Buffalo Wing Festival
This weekend is the Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo! I was thinking we should have some sort of homage to it here in LA.. maybe Sunday when Ruben & Neeka come by? 
Full Lunar Eclipse!
Josh and I heard on the news about the full lunar eclipse last night and there hasn’t been one since 2004. It sounded cool, but waking up at 2:58 AM to see it… not so cool. So we just went to bed and waited for the morning to watch it on the news. But then somehow Josh woke up at 2:56 AM! He woke me up and we saw it and I tried to get a photo of it. It looked awesome. Sort of glowing red like and dark enough that you can get the sky and photo subject matter looking correct. Photographers will tell you, you can’t get a good shot of the moon and your subject matter (if it’s not the moon!), you will get one or the other and you must do some photoshop magic to get them both
Of course the photo doesn’t do it justice… but I thought it was kind of cool. 20 second shutter with my f1.4 Sigma lens
now playing: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy
New Speed Racer Movie!
The Wachowski brothers are working on the new Speed Racer movie and it’s using some kind of new camera that has everthing in focus all the time (just as a cartoon would). I can’t imagine that being a good thing… because focus guides your eye where to look…
now playing: Tokyo Police Club - Shoulders and Arms
Last weekend on the lake?
We went to the lake Saturday probably the last time for summer. Brought the seadoos and met Steve and his wife with their boat again and their friends Mimo (sp?) and Christine. Amritz showed up a bit later in the morning but it was cool because we couldn’t launch right away anyhow. The fancy new battery Josh got for his yellow jetski was dead! It was new as of this summer! We had jumper cables so Josh charged it off of the truck for a long time then when Amritz showed up we charged it off his car. By like 11am we got it started and launched.
The lake was super choppy but the launch was nice and empty at 11am We had yummy food. Steve and his wife brought all kinds of good stuff. Big sandwiches from Ralph’s, whole big shrimp and cocktail sauce platter, tostadas, and more! It was crazy. I can’t eat that much at the lake though. Something about knowing I’m gonna wipe out on the wakeboard or tube later… and I’d rather not do it on a full stomach. I drink tons of gatorade and water instead.
Amritz rode the war chariot for the first time and had a blast. I took some cool pics this time, more air shots But took them on Sarah’s camera, so I gotta wait to post them. Steve again rocked the tube. Not sure how he can almost surf on it at the speeds we’re going but yeah… Steve and Mimo tried wakeboarding and couldn’t get up. I got up for a little while. It was waaaaay easier off the boat. For some reason I can stay up much longer while crouching down. Something throws off my balance when I stand fully up. The rope gets slack so I pull it in closer and then it gets slack again and I have nothing to do now but fall… I think there’s another solution involving positioning the board and my body, just gotta figure it out though.
The rope got caught in one of Steve’s jets in his boat when it was Mimo’s last try. Good thing he has 2 jets! As soon as we pulled the boat out, we got it cut out no problem. So, it was fine Everytime we go out something happens, just part of the good time! 
Summer is almost over! I think we might have a barbeque next weekend to celebrate the end of summer. That’s what labor day is for, right?
now playing: Biz Markie - Just a Friend
Castaic Lake Boating!
We went boating with Josh’s friend Esteban from work and his wife and his brother in law to Castaic Lake on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. I finally got to see how big Castaic Lake really is. We brought our tube and that was a lot of fun as well. Things are so much easier on a boat, you don’t have to worry about how to get the cooler to the beach, and limiting what you bring to what fits in a seado.
There’s a small beach area at the back of Castaic that is surrounded by high mountains that we hung out at. Steve’s wife made some awesome chicken tostadas and we had some fresh fruit. Nothing tastes better than fresh fruit when you’re in a lake or at the beach.. not sure why, but it always holds true. Josh got crazy air off the tube repeatedly until he called it quits same with Steve’s wife.. she got almost 4 feet out of the water one time. She’s brave.
Later that night we saw Chris Porter from Last Comic Standing perform at the Hollywood Improv with Amritz and Sarah. He’s hilarious. Josh and I thought he should have won his season of Last Comic Standing.
We went to the 8pm show… so by 10pm when we were clearing out I saw Matt from this seasons’s Last Comic Standing! Matt is this really funny comedian from the UK, he cracked me up on the show. Last week’s show he was voted off 
It looked like he was going to perform at the 10pm show.
new mac book pro!
i got my new macBook pro yesterday!
unfortunately it was shipped by DHL. ugh. worst carrier ever. i haven’t had a good experience with them in the past (delivered to wrong location and i had to go find it) and i don’t know anyone that has. so of course, i had trouble with this delivery. the message from the tracking on their website said ‘Premises closed. Undeliverable. Will try again tomorrow’. i guess it’s because we live in a gated neighborhood… so i didn’t get any notice on my door to bring with me and i called to tell them i’ll just go pick it up bout 30 mins away. but i had to wait for calls all day for the delivery guy to confirm with me that i could pick it up that day. they were supposed to call my cell, so of course they called my home.. that sounds about right. so i went down to DHL facility and of course they can’t look it up by my name and license (like fedex.. ahh fedex). i had to call LB (she’s my inet go to girl - saved my butt when we were in vegas too 
). she looked up my shipment and voila! tracking number and finally i could get out of that place. everyone in there was annoyed. big line… tiny little place no room for more than 20 ppl max shoulder to shoulder.
NEway.. i got my macbook pro and it was worth it i love it. i love the new power cord, the larger trackpad, built in camera and it’s thinner
now playing: Muse - Starlight
New Building!
We moved into the new building at work, it’s nice and new. I’m way closer to a window and the cubes are brighter too. Only downside is the window between my cube and my supervisors, but he already put paper up and i wanna put curtains up, but it’s too much work to sew them right now. I might stop by ikea this weekend and see what i can find.
I posted some pics in the photo gallery at the right.
now playing: Alkaline Trio - Metro
Excercise, it does the body good.
I’m trying to build arm strength up to prove to Josh I can do one push up. I haven’t been able to yet. So this has been of some help:
http://thetrainingstationinc.com/exercises.html
Probably because I’m not exactly a regular at a real gym (i know the excercise machines that our HOA provides isn’t exactly a gym), I was not aware of what to do to build muscle where I want it.
now playing: x-games!
