just the creature comforts we're doomed to desire for the rest of our lives: email, online banking, blogs, and craigslist.

went through my gmail inbox one by one and replied to all the messages i got over the past few weeks...i always like getting emails :) trying to shift everyone over to gmail instaed of columbia. like i said before, i have something against 'forwarding services'. simply switching people over seems like a good way to filter out people i never want to talk to again :) hah.

i'm really kidding.

life in hawaii you might ask? for now, it's nice. i sleep more than 8 hours almost every day. found friends who are still around, a few who're comin' home. avenues to meet new people are opening up. i don't think i'll have to worry too much about havin' reasons to get outa' the house, so that's good. i have one more box floatin' around in USPS...it's the one with my amp (thanks liu) and my rollerblades....which would be nice to have.

just last night i made a deal ona car i was looking at. 1978 Z28 chevy camaro. good shape, a few minor dings and rust spots...engine runs, it's road ready. guy got a free company car (lincoln) so he didn't need the camaro anymore. i just gotta' go through a little paperwork and pay the guy (can't take that much money out of an atm ;) on monday. my first major purchase as a non-dependant...heh. now when i'm 40 years old i can tell my kids that my first car was a fuckin' '78 camaro. fuck yeah. it's possibly (probably, even) the start of a new hobby, actually. i think my job might be kind of easy...intern-ish...so this'll be my tech fix for a bit. we'll see how far i wanna get into it. the engine's mostly stock (350 cu. in. V8) so there's definitely room for more horsies under there :) i'll get pics up when i get the car and a digital camera (both soon, hopefully), but for now, here's a pic from the web. this one (try not to say 'mine' yet) is black with a sparkle overcoat, though. very hot ;)

i've been surfing some...but the waves haven't been cooperating the past couple days and i've been busy with other stuff. i'm sure i'll start surfing more and playin' pickup when i have my own car and down't need to plan my day around my mom's work day (so i can steal her car). things are comin' together. real world *rolls eyes*...too many decisions.


*salutes*

yo

heh, check it out. this bitch is BACK ONLINE, baby. verizon turned my DSL on five days early...whod've thunkit?

fyi...in the past few weeks i've only glanced through emails and haven't read a single blog since nyc...so i'll have to get caught up...OR you can email me and tell me. columbia email still works, but i'm slowly switching everyone over to my gmail. hit me up. gotta go to city mill right now to fix my bathtub.

oh, and also, keep in mind i'm 6 hours behind nyc :)



peace

alive

yo, i'm back home. lookin' at cars. deciding between a camaro, a nissan 200sx and a nissan 300 zx. oh, and a carolla. not sure how much i wanna spend, but i'd like to get it taken care of by the end of the week.

weird feeling.

i surfed in cali. i'm burned already. i just got home today and i still haven't seen my mom. oops :) friend of mine owes me rides from highschool so we're goin' out tonight. nice start. turns out i have more friends than i thoguht i did.

and yo, graduates. what's all your email addresses? i have a thing against 'forwarded emails'. can't explain why, but i like the roots instead.

talk to me

last big apple post

i just wanted to thank everyone for makin' these past four years the best years of my life...so far ;)


i leave in about fifteen minutes.

i won't have regular internet for a few weeks.

aloha.