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August 18th, 2009
03:51 pm - yosemite!
The trip up. Left house at 4am, got to mom's to load the stuff... oh my goood sooo much crap, could not fit it all in my car, and I had to stuff angel into the floor in the back seat where she had about 5inches of mobility. Drank my FRS energy drink, and a monster, and off we went.
After driving the 10 hours to get here (napping in parking lots for 30 mins 3 different times).i was pretty beat. I sat for a bit, then setup our tent and stuff after cj unloaded the car. Went down to the river right next to us (deepest was like 2 feet), and played around with elijah and julia. I asked them if they thought I could jump from one rock to another and they said yeah, then I purposely fell into the water during the jump to make them laugh. Wet running shoes, so pretty much gave up and joked that I Was gonna do a cannonball and they said it wasn't deep enough, but i did it anyway splashing them. Then they threw their flip flops upstream and tried to catch them as they floated down, eventually they got wet doing this, they were in normal clothes too... lol. I thought my sister might be mad at me for getting them soaked, but it was pretty warm and their stuff could dry after we hung it up.
after that, I think I napped and woke to everyone cooking food. Carne Asada, tortillas, rice, yumm. Some killer guac. Guitar and singing at the fire, riddles, jokes, and then sleeeeep.
Day 1: Ate yogurt, leftover carne asada, and lots of oj for breakfast. We did the tram ride at the grove with all the sequoias, and hiked down. I had elijah on my shoulders for most of the way down, since he was wearing flip flops and kept hurting his toes falling over, lol. Huge ass trees are pretty cool. Got back to camp around 4 for a late lunch. Writing this now after a monster nap in the tent. I should probably get out and go make dinner, its my turn! Salmon and steaks, veggies and potatoes.
This sucks, I've only used my laptop to write this post and I'm already getting a battery low warning. Pretty crazy. Anyway, me and CJ may be doing half dome tomorrow, its his birthday!
Currently mid day 2 - spent today working, first at a tiny library that could probably fit inside one of the tree trunks here.. I had to hack their computer so I could use aim to talk to coworkers and remote desktop so I could use putty and manage some servers... then I got frustrated, so moved to a lodge with AC and a huge room that I had all to myself, and reallllly fast wireless I could use my laptop on. score!
Most work is done, now I'm driving into the valley to eat pizza with family, its my brothers birthday today. Tomorrow we are hiking to the top of half dome! Can't wait!!!
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August 7th, 2009
04:14 pm - random ramblings
Lots of work. Lots of world of warcraft. New beta testing Heroes of Newerth. AMAZINGOMFGFUN.
Sailing, surfing.
Tomorrow after surfing, will be sailing my boat to this:
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Tonight is board games. Yosemite is next week, I can't wait!!
Last night party at my house. Me and my brother make an amazing beer pong team, rocked all the competition. Met a girl who's about as intense as I am at Egyptian rat screw. I had to teach her fire poi after learning that nun chucks were her weapon of choice in tai kwon do... she caught on really quick! Except that she's paranoid of fire and went to get water ready in case I made any mistakes when I lit them up and put on a show after ;)
Pretty amazing girl, only problem is she was only 18 and already had a boyfriend. Why can't I find a girl like this who is in the datable age range and single dammit
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June 26th, 2009
03:14 am
Took first place in tonights sailing race! It was a very fun night, and a tough fight with all boats pretty close, this fleet is amazingly good! We didn't make one mistake asides from overstanding a mark a bit once. I got a license plate holder as a prize :) on sunday I will be a full member of the mission bay yacht club! Woohoo. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Current Location: US, California, San Diego, San Diego, W Fox Run Way, 3178
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03:14 am
Took first place in tonights sailing race! It was a very fun night, and a tough fight with all boats pretty close, this fleet is amazingly good! We didn't make one mistake asides from overstanding a mark a bit once. I got a license plate holder as a prize :) on sunday I will be a full member of the mission bay yacht club! Woohoo. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Current Location: US, California, San Diego, San Diego, W Fox Run Way, 3178
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June 6th, 2009
05:42 pm - I'm having issues
Today I flaked on sailing and indulged in a dirty habit known as world of warcraft. oh my god. So much fun.
My best friend from high school and I are having a blast in 2v2 arena.
This is a bad thing, I think.
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June 4th, 2009
07:24 am - .... what is happening
David Carradine also died. ;(
All my heroes are now dead. /quit
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June 3rd, 2009
06:46 pm - no!
Time needs to stop RIGHT NOW. I'm feeling old. My favorite author Michael Crichton died last year, and now David Eddings, the author of some of my favorite fantasy novels growing up has died. I felt his characters were more vibrant than popular authors, and I gobbled his series much faster than Tolkien's.
His family has "not released the cause of his death"... maybe he missed his wife (who died 2 years ago) and wanted to be with her.. I can't imagine how he could write without her by his side after accomplishing all that they did together.
Aphrael's the best goddess in any fantasy - her representations give the sweetest feelings.. They cause me to smile and just generally feel happy.
Thank you David for making me smile and laugh in a time of my life when nothing else did.
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June 2nd, 2009
05:50 pm - 5% more competetive than last year !
last year:
Chip Time 5:18:56
Overall Place 10837 / 16760
Gender Place 6138 / 8124
Division Place 1125 / 1461
Age Grade 39.2%
Pace 12:10
10K 54:26
Half 2:10:44
21 Mi 4:03:43
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this year:
Chip Time 4:37:45
Overall Place 6071 / 13328
Gender Place 3871 / 6848
Division Place 766 / 1265
Age Grade 45%
Pace 10:36
10 Km 54:56
Half 1:57:12
21 Mile 3:36:13
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May 28th, 2009
12:06 pm - The past few days
"A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials."
Saturday I took a big leap of faith and initially thought I fell on my face, but now I realize I was just learning how to soar.
 At 3am on Saturday I decided to fly up to denver to run the 10k bolderboulder and potentially see a girl I know up there that keeps misunderstanding me on the phone do to weird jealousy issues or something, but who I've felt closer to than many girls I've dated for months.. she's the kind of girl that really takes time to get to know you, who you were, who you are, and who you are becoming... she focuses on the things that matter in life, which I really liked. My best friend suggested it, said it was stupid to even think about her as more than a friend until I see her and to just fly up there. So I went for it.
I bought a plane ticket without consulting her and she freaked out and told me never to contact her again, must think I'm some kind of stalker or something. Didn't phase me one bit, I know who I am. But it did have me thinking maybe my friends were right, that she really just wanted me to buy her stuff, and wasn't really interested in me in the first place, which kind of sucks because I had been turning down other girls that were genuinely interested in me.
In any case, Boulder is an awesome city! I think one of my couchsurfing hosts may have stole my camera, or I may have left it there, because I can't find it anywhere =( This is really sad because I had a lot of great pictures, specifically took ones of some waterfalls and rivers I _really_ wanted. And all the new friends I made in Boulder... and Carrie's amazing lab/pit mix Dobro, such a friendly dog that chews on you quite playfully if you let him.
 The race was CROWDED! I was in front of the wave I was in so my first mile was great, but later people were very clumped in the streets, and just sticking behind the pace of the person in front of you seemed to be the way to go. Checkout my timing here. And there's a good review and some videos at the end on this page - beware the really energetic guy, though give it time, he goes through all the fun stuff on the course. The second vid has a clip of 'the green man' a guy in all green - I was behind him much of the race. The slip n slide was somethiing I hadn't seen I wonder if the rock and roll marathon has any of those I didn't catch last year =p
Someone apparently hoola hooped the entire 10k. I wonder what the distance record is for backhandsprings or something crazy like that.. how awesome would it be to do an entire 5k with backhandsprings! Might have to get special gloves to protect your wrists.. hmm.
 Shopping on pearl street was great! I found so much stuff I wanted in my room, but was determined to find a gift for my mom, which I did.
Was originally flying back tuesday night, but went on standby wed morning instead because I wanted to checkout the colorado athletic training school's adult gymnastics class. Amazing. Their coach was excellent and I got my arabians going pretty strongly, and quite comfortable with backhandsprings again on the floor. Not pulling into whips or backtucks from them yet, though. They have a huge rock climbing area and a trampoline next to it so u can jump and hang. Very glad I stuck around to meet all those people, but was sad to leave knowing I would probably not ever be coming back there.
I got a ride from one of the gymnasts who also had a cute puppy waiting in her car back to Carrie's house, charged my phone and hung out with them for a bit, then took off to meet my new couchsurfing hosts for the night. They took me to this hole in the wall bar that was very enjoyable, great for conversation and I ordered a 14'' pizza from cosmos next door that I ate entirely by myself, since they had already had dinner. Then crashed at a place where I sang hungarian children songs and talked about professional level magic the gathering play. Definitely hanging out with this guy when I come stay in boulder for snowboarding in the winter. "Raine", quite an interesting guy. So many people in boulder with hippy names btw, I have never met so many hippies in one place before in my life. Even really successful professional type hippies!
About to take off for sailing tonight at MBYC's thursday night race, then off to gymnastics, and back home for a few more hours of coding before sleeping. Final thoughts - running events regularly is a lot like having theme parties or Halloween parties. I love it!! Really looking forward to the marathon on Sunday!
Btw - Must see AWESOME video of Damien Walters. This is what most of the ppl in the gym I go to aspire to.
from a friend:
"nothing lasts forever, so live it up, avoid bullshit, take chances, and never have regrets, because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted"
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May 25th, 2009
07:30 pm - coffee house
Wow I am getting a lot of work done but holy shit this guy reading poetry is completely insane and rude and disgusting. Its kind of distracting. Later some grad from yale or something is going to be reading, so I have to sit through this crap because I'm getting work done and I'm curious what his poetry is going to be like.
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04:55 pm - what . the . fuck .
mysql> update Design set numBattles = (select count(*) from Vote where `timestamp` > '2009-05-25 6:00' and (designId=winnerId || designId=loserId)) where status=1;
Query OK, 193 rows affected (16.65 sec)
Rows matched: 193 Changed: 193 Warnings: 0
mysql> update Design set numWins = (select count(*) from Vote where `timestamp` > '2009-05-25 6:00' and (designId=winnerId)) where status=1;
Query OK, 193 rows affected (1 min 9.30 sec)
Rows matched: 193 Changed: 193 Warnings: 0
anyone care to explain what the fuck is going on?
btw, I'm in Boulder. Its fucking beautiful here. Oh, and bhakti chai is amazing.
I ran the bolderboulder 10k in 55mins.. it probably could have been about 5 mins quicker if there weren't so many ppl to dodge! Especially towards the finish I just wanted to sprint but there was no way possible without being a jackass and pushing ppl over, lol. They required you to provide proof of finishing in less than an hour to get in the earlier corrals.. kinda annoying.
Despite that, it was a very fun race, and so much free shit at the finish, like whoa. FREE BEER! Not very good beer, but still. Later tonight I'm going to a place where I WILL determine what beer I had when I was here with my brothers that we've since been unable to track down.
For now, I'm in programmers heaven, very focused... and I think I'm overhearing a few google engineers at the table next to me... I'm thinking about asking them wtf is up with mysql sucking so much ass.
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May 23rd, 2009
05:00 pm - Insanity
Life is moving so fast, and I love it.
Bay to Breakers was AMAZING OMFG. So fun. So many horrible sights so many wonderful sights, haha.
Here is a pic I snapped on my phone on the bart on my way to san jose afterwards. Had many intelligent conversations on every form of public transportation imaginable. On the way to San Jose I missed a caltrain by 1minute and was stuck for an hour with the most pleasant girl you could ever imagine to get stuck with. We went and got lunch at a cafe nearby - she's a professional triathlete and has a really interesting job. Great conversation. Jeff's engagement party was very beautiful, nice wine/cheese and met some more really intelligent people.
Missed a caltrain by 1 minute heading for the airport making me arrive in San Diego MUCH later than I had originally intended =(
Its funny how 1 minute changes your life so much!
 Tira is in town! We were going to sail thursday in the thistle race at the MBYC Thursday night thing, but she couldn't make it. I was helming for my first thistle race ever, and did ok. Had a GREAT start and was first around the weather mark, but I do not know how to sail downwind AT ALL yet. Having to steer and raise the spinnaker and carry it through the jibe is just so difficult for me for some reason. I didn't come in last in the race, so was happy about that at least =) Chelsea was randomly there with her boyfriend Alex and her new 2009 Yaris which is gorgeous!! We had dinner together and then I headed to gymnastics where I met up with Tira.
I'm still so rusty having not worked out at the gym in a while, but certain things are strong. My back handsprings are WEAK as heck right now, but I can still muscle up on the rings and stuff thankfully. And double fronts, and front fulls, are easy again.. I was a bit nervous to do them on tuesday. After the gym we went and got yogurt and walked around on the beach, then headed into club 710 for a singalong piano show which was pretty fun. I wish I had done spontaneous stuff like this with Tira more when I was in SB, for some reason I was always really shy with the girls at the gym =p
This weekend I'm running the BolderBoulder, a 10k race in Boulder. I talked to a few couch surfers and it oddly seemed meant to be, so at a last minute's notice my plans this weekend have changed from sailing in long beach, to wakeboarding, to flying to colorado and running a 10k, lol. Today I'm just working being inside when the weather outside is amazing is kind of making me sad, but tomorrow should make up for it! Hopefully my new boulder friends will host me next winter season for some snowboarding! Then I can use my time share somewhere else, like hawaii or something. I'm jealous of everyone getting to go to hawaii, I haven't been in years.
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May 16th, 2009
11:31 pm - life is incredible!
So much going on and so little time to journal it all!
I'm leaving really early tomorrow morning to go to San Francisco to run Bay to Breakers, then going to my friend's engagement party in San Jose. (I got him the BEST card today so proud of it!).
I saw Iglu and Hartly friday night at 710 in PB and they were OFF THE HOOK. So. Much. Fun. !! Go listen to them on myspace, they rock, and are going to get very famous soon, I'm sure. We're running a design competition for them right now. They had one song where they told all the guys to put their girls on their shoulders, and I REALLY wanted a girl to put on my shoulders, but was too shy to just grab the ones near me I only kind of knew and put them up. I dunno I'm so funny about stuff like that, its like meaningful to me and I want someone I really care about, you kno? There are so many things I want to do that I just can't because I'm waiting for a girl I love and saving those things for her, in a way. Its weird. Like certain dessert places, for example. I won't go there with girls who are just friends because I want to save them for a good date night with a girl I love. /shrug
On my way home through PB, a guy crossing the street told me to pop a wheelie, which I usually don't do on request (it takes the fun out of it kinda), but I was in such a playful mood from the concert I busted it right there on garnet, lol.
Finally got around to seeing Star Trek today in the theaters. Surprisingly entertaining, was not expecting it to be so engaging - I thought the character building was going to be cheezy, but it was done very well and I really got attached to them. The opening scene combining suicidal captain with childbirth got me all teary, I'm such a wuss when it comes to that. If a movie can make you teary in the first 5minutes, you know its got you hooked already, lol. I liked the technique - built a pretty solid fourth wall and got me to stop thinking about the actors as people and instead just feel the characters. Very effective.
This morning while at the yacht club helping Clay fix his bailers, I learned quite a bit and felt like I got a lot closer to him as a friend. We talked about having kids young which he's really against, and he said I will need to be making more than a million/year before I have kids... what?! really?! I thought I'd be pretty set with that much, but I guess not!
Time to stop goofing around with life so much, and get my next multimillion dollar idea launched. Its go time. Finding a wife should probably start becoming a priority too, I suppose. ;p
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May 14th, 2009
10:30 am - hmm
Usually I'm good at these kinds of things...
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May 11th, 2009
03:15 am - happy mom
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May 10th, 2009
10:19 am - mothers day
Happy mothers day to all mothers! All my bro and sisters and I are chipping in and getting my mom a nice fish tank and a puffer fish. I'm headed to her place in just a bit. I woke up researching what things to feed puffers, and found this video of a puffer eating a live rat baby. Great song choice to it though, lol. Pretty crazy!
Yesterday's sailing race was a bit wonky. We had everything go wrong with the boat and it was more a day of engineering than sailing, lol. After getting the boat all setup, we realized the jib halyard had somehow sneaked up the mast, so we had to lower the mast, run a chase line and pull it through and re-rig it. This was the forecast for the day, the following list is things that went wrong mid race.
1. Somehow our spinnaker line was between the jib and the forestay when we tried raising it, so I had to jump up to the front of the boat quickly and retie it. Luckily my bowlines are getting pretty damn good and I can do them instantly.
2. Due to rigging the jib halyard wrong (we forgot to put it through the fine tune pulley), there was way more tension on the jib halyard block than there should be, in addition to having it rub against a wood corner instead of slide nicely along a pulley wheel. This made bringing the jib up after having taken it down for the downwind REALLY hard. I felt like I was lifting a car, laying down in the boat and using both my legs and turning the pull into a leg press!
Meanwhile a boat is right behind us and we're struggling to maintain first place.
seth: "I can't pull it"
clay: "YES YOU CAN"
3. All this tension eventually pulled the block right off the mast and there was nothing keeping the jib tensioned except me holding it. Again, we're in first place with a boat right behind us.
seth: "the block isn't working"
clay: "MAKE IT WORK"
So I cleated it in the block pulled it in as hard as I could and positioned it so it would hold.
4. One of the cleats we put the spin line in stopped cleating so we had to hold the pressure directly to keep the pole off the forestay, which while we were reaching, was quite an insane amount of pressure.
5. When trying to take the pole down one time while on a reach, i could not release it from the line and when Clay pulled in hard on the sheet, the pole came back and smacked me in the head, lol. It took me like 5 seconds to realize that I hadn't been knocked out, we were still in the lead and I had to finish what I was doing
6. One of the other boats went towards the wrong mark, we had been way ahead of him but thought he must be right so rounded that mark only to realize that we were right and had to go back to the mark we were originally at, lol.
7. At the finish, we crossed the line between a flag and the yacht club tower, instead of between the two flags (we totally didn't see the other flag). So we had to turn around and cross the finish again, finishing JUST in line with another boat pretty much tying for first place.
I must say the club has tasty fish tacos and beers, I'm lucky to have it so close to me.
Tomorrow my brother moves in with me, he's interviewing with Collarfree in the morning and then working in hillcrest afterwards. I want to take everything out of my garage and hose it down later today, because tomorrow we're going to make kind of a jam area of it where we can hang out and work on music. Need to search for another couch on craigs list and some other things. I want to cover the rafters with posters, or maybe just get some poster board and paint on it, cutout the full page cars and motorcycles from the different racing magazines I have laying around and put em on there, so our walls and ceiling look more bad ass than ghetto.
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May 9th, 2009
03:43 am - quick post
damn I'm up late tonight.
Woke up fairly early. Worked, then went to la jolla shores picking up a few 5$ footlongs, some drinks and vanilla ice cream for a lunch picnic with Katie and her father. Being able to go to the beach for lunch is nice, but there was traffic in LJ in the middle of the day, which sucked ass. It made me late to a work meeting where we talked about vision strategy and direction of the company. Very good stuff. I feel like we're on course to reach big success soon, which is awesome.
Came home, napped, went to the gym for like a 2 hour workout. I dunno why but I'm really in the gym mood lately. I swam for about half an hour, biked for 20 mins, ran for 20 mins, did a TON of core, then some full body exercises like snatches - those are probably my favorite. Some more arms and then stretching and rode home on motorcycle feeling nice and sore.
When I got home, I walk in and immediately hear the passion noises (ahem screaming) of Ben's new girlfriend. This is humorous because Katie's father is sleeping in the room next door. I'm pretty sure she was loud enough to wake him up. I'm kind of over this sort of thing, but it made the house feel like a college dorm again, which was a lil lame.
I work and finish a bunch of new features that I've been wanting to get done forever, and now its time for sleep. I could have gone out tonight, friend of a friend's bday party in the heart of PB at a sweet club... but I dunno, I'm not just really in the mood. I'm over girls. The girls my age just want to get fucked, and I'm so sick of that. Why is it so hard to find a girl I respect? Is it bad that I didn't go out mostly because I don't want to be let down again?
And honestly? I'm kind of over alcohol. Partying is fun, but I like waking up in the morning feeling like going to the beach for some volleyball or surfing, not laying around dazed or sleeping in until noon. Don't get me wrong, a good beer is still a treasure. I went to Toronado with my sister last night; you just can't beat chimay on tap. They had a bunch of barley wines too which we sampled. Pretty good selection, will definitely return.
tomorrow is another sailing race. I can't wait.
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May 8th, 2009
09:20 am - paradise is burning
 I got third in race yesterday, here's a pic during our upwind leg. I love sailing in mission bay its so beautiful. Luckily I'm not in santa barbara anymore as its turning into a post apocalyptic playground. Here's a video typical of what most residential areas look like there.
Andrew has a bunch more scary pics like this up on his sendmehome entries.
Click to see the evacuation area... its insane. I used to live right there.
In other more happy news, here's a video with some awesome underwater footage of a barrel wave. I think its beautiful. If only there was an easy way to transport waves up into the SB mountains. My favorite hikes up there are turning black. One of the gymnasts I used to coach has lost his home, and likely my old CS Prof did also ;(
Also. why can't all girls be as hot as megan fox. Seriously. Checkout this Esquire shoot.
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May 7th, 2009
01:27 am - wednesday
Woke up learning to play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK9MFuZcquc its pretty ez. Singing while playing is still not so ez =(
Morning was really odd, so much that I don't even know what to write about it. Then work was frantic most of the day. Subway for lunch, huge workout at the gym, more guitar playing, then I spent about an hour reading the Q+A with Mika McKinnon, a physics advisor for Stargate and thinking to myself damn, I dated this freakishly creative and intelligent girl for 4 whole months in college. She's hilarious and clever too. Check it out:
http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/september-14-2008-atlantis-physics-consultant-mika-mckinnon-schools-us-touring-stage-3-part-1/
She's the only girl I've ever made cry. I did one of those pre-emptive breakup with her before she breaks up with you things because I'd never broken up with a girl before and wanted to see how it felt that time around. Shockingly I felt nothing, none of those heart pains where the person is always on your mind or any of that. Its annoying, I think people really fall harder for someone when that person breaks up with them, and its so easy for the person deciding to make the break to forget about the person entirely.
A friend of mine is going through a thing right now... I wish I could just tell this girl to break up with him because he'd end up falling for her if she did, but he's not really into her right now and still thinks of his ex a lot and is tortured mentally by the loss of her, even 2 years after the fact. What he needs is a new loss. I find it really funny that I'm actually considering telling her to break up with him as an action of a good friend, lol. Maybe he deserves that because he says he's my best friend but he never reads my journal, ha!
Today through facebook, I got in touch with a man my mom married at a very young age, we'll probably have lunch next week. Its interesting in that he may be genetically unable to have kids (he's been trying unsuccessfully for a long time). So if they hadn't gotten divorced, I may never have existed! And maybe he will play a part in my life yet, perhaps I can be the son he always wanted or something, for at least a short hour of lunch, lol. Its funny because I'm really wanting a dad to bounce ideas off of, someone experienced with business starting and such, even have been praying people come into my life for that. And bam. I meet a sailor who I'm having a great friendship with who will probably fulfill that role a bit, and now my mom's ex-husband as well.
Prayer is amazing. Mostly I think because it opens our minds to the things that have been there all along; if you pray for something and admit you want it in your life, you're much more able to see it when its presented, instead of being blinded by the usual distractions of life.
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May 5th, 2009
11:16 pm - tuesday
Today I took second in a new type of boat I'd never sailed on before! The Capri 22 was pretty interesting, downwind I was leaning WAY out over the boat holding the jib line. Not sure why they don't use poles, but we had an advantage downwind because I'm tall and can hold my arm out for extended periods of time with ease =)
We had two firsts, a third, and a sixth. If the sixth would have been a fifth (we were about .5seconds behind another boat at the finish), we would have taken first place.
Woke up in the morning, took care of getting new car insured+registered, drove brother to an interview with calpirg, then worked my butt off getting a new design competition going and fixing bugs while my brother played guitar in the background and I downloaded new music he introduced me to. Kings of Leon, Tv on the Radio.. and I introduced him to The Beautiful Girls and he trash talked Taking Back Sunday when I put it on, lol.
Got a huge burrito and went sailing. After, back home, more coding and music downloading. Now sleep. Cya
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