Friday, April 27, 2007

Slammed

For the past 2 weeks, my coworker has been on vacation. I've been slammed with a huge amount of workload, projects, and most of all, projects that don't go according to plan. Mostly upgrades of existing software platforms. So I've been extremely busy at work, which is the time I usually post my blogs, or at least when I start my blogs. My coworker came back on monday, the first week where I got to breathe. But I'm now stuck on yet another upgrade project that is not going smoothly. Worse yet, this one has a hard deadline, so I need to get it working and planned. I've even been going on days, even a week without reading my usual list of blogs, or just skimming over it in between server reboots. Alot has been going on in my life, some I probably won't want to talk about in my own blog.

Ok, break time is over, time to get back to work.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Tahoe weekend, part 2

Poor Wenda, she setup the entire ski trip and couldn’t go. Although I haven’t met her, I do feel for her. I don’t know the exact details, but apparently she had something on her ass cheek that somehow got infected. She had to go to the doctor where they gave her a shot of novacaine by a lancer (fancy name for a xacto knife) and dug in ½” to take out whatever was in there. Poor girl said it hurt so bad even with the shot, that her legs were shaking, got teary eyed, and broke out in hives. Then they stuffed the newly formed hole with so much gauze, she felt a teddy bear in a stuffing machine. She had to go back again later on for them to take out even more stuff. She had to lay on her stomach like beefcake Cartman all day, and probably for a few more days.

As B and I drove up to tahoe, I find out that B knows Will through, (surprise, surprise) the pageants. Usually if my friend Will knows a girl, there’s a good chance it’s because it’s through the pageants. And I find out that B knows my ex-gf through the pageants. That’s why she looked kinda familiar. I saw her picture on friendster through my ex-gf! She also knew my ex-gf through my ex’s association with Drink Club, a event promotions organization where they throw asian parties at various clubs in SF. That’s because B was dating one of the DJ’s that they and Element (another asian party promotion organization) use. B also knows Erin, one of the guys that works at Element and Natalie his gf at the time, and Natalie’s best friend, Martha. Ok, are you guys with me so far? If not, better start diagramming now. So I know my friend Andy from working at Whole Earth Access in SF a long time ago. I know Will from my days working at Computown. One night, Will and a bunch of people went clubbing, and I invited Andy along. Little did I know that Andy and Will went to high school together and knew each other already. That night, Andy met one of Will’s friend’s Julie, and turned into a relationship that lasted a couple of years. Some of Julie’s best friends was Martha and Natalie. After they broke up, Martha and Natalie stayed friends with Andy (hey, he’s such a good guy) and I got to know Martha and Natalie after a while and became really good friends. In fact, Andy, Martha, Natalie and I used to go clubbing together almost every weekend for a year. And during one of these clubbing nights, is when I met Karen. So I go out on a couple of dates with Karen, and I meet up with Andy and Will for Martha’s birthday. I was telling Andy about Karen when I find out Will knows Karen from the pageants. Later on Andy started doing the pageant escorting, and B was still helping out with pageants, and that’s how B knows Andy. Are we thoroughly confused yet? I think I’ll stop with the friend association because I’ll confuse even myself soon.

So as B and I talk in the car, she keeps raving about the good food places in Sacramento. Huh? Sacramento? Well I guess? And she was raving about this one place that has really great salmon salad called Urban Jack’s. I was intrigued because she made it sound really good. So as we drove back down from Tahoe, we decided that we’re gonna stop in Sacramento and I’ll see if the salmon salad was all that. Wow, let me tell you that was some good salmon salad. Freshly tossed salad with Salmon with some sort of sweet delicious glaze and grapefruit and some sort of vinagarette. I never knew Sacramento had such good food! And it wasn’t very expensive either. I’m definitely not dismissing B’s food advice any time soon. My drive to and back from Tahoe was a whole lot shorter because B and I chatted almost the entire way.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Tahoe weekend update part 1

Ok, so I'm finally getting around to my tahoe weekend. My friend Will invited me up to tahoe, though I don't know any of the people heading up. Most of the peeps are heading up friday night, hitting the slopes on both saturday and sunday, and coming back on monday. I can't do two days of boarding, nor take the time off on monday, so my plan was to go up on friday and head back on sunday. Will said that he had a friend B that might want to carpool up with me. So we had a IM conference and we both confirmed that we didn't want to ski on sunday, and we both could leave on friday.

So I meet B for the first time on Friday (Hmm, she looks a bit familiar, but I've never met her before), and we head off to tahoe in my evo with my snowboard and her skis in the back seat. We chat it up quite a bit on the drive up, making the drive alot shorter, although we left late, so we didn't arrive till around midnight. We met the rest of the group, a couple Tony and Liana, Alex, and Liz. Unfortunately Wenda who set the whole trip up couldn't make it because she had a hole in her butt (more on that later).

We talk a bit, hang out, and we made our sleeping arrangements. I got to bunk up with Will in the bear room, it's a bear themed room with a giant bed that's so high, you need a step stool to get up in, or in my case I just jump onto the bed. Unfortunately Will snores, so my nights sleep wasn't so restful.

We hit the Sierra At Tahoe the next morning. The snow was the consistency of frozen lemonade, all slushy and very sticky. It was so sticky that it felt like I was dragging an anchor behind me. It was so sticky that I could go down the black diamonds almost straight without going too fast. So sticky that my legs were getting sore and tired because I had to lean back to keep from falling forward because the board was slowing down, but I wasn't. But the weather was really nice, It was really hot, and all I wore was a t-shirt and my ski jacket.

By the end of the day we were so tired we all started wiping out because we were all too tired. I ate it a couple of times pretty good, and ended up sliding down my back and doing a endo so I can get the board pointing downhill to stop sliding. At the end of the day, we happend to have stopped on a run, and a bunch of guys decided to slide down the hill on their bellies like penguins. That looked pretty fun, if it wasn't for the fact that they were soaked at the end.

Ok, part 2 tomorrow, as I'm pretty tired right now. I've been waking up early and staying late at work this week. And it gets complicated, I may need to draw a diagram.