Bridal Party kickoff!

This weekend was the first time all of us in Molly's bridal party got together :) We went to a bridal store down in the South Bay to try on dresses to pick a wedding dress for Molly and some bridesmaid and flower girl dresses for the rest of us. No dress for Molly just yet, but there are some great contenders - as for the bridal party, we were able to select our dresses..sooooo exciting!

Fun at work

Don't know if you can see it clearly in this picture, but try to figure out what is going on here. Some folks at work got very crafty with some standard issue corporate bookcases.

Can you guess what's going on here?

>>ANSWER IS....Tetris!

And for you super dorks out there that had to point out to me that the far left piece does not belong, congratulations on being right... That's just how the bookcases come - standard issue.

Mother's Day lunch in Los Gatos

Photo courtesy of Sam. Apparently we just didn't care to have him in the picture because we never tried asking a passerby to take a photo of alla of us. For Mother's Day we trekked down from the city to a restaurant called Tapestry in Los Gatos. Surprisingly everyone was in the South Bay this weekend. My parents, well, they live there full time...Sam was down in San Jose the night before for a bachelor party and Forrest's parents were in LG for a wedding...

"They can smell the korean on you"

On our way to a Mother's Day lunch, we stopped to get some gas. What you don't see is that the car in front of us is full of Koreans...HOMELAND Koreans. Not your garden variety immigrant koreans who walk among us and understand what's going on - but the kind that are pure tourists and can't figure out how to pump gas at the gas station.

They asked Forrest for help by saying "ex-a-cyoo-sah-me" which means "excuse me" trying to get his attention. He then goes over there and I notice some discussion and then some smiling and head nodding...interesting.

He then cruises back to the car, opens the door and laughingly says to me "there are some Korean tourists there who need help if you want to help them." I declined and Forrest called ma"a hater." Once all back in the vehicle, I stated that it's not wierd for them to ask the whitest man at the gas station for help because "they can smell the korean on you....they were confused and thought you were one of them."

Travelin for work...Mission Beach Wave House

Was in San Diego last week for our channel partner conference and as with all corporate conferences, there is a "party"...something that would be really really fun if you weren't there with a bunch of people from work. Mind you, I do like my co-workers but you'all got to be careful to avoid any CLMs (career limiting maneuvers) like getting too wasted, shouting obscenities or coming on too a senior manager etc etc. I've seen most of these things in play, they are particularly exciting to watch during a sales conference. Sales people are crazy!

Not only did we get to watch the barely legal high school / college students professionally surf the fake waves, our own colleagues suited up, surfed and boogie boarded. I did not get up there..ha.
It is pretty ingenious really.... It's a curved plastic pool onto which they shoot out water and if forms a wave that the people were riding with snowboard sized boards. They had two outdoor wave pools and one massive indoor pool - which was hosting a kid's swimming lesson or something during our company party...strange.
And now for the cuisine - tell me how appetizing does that look? It looks like furry shit on a stick! Now frozen chocolate covered bananas sound like a great idea, just not all sitting on a plate together like that. It took every last bit of self control that I had to not point and laugh the entire evening....

Nerdopolis 2008

Met with with Chester and his UC Berkeley crew in San Mateo for a movie viewing of "This American Life." What I didn't know was that this was filmed LIVE in NYC that night and we were basically watching it live on tape delay in San Mateo...if I had known what the deal was, I might have actually forked out the cash to fly to NYC to watch it live....that's ho much of a nerd lover I am.


Timing of this "live event" was suspiciously close to the launch of the This American Life's second TV season....but shit - I don't care what they are plugging, I just enjoy what they are doing and will watch/listen in any medium they choose to broadcast in.

Cycling as a Service hits Laguna Seca

That's Forrest's work team for the "24 Hours of Adrenaline" mountain bike race down at the Laguna Seca raceway in Monterey. You can't tell from this photo - but it was flippin cold as shit in Monterey this weekend. I literally spent the entire time in the car....and 2 hours at a local spa getting a massage and facial on a heated massage table ;)

Working from home

You know, it's not so much the price of gas (as I drive Honda) as it is the drive itself. I hate the act of driving with every fiber of my body. I quite enjoy being in the car, but just as long as someone else is driving. I think it is the requirement to pay attention that makes me crazy.

Sometimes I take Caltrain and sometimes I carpool...and that helps quite a bit. I know it sounds stupid but I feel so "urban" when I take public transportation like the train or BART. I'm such the suburban schmuck.

So lately, I have been working from home more frequently, trying to average about 2 days a week in the home office (which is really the same room as the living, dining and kitchen). But it makes for a great two second commute from bed to my desk. It's great because I get a ton of stuff done - all the copywriting and content reviewing to my heart's content AND some laundry in between!

The only downside is the sheer and utter loneliness. Sometimes, if I work two days straight at home I don't actually ever make it out of the building...making me a little stir crazy. Forrest will come home from work and I hover around him...because it's the reaction of "OMG - it's a person - eeeeek!!!" It's quite pathetic how lonely I get at home by myself for just 9 hours. Even though when I go into the office, I don't really socialize with anyone anyways.

There's no point to this post really, I just wanted to share...