Traffic is confusing

I was driving home late last night from my friend's house after spending the afternoon with him and his family. It was darn near 9 when I actually got on the road. The drive from LA to San Diego is actually pretty nice proivided there is no traffic, sadly there was tons of traffic which doesn't make any sense to me. Even more perplexing was the solid wall of cars coming the other way, barely any gaps in the army of headlights, I wish I could have taken a picture there was so much traffic. I don't understand why on a sunday night at 9+PM there is so much traffic going between the two cities, it was bad enough that I didn't once even consider using the cruise control. What are you people doing?

A standard Saturday

I really had a fantastic time this last saturday, and I was sooooo tired after just the first part of the day, what follows is a timeline:

8:00 AM - Arrive at the gym, start running on the treadmill, do 2.5 miles
8:30 AM - Begin helping teach the UCSD wrestling team practice, we focused on catch wrestling stuff and then went live.
9:30 AM - Help Cosmoe (fighter getting ready for a fight in a couple weeks) work through some wrestling technique, wrestled live (the most fun).
10:05 AM- Try not to stare at girl I think is really attractive who's waiting in the lobby area (I don't do well at this)
10:15 AM - Went up to the sauna to try and get some blood into Cosmoe's aching elbows
10:45 AM - Did a crossfit workout with Cosmoe that focused solely on legs since we wanted to rest aching elbow joints, this consisted of:
5 rounds
25 Box jumps/Lunges with weight while the other person completes the box jumps
15 hamstring extensions each leg with weight (unquestionably the worst part and the reason I'm most sore today)
25 Squat jumps
11:30 AM - Cool down with shoulder stretches.
12:00 PM - Return home and shower
12:30 PM - Ride bike to Pacific Beach boardwalk with roomate, set-up and play beach volleyball in the sun. I need to practice more.
4:00 PM - Legs completely shot from playing volleyball after workouts, bike ride home and shower
4:30 PM - Throw in a load of laundry and do some work at home.
5:45 PM - realize that one of the neighbors kids opened the door to the dryer I was using, I have to wait to finish this load before I go anywhere as I don't have any clean underwear.
6:05 PM - Drive over to Cory's house, pick-up Cory and drive to Balboa Park for MMA fights, Total Combat 34.
6:35 PM - Arrive at Balboa, Park next to the zoo parking lot, get told that our hook-up can't get us in for free like previously discussed.
6:45 PM - Cory, Dave and I take our seats in the outdoor arena, the fights aren't supposed to start for 45 minutes. As time goes by more folks from Throwdown take seats around us.
8:15 PM - Fights start, 45 minutes late, I just now realize I've had literally no solid food all day.
9:45 PM - Cory, Dave, Lou, and I all leave after watching Mark win his fight, we head downtown to Basic for pizza, after waiting for a table we get seated and I devour the salad and pizza, it tastes amazing but considering it was the first thing I ate all day that's not too much of a surprise.
11:00 PM - Head over to Hard Rock on the way we see a guy in a full Superman outfit, Lou knows the bouncer so we skip the line and get right in. I try to start dancing but my body is too tired to really do much.
11-2AM - Shenanagins, eventually my legs loosen up after I keep stretching. Girls is crazy, I don't drink because I'm so tired and driving. Some asian guy threatens Cory because his "girlfriend" tries to molest Cory.
2:40 AM - Arrive home after driving Cory home, I watch the Shaq comedy special, it's hilarious. After about an hour I try and fall asleep.

So all in all it was a pretty uneventful saturday.

Moving

This may seem incredibly stupid to most people, but I live too far from the beach. I live a whole 8 or so blocks from the beach, and I want to live closer, so I'm moving 1 block from the beach so I don't have to deal with the hassle of a 5 minute bike ride. Life is very difficult out here.

This is a shot from the outside, inside the complex.

This is a picture of the place from the sidewalk. Here's a picture from inside the living room (the place is being repainted and the floors are being redone.

And finally this is a look from the sidewalk to the beach. 1 block.

BBQ

Let it be known by all that when I throw a cookout I grill more food then can be eaten by those in attendance. At no time will I let you stop eating to rest, you will consume all meat or meat like products until completely full. Then leftrovers will be consumed for days. Also if I feel you are sandbagging it on the amount of food eaten I'll get on your case. Everyone has thus been forwarned.

I managed to hit most animals in the meat selection yesterday. Burgers, pork tenderloin (which were great), chicken and apple sausages, hotdogs, and turkey breasts. Also the mango curry marinade was great on the turkey breasts.

Oh also I domnated that database

I couple of weeks ago I was having fits with the database. I tried 170000000 different ways to make it work. When it was all said and done and I'd done all theis reprogramming, and calculating, and scheming, it turns out that it wasn't working because of a data entry error. A simple run through the front end of the data showed me that people had input data incorrectly and I couldn't see it from the background information. I should have checked that first, but other people are supposed to check that, but I should have done it as well. Ironically after spending 5 days trying to find a programming solution to the error, 5 minutes looking at the front end of the database netted me both the problem and the solution.

I'm sure I'll look back on this years from now and laugh...or cry...As penance for my stupidity I later went and got beat up at the gym.

Take that America

So for the past couple of weeks I've been pretty confident that I was going to have to work some or all of the holiday weekend. Budget season is in full swing and I've spent the last 4 weekends at work for some amount of time. Pretty lame huh? But today it looks like I'll be able to finish all the things that need to be submitted on monday today! Which means I may have the weekend off!

The problem being that I have no plans for the weekend. I assumed for a month that I would be working this weekend and I'm shocked to figure out that I won't be. Now what the heck do I do with myself? I guess I'll need to figure out some kind of barbeque or get together, but I'll still be pretty fried from work. People will say I look tired or I won't be talking to folks because I'll be thinking about work. So basically what I'm saying is I wish I were working this weekend instead of looking like the total social reject I am.