damn, i injured myself during basketball today. during the last game, i pulled my lower calf muscle/ligament/tendon/whatever. i'm limping around now. what i should NOT have done was play more when i hurt it. but i did. shit. i eventually called for a sub, and then i hobbled out of the gym. i hope i didn't do anything severe to myself. we'll see tomorrow how it is.
today is my coworker D's birthday. he turns 24. he's my best friend here at the company, so i bought him a blu-ray copy of the movie _seven pounds_. (that's what i bought yesterday afternoon at fry's.) i seemed surprised when i gave it to him, like, "why the hell are you buying me a birthday present?" it's true, i have never given a coworker a present before, but it just felt right to me; he had been talking about wanting to see that movie, so it seem appropriate for me to give it to him. *shrug* tomorrow, some of us are taking him out to pizza antica in santana row to celebrate.
i've been eating a lot of snacks. when i went to marukai on saturday, i bought two bags of wasabi shrimp chips and two bags of chili bits. i finished the first bag of the former last night, and i brought a bag of the latter to work with me yesterday. i'm slowly making my way through the chili bits. they're so damn good. i remember when i got baked on july 4th in san diego years ago, i must have eaten like half a pound of them when i got the munchies. they're so addictive!
two girls have written me through the dating site in the past few days. one of them did not have a photo, and after i asked for some, she sent three over. she does not look good. in her e-mail with the link, she asked if i wanted to grab froyo or coffee. what do i say?
the other one is actually kinda cute, but she is 5'0" and 40 years old. both are detractions, but the kicker is the age. that is way outside of my qualifications. it's a shame, too, because she digs jun pad poo and lounge music. bummer. we could have gotten along. what do i say?
i was talking to this other girl who was on the site, and i had no idea that girls were in such high demand in the bay area. this girl is not bad looking, and in the month that she's been on (her profile was even down for a while), she's received 60+ e-mails and 20+ flirts. that's just insane! how do you deal with so much traffic? how do you sift through so many guys? no wonder the hot girls never write me back; i bet they get some awesome men that totally drown out my feeble attempts to get their attention. :(
i don't get bank of america. they told me that the loan process was going along fine, and that i didn't need to sign anything or give them any paperwork. yet, in the past week, i've gotten two big packets in the mail with requests for documents and signatures and stuff. i called my agent, and she said that these didn't need any response. wtf? what if i hadn't called her, and i had responded to these two big packets? sheesh. their act doesn't seem very coordinated. anyways, re: house, my bank appraisal should be done by the end of this week. i'm keeping my fingers crossed that the house doesn't get massively underappraised. also, the sellers fixed all the little things that didn't check out during the house inspection. yay!
i'm trying to broker a deal between my old stanford taiko (ST) group and my friend tim, who is a professional photographer; i want tim to take pictures of ST's full dress rehearsal for their upcoming spring concert. ST has never had a real professional take action shots of them in full costume and lighting, and i bet they would look really good. in past years, i have been the one taking pictures, but my weak camera performs horribly in low light, so i'm very curious to see how tim's equipment will make ST look fucking awesome. hopefully this deal will get done.
so my boss bought a condo as well. his place is in los altos, and he has a ton of dough, so obviously he is paying a lot more money than me. i think he's putting down like $275K or something, so he got the good rate at wells fargo despite the condo markup in interest rate. he was really smart and pulled out of stocks during the stock market collapse and put his savings in money market funds. genius! shit, i wish i had done that.
i am really not liking this 9+% california sales tax thing. it's not so much the extra money thing, but rather the fact that i can't just double the tax to figure out how much i should tip the waiter. it's annoying. so now, i'm relegated to going back to my old method, which is adding 25% to my subtotal's price to figure out how much tip *and* tax i should pay when i contribute my amount to the bill. *sigh*
so the sparrow chicks are gone! they were missing a few days ago, and they seem to be permanently away now. i checked the nest today, and all that's there is some lumps of bird shit. so in two/three weeks time, they went from being eggs to being capable of flight. how amazing! i shall miss them. it's funny, because all the smokers knew about them, but other than that, very few people in the company knew what the hell we were talking about when we mentioned "the baby birds."
the wind is nuts out there today.
years ago, for my birthday (or was it for christmas?), jay gave me a $30 gift certificate on iTunes. songs are 99 cents each. well, last night, i bought my 30th song (and now i have 30 cents left in my account). the song was kanye west's "stronger." it rocks. now i gotta load in the gift cards the my cousin S gave me for my birthday so i can buy some more music.
i made this mix CD entitled "2007 mix" two years ago. i published the song list on this blog. i think i'm ready to make my "2009 mix" CD. i have a very wide range of music, so i think you guys would like it, or at least, a part of it. for the past several months, i've been listening to my first lounge mix (entitled "/hr girl/'s lounge shit") in my car whenever there's nothing on the radio, but now i'm getting tired of it, so i need to update my music with some other stuff.
ok, i gotta pee.