I am an even series 1-1...

HELL YEAH!!! TAKE THAT NASH!!!!

What a game what a game!!! I'm so glad that the series has been tied up!!! WOOHOO! It was awesome last night, and it'll be even more awesome that I'll be at games 3 and 4!

Man, I haven't done jack$#$@ today...well, workwise, that is. I've taken the wonderlic test...again, been reading LA Times articles and doing my fantasy sports stuff...

Oldies but goodies
Cic and I were talking the other day about how it would be when KROQ no longer has Kevin and Bean. She mentioned that as long as Ralph and Lisa May are still there it would be okay, because one time, K&B weren't there and she didn't even know. But what about even after they're gone? It would be really really weird. But like with all things, the world must go on. It's like when Johnny Carson stopped doing the Tonight Show. There'll probably be some new Kevin and Bean, but to all of the oldschoolers, it would be a drastic change. And going along with the replacement theory, I was thinking about one of the all-time classic 80's movies...The Breakfast Club. I know it's probably total sacrilege to think about a new version of the movie with different actors, but I shall do it nonetheless. Let's take the original cast:
Andrew 'Andy' Clark aka the "jock" played by Emilio Estevez
Brian Ralph Johnson aka the "geek" played by Anthony Michael Hall
John Bender aka the "the criminal" played by Judd Nelson
Claire Standish aka the "princess" played by Molly Ringwald
Allison Reynolds aka the "crazy girl" played by Ally Sheedy
and of course Principal Richard Vernon played by Paul Gleason
let's see...here's who I would have casted in the redub. Now, they'd HAVE to look young, which eliminates your Brad Pitts and your Angelina's from the cast:
The Jock...would probably be Tom Welling. Attractive, athletic looking(and no, I'm not gay), and since he already played a high school kid recently, would be great in the role.
The Geek ...has to be John Heder, from Napoleon Dynamite. He is perfect for that character. If he was unavailable, I could probably use Jorge Garcia, who plays Hurley from Lost. I think he could do that character well.
The Criminal...hard to replace Judd Nelson. He did such a good job, but probably the best substitute would be someone like Dave Navarro, but he kinda seems a little old. Maybe Ian Somerhalder from Lost Season 1, he played Shannon's brother, Boone. He also played a bad guy on Smallville once. Or...maybe...eminem...that'd be a good criminal, I guess.
The Princess...definitely Jessica Alba. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. If she was unavailable, we'd cease producing the movie, ha ha ha. Just kidding, I guess since she's so popular, Scarlett would be an okay sub.
The Crazy Girl...the only person I could think of was Brittany Murphy, because she played a crazy chick already. It would have to be someone that you could make to look crazy but still be cute when you fixed her up. I thought Ally Sheedy was pretty cute.
The Principal...This one was kinda hard...after much thinking and reasoning, I came to the eternal Ben Stiller. He always makes for great villains in comedies like this. There was that fat camp movie, and even dodgeball....he's great. I can totally see him doing the role.
And there ya have it...my 2006 Breakfast Club cast....let's start filiming!!!
btw - did you know that Brian Johnson's(Anthony Michael Hall's character, the nerd) dad is the Janitor yet there's a different guy that picks him up at the end of the day??? Things that make you go hmmmm....

MOJO's!!!!
So we went to Shakeys in West Hollywood last night for Cile's b-day. It was a lot of fun. I got to see a ton of people I haven't seen in a very long time, some from college and even some from back in the high school days... It was cool seeing all those people again. It's nice to hear what people are doing now, several years removed from college and now a decade removed from high school...man, we're getting old. I didn't know that Shakeys had a full bar...well at least THAT one did. And as Cicely and I were talking earlier...I'm not as fond of the mojo's as I used to be when I was younger...but the pizza and sheeken were sure good. I can't wait to have my leftovers!!!

Exxon/Mobil made 8.2 billion dollars in revenue...mothereffers...

And last but not least...

This is what we're gonna be doing on June 11th 2006. Is that real barbed wire? Yikes!!!

I am an apt for strange spellings...

Two b-days to celebrate today...big HAPPY B-DAYS to:

AARON and CECILE, who both turn 28 years old today...congratulations on getting through another year! ha ha ha!

It's a wonder to see people always pushing themselves to the brink of exhaustion. I used to do it back in the day...take on too much, or try to do too much, or carry too big a load, whatever you wanna call it, I tried to do it. And then i realized that it just wasn't good for me, mentally and physically. Sometimes I wouldn't get tired at all because of the adrenaline rush of certain things, such as SPOP or whatnot...but then, inevitably, at the end of it, I would totally crash. Sometimes I would get stressed out, which we all know, can't be too good, esp since I'm already one of those constantly tense people. Since then, I've learned to just try to take it easier...baby steps of course...I think I still fall into that tendency every so often. It's no good if you can play a basketball game full out for the first 3 qts and completely poop out for the fourth...

I ran for the first time since the marathon last night...wait, actually, that's a lie, I ran for the SECOND time since the marathon last night, before my game. The first time was when I had the day off and I dropped my parents car at the shop, and ran home, but that was like 1.2 miles or something. Last night, I ran 2 1/2 miles...and it wasn't too bad. Granted, I think I ran a little bit too close to my basketball game cuz I had like no legs during the game...I even airballed a free throw, ha ha ha, but it was a good run nonetheless(man, talk about your run-on sentences). Anyway, It was nice to run again. Listening to my ipod, collecting what little thoughts I had in my head and just pondering about the day i just had, reflecting about my life; all while running in circles on a track, he he he. It's time to start running the 3-5 milers again a few times a week...gotta start training for the mud run!!!

Self-less good deeds
I overheard two of my coworkers talking about tax stuff, and no, I was NOT eavesdropping, they were talking right behind me while I was conducting a test on my desk. Anyway, so they were talking about donations, and write-offs and stuff and here's the part that I heard:

coworker 1so when I was donating to my school and stuff, I called my accountant and they told me that I could only claim like 50% of what I donated. And I said, so what do I get out of that?
coworker 2What did he say?
coworker 1He said, "You're helping your school." And I was like, that's crap, I'm the one that needs $$$
coworker 2I know man, that's whack

I think coworker 2 really did agree with this view...I just thought to myself, what an incredibly selfish act. Donating to the school and expecting to get something out of it. I remember in one episode of Friends, when Pheobe makes this bet with Joey, becuase Joey says there's no such thing a self-less good deed, because in the end you're always trying to get something out of it...and this instance definitey exemplifies just how selfless good deeds can be...

I am an artist's dream...

So Jovan and I noticed something weird in our freezer a few weeks ago...and at first glance, we couldn't really tell what it was...


Looking even closer, it even looked like it could've been mold...


But upon closer inspection...we found out what it was. ANTS!!! Freakin Ants!!!
In the FREEZER!!!! WTF?!?!?


Even closer you can see some more definition. THere are hundreds of them. When we first opened it, there were thousands...we cleaned it up and they keep coming back!


And even closer...poor little guys. I kinda feel bad for them...


Jovan and I were imagining like this crazy story about how they all got in there at first and were totally trapped, and had to huddle together like that in the corner for warmth. I've read about some winter ants that all gather together in a huge ball around the queen and rotate...the guys on the outside go all the way inside so everyone stays warm. But in this case, they all sufferred the ultimate consequence. They have to be coming from under the freezer or something, maybe they've set up a colony like next to the heat exhaust from the cooling system. And maybe there's just this like hole they go into and can't get out of, and the hole leads straight into the freezer...and all the little ant families say, "Don't go in there, you'll never come back!" Or, "We hear that it leads to the frozen land!" It's like ICE AGE but on a much much smaller scale, and it ends rather badly...

I am an innocent bystander...

So there are these two guys in the row behind me at work...and they are ALWAYS arguing. And I've thought about it for awhile, cuz it could've been debating...no man, debating is different. They are definitely arguing. One guy is an older guy, who's like 50 or 60 years old, and been working for 20 years or so...and the other guy is younger, maybe my age or a few years older, probably been working 5 or 6 years or so...so just imagine the difference of opinions they must have. It was funny at first, just to hear it, because these guys don't believe in volume, nor do they care that they're in the middle of the office and everyone in the rows next to them can hear everything. But lately, it's started to get a little annoying. I don't even know what they're arguing about right now, but their sheer volume is enough to be quite a distraction. So I am putting on my headphones and listening to my itunes...but oftentimes, my work tasks don't allow me the luxury to listen to music. One of the guys in my department is even closer to them, and I don't know how it doesn't bug him...I asked him during yesterday's argument, and he said he just works through it...I wish I had that fortitude...

My tax refund just came in! Woohoo!!! A whopping $96, he he he, but hey, I'm not complaining...I know I didn't have to pay like some of my friends did. So with that refund, I actually only spent $13.02 on my groceries earlier this week! That rocks! I have a bunch of out of town activities planned over the next few weeks, all the way up until the end of May...after that, I really really REALLY have to try to not go on weekend trips cuzI have to save for Hawaii, and then possibly NYC later in the year...I hate money...I hate that it controls everything...well, not EVERYTHING, but most things that we do, and I hate that it stresses us out. There really are worse things we could be bogged down with...blech.

Lookin forward to the weekend. Goin to SB w/ Cic and Mina and Danny, they're visiting from Vegas. We're supposed to go hiking and all that stuff, but it might rain...I hope it doesn't though, cuz that'll kinda suck. I know we'll figure out something else to do, but I kinda wanted to see the waterfalls...well I guess we can hike in the rain if we wanna see it that badly right? Anyway, I really want to go back to SB to eat at this one Argentinian restaurant that I really really like over there...Cafe Buenos Aires. That place has the most awesome salad...mmmmm, can't wait can't wait.

Another awesome thing about this weekend is that...it's the start of the NBA Playoffs baby!!!! WOOOHOOOO! Lakers-Suns, Clips-Nuggets, and so much more! I love the NBA playoffs, esp since the Lakers are in it this year! I really think the Lakers have a great chance to beat those Suns...just slow down the game and pound it inside. And to top it all off, I'm going to games 3 and 4!!! HELL YEAH!!!

Man, hurry up already 5 o'clock!!!!

I am a pointed finger...

You know, I have to admit, I know that sometimes I'm not as good of a friend as I'd like to be...in as far as keeping touch w/ people and all that. I mean, If they ever really needed me, I'd be there as fast as my lil legs could carry me. But inasfar as periodic updates, hanging out, and checkups, I'm not always on top of things. I try to, but I always get caught up in the activities I'm doing that it's hard. Things just get really busy sometimes, and outside of the big group hangouts, it's not always easy to find time...and I know, if it's important, you MAKE time. But everyone gets busy, so everyone knows what it's like. But what I hate is when someone tries to call you out on it when they haven't been doing anything about it on their part either. I get frustrated with that...it's so one sided... "YOU dont' call, or keep in touch" "You say let's hang out, but we never do..." I'd only give someone the right to say those things if they were actually doing that. But more often than not, the other party hasn't been doing their fare share either. Friendship, just like every relationship, is a two-way street. I'm so sick of being blamed for not keeping in touch or always being expected to be the one to set things up...it's bullshit. And of course this doesn't apply to everyoone, but there ARE some who are like that. There are friends who no matter how long the gap is when you guys get to talk and/or hang out, it's like time hasn't passed...and not in the sense that nothing has really changed, a lot may have happened...I mean, the relationship is still more or less the same from the last time you hung out...those are the types of relationships I wish I could have with everyone, they're low maintenance. But hey, every relationship is different, right? Just sucks to have to deal with stuff like that...

Da na na, da na na(ESPN style)
During my tuesday league game last night, w/ about 5 seconds left in the first half, I dribbled around a screen a little before the half court line, and heaved up what would be a half-court buzzer beater to end the half! Woohoo! That's the first time I've ever done that in a game...all those half-court practice shots finally paid off...he he he

I am a few more minutes

This just in, Oil prices hit $70.40 a barrel!!! It's not even summer yet and we're already seeing a steep hike in gas prices. Dang, I can foresee a lot of beach, and bbq and chill activity this summer, activities that won't require long-distance driving. I keep getting those "...boycott so-and-so gas station..." and force them to lower prices. Dude, we just gotta figure something ELSE out. Technology is probably still a little far off on total fuel cell powered technology(well efficient and affordable technology that is), but something has to be done man. I never thought I'd see the day when I had to pay over $30 to fill up the tank in my tiny little corolla...I can only imagine what it's like for all the SUV dudes out there...sorry guys

Nightmares
Oh yeah, I wanted to blog about this yesterday...but I never got around to it. It's been a while since I've had a nightmare, a long while. The other night, I did:
I was laying down in bed and fast asleep. All of the sudden, my chest felt all weird and I opened my eyes and found out I could barely breathe...my left arm was all crazy tingly and I felt like I couldn't move my leg...so I was trying to kick w/ my left leg. Cicely was right next to me so I was trying to grab her and get her attention...I was gasping for air but I couldn't say her name...all I could see was the ceiling cuz I couldn't move...I thought that was the last sight I was ever gonna see...
and then I open my eyes...in the exact same position. It was really crazy and it freaked the crap out of me. It seemed so real. We watched eternal sunshine w/ cic's parents earlier before we came back from Santa Maria, so somehow, I think that it was in my head...the whole dream, freaking out stuff....crazy...

This week is going by slow...

I am a memorybank of numbers...

Master what?
So Verwin's doin the master cleanse(aka the lemonade diet) again. I've been reading up on it as much as I can because I just couldn't see how preventing yourself from eating ANY solid food for an extended period of time, usually 7-10 days, could be healthy for you. But in most of the research I've done, there seem to be no ill side-effects, it seems to be a way of curing illness as well as a cleansing process, as they describe it, much like changing your oil. It is NOT a weightloss diet, though that is one of the healthy side effects of the diet(but I think you lose mostly water weight and probably gain some back when resuming back to normal life). They suggest to do it 3-4 times a year... However, I have not been able to find anywhere if you can do this diet while training or working out and stuff...because in some cases people do feel weaker a bit when they're on the master cleanse. "..most people can go about their regular business, " I don't know if training for the mud run would constitute as regular business. I'm planning on asking my doctor about it, just to see what she says about the diet itself. It is definitely interesting though...one of the biggest turnoffs though is that they just talk a lot about the diet affecting the way you eat, like you shouldn't eat any meat or whatever...mostly raw fruit and vegetable diets...as a food lover, I don't think I can ever totally not eat any meat or any of that good food I know and love, he he he. More to come on this at a later date...

No more John Hancocks?
Visa is implementing a new policy that will not require signatures for small purchases made with visa cards under $25. It is more convenient to the customer(though taking off 5-10 seconds because they dont' have to sign anymore isn't that big of a deal to me), and there is no real security risk by not requiring the siggies on these purchases because they have figured that criminals will not go to the grocery store w/ your stolen credit card and buy bananas, milk, and cereal. I know that starbucks was already doing this cuz I made a purchase a little while back and they didn't need my signature when I used my cc. You know? Criminals have got it all wrong. They think too big time...well, for the credit card thing it makes sense, becuase the person who lost their cc or had it stolen is gonna report it right away that their card was stolen and therefore the criminal has to buy as much as he/she can with the card before it gets frozen, therefore buying big ticket items. But let's say like counterfeit money: Why make fifties and hundreds and big bills like that? If I were counterfeiting, I would make like 1's 5's and 10's. I'd be a small market crook, cuz those daily expenses add up man, I could easily be saving myself 500-600 a month, just on things like gas, groceries, eating, etc. Over the long run, that would really add up. And no one would be the wiser...he he he.

Conversation of the week
me Hey, I heard our song this morning on 92Jams
beeb what's our song?
me The Closer I Get to You!!!!
beeb That's our song?
me ....
You gotta love her...he he he

I am a change in plan...

Dang, it's always tough when you have a plan set, or pretty much set and something gets thrown in all of the sudden. The way things have always been or gone on in my life, one would assume I'd be used to this by now. But I'm not...well, used to it, I guess you could say I am...it's like, "What's new?" But liking it? I don't think I ever have.... And it's never one of those "wrench in the plan"-type things that just ruin everything, it's just one of those things you have to work out, or rather, into the main plan. I just hate having to go from one place to the other right away sometimes...it makes me feel like I just come to make my appearance cuz that's what I said I would do. There's no real dilly-dally time. The definite worst was the day of Noreen and Mike's wedding, London's B-day party, the Nike Run-hit Wonder, and the Eagles concert...back in September. That was just poor poor planning on my part. Freakin crazy...4 events smushed up into one day... I have since tried to avoid a fiasco like that, by planning way ahead, but even those types of plans get stirred up. There's always something that's being forgotten...

...tis my vent for the day...

I am the end of the week that couldn't come sooner...

Another Happy b-day greeting to send out today...and that greeting goes to, Mr Jon Nathan aka Juanito aka jonesmuyguapo. Happy b-day my man, may today and your b-day weekend be filled w/ good memories, good friends, and lots of beer.

I haven't been very productive at work this week. Other than the meetings I've had...which even then weren't all that fruitful, I haven't really done much. I've napped, I've talked to other coworkers for long periods of time and I really dont' know what else I've been doing. Not like I've been uploading pics or blogging(except for today, he he he), cuz i haven't...maybe I've been looking at pics, or just zoning out for mass quantities of time... I'm probably in a non-work mood cuz I sooooo want to go to mammoth. Some of the mammoth folk were chatting last night and Keno brought up this one cabin that rests like 20 people! That thing was frickin awesome! Had everything, jacuzzi, pool table, the works...we HAVE to stay there!!!!

So Lost...
I know this is usually Joeamama's realm, but I just had to chime in and say that this show is frickin awesome yo. Just when you think you might have figured out something, they turn it around and throw in some new crazy twist. I have a new theory from this week's episode...but I shan't put it on here...cuz I

The cool thing about shuffling my itunes whilst I'm chuggin away at my computer all day at work is that I hear songs I usually would not choose to listen to, as I usualy listen to only a select few albums at work to keep me awake. Anyway, so the song I heard today was "Gangsta Lean" by DRS. And the dialogue portion stuck out to me...
Dialog:
This song is dedicated to my homies in that gangsta lean.
Tommy, the Master's touch...
And my boy YB...
And my boy EB...
And whoever else out there got a homie that's in the gangsta lean.
And also my boys in the pen that ain't gone never see the street again.
Cause you know what?
It don't matter what they was doing when they was here.
They could have been banging, slanging...
But they ain't here no more
And that's somebody's daddy, somebody's baby,
That's somebody's homie.
So go and let them rest in piece while they in that gangsta lean.
You know what I'm saying?
That's on the real, Loc.
The main part that stuck out was the "Cuz you know what? It don't matter what they was doing when they was here, they could've been banging, slanging..." Ummm, in my personal opinion, they would probably still be here if they were doing neither of those two things...just kinda funny how it sticks out like a sore thumb now, but back then, in my gansta lean days, he he he, it was "cool." How pathetic...

Anyway, onto the brighter side...
My family is funny...check this out:
e-mail from jos to me(forward)
Look at mom’s reply to my forward yesterday. I tried to email her the instructions on how to check an attachment.

e-mail from jos to mom
Alexander Joselyn wrote:

This is pretty amazing!

[forward message attached]

e-mail from mom to jos
-----Original Message-----
From: mom [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:37 AM
To: Alexander Joselyn
Subject: Re: Say Cheese..

I guess i accidentaly erase this message.

She's RESPONDING to the message! HA HA HA HA!!!

geez louise, I better get back to work....

I am a shocking discovery...

Someone has been shedding some major major pubage in one of the urinals...it's actually pretty sick. Blech...that's just nizasty yo.

Word to the wise -
Don't eat cheese you "might" think is spoiled, nor soup that was supposed to be consumed "within 10 days of opening" weeks after the fact, for lunch. It might not bode very well for your stomach...

I am the morning after the morning after the morning after the morning after...

First of all, Happy Belated b-day to my "cousin" Leilani! Welcome to my old old world!

Man, it sure has been a while since I last posted. I just really haven't been compelled to write. I mean, there's all these things in my head I want to post about, but the motivation to write just hasn't been there...I don't know. Beeb was telling me that my posts were more creative or artistic and poetic a few years ago than the boring posts they've become now... is it because I'm just getting older? Or that I just haven't had anything creative/poetic/whatever to write about? If the either is the case, i think that's kinda sad. I don't really see myself as one of the more creative writers or anything in the first place, I don't know...I'm just blabbing right now. Maybe one of these days I'll have a more creative post...until then, I'll just have to ride out the boringness that is my writing.

Anyway, I posted this on one of my comments in Cic's blogs, but I don't htink I've ever posted it on mine:
You know on january 23rd, 2045, I'll be 67? That's 1-2-3-4-5-6-7! CRAZEEEE!

Eggs and Ham
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig...