August 6th, 2008 by erisian

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March 20th, 2008 by erisian

sitting at work.. coffee not yet flowing freely, sleep deprived by waking too early…

silliness ensues.. this was my morning on a day earlier this week… unfortunately, one of my co-workers happened to have a camera and caught this..  i look really silly.. silly..

i have decided that silly is a stupid word.

March 19th, 2008 by erisian

I am not one for taking vacations normally. when it comes down to time off work, i use my sick days and end up with limited available downtime. breaking that habit is a hard thing to do, but so far it appears to be going well.

i was writing up lots of details but ended up with a huge post.. decided to crop it down to just the bare details cause i am LAZY.. photos included.

Thurs:

• left work and drank lots of beer with Jenn in the PDX airport. quite buzzed by the time we stood up, was nice
• boarded flight and headed south to the Oakland airport.
• touch own in the Oakland airport (really small.. REALLY small).
• Met up with Jenn’s friend Stacy.
• more drinks at Stanfords. Stanfords in California was very different as opposed to the stuffy versions we have in PDX. it was a little “just 21″ hot spot.. it was scary
• was very tired and passed out.

Friday

• freeways were mother fucking evil down there. what with people driving while text messaging, no one in the state appearing to know what a blinker is, and the posted speed limits being used only for reference while people’s feet pushed the accelerators closer to the floor. it was a good thing that Stacy is a good driver else i would have cried and climbed down on to the floor. i am not used to being in high speed cars anymore.. i have regained the fear that should be in all of us.
• Stacy was kind enough to give us a whirl wind tour of San Francisco. Having never spent any time there i was appreciative :)
• breakfast at a little cafe called Chloe’s Cafe (1399 Church St). mother fuckin pancakes.. thats all i have to say. pancakes pancakes pancake. they were GOOD. okay, i have more to say. fruit, cup of coffee, some bacon on the side and a big bowl of tomato based soup. Jenn had some kind of egg scramble that was delicious, so did Stacy, though i was so into my food that i really cant remember what they had cooked in them.
• we drove around town a bit, hit up a few touristy places down on the docks,
• drank some margaritas
• hit up the golden gate bridge for a couple standard “we dont live here” photos
• Dropped by the outside of the Exploratorium to snap a couple shots.

• removed vundo virus from Stacy’s computer
• that night we went went to a pretty cool restaurant for dinner Gordon Birsch or something.. fantastic black beer was to be had as well as a really incredible rueben sandwich, Met Jenn’s best friend, Ricky
• off to a bar called the holy cow, where every one drank beer and danced. some englishman was crowding my space and chatting me up. everytime Jenn kissed me, he would hide his face or turn his head, then wait for her to leave.

Note: next time i head down there there will need to be a full day devoted to one of the big museums.. all day at the exploratorium or the modern art museum, etc..

Saturday

• much more mellow. woke up and went with Stacy to pick up her boys from the grand parents house.
• road trip from her place to Modesto. every road in the valley looks the same to me.. every field and orchard might as well be on the same block cause i cant tell the difference between them all. i liked it.
• met Jenn’s dad and step mom, various step-siblings through out the night.
• lazy night eating chinese food and gabbing

Sunday

• woke up late due to daylight savings.. always sneaks up on me.
• headed out to Jamestown to visit phreekachu.
• talked phreekachu into a spontaneous shaving of his porn moustache and he decided to straighten his hair before work.
• enjoyed a great amount of conversation with him and his girlfriend (who is awesome btw)
• back to modesto for a baby blessing
• bbq
• hanging and chatting till bed time

Monday

• out the door earlyish, driving to san jose.
• ate the greatest hamburger i have ever had in my life at a shop called “Nations”

• met a couple of Jenn’s friends (Dee, and one whose name i forget)
• Hiking in a canyon where there used to be a turn of the century hot springs spa.
• watch people play horseshoes.
• back to modesto and bed.. early morning was coming.

Tuesday

• Jenn’s dad gave us a ride to the airport. he works close by. left at 5 am or so to head out to oakland through morning traffic.
• time amazingly flew by and we were on board and in the airs soon after.
• back in pdx around 10 am.

next time i take my laptop with me so i dont have a week long delay in showing people pictures.. i will just do them once a day or so.. :)

portable computers are portable… smart eh?

so anyway, here you go, a week or so later, a synopsis of our trip. more happened and has been cut out.. many pictures not shown, of those that are shown, click to make bigger.