SwimFinsSF

Spring Cleaning

This weekend was crazy productive. We both spent a TON of time purging old crap from around the house. I’ve managed to create a huge heap of good will clothes, a pile of DVDs to take to streetlight, a HUGE stack of books to give away, and more trash than you could imagine. Kevin did the same! :)… And… Of course, durinig the process I found all sorts of goodies.. But some of the best (or the worst actually) I figured I’d share… So here goes… As embarrased as I am to share it with y’all, here are some pix of me from high school and college:

This one is from prom my Sophomore year. I was so proud of myself cuz I managed to muster the courage to ask Marla to her senior prom. Was a lot of fun! :

These two are from my Senior prom in 1988. I went with my best buddy Kim and doubled with our friends Hans and Deanna.

And this one is one of my senior pictures (the informal one):

And, last but not least, is one that was taken of me in college for an Apple Ad campaign. Ya gotta love the high tops and acid wash jeans.. YIKES..

Anyway… Had to share! 🙂 (Click on any of ’em to make ’em larger)

Happy Sunday

Oh… And by the way

If anyone knows who stole the tip jar from Jumpin Java – kick their ass for me… Who steals a tip jar? Thats just bad karma if I”ve ever heard it – especially from my favorite-little-accross-the-street-coffee-shop…

People suck some times..

I’ve been informed

That Don Knotts has been at the top of my blog too long and I’d better post something… So here goes! 🙂

A whole lot of the same lately, thus the lack of posting… Weeks have been spent working for the most part – LOTS going on at work though, as usual, I really can’t talk about any of it here. Joys of working on and planning products that aren’t out the door yet. Sometimes it frustrates me that I can’t talk about it more but thats the name of the game I suppose..

Last weekend was fun though. Kevin and I spent 4 days in Miami for our friend Tony’s birthday. We flew down friday AM and stayed at a hotel called the Blue Moon (name made me giggle but I can’t say I recommend it). Friday we spent exploring the beach and South Beach. Interesting town I’ve gotta say. It kinda reminded us of Vegas but with prettier people. Friday night we had dinner and hung out with Clayton who was in town for the Winter Party ( we weren’t there for that but the rest of the gay boys were )…

Saturday day we spent scuba diving off the coast of Miami. The dives were interesting but not the best once we’ve been on. The first dive wasn’t all that great. I was having equipment trouble (mask started hurting me after 10 minutes in the water) and the dive site wasn’t all that interesting. To further complicate things we had trouble keeping track of the boat so I spent a good amount of time worrying that we’d gotten lost. We never were actually very far from the boat but being the worry wart that I am I fussed about it a lot.. The second dive was much better. It was actually a dive around a bunch of 6′ pipes that had been sunk off the coast – lots of things growing on them and swimming around them. We stayed close to the anchor line and explored around them – very cool..

Saturday night was Tony’s party at a bar called Buck15 in South beach. Party was a lot of fun – we actually knew a bunch of people there as it turned out. Tony moved away from San Francisco a while ago and his friends at the party were from all over. Some friends of mine from YEARS ago who had since moved to London were there, our friend Tim who had just reappeared after a long stint of relationship-itis, our friend Adam, and a bunch of others. Aside from drama at the end caused by too much alcohol and too much flirting the part was a lot of fun…

Sunday and monday after that were pretty low key – explored a little.. Slept a lot.. Went out to dinner… Watched the oscars.. That kind of stuff…

Overall a lot of fun but I can’t say Miami is much my kinda place.. was nice havin a break from the rain though! 🙂

Anyway.. Back to my weekend.. TTFN

Don Knotts: 1924-2006

US comedy star Knotts dies at 81



US actor Don Knotts, who won five Emmys for playing a bumbling deputy sheriff in comedy The Andy Griffith Show, has died in a Los Angeles hospital aged 81.

Between Barney Fife and Mr. Furley I’ve got many childhood memories from this guy!

A Weekend in LA

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This last weekend Kevin and I decided to head down to LA to explore. I had an all day meeting in Santa Monica on friday so we decided to take advantage of that and spend the weekend… Weekend started off a little rocky because of weather – Kevin’s flight got delayed from 9:20pm friday night until 2am at which point he bailed and decided to come back the next morning. But from that point on it was great..

Once he got in we dropped his luggage off at the hotel and went to see an exhibit called ‘Ashes and Snow‘ at the Santa Monica Pier…. REALLY COOL temporary exhibit that is a mixed video and still media presentation… I HIGHLY recommend it if you can make it down that way… We then spent the rest of the afternoon doing random tourist stuff which was fun too… We went to the new Disney concert hall in downtown LA – it was cool but really kinda typical for Gehry’s architecture and pretty similar to the Experience Music Project in Seattle… We also checked out MOCA while we were in the area – comic book art was just OK but the rest was VERY cool..

Saturday night we hung out with Stephen – just had dinner in Marina Del Rey near his house and then went to see Brokback Mountain (we all just kinda wanted to see it again and it was raining so sounded better than the other options)..

Sunday we had lunch with Kevin’s friend Steven at Basix in West Hollywood which was really nice (both hanging out with Steven and the place)… After that we went on a driving tour of Bel Air and Hollywood… Sunday night we had a dinner to ourselves for a late Valentines day dinner… Was really nice…

Overall a great trip despite a few hiccups… 🙂

Freaky Mutant Elk

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Originally uploaded by SwimFinsSF.

Oh – and this is the elk.. Look closely.. That elk has one horn in the right place and the other square in the middle of his forehead! Zoinks.. poor thing…