What's the most valuable thing you've ever had stolen?
All the xmas gifts I bought one year I had in a van, it was so f'ing sad.
What a great weekend so far, listening to whatever music I want, watching whatever TV I want, winning both an online and live poker tournament priceless (sorry I know the priceless thing has so jumped the shark). For the live poker tourney I finally found a use for UStream.tv a very cool service that lets you both live stream and record live video. Thats not all it can do there is chat and all kinds of cool settings, go to the site for more info. I may end up using them more for spellno and perhaps this blog/vlog.
The kid is doing great although her naps seem to be waning which is normal as they get older. Also have weened her from one of her morning bottles which is a significant milestone for us as well. She has gone from walking to running, all over the place, again it's terrifying. Got a funny parenting email forwarded to me from my friend Olivia, usually I auto delete this kind of thread but it was actually ok, so I forwarded it to the wife. Was kind of weird to be forwarding my first parenting joke email thread, ugh whats happened to me ;) ? Joke, I joke sheesh lighten up Francis.
Been updating all my social networking sites, ugh it's alot of work, hmm let me see I've got profiles every freaking where and a couple blogs to boot. Hmm what else, ah yes I got a promotion at work, thats all I'll say about that as I'm not one to write about work due to all the implications of doing so.
Ok well i'm off to my aunts in South San Francisco to do the easter lunch thing and video my girl on her first easter egg hunt sans her mom, wish me luck it's gonna be a long day.
What a week, I'm getting out of the shower on Monday and toweling off (tmi?) and some how i pull my back doing that, wtf? It was redonkulous I could barely move, I managed to make it to work, was in total pain all day long. I'm feeling tender but quite a bit better today which is great timing since the wife is off to party in Manhattan till Monday, she forgot Sunday was easter, but more importantly her daughters first easter ever, oops.
Moms will probably come help me with the kid since I can barely carry anything right now, gonna have a big poker game at the loft on sat during the day, baby friendly hours of course, should be a blast. My friend told me about some big game in the mission on Sunday that I might hit, how blasphemous huh? Got around to uploading more photo's to photoworks, lame of me to get so committed to photoworks as everyone seems to only integrate with flickr or picasa, grrr oh well maybe they will get out of the stone age due to my suggestion email.
Have you guys been following this Color Wars thing happening on Twitter? Yeah I'm always on the tail end of this crap, pick a team blah blah blah i dunno go figure it out and buy me a beer.
Had a really nice day today, we had a great breakfast then napped with the baby till 1pm! After that we hit starbucks for some much needed pick me up, then rushed to San Mateo. We saw an old friend who was having her girls 1yr old bday, was a blast, cute kids, pinata, candy, good food, and good people. Can't believe I actually enjoy that kind of stuff now but I actually do.
Got home and rushed off to a tiny 6 person poker tourney my friend Chris was hosting, I was playing great when my trip 5 trap that had worked perfectly died when the donkey who called me caught his miracle 8 on the river. That essentially ended my game, I was determined to leave and thats what I did.
Got home and baby is sleeping, not good when baby goes to sleep at 7pm that means a 3am wake up call is in my future ugh. Not looking forward to driving to Santa Rosa tomorrow but am looking forward to finally renting that condo out, I hope we find some good tenants, wish us luck, more luck than I had at the poker table anyhow.
Started with me driving from work to home to pick up mom/baby back to downtown then charging commuter traffic to Sabastopol. Of course the corridor from novato to petaluma was a parking lot, thanks to a car accident and 3 lanes turning to two. Then our GPS runs out of battery and the goofball design of the TomTom requires having the base for it to charge, way dumb.
We finally get to Sabastopol, I've always really liked it there, always had a very mellow/safe vibe about it, very small town countryish. Of course the price of real estate has skyrocketed there as well which is unfortunate. Anyhow were at the party and it's made of primarily middle aged folk which is trippy but alright, I mean they are nice and all. Theres a kind of modern day hippy vibe about most everyone, it is sonoma county after all. Food is spicy but good, coffee is epic straight from costa rica. My bro inlaw has shacked up with his lady so this party is the house warming, sorry should have gave context earlier. It's a cute place, classic sonoma county, lots of space and chill. Start talking to his landlord who tells me he bought the whole cul de sac in the late 80's for 230k, now it's worth 1 or 2 million from an old lady who sold it for what she bought it for, insane.
The baby loved walking in the 2 rooms that had carpeting, the best part was when this middle aged cougar decided to start playing with the baby right in front of me and my mother inlaw. When she did she gave us an extended view of her black g string, it wasnt even one of those kinds that actually cover anything, it was straight up black string, halarious.
Ok i'm back from the Microsoft Mix08 conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas, it was really cool, not as cool as last year but cool. Vegas alone aint all that fun, free advice. I'm running on very little sleep and as usual am overloaded with info and shwag to comb through. I've already posted a few things at i dont spel check and will post another vlog entry soon in my hdcam and not my radio shack webcam.
Did some slumlording in santa rosa today and visited with family, all in all a productive day. Tried staying up late while the fam sleeps so I can catch up on some learning, my little one tends to monopolize my time nowadays. Anyhow time for bed more later.
See my vlog/blog about it, lots of good funny stuff.
