SHERBET TIGHTS

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2008-06-05T17:02:00.000-07:00

hey all! how is fresno? so i am coming back to town next week on my weekend. i just wanted to give you all a heads up. so whats up bitches. i don't want to sound boring, but there isn't a whole lot going on right now. things are good, steady, and very much enjoyable. i do have stories to tell, i just don't want to type them, at least not yet. i will try to remember all of them so when i get back into town i can give you all the really long winded version of them. i will catch up with you all soon enough.

still rockin

2008-05-28T19:07:00.000-07:00

things are still goin well up here in napa. not a whole lot of new info to speak of. i know it sounds boring, and it is kinda, but i still love it. i'm still meeting new people and getting to know my housemates and co-workers better, so that is cool.
i didn't do a whole lot on my birthday, i missed you guys, but it could have been worse. i get to see alex tomorrow. i am going into the big bad city for the first time since i've been up here to go to the golden gate park disc golf course, have a late lunch and a beer, then to sonoma to meet some new people. i'm looking forward to it, then it's back to the grind of drinking and selling wine. i hope you all are doing well. later!

today was a good day

2008-05-18T00:27:00.000-07:00

so today was a pretty good day.
today was the single biggest day in sales in the wineries history, just under $100k, or just over $98k to be exact. i don't know if i'm on the commission scale yet, but i sure as hell hope so. i also "vip-ed" a guy in my first tour(i got him to spend over $1500). i also "vip-ed" him on the incentive barrel. and at the end of the day, that helped me to win the incentive for the day, a crisp $100 bill. and i also made $20 in tips. so i had some good sales, vip-ed a guy, was a part of the wineries biggest day in sales ever(which i think might have got me an early commission check) and walked with a $120 in cash.

today was a good day. i also got my pay bump after my first week. my first paycheck was one week at $12 an hour. my second was two weeks at $15. so i got my pay bump after one week, a good sign i think.

so things are good, i wish you all the best. i miss you guys, and get your asses up here for a visit.

so long from napa.

whats happenen'

2008-05-15T20:57:00.000-07:00

so things are still going okay up here in napa. work is good, i am almost up to $20,000 in sales ytd. so that is cool. i've been hanging out with people from work as well as my house mates and been meeting new people, so that is cool as well.

so it has been hot as balls up here, at least for napa. we hit 95 yesterday and got up to 103 today. the news asked people to stay indoors, avoid working out and other activities that could possibly be harmful if performed on a hot day. it is weird to see this kind of concern the second it reaches 90 degrees. so...since it was hot and i had the day off, i went to benicia and hung out with a friend from work at her apartment yesterday and in 45 minutes, i turned into a tomato. it was fun, and last night i went to one of the other houses and was there until about 3:30. it was a good day, and today i did a whole lot of nuttin' but putting aloe on my chest.

i've been doing some riding around here. it is beautiful, and i don't have to drive anywhere to ride through the hills. i get to start from my house, and that is great.

oh! and my brother is now engaged, so that is exciting. well, it is time to apply more aloe. i miss you guys. talk to you soon.

things are going

2008-05-03T23:04:00.000-07:00

so today was an awesome day. i was scheduled at the estate(the fancy one) today and was sent down to the napa one because they were busy and understaffed. when i got there i was asked to call the manager. i was a bit worried i might get fired cause i had a rough tour last weekend. but instead of being fired i was asked to go to the company dinner, i was also asked to keep it quiet because i am the only one of the new hires to be asked, and you usually aren't asked until you've worked for at least 1 month with them. so...yeah! then as the day went on my sales were great. i did half a case in my first tour, followed almost 6k in my next. i got two people to VIP, or spend over $1500. with a couple other $200, $300 and $400 sales mixed in that one and the next tour after. so today was a good day. tomorrow i go back to work, and then i get to go party with my new co-workers at the company dinner tomorrow night.

so i will be coming home on tues night after work. i'm gonna have a late dinner and crash at my folks, but if anyone wants to hang on wed day but for sure on wed night at the "mark". then i will be heading back up on thurs afternoon. so i will see you all soon. peace out!

up and running

2008-04-29T22:18:00.000-07:00

i'm back online bitches! i has been a long day, and i just got done deleting 200 something emails, and even though it is my friday today, i'm gonna crash. but like i said, tomorrow is my sat. so i will be able to get you more info then. i miss you guys already.

moving day, wed. april 16th, some time early, hopefully before noon

2008-04-14T10:37:00.000-07:00

i just really wanted to have a long title, so there you go.

anyways, for those who do not live here, or did not speak to me this weekend.

i'm moving!

i found a place in napa, and will begin moving on wed. the place is pretty cool. i will be renting a room in the back of a house with my own bath and private entrance. inside the main house there are 5 others renting rooms, 2 chefs, a school teacher, an hr rep for japan air, and a realtor, with one more room open for rent. it seems like a cool place and i am very excited. so, like i said, i will be moving on wed, and coming back either thurs or fri to hang with friends and family before i leave for good on sun and officially consider myself "moved". reall quick, this is my deposit for my new digs, five, hundo, in cash. i've never held that much in cash before,at least not in 20's.

so the rest of my weekend was great, i got to hang with my new beau, georgia, on sunday. had a few beers and talked while at sequoia, and the topics would have made adam very happy, and he would have really enjoyed being apart of them, but oh, well. after, i grabbed potter and kasey and we went to hank swanks to whack a few balls, well me and potter whacked them, kasey fanned them, but it was still nice of her. potter also found some inspiration for a new piece i think, called the "destruction of fresno" i like "destruction of construction", has a nice ring i think.

and yes kasey did actually hit the flag on the 8th hole, but she hit it so hard, it went off the green, but she still hit it. then yes, dinner at starline grill and dozing off on the couch while watching mxc. it was a great weekend, but exhausting.

another trip up north

2008-04-10T14:03:00.000-07:00

so, i'm heading back up to my future home(nor cal) this weekend. as of right now i will be visiting at least 7 apartments or places that are looking for roommates. i am really excited about some of these places that are looking for roommates because i don't need to worry about furnishing an apartment and i think i would be allowed to bring suki to three of them, where as i have yet to find a place i could live on my own and take her with me. and it wasn't really until tuesday that i realized how much i would miss my dog if i had to leave her behind, so i really want to find a place that she is welcome. so wish me luck on my venture this weekend, i'll be back saturday night, so it won't be all weekend.

for some reason i have been looking for new music, and have found some good new stuff, at least new to me. the cribs, we the kings, your vegas, melody gardot, alice smith and yoav. all of the people and groups are very different from one another, but they are all really good. the story behind melody gardot(gardoe) is a great one. hit by a car while riding her bike, and her doctor suggested she use music to help her brain functions. she still walks with a cane and has to wear dark glasses, she also has a condition that makes noise painful. pretty cool stuff, check them out. i believe most of them are on myspace. yoav does a great pixies cover, but the rest of his album is great. for alice smith, make sure you check out "dream". i actually have a your vegas song on my myspace page right now, and we the kings and the cribs are sweet. some of you may not like we the kings too much, as they are a bit on the pop-ie side, sort of like all american rejects.

well, i'm leaving in the morning, so i will check you all on saturday. peace out.

apartment hunting

2008-04-07T13:41:00.000-07:00

so this is beginning to get a little frustrating. i knew it would be hard, but that is crazy. the average rent in st. helena is $767, napa is a bit higher and most surrounding areas are a little lower. that is all fine and dandy accept i can't find any of these places that bring the average rent so low. and there has to be a bunch to bring down the average with some of these super premium apartments.

so i went up friday to do some hunting and check out that trailer place...WOW! i was way excited for not a lot of reason. these are your basic old travel trailers. meant for periodic living, not permanent, and the changes tony made to these trailers wasn't what i thought. i don't know why i thought they would be bigger, i know how long 22ft. is and i've lived in a trailer for a few weeks while camping with my grandparents in oregon. i should have known what to expect, but i was blinded by hope, until disappointment opened my eyes to truth. as you can see it is a small community of 6 of these trailers(there is one you can't see), with one more coming in the near future. tony, the man in charge was super nice and was doing what he could to help out some people, but the amount he was charging for what i would be getting is astronomical. there is no way that he still needs to work if all 6 of these are occupied for $600-$650 a month. all i'm saying is the $/sq. ft. is way out of proportion. i tried to keep an open mind, but there is no way, not even temporarily. i would have to constantly duck under the a/c in the middle of the trailer, duck to get in the trailer, learn to sleep in a different way cause the bed is too small, no suki, and i would be getting all of this for $100 bucks less than i can get a full apartment, in town. minimum 600sq ft compared to 50sq ft is a big difference, especially for the amount of money. i would just be giving up alot for nothing in return. lets just forget for a moment that the place is waaaaay small for me. i have a lot of stuff that needs storing. these places have at most, 1.5ft worth of closet space. a tiny fridge with no freezer. there isn't enough room to store my shoes, let alone my clothes, dishes, cleaning supplies, and lets not forget , my weights, my bike or any of the other stuff i have that pertains to my active lifestyle. but lets just say i wanted to buy some frozen foods to keep for a time where i didn't buy food on the way home or fresh food to make, i would have to store that frozen food in a large storage freezer for all of the tenants, and would need to mark it with a sharpie.

i don't want to keep bashing this place, the guy was nice, and there were some redeeming qualities to this place, they just came no where close to making it livable for someone like me. either way, i am continuing the search, hopefully i will have some better news soon.

finding a place

2008-04-02T10:41:00.000-07:00

so apartment shopping sucks, especially in a place like napa. it's not like it is insanely expensive to live up there, but it is still more than here. they also have a serious distaste for pets, unless you have oodles of cash. it is really hard to find a place that allows pets , or pets over 15 lbs, and for under $1200 or $1350 a month, and most of those are 1bdrm, some are 2. but...
i found this place that seems pretty cool. it is a small community this guy made out of converted camper trailers. he has taken all or most of the chinsey camping stuff out, i.e. sinks, toilets, etc. and replaced them with sturdy home things. he has 3 available that i am going to check out on fri, a 18 ft, 20 ft and a 22 ft for $500, $600, and $650 a month. utilities are a flat 75 a month, including T1 internet(online wii gaming, yeah!) and for $10 more i get all the cable channels. suki is not in yet, he would like to meet her first. but apparently he started this place for students of the culinary institute up there, the nursing school and the christian college 20 minutes away for people who wanted a cheap place to live. now i guess he has a number of permanent residence and only a few renters. so the way i understand it is that there might be some furniture in it already, bed, table, it just won't be that big is all. the guy sounded super nice on the phone, so we'll see.

so while i'm up there on fri, i'm also supposed to run by del dotto and say hello again, and then go to the other one in napa, since i'll be working at both.

moving time

2008-04-01T09:17:00.000-07:00

so i've been thinking and trying to figure out this whole moving thing and what extra efforts if will require from me. besides the insane obvious things i'm going to need to do, of the more simple things is to furnish a home, simple right? wrong! when you haven't lived on your own since college and almost everything you used was either borrowed from your parents or grandparents, this task becomes increasingly more difficult. i still have some of the kitchen stuff, but most pots, pans, tupperware, etc. is gone. i have a bed, 2 dressers, nightstands, and that's about it. i don't have a couch, chair, table, nothing, i don't even have a tv to play my wii on, my current tv is potters. now i'm not spilling all of this to get a pity party, that is not the case. but what i was looking for were any tips or suggestions on how to resolve this issue in an economical way, as money has always been tight, it is now worse with higher rent, possible car payments, deposit, and furnishing a place.

so needless to say, i'm a bit worried as to how i am going to make this work, so any help would be appreciated.

miam out, napa in!

2008-03-31T10:58:00.000-07:00

so i got a call on sat morning letting me know that miami f.c. wasn't going to be calling me. that's a rough way to wake up at 8:30 after a long night of drinking. anyways, with that, napa just got a whole lot sweeter. and on fri my suspicions were confirmed by del dotto estates. i sent an email to the hr rep(?), georgia, she was the one that interviewed me. either way i shot her and email in the late morning letting her know that i was working on housing and things like that, but still interested, and i would keep her up to date on things. about 10 minutes later i got a reply say that was great and to let them know when i could start, hopefully before may. seems like i pretty much have a job. so it may seem quick, but the earlier i get up there, the earlier i get to make more money, and might be able to get some time off work for certain events in the near future. i'm going to wait one more day for the vintners collective before i call them and see whats going on. but if they say no, then it's del dotto here i come.

and can someone give me a hand? is there a rule of thumb on how much of your income you should spend on rent/utilities/etc.? i'm just trying to figure out which places are worth calling and which are not.

and for those who don't know, i now only have one team left to root for.

ROCK, CHALK, JAYHAWK!!

a long one, for me atleast

2008-03-28T09:20:00.000-07:00

so as most know, ed, adam and heather were on a podcast talking about music. i took a listen yesterday and enjoyed it, funny and informative guys and gal. well done. but of course it got me looking at my own collection and thinking about my past, and how i got to where i am now musically. what a wild ride it has been. to explain, when i bought my first cd player, i had enough money left to actually buy a few cd's, three to be exact. and they were. 1) arrested development-unplugged 2)alan jackson-who i am, the one that has chattahoochee on it. 3)SWV-sisters with voices. yeah! suck it. a few weeks later i bought three more. 4)crash test dummies-mmmm mmmm mmmm 5)spin doctors-pocket full of kryptonite 6)soundgarden-superunknown. now before the cd's there were tapes, but like adam, my dad had control of my musical likiing and had me listening to dc talk, news boys and of course petra. petra is a christian classic rock band. one of the album covers was a v type guitar, that was a space ship, awesome. there of course were many more, but i try to keep those more painful memories locked up. so there is a little peak at my musical past.

PRESENT
so lately i have been on a big female artist kick, and trying to find a few under grounders and it has been fun. if you'd like let me give you a few good artists i've found in my recent search.
meiko(she also spells it with a lower case)-awesome, hard to describe, some electric, simple but beautiful, check it.
jessie baylin-a girl and her guitar. beautiful voice, a little on the slower side, be in the right mood.
kate voegel-girl and her guitar. good for the most part, but she slips in and out of shakira voice stylings. hit and miss, but some decent hits.
kate nash-this girl is a-w-e-s-o-m-e. her lyrics are fun and light, and then slip into something a little more dark. the album has great balance, fun music, happy music, bitter music, cute one liners. she is by far my favorite, so far. check out the album, made of bricks.

i've also been recycling some older ones i've had for a few month/years.

tristan prettyman-jason mraz-esque. great writer, and simple music that is not distracting. beautiful voice.

colbie caillet-beachy, a female jack johnson. good lyrics and a great voice.

sara bareilles-a little different. girl+piano+voice and lyrics=good times.

these last three should be staples in a persons female artist collection.

so i was thinking about my blog on my way to work this morning, and which songs, and artists i would talk about, and which direction i wanted this thing to go(it now has a mind of its own). i stopped into jamba juice for my breakfast and there is that time in shops like this, the kind where you place your order, but you just have to stand for a few minutes and wait, try not to make eye contact with the other patrons. anyway, i was there, doing that, reading ads and nutrition facts, when i heard something, something familiar, but i couldn't put my finger on it. i kept listening, radiohead? the voice sounds like thom yorke, but the music isn't radiohead, what? then i heard it. it was a cover or a remake of karma police with a reggae music theme. strange but not too bad.

i guess thats enough for now. have a great friday.

i'm back

2008-03-27T10:12:00.000-07:00

well...some of you saw me last night and know i'm back in town. so to recap whats went down in my recent past.

i went back to napa on mon for another interview. this place is amazing.

it is called domaine carneros, and it is one of the finest producers of sparkling wines and premium varietals. this place could be a great place to work, but i think that they may , i may not work with there style. either way i don't think we'll mesh, but it was a great interview experience, much more formal and traditional, so that was good. they also want to start with part-time, and if it's a good fit, then full-time and all the benefits that come with that.
so i left there and went back into st.helena to drop off some more resumes at peju and st. supery(sup-ree). i also stopped back by the vintner's collective to drop off a bottle of wine. while there i got a chance to talk with the partner who still seems excited about me and what i could bring to them.
i had lunch and then split to capitola.
capitola was great, beautiful weather, and good friends. i went to a bonfire on mon night, handed out resumes tue, decided to stay one more night and do some more on wed. it was good, but i found a reoccurring theme. smalll wineries that don't offer full-time positions.
but, while there, i got a call that might get me a chance to go for a week long try-out for miami f.c. if you don't know who they are, they are a usl-1 team. minimum salary is $2000 a month and paid housing. so that could be cool.
either way, i'm back in town, at least for a while.
to explain these pictures, this first one is from my first trip up there on fri. so that was my outfit, you can't see the pants, but they are navy pinstripes. the next two are from my trip up on mon. i am wearing my new outfit from banana republic, i look good!

one more, but next week

2008-03-20T13:58:00.000-07:00

i scheduled another interview, but not until monday. i think i am going to go up, do my interview and then just go to wineries and just hand out resumes after, unless i get another interview scheduled. i will spend the night up there and then spend all day tuesday handing out resumes and driving back home. i want to do another trip like this in the next week or so, to santa cruz, paso, and or monterrey areas(probably not all in 2 days). so if anyone wants to drink wine while i hand out resumes, let me know.

-madness update-
so what the hell is up with all these close games, except for the few underdogs i pick. oh! wait, kent was only a 9 v * and got their ass handed to them. and oral roberts, i knew they wouldn't win, i picked them because their name is "oral" roberts, and that's funny to me, but they could have at least made it close like the other games today. what a bunch of pricks.

dinner

2008-03-20T09:40:00.000-07:00

i did want to talk about my dinner last night, but i didn't want to mess up what i had going in my previous post.

so my brother and i made dinner for my mom last night, for her birthday on tuesday. trent made salmon burgers w/dill sauce. while i made baked parmesan and chili sweet potato fries w/horseradish dipping sauce. very good, and pretty healthy. the fries were easy and delicious, and you can get creative in what you add to the top, and the sauce. just make sure you spray the pan with non-stick, that would have helped a lot.

changes

2008-03-20T09:31:00.000-07:00

okay, they name and template, gone! out with the old, in with the new. sara, kasey and mike; congrats to you all, you are now on the side bar, so enjoy your link, tell your friends.

i haven't seen any homeless today, so nothing about that, no new interviews, so nothing about that. and i'm in a better mood, so lets not ruin it and talk about it. so let's recycle and go back to the tat.

the three words that are in for sure, are:
Passionate-Lidenskabelig
Mischievous-Drillesyg
Determined-Beslutsom

the list of words to pick for the fourth and final word is as follows:
Tenacious-Ihærdig
Dynamic-Dynamisk
Free spirit-Fri sjæl
Honor-Ære
Strength-Styrke -Strong-Stærk
Power-Kraftfuld

when i look at the list, mischievous and determined look to be the same in length, and i didn't pick any other words that can match passionate in length. i guess symetry is out. so get your votes in for the fourth and final word, or suggestions that i may or may not listen too on another choice for the fourth. your voice could make the swaying argument that picks what i stick.

couple of things

2008-03-19T08:33:00.001-07:00

okay, i have a couple of things to get done today, so lets get started.

1st ed, what the heck. last week you said all i needed was another post and you would move me, am i moved, nope, not yet. even though i have made several posts since you made that comment. i'm just a lowly blogger trying to make it in a crazy world, hook me up!

2nd i saw another homeless guy on my way to work again, apparently spring break bring out the destitute. this guy wasn't sleeping barefoot though, he was walking his bike and his dog down the street. what this guy did have was his dog rockin' a leather jacket. this was a much more positive looking nomadic. i wish i was "johnny on the spot" with the camera, but alas, i was to slow as i was driving and he was walking in the opposite direction.

3rd i saw ed's booze test and was impressed, so i decided to take it as well. see if i could compete with a 97%, and no surprise there folks...
97%ALCOHOLIC

like ed said, not shocked, but the questions were fairly easy, or there was just some obvious answers.

4th a new name for the blog. i'm pretty sure that i have my new name all wrapped up, but...i thought i would give the few of you who weren't at kaseys last night to here the choices before it is set in digital stone. it was just three of us; kasey, adam and me, watching a hilarious show which was not just our inspiration, but i am straight up stealing these names. the first is SHERBERT TIGHTS. my next option is TRENDY & THE TRINITY. the final choice is GOON LaDUCHE. i will let you all cast your votes, as to which name i will choose, just know that they will carry no weight in my decision making as i've already decided.

and finally...so making out in a theater, that is wrong, and disgusting and blah, blah blah, oh never mind.

job interview, part deux

2008-03-18T15:36:00.000-07:00

so, i set up that interview for 11:00 on fri, that was good and all, and you already know about that. as the day progressed, i did what i've been doing for the last week, find jobs and apply for them. if i had to guess, i would have to say close to 40 resumes have been sent out in total, 5 or so just today. the way it normally work is i find jobs at this site, winejobs.com. it is part of the largest wine industry publication, wine business monthly. after i find a job, i do a little research on the winery, or whatever the job is and then i decide whether i want to send them my resume. one of the places i researched and applied to today is called the vintner's collective. it is a tasting room for 18 napa wineries that don't have tasting rooms of their own, along with some other local wines available for sale there. the place looked awesome, and i thought what a great way to make some contacts in the industry, so i sent in my resume. the owner of the joint has already called me back and i now have two interviews on fri. like i said the one interview was good, but his one really helped pick me up out of my funk. i mentioned briefly about this job in my last post, but i had yet to research it and see what it was all about, but a full time position, 401k, and a gym membership to go along with everything else. if you want to see this place, www.vintnerscollective.com. i said i was scared about the other place, but i don't feel the same about this job, now i'm very excited, i don't know. it feels like i'm just rambling and typing so i'll stop now.

job interview

2008-03-18T11:04:00.001-07:00

i just got an email from Del Dotto Estate Winery for a job interview on fri at 11:00. they have two locations, one in napa, the other is their brand new tasting room and caves in st. helena, which is the location i am interviewing at and for. the position isn't exactly what i was looking for, as a cellar worker, in the production of the wine, but in the tasting room as an tasting room attendant/wine educator/hospitality person[(check it out, http://www.deldottovineyards.com/) if i could do one of those neat link words i would, but i suck at this.]. it's not what i was looking for, but i need to learn all aspects of a winery if i am to do this. it is full time which is awesome. i also applied to four more wineries today. one sounds really great, full time, benefits, salary plus commission, and a gym membership, i really want that job.

this news helps the mood, but know i'm scared. i've made contact with other wineries, but this is the first one to set up an interview. my head's all screwed up.

it is also my moms b-day and haven't gotten her anything yet, i'm a terrible son.

not worth a title

2008-03-18T09:12:00.000-07:00

i had to pick up the mail this morning from our p.o. box at the downtown post office. when i was leaving, there was a homeless man lying on the grass, sleeping. and my thoughts weren't how sad, can i help, or some people tell me they actually wonder what decisions he made to get where he is. my thoughts, how can this guy sleep on dew covered grass at 7:45 in the morning with no shoes or socks on, there is no way i could do that. i then felt bad for having no soul.

so i'm in this funk, the game on sunday really messed me up, i haven't been like this for a long, long time. i am hard on myself when it comes to how i perform on the field, but i usually get over it. i think it is the fact that, that is how i said goodbye to playing the game i love at a competitive level, a non-start three goal effort. i usually love st. pats day. i did nothing. i didn't wear green at any point, was invited out to a few places and parties, but i decided to stay home, drink and fall asleep at 10:00 on the couch. i even turned off my phone. i never do that. i rarely put it on silent, but i turned it off from 7:30 till i woke up at 1:00 from the couch and went to bed.

so enough downer talk, i don't know what else to say, i was going to put something chipper, but gave up.

st. pat can bite me

2008-03-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

i have nothing against st. patrick or his holiday, it's just got bad timing this year and that makes me angry. this day follows what will go down in my life, as one of the most disappointing days ever. a day whish i will continue to bitch, moan, and cry about for some time. second, it's on a god damn monday. that just sucks. oh, and lets not forget that i have amens indoor game tonight at 8:30, what is that shit? and we all know what happened last year, so we don't need to bring that up again.
you know, now that i look at it, i do kinda hate this holiday, atleast for this year. the one thing i have been enjoying is the guinness commercials about making this day a national holiday. i tried to find them but couldn't i also didn't look to long or hard.
so...march madness yeah bracket time. time for me to lose another $10-$20 on brackets that don't make it.

new name?

2008-03-14T09:54:00.000-07:00

i just looked at my blog and was wondering, you know, since there isn't a winery, won't be one for some time , if at all, should i change the name of my habitually visited blog?

don't forget

2008-03-14T09:45:00.000-07:00

so did anyone watch univision last night to see the unveiling of the new fuego logo and the fashion show of our new gear and the introduction of the new fuego girls. my gear has huge pads on it. the other keeper and i felt like we were in under 8's again. but he didn't get to wear any keeper gear, which made me feel pretty good about this weekend.

oh yeah! so there is this game on sunday @ 5 o'clock. this pro team is coming to town to play some team and i'm on that team(at least for a few more days). i also have two tickets, but i have been asked by a dozen people or so for a ticket and i think the best way to do this might be a raffle on sat night. names in a hat, must be present to win. but there is a chance 1 might be going to someone, i'm not sure yet.

so that's that, i have training tonight and then am heading up to concord for my boys games tomorrow and then coming back in the afternoon. you don't need to know that, i thought i'd just let you all know.

and just so you know, karaoke @ world sports blows major balls.

massage

2008-03-13T15:35:00.000-07:00

so i just got back from getting a massage. i've had many before and used to go to one place quite regularly, but i was referred to her by my ex, and she always wanted to talk about her and us, even after we had split, so i stopped going to her. plus she hurt me, i have bad shoulders, and she would put me into weird positions and them use extreme pressure. so with all that, i decided to leave.

i got one last november before the last chivas game and i loved the girl. she was good, friendly, and all at a great price. but she moved.

so today i went to massage envy. i decided on them after reading up on their web page. it sounded good, certified, took care of your specific needs, plus they are a chain, with four other locations around california, and all this for an introductory price of $39. so i went there.

i got there filled out the usual paper work, waited a minute and met my masseuse. this is the first time i'd ever had a more portly woman work on me(some of you know how hard that would be for me) but she was very pleasant and seemed to know her shit, but what kinda threw me off was that she suggested some glute work. i've never had glute work done, but she said it was very beneficial both for me as a man, and a soccer player, but i would have to be in the nude to do it. i'd never gone "a la buff" before. i was a little nervous about it, but agreed to let her do it. about 30 minutes she started working on my legs, and eventually started the glute work. to do this she had basically tuck the sheet under my opposite leg, my sack and then into my ass crack. she then proceeded to kneed, rub and caress my ass. very strange indeed. it did help, and it felt great, not like that perverts, muscularly. BUT...before we started she also mentioned not many women do this because of the region, you start at the base of your tailbone and work out and down, but apparently she was more than eager. which got me thinking, she could have been full of shit and just wanted to grab some ass and get some "unintentional" sack touching going on. so that is what was going through my mind during this, instead of just relaxing. how the mind wanders.

her name was debbie at massage envy if anyone is interested, mention me and i think i'll get a discount on my next ass grabbing.

translations

2008-03-12T09:58:00.001-07:00

so i found a translation service online and got a list of words translated. i think i have the four from the list i want to use, factoring in a combination of the english meaning of the word and the coolness of it translated into danish. i'll show you the list and then we'll see which words you guys like. so the way the design will work(thank you adam), instead of having the words written down my arm vertically so you can read them when my arms are down. they will be inked so they will be read horizontily when i hold my arms straight out. they will be on the inside of my arms, one on top, and one on bottom with hearts at the ends of the words, and inbetween the two words will be a row of stars like the ones i have on the back of an adidas hoodie.

i haven't decided on which direction i want the stars to go, like these, vertically, or to go with the words horizontilly. and if i could somehow get the hearts in a similar design as the stars would be pretty sweeet. i still have questions i need to answer, but hopefully within the next month or so i can get it stuck.

here's the list.

Driven-Please explain in detail what you mean by driven – it can be interpreted in many ways in Danish. From shrewed to tense….
Energetic-Energisk
Proud, pride-stolt, ?
Resolute-Resolut
Determined-Beslutsom
Aggressive-Aggressiv
Tenacious-Ihærdig
Strong-willed-Viljefast
Perseverance-Vedholdenhed
Dynamic-Dynamisk
Passionate-Lidenskabelig
Intent-(also needs explanation in depth)
Irrepressive-Ubetvingelig (probably not the intended translation, please give details)
Athletic-Atletisk
Leader-Leder
Ambitious-Ambitiøs
Competitive-Konkurrencepræget (hard to find an real equivalent to the English)
Intense-Intens
Family oriented-Familieorienteret
Free spirit-Fri sjæl
Mischievous-Drillesyg
Fighter-Stridsmand (not easy to translate to the same meaning)
Strong-Stærk
Power-Kraftfuld
Strength-Styrke
Honor-Ære

words

2008-03-10T15:41:00.001-07:00

so i just finished emailing kasey about some tattoo ideas, for hers, and asked her this question and thought i should put it out there to all of you who still read my blog. here's what i need. i need 4 words that i embody, preferably positive words. these words will then be translated into danish and then stuck on my arms via ink and needle. to give you an idea, i've come up; with strength, power, determination, pride. i know that is 4 right there, but i don't want strength and power, i want some diversity in the words and i thought you, the people that know me best would be able to help me with this. i look forward to your serious, but mostly comical ideas of words to stick on my body.

weekend update

2008-03-10T11:45:00.000-07:00

well, this weekend was so much fun, mostly friday night, saturday day and all of sunday, so most of the weekend. the zoo was awesome, and playland was just as exciting, but never ever ride "big rocko" with adam, cause he'll kill you. some great pitures of the day, and mr. sushi on sunday night was a lot of fun as well.

so there is the video, and for some reason i keep getting a server down message about the pictures, so you just get the video, enjoy!

New News

2007-11-19T11:56:00.000-08:00

well, the winery has been pretty busy lately, as have i, with both my winery and at cardella. we just bottled half of the 06 cabernet and will be bottleing the other half tomarrow. we will also bottle the 06 merlot in the next few weeks. the 07 merlot is already in oak barrels and the 07 cab will start its MLF (malolactic fermentation) after i get back from thanksgiving. once that is done, it will be heading to barrels. if you haven't got a BBW shirt and would like one, just ask. if you could help me out with like $10, that would be nice, but if not, you can have one anyways to help get my name out there. there will also be another print, with a few improvements made after the new year. other than that, not much else going on. most have heard stories from the cruise, but i'm sure there are some you haven't heard yet, the ones i'm not so proud of. so here are a few pictures, enjoy and i'll try to keep this more up to date, i know i say that alot, but i'm serious, i want to, really.

this first is a picture, is of a varietal we picked from my other boss at cardella winery. the next is of the same variety during the crush, this variety has great color. this next one here is just a silly one of me posing for the BBW shirts in the winery. The next is my father and i bottleing up the 06 cab sav. 12 1/2 cases done, and another 12 1/2 to do.

i really like some of the vines in fall, we get some great colors out of the different varieties. have a happy thanksgiving and i'll check back with you guys later.

New Ink

2007-09-20T11:15:00.000-07:00

well, most of the people who read this have already seen it, but there are a few who live in other states or cities that have not been privvy to it, so here you are.

as you know this first one was my motivation, and the second is my brainchild and my baby, with my ideas and my own shading. i still don't have a really good picture of it close up, but i will soon, i need to charge my camera battery. i guess this one works, but i was afraid of the glare, but you can see the shading and the color well enough...and don't mind the nip, later.

what's new.

2007-09-17T11:01:00.000-07:00

that wasn't a question, it is a statement, as in whats new with me. well, i said that i would put up some pictures from the winery i am working at, and i will do that today. so the big thing is that i am getting new ink done today at 5:30, very, very excited about that. it should be my biggest one yet, and i should be in the chair for over 3 hours, the artist said.

okay, now we are all done with our tohmpson grape harvest, those are the green grapes. we start our wine variety harvest on sunday night, so it should only be a few more weeks and thats it.

as for the winery i am working at, i have no idea how much longer i'll be there, i guess as long as i want and feel that there is stuff for me to learn. the name of the winery is Cardella Winery in mendota, if you go to cardellawinery.com you should be able to get some more pictures and ideas of what they got going on there.

The first one shows the crusher/destemmer crushing the grapes, i believe that those were the syrah. the "must", grape juice and skins, takes that grey hose into the primary fermentation tanks there.

the next one shows the whole winery, the outside fermentation tanks and the entrence to the winery and the subterranean cellar. there are three levels in the winery, the top interior room houses five more secondary fermentation tanks along with some lab equipment, the filtering system, bottling system and the rest of the hose connectors, adaptors etc. the middle section, we dubbed purgatory, holds his barrel racks and all the cases of bottled, finished vintages from years past. you can see a view from purgatory to the cellar in the next pic. the cellar has been named hell for the time being. this last pic is the under ground cellar. this is the new barrel configuration we decided on for this years vintage. it took the two of us an entire morning and into the afternoon to get this all done.

so that is the winery and what i am doing, catch you all on the flip side, i'm out.

internship & goodbye

2007-08-17T18:26:00.000-07:00

well this was my first week of interning at a winery part time. a friend of my brothers has a winery in mendota and he always finds himself struggling to get everything done by himself, and when he does get help, it is from the field workers and he can't always come up with the right words in spanish. so i get to help him out with anything and everything, while he gets to help me learn how to make wine in an actual winery, not some makeshift thing. it is really exciting and thus far has been a lot of fun. i was planning on having some pictures up of his winery, but i am doing this from home and not the office, so no pictures, but soon. hopefully with him helping me and him giving me a hand in my winery things should start coming along rather quick. with that said, the beautification day is going to be pushed back quite a bit do to some more ideas and construction stuff that needs to be done before paint goes up. i will let you all know when i do finally pick a date, but don't hold your breath.

and...goodbye. this is my last free night, for a while. i have a family camping trip thing in kingsberg this weekend and my boys have two scrimmages, and then on sunday night, around 8 o'clock....................HARVEST 2007 begins. on our first night we are doing 6 loads. i know that means nothing to most of you, i think adam is the only one who would have a good idea of what that means, but whatever. all you need to know is that, that many loads equals at least 11 hours in the field harvesting, then we clean and prep for monday night. then, monday morning we start our almond harvest and i have to go back to the winery. i have a bad feeling that i am going to be up for at least 3 days before i get to sleep. so, with that said, i am going to take a shower now, it has been a long day.

and ed don't take me off your links during this difficult time, i will keep posting, they will just be spread out and only concern harvest or wine making probably. just please be patient with me. and i will also give this invitation to you all, any who would like to get a taste of what harvest is like, you are welcome to come join me out at the ranch, on top of the harvester, or in my truck depending on when you come out and see what it is all about. adam has come and has had a blast. he's even driven the harvester. if that doesn't sound like too much fun for you, do what my brothers friends do, come out a little late and bring yourself some beers and keep me awake and give me someone to talk to while you get drunk.

Santa Cruz Weekend

2007-08-13T08:59:00.000-07:00

okay, i have a couple of things to get to, santa cruz tourney, just hangin' in the SC, & bbw beautification day, so lets not waste any time.

first things first, i did not realize that this weekend was family camp out weekend, thus making it hard to do an all day winery beautifiction on saturday when my boys have a scrimmage in the morning and then off to the river. it may be next weekend or the one after or some other month completly, who knows. for now lets just leave it up in the air for now and i'll get back to you on that.

ahh, santa cruz, what a good time this weekend was, where to begin? I left friday around noon-ish, and got to the apartment by 2:30, 3:00. we were just hangin out, rob had to work that night so we did what you do there. we all grabbed our long boards,( i took mine) and we cruised around capitola on the long board. brandon promised me booze and bitches but did not come through. but what we did that night was still fun. we had a plan to hang out for a while and then go out with rob when he got off work. never happened. we went to margaritaville and then some other bar. brandon then decided, lets just walk back to the house have some more to drink and stuff, rob should be home soon, then we'll go out. one problem, rob got off late, and all he wanted to do was eat and not go out. we waited and discussed what to do until it was 1:45.

"okay", i said "we can't make it anywhere to drink so lets get rob some dinner and get this night movin'" so we went to this place that is open really late got some food. went home and crashed around 3 or 3:30. i woke up the next morning and went to my 6 v6 soccer tourney. over half the team that was supposed to come bailed on us in the last minute, so we had to scramble and find some short notice replacements. that worked out ok. we lost our 1st game to the team that won it the 2 years, i guess, 7-5. i was pissed and felt i played bad, and the team too. Went to downtown SC for lunch with rojas and mee-agi, and their female counter parts. went back for our second game and again i played like shit. I had some good saves, but i did have 2 assists. W wound up winning 7-6. disappointed with how i played, picked up some beer on the way home and started to party with rob as soon as i got there. some kilt lifter, and kroneberg 1664 is how we started the night. we played some catch in the back yard and some darts. it was during darts that i turned into a robbin hood of the dart board. i peirced a dart that was in the bulls eye. after a while we decided to meet up with ade (robs girl), and a friend of hers, emily. we had a nice itallian dinner and a few bottles of wine. emilys sister and some friends show up and share another bottle of wine. after that we went to the club that emilys parents own. rob and ade were having some issue for portions of the night, and this was one of them. so the rest of us went inside and continued to party. by this point, 11:15-11:45, i am wasted. emily takes me to the bar and we get some tic-tacs. it is a bombable shot. it is simple, a shot of orange vodka, and half a glass of red bull. it is bombable because you drop the shot into the half glass of red bull, and it tastes like an orange tic-tac. Rob comes back and we drink and we dance, and i had to leave the dance floor, for just a minute to catch my breath, when liz shows up. she stopps and says hi, but she is on her way to the bathroom. she windes up staying and hangin' out for like 45 minutes. then out of the blue, "i don't want you to get the wrong idea, but i have a boyfriend". then get on to the bathroom and leave me alone! i got a good line from one of brandons friends yesterday, "boyfriends are like goalies, they are only there to get scored on" or something like that. so more drinks, dancing and flirting and rob and ade argue again, and she and her friends bolt and leave me and rob. we walked all over SC looking for them, and going to different houses to find them. eventually we do at emilys house, hang out for a bit, call a cab and then get on our way. by the time i got home, and crashed it must have been atleast 4:15, maybe later. i almost fell twice walking around, a drunk in public for sure.

i wake up the next morning right as i should be leaving to go to my game. not hung over or anything, just thirsty and hungry. no time to eat, i got a chocolate milk and some water on the way to the game. this is a must win for us if we want to go to playoffs. this team went 1-1 on sat. too but they have better goal differential than us, thus they beat us. we played 100 times better as did i. we schooled the shit out of this team the whole time being made fun of, both me and out team. final score, 8-2. we go to the semi's and play the second team of the team we just played, a team made up of the starters for san jose state. it was a good game, i played really well again, had some great saves where the rebound bounced right to one of their players 3 times. we woud up losing 6-3, rojas scored all 3. it is probably a good thing we lost because before we even had our gear off, the final game started, no rest. rob, brandon and nicole showed up right as i took my boots off expecting to see the second half of the game, not realising that they were only 20 minute halfs. so we went back, i got some more beer, rob went to work, while me, b and nicole hung out. i went out to my truck and found a nice little gift on my windsheild. aww, thats nice, i would have loved to see has the cute hand writing, and is clever enough to think of something like this, but which damn apartment! knock on the door, there are 9 of them close to my truck and i am not parked in front of any one aprtment to narrow it down, damn it!! either way it was still nice. at this point, it is almost 7 and i haven't had anything to eat. so we walked down to pizza my heart, i got some slices, we went back and watched the roast of flava flav. i left shortly after and got home about 11:30. what a fun time.

i think that pretty much covers it, the whole weekend pretty much, so it was fun, i gotta go back sans soccer, way too much fun. but with everything i did this weekend, i am soo hurting today, back shoulders, head, legs, everything, i am getting old.

some old stuff

2007-08-07T13:07:00.000-07:00

i was doing some cleaning in my office and i found my old laptop from college. inside the bag, i found some things, like some little notes and a poem, like this little gem.

"Boring"
it would be more fun
to jam nails in my temples,
& to run a mile barefoot on staples.
it would be more fun
to slam my face on a hot skillet,
& to cut off my hand with a sword and burn it.
it would be more fun
to destroy both of my knees,
& to poke out my eyes with a long pair of ski's.
it would be more fun
to get an anvil dropped on my head,
& to get my dick chopped while i'm sleeping in bed.
you may think to hear all this is odd,
but i'd rather do anything than be here in Mid/Mod.

those were fun, but i also found some treats on the computers hard drive, pictures, papers, lots and lots of papers, journal entries, some interesting stuff. but i think i will leave you with some pictures of hawai'i from 2000 or 2001

bbw beautification update

2007-08-07T10:08:00.000-07:00

okay this is the second time i am writing this. it was going to be decent in length, but i am not writing it all over again. we have wine in barrels, and those barrels are 60 gal. and are hard to move. so unless i find a way to move those barrels full, we are going to have to push the date back.
i also had some comments about the press conference with the owner/ceo of the mine in utah that collapsed. he is angry and get flustered easily and keeps mentioning the possible death of his employees, doesn't sound too positive.
the other thing i commented on was the car chase in l.a. this morning. it ended very anti-climatically. what i mean is the nothing happened, he pulled over and got out. i don't want anyone to get hurt but give me something. how about some property damage, i mean the cops didn't even get to use their "pit" maneuver. thats all i'm sayin.

1st Annual Bumbling Brothers Winery Beautification Day

2007-08-03T10:52:00.000-07:00

okay, so as of right now, i am planning on having the 1st BBW(bumbling brothers winery)beautification day on august 18th. that is 2, count them two saturdays from this one. my plan is to have as many friends as would like to come out, help me clean up the winery some(most of the heavy, serious cleaning will be done already) and to paint the inside, and make it look like the BBW should look like, fun. along with some light cleaning and painting, i will provide a bbq and some form of drinks, wine, beer or booze, i have not yet decided on one or all. i have not yet decided on a start time, but i was thinking late morning, or early afternoon, i'll already be at work so it really depends on you all. i think this could be a lot of fun, potter has some cool ideas, but who knows how they will turn out. i might ask you to bring whatever meat you would like to eat as this could get very expensive with paints, paint application tools, drinks, and food. like i said, the details are not completely ironed out yet, but will be soon and i will get them to you when they are done. if you have any ideas or some kind of help, let me know.

i also got the new z-trip album, and so far so good.

more about the tat & the good shepard

2007-07-18T11:32:00.001-07:00

okay, the location for the new tat will be on my left shoulder. similar to my fish, but higher, a little. and it will also be a little bigger than my fish, and probably smaller than my flag, but it is hard to compare dissimilar shaped objects. i want it to take up a good portion of my shoulder, and i will probably have the 6 long flames lengthened a bit. i have seen a trinity with a weaved in circle, but i kind of like the rounded triangle, with the corners having small points coming off them. i might have those lengthened as well. i do know i don't want a straight red sun, i want more color, maybe some more darker colors, with brighter tips. it will also be flipped 180 degrees so the trinity will sit the way it is intended to. and as far as your comments go all...no help. i'm truthfully asking for your input on what you think might look good and i get care bears and titanic quotes. i don't know what i was expecting from a group of goofy and cynical friends, i should have known better. maybe this new info will help ed and beck to give their opinions, since they asked questions. i ask your opinions because i respect all of you...well...most of you. i did forget how much i do enjoy blogging, so hopefully i can keep this up and ed will link me again, for like the 4th time.
the good shepard is good, that is as far as i will go. it was way long and, atleast for me, very hard to follow. maybe that was because i was falling asleep for parts of it, but that should say something in itself. anyway, thanks for the entertainment adam, and thankyou for the 32 ed.

new tat

2007-07-17T13:35:00.000-07:00

okay, this is going to be quick, i think i have a design that i like enough to get permantly stuck to my skin, or "inked" as it is said in the biz. it is a sun, which i have always liked and inside is a tinity symbol, and i have my own reasons for that. adam already said i would burn in hell if i got it stuck, i think there might be a chance it will just burn my flesh when the artist tries to do it. i guess we'll have to wait and see. i'm trying to load up a picture,. but it doesn't seem to be working, i'll see what i can do. i would like some input on colors and things of that nature, and any other customization you might think would look better. okay, i'm out of here.

new video

2007-04-23T13:30:00.000-07:00

well, i know i haven't posted anything in a while, and i'm not going to put up anything important right now, i am just gonna put up a new video of friends and family playing some wii. check it out, you may laugh.

okay, i made some changes and put the new one up, new music, and some fastforward stuff at the end, alright, check it!

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead

2007-02-28T07:57:00.000-08:00

well...it is true, Jaime Ramirez has stepped down as the fuego head coach. and to think that i thought i was going to that meeting last night to get cut, boy i was way off. so it looks like i still have a chance this season. the club wants to make an announcement of the new coaching staff by next week, so who knows. i guess we just have to wait and see.

continuation

2007-02-15T00:08:00.000-08:00

i didn't really want to think about this too much earlier and i didn't really want to mention it and sound too much in the dumps on today of all days, but fuck it, i've been drinking.
have you ever had a experience where you are like "wow, that HAD to happen today of all days", the kind of thing lets say for instance, you hear a weird abstract song your old best friend loved on the day she moved to alaska, kinda thing. i know that is weird but here me out.

i am a big fan of a show called studio 60 on the sunset strip, i used to watch it with katie every monday, but hadn't watched it much since we broke up. i would try to keep up and watch an episode every now and again when i could online, but not regularly. so tonight, valentines day, i watch mondays episode. the whole show is about how the main character recalls how he met this woman he loves, but for some reason they keep braking up. the entire show is flash backs to how he met this woman, their first conversations, which brings to him, new revelations.

since about the time i began to warm-up tonight at practice, i have been in some pretty severe physical pain. so when i got home, i decided to have a glass of wine or two with dinner and thought that would help me sleep, but i have not been able to stop my mind. it as all just weird and crazy, and i am probably making no sense, but i didn't really feel like talking to any one person about this, so stupid me decides to post this on a blog for the whole world to see, but i'm a ways into it, so no turning back, and i'm kinda drunk so that doesn't help my judgement at all.

i just couldn't believe my dumb luck that i would watch that tonight. if i had watched it any other night, it still would have hurt, but i was already teetering on self pity because of the date, and it sent me over the edge.

so again to you all, i say cheers(as i tap my wine glass of tobin james, james gang reserve cab sav, to the screen), if you are in love embrace it and don't let go, but if life is a bitch, fuck it, and roll with the punches(i'm trying to fit a whole lot of cliches in) and go down with the ship.

fishy

Happy Valen-fucking-tines Day

2007-02-14T23:08:00.000-08:00

i really don't know why the anger is there, but it is, so deal. other than that i am sure many of you have taken me off of your links, but i will be alright, why link someone who never writes, i understand. anyways, since my last post, here is the big news, you all know but i will tell you. i got a dui, found out fuego recruited a keeper from Mexico to take MY spot on the team, broke up with my long time girlfriend, played against the armenian national team, kicked the new keepers ass(in a soccer sence), developed some new lingering injuries, went to court and got "raped" for the dui, and have yet to recover from the new injuries, but continue to play injured(and not too shabby), and am continueing to kick the mexican keepers ass, but am getting no recognition from the coaching staff. other than that, there isn't much to say. so i'm sorry for the lack of posts, but i wasn't too proud of the recent events in my life so, there you go. but we live and learn, hopefully...
cheers!

cruise slide-show

2006-12-18T15:53:00.000-08:00

check it! there are alot of pictures, hang in there.

somethin' new

2006-12-05T11:14:00.000-08:00

well, i don't really have anything new to present to the group, but i also don't want certain people getting angry with my lack of blogging so here it is.

nothing new woth soccer or work, but i am sure there are more pictures from the cruise i could show you so here are some more.
check out rob and the napkin, that was from a cantina in ensenada. and that car is a shopping cart mobile that was parked near the start of the baja 1000 and we caught it driving away.

Cruise

2006-11-29T09:33:00.000-08:00

i promised pics from the cruise. so here they are.
a little background first, we took off from l.a. went to s.d. then catalina and then to ensenada. it was way too much fun and really expensive, but i can't wait to go on another one. i think something like this would be alot of fun for all of us. as soon as we got on the boat we started drinking and didn't stop until 4 hours of debarkment. and so you know these are a few of the guys i went to church with and hung out with in high school.

Thanks

2006-11-27T10:43:00.000-08:00

i just wanted to say thank you to all who came to our thanksgiving pie fest. once again we outdid ourselves with the food, soon we will have to learn to tone it down and figure out exactly how to do a big meal like that. anyways thanks for the fun and the food and i am sorry that i didn't make it out to karoeke, i hope you all had fun. i wish i could have spent a little more time with you(becky and jay) before you left and i hope you had a safe flight home. thanks again and i will see you all soon.

funny thing

2006-11-22T19:13:00.000-08:00

okay so i was looking at my last post, the one i just put up and noticed that the previous three or four were all posts gettting back at you for saying i didn't post enough our you were taking me off your links. i just thought that was kinda funny.

The Faithless

2006-11-22T19:05:00.000-08:00

the title refers to all of you (if i could do that link thing i would link that YOU to one of you faithless, instead i will make it bold)who doubted that i would return to my blog when i had time. i never left you becky, but i will admit times were rough, well until the end when i was on my cruise. i still have yet to open up space on my work computer, so i do not have any pictures from the cruise, but they will be up shortly. I will say this though, i am super excited about friday, katie and i have been talking about this long before we ever got to planning it. with that being said i will see all of YOU on friday, and happy thanksgiving.

I'm Back!

2006-11-20T06:23:00.000-08:00

okay so i just got back from my forst vacay in about 4 years. so this post will suck and i may not get back to here until after the holiday, but there will be some pics up from my trip, a 4 day cruise.

post ya later.

Short Break

2006-09-11T11:25:00.000-07:00

Well we have finished the harvest on our thompson grapes which is over half of what we do. and as soon as the winery opens to take wine varietals, we will start on our merlot and cab. I miss you all, and i would have called to hang-out this past weekend, but as adam may have told you, it was alex's wedding weekend, so i was pretty busy doing that stuff. and ed, i don't think that is how it works, but don't you worry your little head I WILL COLLECT. anyways i hope we can meet up during my week or two off. later.

Finally

2006-08-14T11:36:00.000-07:00

okay jerks, here is your post.
nothing new on my side of the table, i've been logging a lot of hours out at the ranch getting ready for harvest. the only day i am at the office is on monday, and i am usually pretty busy all day then, thus the lack of time spent online.

adam-i gave steve all of your info so hopefully he will be getting in touch with you soon or maybe you could talk to him. and i don't like the nickname, i think it sucks and is very obvious.

ed-you owe me money, $65 i think,and again, the name sucks.

becky, i'm very disappointed that you got sucked into their childish name calling, i expect it from them, not you, shame.

other than that, i don't know what else i could tell you about. i will do my darndest though to keep up with this more often, i am sorry that my lack of posting turned you into mean people.

talk to you all later, and i hope all is well.

New Web Site

2006-07-12T09:29:00.000-07:00

okay, i was flipping through the pages of stuff magozine and found a site that i think a few of you may find amusing, adam and heather. it is stuffonmycat.com you should check it out it is kinda cute weird and funny all rolled into one furry package. hope to see some of you at the game tonight, later.

M.I.A.

2006-06-20T08:46:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I still have been less than consistant on my posts, and have not seen many of you for some time, and I am sorry. I hope all things are going well, and to my new myspace friend, Sara, welcome to the list(if you play your cards right, you could make the top 8). I just wanted to hop on and remind you all that the Fuego will be playing at Grizzlie Stadium on July 12th. And for those living in the south valley, the Fuego will be visiting your Bakersfeild Brigade on July 1, playing at Bakersfeild Christian High School. I will talk to you all soon, and Adam cut your hair.
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Been a While

2006-06-08T07:50:00.000-07:00

I know that it has been quite some time since my last post, and odds are none of you are checking this anymore and Ed has takin' me off of his links as he tends to do to teach lessons. Any who, just poppin on to say hi, been very busy with work and soccer, I am not ignoring you, I promise. I also wanted to give you all a dat to mark on your calanders. Wed. July 12th (no time yet, probably 7:30) Fuego will be playing the first ever soccer game inside Grizzlie Stadium against the O.C. Blue Stars. I just wanted to give you plenty of heads up. Other than that, I hope all is well, and here are some pictures of our 4-1 loss against S.F. Seals last Saturday that I played very well in, enjoy. This first one is immediatly followed by two more reaction saves, just incase you wanted to know.
And I did hold onto this one.

6/1/06

2006-05-30T11:01:00.001-07:00

On this date, at 7:30 Katie and I are going to A Night Of Improv @ Warnors Theatre if anyone else would like to join. Tickets are still available. We got the middle range, $42 a peice. Kinda expensive, but we went last time they were in town, and I almost peed my pants, twice. very funny, if you can come. If you do decide to come and want to sit by us, Row L seats 117 &119 on the ground level. Just a heads up.
Later.

Funny

2006-05-25T14:15:00.000-07:00

One of the funniest SNL skits in quite some time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZzloQ7Ol4Q

Friday

2006-05-24T11:58:00.000-07:00

Who would like to go see X-3 Friday night, say anytime between 8 and 9:30 at Edwards, Signature or Clovis Town Center?

Long Time

2006-05-17T08:34:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, it has been a while, my life got kinda crazy there for a while and very busy. I've been doing alot of soul searching and asking some questions of myself. I've also been working, moving, playing soccer and coaching. So my world has been pretty crazy lately, sorry to up and disappear. I finally finished the kareoke video a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had the time to do anything with it, so here it is .

I hope you all like it, and a quiz question, what song is being covered during the slide show? I want the name of the song and band or artist. Good luck.

What I Do

2006-05-02T10:16:00.000-07:00

Most people know what a farm is and what are grape is and roughly how they are produced, so that does not need any explaining. But when I tell people that I work in "tird party logistics", they walk away scratching their heads. So I try to simplify and tell them that I manage a distribution warehouse the receives and ships HomeInteriors & Gifts. But that still isn't clear enough. In a way I feel like Chandler on Friends where no one really knows what he does, so I decided to take some pictures today to help give you all an idea what it is I do. This week we unloaded three trucks like this. And as for the warehouse, this is the second round, on a Tuesday. Weloaded up our trucks and got rid of over half and then filled it back up. We will also send out 7 or 8 loads on our own trucks to be delived to peoples homes. Now you might have a better idea as to what it is I do.

Great American Sloth

2006-05-02T05:38:00.000-07:00

I witnessed something yesterday that made me laugh and make a comment out lout that this person in question heard and gave me a dirty look (I couldn't have cared less because I just finished a 13 1/2 hour day.). Let me just tell you what happened.
I was in my local Target getting my father his birthday presents, two movies, as well as myself a movie and doing the unavoidable browsing. I decide to checkout, as I walk to the checkout line I pass the large woman, not huge, but definitely overweight, walking very slowly. I passed her thinking it was just because I walk fairly fast, but she was a good five feet behind her kids and losing ground. I was able to go through the express line, and after paying for my purchase, I looked up to see this same woman with now a snack from the Target food court also heading toward the exit. The first door that I came to on the far left was the automatic door. A young couple was in front of me and activated the door and it opened, now the woman coming from the food court, her first exit option would have been the old fashioned open it yourself type door, but when this young couple activated the door, she realized that she could actually exert less effort to exit than first thought and used some evasive maneuvering to avoid touching such an old model of door. What makes this great (or terrible depending on how you look at it) was that this woman had already entered past the anti-theft gates that are directly in front of all Target door. Instead of backing out, or just pushing the door open with the hand that didn't have a pepperoni pizza roll in it, she decided to SQUEEZE behind the anti-theft device and the door frame, it wasn't graceful in the slightest nor was she able to do this without hitting the anti-theft thing and nearly knocking it over. I had slowed my walk to see all of this take place, and after she popped out of the other side, in front of me I spoke aloud totally on accident, "Amazing, open the god damn door lazy ass." Ooops! She heard and glared. Now I wish that responded to her glare to make her more aware of the fact that her picture should be on a shirt as an example of one of the seven deadly sins.
Now it is still very very busy at work, but I had to write something about this because it irritated me mad and was funny, but as I retold this story, I realized it was not an irritating story, but a sad one the made me quite mad.

5-2

2006-05-01T13:31:00.000-07:00

okay, i am super busy at work today and was able to weasel some time to just let you all know we (fuego) won our first game 5-2. even though i got scored on twice i played real good and am actually happy with my performance. our next game is sat. the 6th at the same field but at 7:30 this time, not 5:00. it should be a really good game. go fuego.

Cool Stuff

2006-04-18T10:41:00.000-07:00

These places are pretty neat and have some funny stuff. You might have heard of one of them, but I doubt all of them.

www.bustedtees.com/ www.snorgtees.com/ www.tshirthell.com/

Enjoy the jokes you can wear, when I get some money I will be purchasing the New Mexico one, that is funny $#!+

None!

2006-04-17T14:34:00.000-07:00

There is no title to this post because it does not deserve one because this post will serve no purpose other than to allow me to post something. There is nothing new for me to tell you, nothing interesting happening, no questions or quandries. Thew only thing i have to tell you is that i posted a kareoke video on my MySpace because I haven't been able to load it up to youtube for some reason, so check out the link on the side there →. Later.

what a weekend!!

2006-04-11T09:36:00.000-07:00

good times were had by all this weekend me thinks.never ending laughter is always fun. so i thought i would post some pictures for all to see. by the way, i'm sorry i missed breakfast i didn't wake up until 11:30, and i never do that, must have been one hell of a day. and it was. see for your self.

more pictures

2006-04-11T08:27:00.000-07:00

Potter Site Bcak Up!!

2006-04-07T11:36:00.000-07:00

Potter's web site is back up, check the link.

Kinda Weird

2006-04-05T09:37:00.000-07:00

Okay, yesterday I woke up way late, 8:15, just missed my alarm. So I am late, hung over and tired, I felt like shit almost all day, but I was in decent spirits. Never down and out or too happy, but middle of the road. Surprising for me, usually if I wake up in that kind of a situation I would be in a pretty foul mood.
Fast forward to today. I woke up early, did my morning workout routine, (which has been working great, increased size in chest, arms, shoulders and my sixer is starting to make a comeback, incase you were wondering.) had time to hang out with Suki for a minute, grab breakfast and hit the road to work. A good morning, feeling good, and then I got into my truck and immediately I was hit with a morose feeling. I had on good happy music in my truck, nothing to get me to lean in that direction, but this brooding feeling just overcame me.
I just wish my mental state would harmonize with my physical state. Is that too much to ask?

Finals

2006-04-03T06:30:00.000-07:00

I don't know if anyone had any idea of what to do fo rthe finals tonight, but I am willing to offer up my house. If anyone has something else to say on the subject, or a better offer let me know. I know my house is a ways out there, but I do have a big screen. Any ways just thought I would offer that up.

Two things

2006-03-30T13:19:00.000-08:00

Okay like I said, two thingss to mention. The first being I had my first training session with Fuego, and the second is I found a new band.
Okay Fuego, went well, played well, but I can tell I'm not quite up to par as far as fitness with some of these other guys, but I suprised myself, and I think I suprised Jaime as well, 'nough said about that.
Second, new band in the CD player. Panic! At The Disco.
If you have never heard of them, definatley check them out. I feel that their recipe is as follows, start with the Killers, add a lounge singer, throw in a smidgen of Daft Punk and top it off with a dallop of Ben Folds. Fun quirky music accompanied by matching lyrics make it a fun listen. If you have heard them , let me know what you think, if not seriously check'em out.

Weekend Produces Two Winners?

2006-03-27T11:44:00.000-08:00

Yes folks that is correct, the events that occurred in this past weekend presents us with not one, but two winners.

Suprisingly Ed is one of our winners, and even more suprisingly, me, I am also a winner. I know what you are asking yourself, "but how could that be, his pool sucked?" And you are right my pool did suck, but that didn't stop me from getting some new sunglasses this weekend. I purchased a pair of The Ones by Hoven. Not only are they sweet, they are polorized to protect my baby blues.

Yes, and as I said before Ed has won our pathetically tiny NCAA pool. It would have been Adam, but Ed had one saving grace...he was the only one to pick a Final Four team, Florida. That pick pushed him to a 69, two points over Adam. Becky rounds out the middle with 52 points and yes I get my five bucks back with an astounding 47 points. Sorry to all you losers who didn't win anything this weekend, but now we can watch the rest of the games, which should be great without worrying about who is gonna win.

The Tourney Continues......For Some

2006-03-24T07:50:00.000-08:00

Even though the games last night were great and exciting, they essentially put two of us in the running for the worst bracket category and two of us in the running to win the damn thang! So as me and ed now root for our remaining teams to lose, Becky and Adam will be rooting for theirs to win. Duke losing killed Ed while Gonzaga losing killed me. The interesting thing between Adam and Becky's brackets is only one team. Becky will need Texas to keep pulling off last second wins, while Adam will need Memphis to keep dominating teams, but for both teams they should only do this until the final, 'cause they both have their teams losing to U CONN. Oh how exciting this will end up. Good luck.

I put these pictures up because I though that they represented March Madness to the fullest, the joy, ecstasy, and elation as well as the pain, agony and anguish. All the things you rarely see in professional sports.

New Fav Band

2006-03-22T20:17:00.000-08:00

So I got this CD on a whim, Funeral For A Friend, "Hours", and I really dig it. I can't really explain why, but I really enjoy them. I just thought maybe someone else had heard the album and wante to put in their two cents, positive or negative.

New Quiz!

2006-03-22T16:13:00.000-08:00

This is a neat one.

The Carnal Lover
50% partner focus, 61% aggressiveness, 70% adventurousness

Based on the results of this test, it is highly likely that:

You prefer your romance and love to wild and daring rather than typical or boring, you would rather pursue than be pursued and, when it comes to physical love, you concentrate more on enjoying the experience rather than worrying about your performance.

This places you in the Lover Style of: The Carnal Lover.

The Carnal Lover is a wonderful Lover Style, though it is often confused with terms like "player" or even "slut." The Carnal Lover is not necessarily either of those things (though sometimes is) but is instead a lover of life, romance and pleasure. The Carnal Lover is a treasure to find, though can sometimes be difficult to keep happy once found, because a Carnal Lover often loves a variety-filled life.

In terms of physical love, the Carnal Lover tends to be dynamic and driven, and can therefore be quite pleasurable. Given the right motivation, and the right lover, the Carnal Lover can be a delight in bed.

Best Compatibility can probably be found with: The Surprising Lover (most of all) or the Devoted Lover, or the Liberated Lover.

Congratulations!

If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback! Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in the following:

Nerds, Geeks & Dorks

Professional Wrestling

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

America/Politics

Thanks Again! -- THE LOVER STYLE PROFILE TEST

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 28% on partner focus

You scored higher than 66% on aggressiveness

You scored higher than 75% on adventurousness

Link: The Lover Style Profile Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

What Beer Am I?

2006-03-22T15:42:00.000-08:00

Boddingtons

(33% dark & bitter, 33% working class, 100% genuine)

Boddingtons is a slightly ritzy, but truly tasty, beer. In case you don't know, each can has this little contraption inside that fizzes when you open it to give the beer a delicious creamy head.

Now, being a good girl, I will make no claims about the creaminess of your head. But I will suggest that, based on the results of your test, you have a light, friendly disposition, and I consider the bouyant fizz of a Boddingtons to be the beery analogue of that. Your test also indicates you have refined tastes, and Boddingtons is my favorite beer. If you've never had one, get one sometime soon.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 5% on dark

You scored higher than 4% on workingclass

You scored higher than 69% on genuine

Link: The If You Were A Beer Test written by gwendolynbooks on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

What Ever Shall We Do?

2006-03-22T07:49:00.000-08:00

So now that Well Wed has dissolved and disappeared like an Alka-Seltzer when you have an upset stomach, what are going to do on night s like tonight? Should we stay faithful to the place that has provided us with so many great wed nights, as well as Ron and the Princess lady. Or do we say "screw you for taking away our cheap drink prices" and mosey on down to the next watering hole? I'll tell you the truth, I don't think I have an opinion either way, not like it would matter. I just thought I would throw that out there in case you all forgot.

Registered

2006-03-21T10:18:00.000-08:00

So I feel great right now, I did something that will make me a better person, and it only took me a couple of minutes. I am now a registered voter. I've actually registered two times before, but somehow they never went through. I did it in high school and then again in college, I also filled one out about a year ago and left it in my truck and I stepped on it with wet muddy shoes and couldn't mail it in like that. I still have to mail thin one in, but it is in the out-going mail slot in my office, so hopefully it will work this time, and at the tender age of 25 I will be able to vote for the first time.

Change of Pace

2006-03-21T08:11:00.000-08:00

i felt like i should post something other than NCAA stuff, so i am going to write something down here. alex's dad past yesterday and i went home after work and proceeded to get kinda drunk with the guy. i am a bit lazy and tired this morning, so no "caps", but i will muster up the strength to put quotations around CAPS for some reason. anyways i hope you all enjoyed this i know i sure did, catch you all on the flip side.
oh, i almost forgot, my boys had association cup this past weekend, and they played the best soccer i have seen them play in forever. we played the #6 ranked team in the state, a team we've played before and lost to 4-0, this time we had the win but the got the equalizer with 2 seconds left, literally. then we played the #4 team in the state and tied them 0-0 and we had 2 goals called back. on sunday we won 2-0 but completely dominated this team, and i got to yell at their parents for sitting on our side. we came in second in our bracket so we do not get to move on unfortunately, but the boys played great, and my brother and i had a great time.

Sweet 16

2006-03-20T06:53:00.000-08:00

Well, anther great NCAA Tournament thus far, so I thought I would give you all an update on how everyone is doing and how many teams they have in the Sweet 16. First lets start with Becky. In the Atlanta Region, she has 3 of 4 teams, Duke, LSU and Texas, in Oakland, 2 of 4, Gonzaga and UCLA. In D.C. she is perfect, 4 of 4, but in Minneapolis she only picked 1, Villanova. Ed also has 10 teams in the Sweet 16, Duke and Tex in the Atlanta, Memphis Zags and UCLA, in Oakland, U Conn and Washington at D.C. with Nova Florida and Georgetown rounding out Minneapolis. Adam with an impressive 11 of the Sweet 16, perfect in Atlanta. Almost in Oakland, Memphis, Zags and UCLA. Two each in Min and D.C. U Conn and Washington, and Nova and B.C. Then there is my pathetic bracket, I only have 9 teams. Not only that, but I am the first to have the pick for champion get knocked out, Tennessee. So good luck to you guys and I'll talk to ya'll later.

NCAA Update

2006-03-17T08:00:00.000-08:00

Well it was an exciting first round, with some great upsets which Adam picked alot of them, unfortunately for him he went crazy with the underdog and missed some really easy picks. But don't worry buddy, the race is still too close to call. Adam went 11/16 just like Ed. While Becky and I went 12/16. Fortunatly for Adam the teams that lost for him, he only had them going one round, unlike the rest of us. Good luck in round two.

NCAA Madness

2006-03-14T11:46:00.000-08:00

Okay, I've never ran a pool before, so I don't know all of the ins and outs, so if anyone has some input to help me out, it would be appreciated. I was thinking $5 per bracket entered, pool goes to the winner, minus the $5 for the worst performing bracket. Like I said, I don't know how these things normally work and I tried to develop a points system to determine the winner. Sweet 16-1 pt per team, Elite 8-2 pts per team, Final 4-3 pts per team, Final 2-4 pts per team and if you pick the champ-30 pts. I think that should separate someone apart. In case of a tie, split the pool. If you have any suggestions let me know where I screwed up. Games start thrs so get your bracket done asap, maybe by well wed.

Golf Video

2006-03-13T14:08:00.000-08:00

Okay, I finally got around, like so many others, to creating a you tube account so I could post videos and whatnot. So here is a video of me Adam and Potter. For those who don't know Potter, he is the other guy that is not Adam, and he is an English prof at FSU, thus the cricket comments, the rest of the video is just me screwing (like the part with the monkey bouncing into his netted cage) around with this program, but watch till the end, it gets kinda funny. Enjoy.

March Madness

2006-03-13T13:06:00.000-08:00

Hey, I don't know if anyone would be interested or cares but the NCAA Basketball Tourney is right around the corner and the pools are always fun. So I was thinking maybe 5 bucks gets you in per bracket you enter, and winner gets the pot. Nothing complicated, and maybe the worst bracket gets their 5 bucks back for sucking so bad. Try this( Print out your brackets now! ) link to get a printable bracket and let me know if y'all wanna do it.

I'm having trouble with the link, so go to Fox Sports and then the college basketball section to get one, but I am sure there are tons of other places to get one.

I don't like this one

2006-03-09T11:19:00.000-08:00

Which Deadly Sin Is Yours?

Wrath

Make war and not love is your motto. Better to rise up in anger and strike someone down than be pushed around.

Find out your Deadly Sin at Quizopolis.com

but i guess it is kinda true to some degree.

RON....May you too one day bask in his GLORY?

2006-03-09T07:56:00.000-08:00

Now Adam may have already posted something last night when he got home, or he might not have gotten to it, either way, last night was one of the greatest nights ever, of any night, not just a Well Wednesday. Last night we had the pleasure, nay the privilege of meeting Ron. I wish you all could have been there, a mere blog about the man will never do him justice.
Ron, an award winning director who will blow your mind with not only his knowledge on multiple topics, but with his asininedrunken sputterings of complete foolishness and retardation. This man was one of the drunkest men I have ever seen, and I am assuming that he continued to drink long after Adam and I left. Not only was he able to tell us all about whats wrong with all of the war movies we like, i.e. Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, etc., but he could tell us about women, stupid pets, and what is wrong with this "stupid city".
But Ron not only provided us with entertainment, he helped us bridge racial gaps. Not a topic normally available in Well Wednesday conversation, but we were able to do that when Ron gave this very funny African-American fellow a hug. I don't want to retell everything, so check out Adam's blog for some of Ron's pearls of wisdom.

Oh, did I forget to mention that his award was a local award for a Whitie's Pet Store commercial, yeah, he almost didn't mention that to us either.

Time Waster

2006-03-06T11:25:00.000-08:00

Here is a new game to waste your time at. My record is 34.016 sec.
http://tinyurl.com/56t9u

This is the second time I've tried to link this, so if it doesn't work, cut and paste you lazy bastards.

Are You Hot?

2006-03-02T11:20:00.000-08:00

It never said if I was hot, but I am wild and crazy, woo hoo!
Are You Hot?
Your hotness score is: 234
Your quiz results make you a Wild and Crazy
Your quiz results make you Wild and Crazy You have a lot of fun living a wild and crazy life. You live every second to the fullest. You don't look to keep up with fashion; you look for fashion to keep up with you. Your fun filled lifestyle never stops, so your engine is always running hot. Who knows what crazy new thing you'll try out next?
Take this free personality test by Clicking Here>> or going to www.ruhotquiz.net/ razy.

Just One More

2006-03-02T08:22:00.000-08:00

Okay, this is the Comedy Central special that I saw that opened my eyes to Stephen, and I think I laughed all the way through the commercial break after this song, probably my fave. Enjoy.

Something to Brighten Your Day

2006-03-02T08:11:00.000-08:00

Okay, this guy is really funny and I hope that I am doing this correctly. Enjoy and laugh your ass right(don't worry Becky it is a defense mechanism) off. His name is Stephen Lynch, the Singing Comic. This is just a little titter taste.

Not the Only One With Pictures

2006-02-28T08:02:00.000-08:00

So on the night we were all at Landmark together, all, including our friends from out of town, i.e. Tim and the Woody's, there were some pictures and I just recently got my camera back to the office to load them up, so here they are. I had a cute one of Sara, but it came out blurry.

How much gaming is too much gaming?

2006-02-17T23:37:00.000-08:00

I love my roommate, he is a great guy. He has his ups and downs just like the next guy, but the one thing that gets to me is his amazing ability to never stop playing video games, whether on the new 360, the old XBOX or his PC whenever he is at home he is gaming. Tonight, my girls lost a heart breaker 1-0. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do, but I didn't so much want to stay home and watch him game with some friends(I played A game but that is it). Sometimes gaming isn't the end all fix all. But I promised to hangout tonight, so here I am, creating a new post while some friends are in my house playing video games. What a great Friday night. I guess what I would like to know is if there is anyone else out there that games as much as my roommate, or knows someone else who does? Someone who the minute they get home from work, they turn on the console and their partner has to share a conversation with a game, and sometimes even an argument(that is really weird because he wins a lot of them while playing). Anyways, just bored and confused about all sorts of stuff, sorry to bore you with this dribble, enjoy your Friday.

My Dog

2006-02-15T11:01:00.000-08:00

So I was sitting here at work, kinda bored, so I started adjusting the red eye, on months of pictures when I came across some pictures of my dog, Suki Yaki, or just Suki. What I decided to do was devote an entire post to my dog. She is just shy of two years old, and stands just about 20 inches high at here head and weighs roughly 25-30 lbs. She is also the sweetest thing you'll ever meet. I would definitely say that she has the best personality out of any dog I have ever met. In the last picture with Suki, is Chewi, her sister. Now Alex and Kristi think that Chewi is cuter than my Suki. Let me know what you think.

My Valentine's Gift

2006-02-15T07:58:00.000-08:00

Well, I decided to get myself a Valentine's gift because I thought it would be funny, and I think it turned out to be pretty funny. I ordered myself the "Loves Me NOT" kit from Bonny Doon Vineyards. As you can see the box is filled with all sorts of fun things. The first thing you see is the bottle of wine(now gone) called Heart of Darkness, then you will notice the four objects down the side. From the top you have an eraser, to erase the lost love out of your life. Next is a voodoo doll to poke needles in, or
something. After that I was given a bar of purifying
soap, to wash off what coodies my ex had left me.
And lastly a bar of chocolate to help drown my
sorrows in sweet tasty treats. And on the lid is a little poem to help the forlorn lover deal with their pain. All were not used but the wine last night, and then one more bottle after the one from the kit. After that, some video gaming to help take my mind away from loves lost.

P.S. And who the hell sent me text message the said
Happy Valentines Day. Not very nice.

Valentine's Shmalintine's

2006-02-14T13:55:00.000-08:00

Now I never really "got" Valentine's day, but now, this year is even worse, I still don't get it, and I don't have any one to share this bogus holiday with. I don't know exactly what everyone else is doing, but I am coaching until like 7:30 and then I was going to drink, I think it'll be wine tonight. So if there are any other lonely souls out there that don't have plans, drop me a line and let me know, maybe we'll go down to landmark or something and recount past great Valentine's days and cry into our drinks. Then we'll bash our ex's to cover up our tears.

Weekend at Pebble

2006-02-13T10:00:00.000-08:00

Now I'm not gonna write too much on the trip, I'll leave that up to Adam. So if you want to hear about all of the hilarity, yuppies and other antics, check out Adam FRICKIN' Wall. I'm just here to say that was one of the funnest 24 hours I've had in a while.
My job today is to provide some visual aids so you, the reader can see how funny the trip was. Most of the pictures are from Friday night at Spanish Bay, and also the Lone Cypress, or Solemn Cypress as it came to be known that night.

The other two guys in the pictures are my brother and our friend Paul, the guy is hysterical. The picture of the napkin has been edited to protect certain parties involved, but it is a list of stories that Adam is going to tell on his blog. He didn't want to forget them, as we had a couple of drinks, finally I found a napkin and pen and we were able to make our list. The last is of Bill Murray, if you couldn't tell, and Marky Mark and Donald Trump on Saturday at the tournament.

And as an update, so far only Becky is the only one to show interest in the basketball game. That means still two tickets left if anyone cares to go.

And like I said before check out Adam's blog for the whole story, but I'm gonna warn you right now it is gonna be long, a lot happened in the one day we were there.

B-Ball anyone?

2006-02-10T11:10:00.000-08:00

Okay, I got four tickets to Mondays FSU basketball game. The bulldogs versus Hawai'i at the SaveMart Center. Let me know, I also have a parking pass, so the whole night would be free unless you would like food or drink, in that case you might want to take out a loan. First come first serve, let the scramble for my tickets begin.

Baby Sitting

2006-02-10T08:20:00.000-08:00

No w I'm almost positive neither one of the other two persons involved in what I am about to say read blogs, but even if they do F'em, maybe they'll learn something (from me, doubtful).

So last night what was supposed to be a fun night of hangin' out and eventually drinking, turned sour so fast. As I was helping Becky move some things last night, my roommate, Alex, was at BC's having drinks and dinner. As I was heading home, he called to have me meet them at Combo's for some beer pong and Golden Tee. While there, my other roommate Jake showed up with some friends. Now Jake and Alex, even though they haven't known each other for all that long, their schedules are very familiar and spend a lot of time together playing computer games late into the night and then again all day until they have to go bartend. The point being they've gotten pretty close. After we leave Combo's Alex and I head to Tuffy's, where Jake used to work, to meet some old friends and say hi. It is at this point that Alex starts to get bent out of shape because he hates Tuffy's, and also he is plastered now and just wants to be defiant, so he throws a fit because he doesn't want to go there. He would rather just meet everyone at Fibber's, our next stop. Eventually I convince him to go to Tuffy's, he was in a mood the whole time and just played Deer Hunter by himself the whole time we were there. When we leave Tuffy's both Alex, Jake, and Jakes two friends pile into my truck and listen to some Steven Lynch, laugh our asses off on the way to Fibber's. We have a couple of rounds, meet some new people, play some dice, it's all gravy. After an hour or so, I go to the bathroom, I come back and sit at Alex's table(now see Alex was at a different table because e he was flirting with some girl, and the rest of us were playing dice sic feet away at another table) and I am there no longer than two minutes and Jake walks up with the tab and Alex blows a frickin' fuse, screaming at Jake. This continues until we leave the bar. Once outside we are walking to our cars, Jake says something under his breath, and with Alex that is never a good idea, and Alex charges him ready to box. So I had to stand between two of my best friends for about 15 minutes last night and yell at Alex like he was a 12 year old and I was his mother sending him to his room. Alex was so intense that on the way home he was grunting and snorting along with breathing extremely heavy. Because eof Alex I couldn't give Jake and his buddies a ride to their friends house they now had to call a cab, which didn't come and I had to call another one for them at about 2:30.

So the point is, if you know Alex, you know the dude is intense, ask Adam he knows. But if something as small as Alex flirting with a girl six feet away instead of playing dice can blow up to those proportions, wow. Now Jake was planning on moving out soon, and leaving us with an empty room and extra rent to pay, but we was going to stay as long as he could and help us out with rent as much as he could after he left. Now he is leaving probably today, even though he won't be leaving Fresno for probably another month and he will not be sending us any money from S.D.

And as fall out from last night, because Jake is leaving Alex is deciding to raise the rent on our two other roommates in the apartment out back. Now they are getting a sweet deal and getting a 750 sq. Ft apartment for like $550(where I pay 450 for my room), but that was the deal, you can't renig it because you got in a fight with a friend, but Alex said it's time they learned to grow up. I have a sneaking suspicion he will continue to burn all his bridges by months end.

THE END

I appreciate you letting me vent for a while, and I am sorry if you actually read the whole thing to have such an anti-climactic ending, burn bridges by months end...done. Sorry it was lame, and I didn't know exactly where I was going with that conclusion so I stopped it. In closing let me say avoid the trivial stuff in life, and always be the bigger person and apologize first no matter how wrong the other person is, because it could possibly end a relationship, peace out.

Why Bumbling Brothers?

2006-02-08T14:30:00.000-08:00

Not everyone knows me or my family. So if you don't know my family, and you don't know my brother, then you don't understand why we chose Bumbling Brothers Winery for a name.
Well my brother, Trent aka Squeak, Lil' Bitch, Frodo and my favorite Brother is 26 and my best friend, and like most best friends and siblings, we have the ability to enter our own world when we are together, and we become complete jackasses(as these pictures should prove), that no one else gets. But it is not just me and my brother, all of the males get into the action special occasions, like Thanksgiving. So here is my bumbling brother and male counter parts in the Hammond clan.

Baby Steps

2006-02-08T11:30:00.000-08:00

I've been looking for apartments and jobs in Paso online and have actually made some headway. I got a contact and an inquiry for a resume at Tobin James, and am also sending another in to a winery/hotel place. So little by little.
And on a completely opposite subject, my girls soccer team clinched league last week, and should go undefeated after their win over Reedley tonight. So maybe you some of you could come check out a game and watch me yell at a bunch of high school girls. Should be fun.

Nothing Major

2006-02-06T11:18:00.000-08:00

I don't really have a whole lot to say right now, but the Super Bowl sucked. Anyways, I was looking through my photos and found some that I kinda liked and am gonna put up. I know this is so boring, but like I said nothing to exciting to comment on.

Sorry 'bout the red eye

2006-02-02T07:58:00.000-08:00

Adam, the guy with the pumpkin and on the super swing would like everyone to know that his eyes are not that color and he is not possessed by any demon or demon like creature. It was an error on my side of the board, and my inability to get the red out. I figured out how and from here on out, no one in any picture I post will look like that. Sorry.