Very Frankly Speaking

Can any of you still feel the after effects of the Y2K bug? Because, honestly, it’s making my life a living hell.

All kidding aside, I can’t believe it’s the end of this decade. This is the decade I went through college and became an adult. This is the decade I met the person I’ll be spending the rest of my life with. I’ve made so many friends over the past 10 years. I upgraded from a Motorola Star-Tac to a Blackberry. I built my first computer 10 years ago in high school with an AMD processor and now I’m working for AMD. I had a crappy personal HTML blog in 2001, the moved to Xanga in 2003, and eventually made the switch over to Facebook around 2005 and stopped blogging around 2006ish maybe. It’s so important to keep a record of all the things I’ve done. I bought my first 1.3 megapixel digital camera in 2001 which was a huge freaking brick and luckily I’ve got all those pictures still on hand. I really want to go back and grab a bunch of pics and highlight the good times… Sounds like a lot of work, but it’d be awesome. So at first I was thinking I was gonna take it easy this New Year’s Eve, but it’s the end of a decade and the start of a new one, so I’m thinking I might go out with a bang. i can’t even begin to fathom what’s in store for the next 10 years.

Hm, about that “updating frequently” thing. I failed at that. Anyway, I’m halfway through Christmas break and it’s been rather relaxing. I had to work a little last week while I was still in Austin, but it was nothing big. It was a SOAP connection that was being erratic, but I figured it out. I might actually make a post about it cuz that’s what this blog was originally supposed to be for.

Christmas was good… I’ve been maintaining an Amazon wishlist and basically got the stuff I wanted! It makes it so much easier for people that need to buy gifts for me. We’re both happy. If you’re interested in making me happy, here’s the link: http://bit.ly/4VPbVV. I got a camelback (water backpack) which will be great for snowboarding, a Canon backpack for all my camera stuff (beats the hell out of the other bag i’ve been using), wrenches, and a hand vacuum. All stuff I need.

I drove from San Antonio to Beaumont on Sunday and finally met Ramona and a few more of Kristine’s friends. It was a lot of fun hanging out with them until 4 in the morning, playing Apples to Apples, VC, speed, and a bunch of other random card games, lol. Oh yeah we went bowling for a bit too. Ramona’s gonna be one of Kristine’s bridesmaids so that brings our total to 7 on each side

We’re here in New Orleans right now. We’re staying at a 4.5 star hotel called Le Pavillion http://www.lepavillon.com. It feels very New Orleans-like, service is awesome, except parking is $28 a day! It’s really not that far from the French Quarter, maybe a short 5 minute walk to cross Canal St. We’ve been eating a lot. We’ve basically done every restaurant that Adam has done on Man vs. Food. Mother’s, Cafe Dumonde, and Acme Oyster House. We went to Mother’s on a whim, but then Krisitne remembered that this was a place that he had gone to. http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Man_v_Food/ci.New_Orleans.show?vgnextfmt=show. Kristine picked the other two spots, which were absolutely awesome. We might just follow everywhere he goes in each city we’re visit. But yeah, the food in this city is no lie. Oh, we also went to Deanie’s Seafood for dinner, which actually put my stomach over the top. So full. We came back to the hotel, grabbed our free PB&J that the hotel provides at 10pm every night and got too lazy to head out again for drinks. Sign of getting old.

Okay, not sure what I’m still doing up, but I need to sleep. We’re finally making good progress on Dexter. We’re on Season 2 Episode 4. I’m not sure why I’d been watching the other garbage on television cuz Dexter is so superior to anything else on TV. Okay, good night.

I feel like I REALLY need to start updating more. It’s still awesome to be able to go back to my Xanga and view old posts because it really helps me re-live college again. We all used to make pretty constant updates on Xanga back in the day, and they were all pretty detailed. Nowadays, we have Twitter and Facebook statuses, but it’s not the same. 140 characters or less AND you’re not able to search through old posts. I’m pretty sure that Twitter and Facebook don’t give a damn about the past and just delete your history. So in an effort to preserve the history that I am making, I will blog more.

Elaine and Kwan’s wedding is this weekend in Houston and it should be really fun. It’s just gonna be one huge party. I have to bring Winston down to San Antonio tomorrow though cuz we’re having Filipino Christmas potluck at Kat, Allan, and Rico’s on Thursday. We’re gonna play mahjongg and basically start acting like our parents.

Also, I haven’t decided what we’re gonna do with our free time after we win the national championship on January 7th. All we know is that on Friday, the day after the game, Deanne reserved some room at South, the bar they took us to for Halloween last year… We don’t really have any plans, which we really should… Conan O’ Brien has been thrown out there… and also, snowboarding at Big Bear is a serious option for me… It’s only freaking 90 miles away… about 2 hours from LAX cuz you gotta zig-zag through the mountains.

If snowboarding at Big Bear doesn’t get scheduled, I really want to head to El Paso before New Year’s and just drive up to Ruidoso. That just seems more of an expensive option cuz it’ll still involve me having to drive to El Paso. Kristine and I are seriously looking for something to do between Christmas and New Year’s because Thanksgiving was just a big waste. I REFUSE to do any work over the holiday break. I got called up while in Phoenix last year to fix crap cuz one of our database servers went down and that was a huge freaking inconvenience.

Kristine and I have had our wedding website up for a while, but we haven’t made it public since we don’t have the details laid out yet, lol. We should have it figured out for sure before the end of the year. If you can figure out the URL (cuz it’s working), i will consider buying you a beer.

I think that was a pretty awesome update. Gotta get stuff done at work this week so I can relax over the holidays!