Entries from May 2008

May 23, 2008

Dealing with my addictions

This morning was a bit of a wake up. After a shitty night’s sleep (I kept waking up after having dreams about horrible motorcycle crashes in traffic) I could not stay away from the snooze. Now I know that the 20 minutes my snooze affords me is not real restful sleep. I know I’m basically wasting [...]

May 19, 2008

Meh, Milano

So yesterday I was out doing a walking tour of my hood and points beyond. There is a house I was interested in trying to buy on the other side of the lake so I walked over. Strolled a few laps around the prospective hood, and met a few potential neighbors. The weather was so [...]

May 13, 2008

Deck and Sausage Jokes

So on Saturday I a hosted fun little gathering at The Penthouse. It was good times. As far as Parties go it was all a host could ask for. Everyone had a great time. The turn out was good. There was no drama, no one broke anything, fell off the roof, or puked. 
This party was [...]

May 9, 2008

Anticipation

So I got some cool stuff in the works. I got a big party at my place tomorrow night. Well I don’t know how “Big” it can really be, my apartment isn’t exactly huge. Usually when I have a “get together” it tends to be 12 to 15 people or so. There will be closer [...]

May 8, 2008

And the winner is…

So Tuesday there were more protests here at the Oakland Seaport. I guess this was a good week to be outspoken about your cause. Last weeks longshoremen work stoppage to protest the war in Iraq get a lot of coverage and made some what of an impact. But Tuesday the Port Truckers (mostly owner/operators) want [...]

May 5, 2008

Tom Tom is not checking your six

So last night I was working a little later than I usually do on Sundays. Coming home during the night, I could see the faint glow of the GPS navigation units in a lot of the cars around me. You don’t really notice during the day but at night, the vantage from the saddle makes them that [...]