So its not like anyone ever reads my blogs or anything, but to those that do, and to those that care.... Its obvious by now that I did NOT go to California even though I had my heart set on it. I was supposed to go with friends and what not and a situation came up with one of those individuals that made my decision a rather harsh one but a necessary one. Luckily, I spoke with southwest and they said I have a year to use my flight ticket so I'm going to set up a time and go spend time with my sis in Reno.

Sucks because I really want to go back to SF. Hopefully soon. Maybe I'll just say fuck it and take the time and buy another ticket, go alone this time. We'll see.

T Minus...

... 6 days and we'll be in LA. About friggin time too. A much needed get away is in the works. Flying out Tuesday around 1pm and arriving at LAX around 6 and change local time. Hanging out with some new friends and some high school buddies that moved out there.

SF shortly afterwords, but we'll figure that out.

Counting down...

8 hours of sleep, not bad

Now I'm so damned hungry... what to eat, what to eat...Steak, yeah, that's the ticket.

Hey Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes.... hahahahaha

4 days off... gonna get a bit of rest, then tonight go drinking

So I am working the night shift... I'm actually enjoying it except for certain lazy nurses that think that everyone is there to serve them. I'm cool with it though as my director told me that "they can fuck themselves, if they want maids to clean up after them, they're welcome to hire them." hahahahaha :D that and my Director really likes me (she's pretty bad ass) so no worries there.

On another note, my schedule rocks for right now. I work Mon-Wed, 7p-7a and I get 4 days off. I get better pay and benefits than I ever would on an ambulance and I keep seeing the guys doing the job I left over 2 years ago and they look they way I used to. Beat, tired, hating their jobs yet telling themselves that they still love it. . . till they find out my hours, benefits etc... I don't tell them what I get paid, as not many medics get that pay around here in the valley. Did I mention my director likes me?! hahaha ;)

Got off of work this morning after sitting around the ER since about 3am doing absolutely NOTHING as we were dead last night. My daughter called and told me that I would be very proud of her, as she was already in her seat and seat belted in.... you see, today she took her first airplane ride... she is on her way to California with her mom to visit some of her mom's family and then go to San Francisco. They will be there all weekend. Kinda sucks that she won't be there when I'm going to be there, but I'm taking a more adult oriented trip out there and it would be hard to do with her there. Another time, another trip. She should be calling me daily or texting from her mom's phone.

Anyway, I'm going to sleep for a bit and plan for this weekend as I have things to do. I also need to sell one of my motorcycles since my brother doesn't want to buy it back from me ( I told him he could have first dibs at it, but he thinks its too expensive) so I can purchase another bike. Ah well, nothing is forever and nothing lasts forever. Someone else can enjoy the bike. I want something different.

Peace.

just a small update

Finally got around to cleaning my desk off. I'm tired. Getting used to working night shift has been fun. I'm working in the ER now while I go to school. New hospital, new people and much better pay than before so I'm ok with it. I work 3 nights a week, off from Thu-Sun so I get time to do my thing and spend time with my kiddo whenever possible. Although I will say that night shift is filthy. Is it really that hard to put the trash from shit you open in a trash can? And then to get indignant because the mess you made hasn't been cleaned up for you? haha, luckily the director, a friend of mine, agrees with me 100%. She told me to tell them all to clean up after themselves and if they had a problem with that, they could go talk to her about it... like I said, I'm liking my job. Now, that is not to say I don't like helping, or cleaning or backing up the teams when the shit hits the fan. But when getting online to check softball stats, or stereo equipment comes in first ahead of pt care or just plain cleaning up your mess, then I don't really care much for your work ethic. Anyway, let me step off of my soapbox now...

And start planning my trip to SF. Thats right boys and girls, I'm headed back to Cali. I will be in LA/Santa Monica for about 3 days then driving up the PCH 1 to SF for about 4-5 days of exploring and hanging out. We have 1 day where we are going to go to Napa and have a limo drive us around while we get drunk as skunks. Other than that we haven't set out a plan just yet. A lot of eating and sight seeing and maybe some clubbing. We'll see what happens. We have also noticed that we don't have to be back until July 27, so if we can find a place to stay on the not so expensive side, we'll just switch our flights and stay several more days.

1st stop on this trip when we get to SF is going to be (depending on the time we get there) to Tygers Cafe for breakfast. Other than that, maybe some burritos, deli's, Thai place that I went to last time I was in town, and who knows what else.

We'll figure it out.

I texted my brother but like always, no answer. So Ric, Jes, We'll be in town from July 18-23. If you guys would like to get together one of those days for lunch or dinner, awesome, if not, no worries. We're gonna have a blast one way or the other. And no, that is not a subtle way of hitting you up for a place to stay if that is what you were concerned with dear brother. We'll be staying downtown.

Will update soon

more ramblings

So I'm just sitting here wondering what it is I can write about. I'm observing.... I see things... an ADHD individual running amock in a room, back and forth, going and going until I arrive and bring order to the room. "start with one corner and work your way from there" I say. I am obeyed and ordered is restored to the empire. haha. It is rather nice to be watching her go back and forth, tryin to find a place for everything and finding something different to move/organize when she does find a place for the original object. Actually the nice part about it is that its not my mess to clean and i get to watch. I dread going back to my place to start the clean up. now THAT place is a mess and I really don't want to clean it, but I know eventually I will have to. Oh well.

Kid Rock

I always told myself that if Kid Rock ever got down to this area, be it south texas (San Antonio, Austin, Houston) whatever, I was going. Turns out he was here in town last night and a friend of mine (thanks Jeanette) hooked up some Pit Tickets. Damn... there is a reason they call him Kid Rock... that white kid can ROCK!!!! Show was awesome. doors opened at 6pm, and for those that always take their time because they think the artists always start late, think again. by about 7pm or 7:30pm Kid Rock was on stage and making his presence known in the Rio Grande Valley.

Kid puts on one hell of a show and did not disappoint in the least bit.

Also... Rev Run was on stage with Kid and it was just fucking awesome.

Good music, good booze (yeah, I snuck a flask full of Glen in) and great music and show.

couldn't ask for anything more.

Will post pictures of Kid later

Update

So I've been told "Yeah, but you never update your blog!"

read that as "whining"... so drink ya wench!!! hahaha

Here's an update. I'm still in school. Still kicking ass although my last exam did not go as well as I planned. Although I passed, I realize that a little more study time is in order, which I'm going to do today after I finish cleaning up and washing my clothes.

Other than that, not much going on.

Can't wait to be done with school. Might be looking at work up in the hill country... Kerrville to be more exact. Its a great area of Texas, has a very good hospital and some very good roads to ride my motorcycle on. That and I'll be closer to the track in Bryan/College Station, I think... let me look at the map hahahaha.

Anyways, that is all for now.

I will try to update this more regularly to appease the peanut gallery.

Yeah, that means you...

Another year .... meh... whatever

So today I turn yet ANOTHER year older... Oh well. 34 is actually not that bad. Why? well cuz Rick is older so I'm okay with it. hahahahaha

Actually spent some time on the Island yesterday drinking beer and hanging out with some friends. Went well. Came home and chilled.

Today I'm going to finish my pot, yes I said pot not cup, of coffee, go and treat myself to breakfast and then my friend told me to come over to his house, pick up one of his motorcycles (either a 2001 RC51 or a Ducati 916) and take it out for a ride. So today, for my birthday, I will ride until I'm either too tired to do it anymore, or the wheels fall off, or I run outta gas money. I ain't running outta gasw money, I'm not going to get too tired, so we'll see how the wheels do.

I'm off.

So last night I set my alarm for 06:45... to fucking early apparently as I kept hitting the snooze button because I didn't have to be at school until 09:00 for the first exam of this 8 wk block... So as I wake up at the crack of 08:48, I'm in a panic. FUCK!!!!! I have an exam today...

Raced out the door and down the road to the school, showed up 20 minutes late and got to take the exam. finished in 15 minutes and baffled everyone by walking in not only late, but before anyone else had finished. Got an 87 on the exam. Shoulda done better, but they were acceptable mistakes and helped me learn.

Now I'm on vacation.

Nutz to school for 12 days.

Sitting in my first class of the day, a thermos of coffee at my side, my trusty new computer always at the ready due to the fact that our overzealous teacher knows exactly how to bitch about everything EXCEPT for her habitual tardiness. Oh well, more computer time for me.

I'm wondering if I can sneak in a kidney punch every time she is late.


Must have more coffee.

My Fatass... un-fattening

So after the Machete Hash, I figured my fatass needed to get in better shape because had I needed to run (after unloading 3 magazines full of .45 caliber of course) I probably wouldn't have gotten very far as I'm overweight, out of shape and usually not very inspired to run (not even at a hash). I had mentioned this to JD and really didn't think too much about it afterwords and started trying to figure out how to go about it. A couple of days later I get a call and a webpage from JD telling me that it just might help. I was like "great, I'll check it out". Turns out that it is a web page to help you count your daily caloric intake. My first response was "Calorie counter? I don't need no stinkin calorie counter!" (if you don't know the original line, or the original accent to that, rent Blazin Saddles and get back to me) but then I realized that anything would be worth a shot.

So I started counting calories. Input my info and came to the conclusion that I'm "clinically obese" due to the fact that I weigh too much for a man my age and my height. So I said "fuck it" time to fix it. Started counting that very day and here we are 10 days later and 7 lbs less, and I'm feeling great. Started working out, weights, cardio (spin class is the work of the devil) and just eating a much healthier diet (not dieting). I've gone from a possibly 3,000-5,000 calorie a day diet to under 2,000 cals a day. I've cut out as much red meat as possible and more than anything I've cut out fast food. It is what was killing me the most. Pants are fitting me very loose, my gut is not as visible and my riding jacket actually goes on without me having to suck in my gut.

Yeah, I'm feeling awesome.

I'm still not anywhere near Trojan level with my workouts nor do I think I will be for a while, but hopefully someday pretty soon, the change will be readily noticeable and permanent.


Thanks JD.

New Day, time to ride... kinda windy though

I think that today I will ride. Its been kinda windy here lately and pretty dangerous for motorcyclists as of late. 3 fatalities in the last month due to ignorant drivers and what not. Just last week one young cat was killed when a woman pulled out of Burger King, failed to yield the right of way. Died at the hospital. She was arrested and charged with involuntary vehicular manslaughter, I believe if she is convicted it carries a 2-20 yr sentence. Sucks to go to jail, but you shoulda been watching where you were going.

So with that said, I'm gonna ride. Why? Well, it was best said in "The 13th Warrior"... Our Destiny's are Preordained, Fear profits us nothing. So I cannot fear the unknown. But I DO have to ride. :D

Had a bad ass omelette this morning, gonna play my guitar for an hour or so because its just sitting there and if its not getting used, might as well get rid of it right? I'll just keep one of them, liquidate the rest. Need to finish up a research paper for school and a care plan for my clinical class.

I didn't get to go see Rambo the other day, so I might just roll out tonight to check it. The reviews that both GLF and Brownie have given it are too good to pass up, so I'm on it.

Trying to be healthy

Went to lunch with my kiddo who for some reason loves miso soup and fried rice with chicken and veggies. She hasn't stepped up to sushi, but we have discovered that she loves shrimp and crab, yet is allergic to both.

This is her eating her soup.







And this is my salad... she was not happy that she couldn't eat the crab on my salad. :teeth

How fucking crazy is this?!

So the above link is a story about this couple that met someone, hung out with them, then brutally murdered that man with a machete. From what the news says, she hacked him while he was kicking the shit out of him. That was in San Antonio I believe. They somehow ended up on SPI, and by some silly coincidence at the same campground where we had our 2nd Analversary ICBINMH3 Hash. When I arrived, these trolls were already hanging about and I could tell they were not exaclty hashers, but were not being run off. They spent all of Friday night hanging around, having a good time, enjoying keg beer and the company of good hashers.

Saturday I had to drive back to McAllen for the food and for some other things I had to do and I saw this couple in Port Isabel both when I was leaving and upon return to the Island.

That evening they were hanging around the hash again and even enjoying tippy cup as they had the night before. Only this time they had brought their own beer as they were told that the hash was a paid event. These two never gave anyone any trouble that I can recall or think of. They just hung out, drank beer and got drunk.

So when Guam calls me today and asks me if I remembered the Trolls from the Hash, I was like "yeah, what about them?" He tells me, "Dude, they were arrested for murder" and I was a bit in shock and then started doing all the what ifs and what not. Just a good thing that it turned out that they were not in the mood to machete anyone to death.

ONON,
Dude!





And by "these two", I do NOT mean Joto-Cicleta and Toe Jam, I mean the two on the Far left

2nd Analversary

Although this weekends Hash was damn near wrecked due to a last moment change in venue, I think Butter Bling and the other, more active ICBINMH3ers pulled off one hell of a weekend.

We had a total of 36 out of towners and I think 8 locals at SPI for a great time had by all.

Next year we will certainly have more than just plan B, I think we'll go to at least plan F to make sure we don't scramble as much as we did this weekend.

Had a new naming this weekend. Our friend from Mexico who has been hashing for a while now and was one of the original masked men at TXIH (yr? glf?) was named Joto-cicleta (Homo-Cycle). Good times

I'll try to get some more fotos as I was too busy to take that many.

BBQing

Sitting outside in Allen's backyard, grillin up some dead cow and pig, telling tall tales and lies of course. Talking Allen into coming out to the Hash this weekend for our 2nd Analversary and he just agreed that he would even though he works the next 5 days. No worries, he can come out after work and make it to work in the morning.

Butter Bling is all whiney cuz I'm on the computer... I think he has LapTop envy. That and Sprint Wireless card envy. HA!!!

The night has a cool breeze to it which is odd for this part of the country, but we'll take it anytime we can get it.

Damn that food is awesome.

More to come... standby

removing word verification

Took the word verification off for those that are sensitive and have trouble spelling.


Yeah, that means you cake eater

Its Tuesday and I need to get to the school. Have a lot of projects I'm working on right now and hopefully things will come through and I can be more comfortable in my life.

This weekend we laid some friends to rest and now that there has been closure, its time to move on and honor their memory.

You will be missed guys.

Turns out that its 3 after all...

I hadn't heard the first name of the pilot that went down last night, and the spelling and my pronounciation of it were off. Turns out that it was Robert Goss, I man I knew and flew with on several occasions.... so alas, I've lost another 3 friends.... sucks.

Sucks that I quit smoking 8 months ago, I'd like one right about now. Wouldn't fix anything, but it sure would be kinda justified. or not.