So i've now bought World of Warcraft,  on reccomendation from a
few work friends.  I see it as a new drain of time,  but this
might be good as i won't be going out (see: spending $)  as
much.  This isn't likely,  just possible,  considering
how many concerts I want to go to in the next three months. 

And I think i'm going to diverge into *two* blogs now,  possibliy
posting entries on both xanga and blogspot,  as i test out the
cool features which xanga is lacking.   Since there is a way
for me to include RSS feeds (such as news items,  and more
importantly the last few songs i've played in iTunes) that is just too
cool to pass up.  Or I may just create a semi-dynamic page which i
can push cool content (photos, quotes,  song lyrics,  the
songs i'm playing, etc) to at any time.....my inner geek is starting to
be inspired.....

Even with purchasing WoW,  I'm not going to turn into a gamer in any sense,  at least how I
was in high school when my friends and I spent free periods in the
Gryphon's Tale (our school newspaper) office MUD'ing on our design computers.  Ahh the glory days of telnet.

"10-4, good buddy"

hahahaha. i kill me.

http://www.ribbonofroad.com/index.html

Very cool.

it has been a long weekend.

but at least i got to hang out with great friends,  see a couple
movies,  buy tons of cool books at the sf library book sale, 
listen to a compilation cd which has been sitting in shrink wrap for a
year,  and have lunch in sausalito (might have been my first time
in sausalito in fact) on a glorious day with a perfect view of the
greatest city in the entire world.

books now added to my queue:

Alvin Toffler, "The Third Wave"
Tony Kornheister, "I'm Back for the Cash"
Timothy O'Brien, "Bad Bet"
Lessard and Baldwin, "net slaves: true tales of working the web"
Alan Cooper, "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum"
Thomas Hine, "The Total Package"
Jacoby and Crawford, "The Backgammon Book"
A. Alvarez, "The  Biggest Game in Town"
Stephen Levy, "Crypto"
Clifford Stoll, "High Tech Heretic"
Ralph Schoenstein, "The Booze Book: The Joy of Drink"
Joseph Menn, "all the rave: the rise and fall of napster"
Michael Lewis, "The New New Thing"
David Bank, "Breaking Windows"

And i still have to read the Tales of the City compendium, next.  These should last me quite a while....

well i guess i don't have to worry about the small losses from my vegas vacation.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AMLN&t=5d&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

green day, "2000 light years away"



I sit alone in my bedroom


Staring at the walls


I've been up all damn night long


My pulse is speeding


My love is yearning

I hold my breath and close my eyes and dream about her


Cause she's 2000 light years away


She holds my malakite so tight so...


Never let go


Cause she's 2000 light years away

I sit outside and watch the sunrise


Lookout as far as i can


I cant see her, but in the distance


I hear some laughter


We laugh together.

i really need an escape. i've fucked up more than a couple times this week,  immensely disappointing my new friends.

i carry this burden of guilt around with me.  and its not good to
go into a vacation with a lot of bad karma.  i'll be out for a
couple days, but may still even blog once or twice. (thank god for
wireless internet)

maybe the answers will come to me as i walk through the city of
flashing neon.  i can only hope that i'm able to redeem myself in
the eyes of my friends,  once i return home.

Oops.  I guess I let this slip.   After enough jabbing
from friends (who supposedly just check this on occasion),  i've
decided to blog again. 

On Sunday night,  i finally went out for sushi with my friend
Daria.  She and I have been talking about this for a while
now....but she has been busy,  i've been busy,  she was back
in Romania visiting her relatives back there,  you know the
drill.  =)   We ate at Kirala,  and we ate (well
mostly me) a ton!  Sooo good though.  First time for me
trying tempura ice cream.  I even loved the caterpillar (avocado,
crab, unagi,  tobiko) roll and i don't even like crab.  The
robata were about on par with those at Barracuda in burlingame, 
however the quail was tasty. A bit difficult to eat however.

Today,  I woke up later than normal for work.  On top of
that,  I was scrambling around trying to find my bus/building
pass.  I didn't find it,  but i'm not stressing anymore as I
found it when I got home.  Dinner plans with an old acquaintance
from college were scuttled,  but we moved them to Thursday. 
Dinner at Tablespoon on russian hill, so that should be
fun.   I think i have plans almost every day this week. 
Craziness!  And all this leads up to my quick three-day,
two-nighter to Sin City starting on Sunday.  I need a bit of an
escape.  "Me time" as they say.....good restaurants,  a
concert,  penn/teller, drinks at ghostbar,  and maybe even a
bit of poker play at the wynn.  And definitely some reading by the
pool.  Should be a very relaxing mini-vacation!

i was going through songs randomly in iTunes and came across one of my
favorite bands from college,  a Chicago band called Sarge, fronted
by Elizabeth Elmore.  Just posting the lyrics doesn't do this
justice,  her voice is beautiful....

sarge, "half as far"

Sometimes - seems like you're my only friend


a month apart and back again


and we're losing speed


and now we've talked this through a thousand times


I fall apart and still you try


we're losing heat to all the little things


that smolder in the spring

You're only half as far as I need to go--oh


for another endless drive


I stare straight ahead


and wonder why,


this feeling grows with everyday I'm far from home

Last night - I listened to you breathe


I like to watch you when you sleep


and there's a storm outside


but there's a comfort in your voice,


it brings me silence through the noise


that fills my mind


with all the little things


that smolder in the spring

So now I take the phone to bed at night


to catch your calls and pick more fights


I'm not being fair


see i don't want to waste your time


and it's not that you're a waste of mine


but I'm getting scared of all the little things


that smolder in the spring

You're only half as far as I need to go--oh

for another endless drive

I stare straight ahead

and wonder why,

this feeling grows with everyday I'm far from home

it is still only wednesday.  sigh.