Aaron Riveroll | Photographer

Hello friends … I’m just sitting here watching the news and stuffing my face with raisins and thought I would write a little something. It’s actually been a quiet evening; but first, let me tell you about my day …

This week is actually going to be one of the toughest weeks. Many of you that are still in college may have heard me express my envy of you. I miss college … mostly because of the girls, but also because of the learning. I miss the tests, the papers, the lectures, the cute girl in biology. But this week might make me eat my words. I have three REALLY LONG days of training this week and two REALLY IMPORTANT tests that I have to pass. It’s just my job, so there’s no pressure. No pressure at all. Today wasn’t so much intense as it was long. The concepts were mostly review; but I hope I can remember everything for the test tomorrow afternoon. Everyone keeps talking about how *important* this test is, but that just makes me more nervous. If I downplay it, maybe I won’t worry so much. We’ll see what happens.

Wow, okay … I just caught a glimpse of the 2006 Westminster dog show on the news. But I looked up at the wrong time … there was a dog who seriously looked like a string mop. I kid you not. And that’s actually a good segue into my evening. It’s been very productive. In addition to making myself a little dinner and cleaning the kitchen, I was also able to get some work done on a video I’m working on as well as edit some pictures.

And being that it’s 29 minutes until Valentine’s Day, I got to thinking this evening while I was making dinner and washing dishes. Don’t get me wrong, the single life is fine by me. But just once, it would be nice to have someone to make dinner for and wash dishes with.

Well, I am off to get a good night’s sleep so I can be awake in class tomorrow. Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

I am continually amazed at how much of a morning person I am. It takes a while for me to get the motivation to wake up, but once I’m up I’m up. And since I’m up, I thought I would write a little something.

Today, Brian left for the East Coast. He has bowling tournament over there … and yes, being the nice guy that I am, I woke up at 6:00 to take his sorry butt to the airport. But he is on his way and will hopefully bring a sizable winnings check home. And then I’ll get my California burrito.

Now, I’m not a narcissist or any thing, but, I do enjoy looking at myself. On the way back from the airport, I ended up behind one of those big fuel trucks. You know the kind … the shiny metal ones that are really reflective. I couldn’t help staring at myself in his convex butt. It was very magical.

Last night was a blast … a bunch of us went to Dave and Busters for happy hour after work. Not only did we have UBOC people in attendance, but we also had several Wamulians and it was great to have the two groups merged. I saw several people that I hadn’t seen in a long time and it was great to schmooze. Lots of really hot single girls there too.

Well, I think I’m going to nap for an hour or so before I start my day, so I’ll see you all later.

Well, for the past several days, Google has been talking about the new chat features they are integrating into their Gmail client. For me chat is chat, so I wasn’t all that excited. I figured it would be cool and all, but nothing really earth-shattering exciting, if you know what I mean.

But I gotta tell you folks, it is super-stinking cool.

I just discovered that it got installed on one of my Gmail accounts…and since I’m sitting here at work thinking about lunch, I thought I would test it out with Megs, who is the only other person on my contacts list that has it integrated in their account thus far. We are chatting right now…and it’s really swell.

Now, it isn’t über-fancy or anything like that, but since I’m at work behind some serious firewall and chatting isn’t really something that needs to be extravagant…just something I can use to instant message with people…it works really well. There are times that I would rather send an instant message and get an instant response from someone instead of emailing back and forth…and since most of my day is spent in this office, it’s nice to be able to have chat features integrated into what is already one of the coolest email clients on the planet.

On a side note, the other day I was going through my spam folder and clicked on a message from “Paypal.” It wasn’t really from Paypal, but from some internet scoundrel trying to obtain account information. Phishing, if you will. But what was cool is that Gmail displayed this huge RED banner at the top of the message saying, “Warning: This message may not be from whom it appears to be.” I thought it was a really neat way of staying ahead of the game in fraud prevention. So many people fall for scams like this, so it’s nice to know that Google is looking out for us.

If you haven’t switched, I highly encourage you to give Google’s gmail a try. If you want an invite, let me know and I can hook you up. And then you can be cool like me. And chat with me too.

…a tumor, that is. At least I hope it isn’t. We are on week four of headaches and a general pain in the neck. Last night knocked me out…almost…but I managed to stumble out to my car and through the aisles at Vons to get some Excedrin Migraine and something to eat…although nothing, and I mean nothing sounded good. I really need to seek medical attention of some sort, but I just don’t have the motivation. Perhaps when the pain is so bad that I curl up in the fetal position and start sucking on my thumb will I find the time to make an appointment. Oh wait, that was last night…sans the appointment-making.

I’m feeling slightly better today, though. I can’t take another pill until later tonight…but at least I had time to stop by Yum Yum donuts this morning. It’s amazing how donut can make your day a little brighter.

I’m bummed that I missed out on the Mile of Men this morning…Brian and myself have discussed how fun it would be to participate. But seriously, ladies…who needs a mile of men when you have two classy, single, available guys at NGS East, 2.0? An Apartment of Men is more like it…feel free to come on over. ;) And Brian is gone this next week anyway, so that makes the odds for me even better.

Speaking of which, Valentine’s Day is coming up. And I don’t think I need to say anything else.

Jars of Clay is tonight and I had really wanted to go see them…but alas, no one could come along with me. The jury is still out on whether I will go tonight or not. We’ll see how I’m feeling after work. But I am looking forward to baking Brian’s balls this evening. Bowling balls, that is. Stay tuned for a future FFM.

And that’s all for now…more later.

Well, I’m not sure if today has some sort of cosmic significance, but at least two of my friends have had grand epiphanies in the span of just 24 hours. I’m not sure if that means anything, but it does sort of make you wonder.

This past weekend was less hectic than usual … but I did manage to get a lot done. As a matter of fact, the last couple of days has seen much productivity from me. It feels kind of good. :) Saturday morning was a photo shoot out by the Point Loma tide pools. The gray made it a little more dramatic. It was freezing! I snapped off about 50 pictures or so very quickly due to my teeth chattering and my fingers turning purple. After the shoot, we stopped by the Fort Rosecrans cemetery; every time I’m up in the area, I always make it a point to visit my uncle’s spot.

On a totally side note, I met one of the cutest Point Loma officers I have ever seen. The only downside, other than not knowing her, is she’s a freshman. Doesn’t erase the fact that she’s cute, though. ;) And speaking of freshman, I got a call today from really nice one asking for money. Not for her; for my alma mater. For an institution of higher learning, they don’t seem to be that smart. I mean seriously, I’m still paying back my student loans … do they really think I have extra money just lying around to donate to the cause? Someday, when I am rich and famous, I will be more than happy to hand over heaping wads of cash … but until then, they’ll have to settle for ramen and beef jerky.

For the next couple of weeks, I’ll be taking some training classes at work. Today’s class was actually really good. It’s funny how much I hate math, yet I totally rock at all the classes that use it. Quite the paradox. During the second half of the day, I somehow got stuck in a group with all girls. Now normally this wouldn’t be a problem; except that two of the girls are pregnant. So in the down time, most conversation revolved around childbirth, the joys of parenting, and morning sickness. Fun stuff.

Well, that’s about all I have to say. Tune in next time.

I find it my duty to blog about hot girls…and Kristin Cavallari from Laguna Beach definitely falls into that category.

*sigh*

Anyway, for those of LB fans in San Diego…Kristin will be chatting with our very own Jeff and Jer mañana. Tune in to 94.1 and give her a listen.

On my way to work this morning, I was following this one dude. One of my pet peeves is when people follow too closely. I don’t need a proctologist, so get off my butt why dontcha? But on the other end of the spectrum are people that don’t follow close enough. This one dude had more than enough room, yet he found it necessary to keep me in the middle of the intersection for as long as possible. Luckily, the light turned red with just enough time for me to get my tail out of the way…but still, this guy could have inched a little bit. And then when we finally got on the freeway, he drove as slow as humanly possible. I mean, he was driving a Saturn, so that should have been my first clue. He also had the collar to his polo shirt flipped up…you know the way, like he’s some reject from a really bad 80’s movie (which, incidentally, Brian and I saw last night on TV). I just can’t take seriously a guy who flips his collar up and thinks he looks cool.

And grammatically, that was such a poorly worded sentence…but because I can’t phrase it any better, I’m going to leave it like it is so that the whole world can read it and mock my intelligence. I’m alright with that.

Okay, I just noticed that something techno has been playing on my iPod for the last minute and a half, so I must deal with that as it is getting quite annoying the more I listen to it. Oh oh, the Night at the Roxbury head-bobbing is starting to set in…Must. Change. Song.