| 2 more weeks |
[May. 11th, 2009|08:51 am] |
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I have 2 weeks to endure before I can get the heck out of this country for a little breather. Need the vacation. It will be pretty exciting to be in Barcelona while the city named club is playing in the CL final. The place should be completely electric! But to just be in Spain for a couple weeks will be nice in and of itself.
Work is the same. Nothing really to do, but everyone telling me to look busy. I just shut my door and drink coffee. |
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| Another one moves on |
[Apr. 6th, 2009|09:06 am] |
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Got an email this morning telling me that another friend from the wild days has died. No details other than the end of a pulse and brain waves. I think the last time I talked to him was in 1995, when he was trying to find a place to crash. I was coming up on two years off the shit and wanted nothing to do with him.
Kind of feel bad I don't feel bad. |
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| American Big Business |
[Apr. 3rd, 2009|02:59 pm] |
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"Toyota Prius. While GM was spending $1 billion to build up the Hummer franchise, Toyota was spending $1 billion to develop a high-mileage hybrid—even though gas prices were still low. After the Prius debuted in the United States in 2000, GM execs seized yet another opportunity to display their intimate knowledge of American consumers, arguing that hybrids didn't make economic sense and that only environmentalists would buy them. Today, Toyota can barely keep up with demand for the Prius, and it has plans to start building them in the United States. GM, meanwhile, is scrambling to rush hybrids and other high-mileage cars into dealerships—far too late." |
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| Time for a music change up |
[Apr. 2nd, 2009|09:30 am] |
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Lately I've been on a massive Spanish rock and Spanish electronica kick. Bebe, Manu Chao, Enanidos Verdes, you get the point. But today I opened up the music player on my work laptop and was reminded of good harsh industrial with a Germanic edge! Oh man. Adrenaline picking up. This is the music that would motivate me to ride from Hollywood to Redondo and back. Weaving through traffic to the cacophony of horns and tire screeching. Solo. Rolling through the different neighborhoods of LA and seeing the rampant MPD this city baths in. Trendy, rich, business park, fake rich when entering the westside but back to trendy, to the beaches that have been over-run by transplants trying to act how they think someone growing up at the beach in soCal would act...and getting it horribly wrong. I love this city almost as much as I love to hate the bulk of the people in this city. Saturday bike ride is on. |
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| Hot diggity |
[Mar. 30th, 2009|05:28 pm] |
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I am friggin out of shape! Supposed to start league play next week (league play...tish! pay-to-play pick up games, but 'league play' sounds cooler) and seriously thought I was going to pull a John Candy in Stripes moment. Cigs are gone, but their remnants sure as hell are not. |
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| LAst night was a good night |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|08:07 am] |
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At least it feels good today. After a complete dressing down from an old friend about my post 35 laziness I decided she was right. So, it was back to getting moving. Being 38 now though I knew I couldn't just jump back into 100 mile bike rides and then a hike before brunch. Not that that could have happened on a Tuesday anyway, but the point's the same. I figured I'd just start going back in that direction....slowly. Cut out the cigs (AGAIN!), and then last night actually strolled on over to the gym. Only did a really light 20 minute cardio (still kicked the heart rate over 138 for 15 of those minutes) and then hit some weights, pretty much a nothing workout but man do I feel better today. The stress-knot in my back is gone, my lower back doesn't hurt at all, and it actually feels as though blood is sort of flowing through my legs again.
After that I cooked up some great seitan steaks w/ brown rice to chase the Banana, blueberry, raspberry and vanilla almond milk smoothy. Read a couple travel books on Spain and called it a night around 11ish.
Dusting the bike off this weekend, or maybe I'll just buy a cruiser. My friend Julia gave me a bunch of info on soccer leagues around LA, so this summer I'll definitely join a couple of those. |
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