1st b-day as a blogger

I'm a screaming bansheee.
with a b-day.

according to hallmark at least, ha.


Happy B-day Val Kilmer and Anthony Hopkins

Thats funny.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/29/germany.tourist.reut/index.html

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

Dressed for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.

Instead of arriving "down under", Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.

"I did wonder but I didn't want to say anything," Gutt told the Bild newspaper. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States."

Gutt's airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney -- an oil town of about 5,000 people -- did he realize his mistake.

The hapless tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter cold, spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia with 600 euros in cash that his parents and friends sent over from Germany.

"I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers," his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.

So I'm a bit surprised at how disappointed some A's fans are at Barry going across the Bay. If someone offered you a lot of money to do the same job and you liked your home and didn't really want to move to Queens, NY, Arlington, TX or Seattle, WA. I'd take the money. No big deal. It's not like when Giambi said he'd really like to stay then jumped ship ASAP to play in the Bronx.

Dreams #10!!!!

So this one all the women disappeared...(Sad!) and for some reason I got stuck living with a bunch of married people, J.D., Jeremiah, J.D.'s dad and some other guy... We were living in some house or loft. well the beds were suspended above one another and I was mad because I was at the top and it a twin-sized frame...and I have a queen size mattress.

Strange Dreams.

Zito went to the Giants... strange $18 mil a year for the next seven years.
I figured he'd get like 13-15 million for the next five or six. Baseball is a strange business. Thats a lot of money to give someone who probably will go 15-9 with a 4-something ERA.

A week after the mass-email.

Resulted in:

The most people visiting the ole blog in one day the day the e-mail was sent.

Jordan and Irene being added to the Gmail Chat folks. Resulting in a total of 236 lines of conversation with Jordan and a whopping 777 lines with Irene. I'm shocked.
(By comparison, there have only been 175 lines of conversation with Ellie over that time period, not including the Messanger stuff). So the use of Gmail chat has pretty much expanded a whoooole lot and a lot more chatting.

Some interesting comments to the photo.

"When my little sister was the picture she was like whos that guy hes cute, pointing to one of you and then she was like wait there all the same guy"

"This is awesome! You had me there for a while. I was thinking you had 4 other “twin brothers” lol."

"That's creative"

"Thanks for the christmas newsletter. You have a beautiful family:)"

There were some other comments but those were on other IM programs and I don't have access to those histories since I'm at home.

Plus many many happy people.

I took an Internet Brain Sex ID test on the BBC's website. I'm right in the middle. So I guess my brain is half male and half female... or something.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml?users=1

The Sharks are 1-2 during the time period... boo.

Dreams #9

So I was going to random things with Kevin, Tim and some other guy. Tim had some fancy ole Land Rover. So yeah. Merry Xmas.

Dreams #6 or 7

So last night I was in some sort of domestic bliss (or something) with Jessie. In some part of CA where it rains so much that it floods out things twice a year. Hm. It wasn't like the intimate happy side of domestic bliss. It was the "Oh we can't make it because Jess has to work til..." bliss. so yeah. I haven't had domestic bliss dreams for like four years or so, so thats something new.

Internet trash?

the music in the movie of my life: So, you open up your music library and put it on random/shuffle and use whichever song pops up for the answers. No cheating.

Opening Credits: “Quality Control” by Jurassic 5…so I guess Ice Cube is going to be me… in my movie. I guess.

Waking Up: "Rain When I Die" Alice in Chains. Grunge is a horrible genre of music to wake up to… this movie isn’t looking so hot. Poor Ice Cubed Kirk.

First Day At School: "Are We the Waiting" by Green Day I guess this kinda makes sense. Since the first day of school always was worthless. So…

Falling In Love: "Clear Your Mind" from Pennywise. So apparently I fall in love with a punk. That Ice Cubed Kirk has to clear his mind of stereotypes he has of his probably not so attractive girl..

Breaking Up: "Freak Me Out" Weezer. With all the emo on here. It could have been a better break up song. But it could have been worse.

Prom: "The Blue Roses” Rookie of the Year. Sure this is the first song that could easily fit. Though it’s a bit sad. But I guess some people are sad High School is over. And you could slow dance to it.

Life's OK: "Fish F#ck" by Gwar, ok um. Life isn’t so ok. It’s also an R-rated movie now.

Breakdown: "WTO" by Pennywise. Sure that works. Ice Cubed Kirk is mad so many people are dying.

Driving: "Next First Try" by Ticker Tape Parade. I guess that works. It’s a happy song.

Flashback: "Sam’s Town" The Killers, I guess Ice Cubed Kirk ends up on the East side of Las Vegas and flashes back to it…

Getting Back Together: "Don’t Panic” Gas Huffer… I guess I got back with the ugly punk girl. And I’m not going to panic… or something.

Wedding: "Saturday Night" Kill Switch. I guess I married the ugly punk and got married on a Saturday.

Honeymoon: "They Don’t Know" by The Cooties. I guess. I mean we are like a total punk rawk couple.

Birth of Child: "Everything Sucks" Descendents. Hahahahahahahahahaha my poor offspring.

Final Battle: "The Checkered Demon" AFI, that’s a worthy fight song I think. Maybe I battle a ska kid in a mosh pit.

Death Scene: "H2Yo" Chillin Dogs… I guess I lost to the ska kid.

Funeral Song: "Carve Your Heart" Dashboard Confessional. It’s emo so it works as a funeral song, this would be scary if it picked “At Your Funeral” by Saves the Day.

Dance Sequence: "She’ll Learn” Antifreeze.

End Credits: "Genocide/418” Unwritten Law. “You don't wanta cross the line boy
It will you your genocide. Your genocide” I guess it was. Ice Cubed punk Kirk died.

Ok so that’s interesting. Um… I guess. Sad, my life movie is a “straight to DVD bargain bin” movie. That blockbuster only gets 1 copy of and only like 4 people rent the DVD. This is a movie that would be next to From Justin to Kelly on the IMDB worse movies ever list.

Thats my life, in one day I dream something random, get a little bit deep for like an hour then dump some Internet "do this and report it to the world" on the blog. Merry Christmas.

Friend V1.0.1

So I have ample free time. I was thinking about the whole Mark McGwire Hall of Fame question. Is he really good enough to be in the Hall of Fame? Even since he was accused of taking steroids and didn’t deny it (but didn’t admit it). Some say he wasn’t even the best power hitter of his generation and was quite one-dimensional (Though people forget he did win a gold glove in 1990).

This reminded me of what an American church member in Japan told me, “God gave you five fingers so you can count five good friends. If you can count five good friends then you lived a pretty good life” (that was paraphrased…like I’m going to remember something verbatim from like six years ago)

I’ve always kind of considered my five as the top five people I know. That’s not really the point. This is the hall of fame of friends. Not the best five you can find to field a team of friends to start with in the game of Life.

What attributes warrant entry into my Hall of Fame of friends? I mean these are the people that when they die, I’m going to be a bit choked up. No shedding a tear, mumbling well that’s a shame and then running off to 7-11 because I crave frozen sugar and food coloring.

Do you assign “positions” to them? Do you have a go to person where you need advice? A go to person if you need a good laugh? Or do they have to be all-purpose “five-tool players”, maybe excel in one or two faucets of life, but are more than adequate in the skills of friendship.

Does physical attributes apply? Probably shouldn’t.

So these are my benchmarks for hall of fame friends.

(subject to change)

Longevity: None of this move down the street and never see them again, BYU stuff. I always enjoyed the “You all are such great examples to me…” testimonies. Because it was a lie, no one knows enough about the group as a whole to warrant the statement.

Knowing something about them: I always enjoyed the intro, “This is my friend, Kirk.” Which always inspired such thoughts as, “We’re friend because we hung out twice and you know my name…interesting.” I’m not going to lie, when someone ends a story with, “I’ve never told that to anyone…” It’s kind of a neat feeling. Unless they’re confessing they ran someone over or something…then probably not so much.

They inspire you to be a better person: pretty self-explanatory I think.

Trustworthy, Loyal…: So that’s the first two qualities mentioned in the Scout Oath. I mean it’s kind of nice to know you can depend on someone to not stab you in the back. I guess we could throw the whole scout law in here…but can you have a friend that is too cheerful? I think so.

I think I have three so far, with a couple potential HOFs waiting on the longevity part.

So Um #2 (or actually it's probably like the 6th post if titled, So Um)

I was cleaning carpets and the reel with the vacuum hose fell off it's bearings. So I went to get help. I guess I went to get help in Provo. Because I ended up asking J.C. for help. And he was like, only if you give one of the prayers at some activity. So I was like fine. Then he drove me back to the truck to fix it. and for some reason Ellie was in the back seat and came with...

Then at some point I was with Alane in some testing center-like place, watching her take a test. So yeah, my dreams have gotten milder since I've grown older.

So I think it's funny that there are all these articles popping up saying that Miss _____(insert state) isn't quite the "role-model" they should be. With drug use, kissing member of the same sex, excessive partying, etc. I don't know why this is news. Do people really think that these girls are fine outstanding citizens. They're just attractive girls that want to add to their social status by saying I was Miss __________.

Edit: San Jose State won a bowl game, wow. mediocre conferences (WAC and MWC) combine for a lackluster bowl yay.

So Um.

I had some crazy dream where. Bridget, Ellie, Greg, Rachel and I were on the side of some mountain, throwing stuff. Very a la mid 80's NES Donkey Kong style. I was also at some point during the evening wandering around some home with some mystery brunette. I can understand how Ellie, Greg and Rachel were in there. Because I've talked to them within the past day or so. And the mystery brunette, because I like brown hair very mucho. But Bridget? haha. No offense to Bridget... She was a lovely (and probably still is) young lady. just never really talked to her or did anything with her for her to floating around in the subconscious.

Goodbye J. Beck

Good bye Jason and thanks for your contributions and your 553 yards passing and completing 54.4% of your passes in Division 1 football.

At least you got a hot soccer playing wife out of it.

I guess we should wish John Beck a farewell too. But all he did was win conference offensive player of the year and throw for 11021 yards.

But I never had any classes with John. So there will be no cheering him on as he makes 400k a year to hold a clipboard on the sidelines and watch some sweet NFL action every week. I also never got to see him and get knocked on participation points while everyone else in the group did...

There are no hard feelings of course. I mean it's not Jason's fault he's a division 1 scholarship athlete. Spencer White did his fare share of work in class and was the only football player I had a class with that started a game at BYU. Of course he was a walk-on so getting free participation points probably wasn't part of the deal if you were a non-scholarship athlete...

Congrats BYU for winning your first bowl game in since the 1996 season. Even though you couldn't even bring me ice cream from the Creamery all the way down to vegas, Vegas isn't that much farther from Mesquite.

But Erubiel Durazo got a minor league contract with a spring training invite. I'm so going to visit David in Arizona and catch a spring training game. Durazo and his like .282 batting avg and 47 homers in 337 A's games. If he can make the club and play 100 games and hit .280 and bring in 60 runs and jack about 15 dingers out of the park and not screw up to royally when he has bust out the leather and plays first. I'd be happy. I know I expect too much.

Speaking of David, we ate lunch together at the Green Valley Ranch casino on his way to Utah. that was nice.

Goodbye 2006 (You awkward even numbered year you) A recap on what sticks out the most.

Embarrassing Moment -
I was with Ellie and her not so well working Samsung phone in a T-Mobile store. Ellie was trying to show the guy how it wasn't working so well. Except the problem was it worked fine in the store. Fickle Samsung cell, die. Like you did for the week before Ellie finally dragged you into a T-Mobile. Ok that wasn't really embarrassing but I don't remember anything else that was embarrassing.

Surprise of the year-
Sitting in the limo for the ghost tour and the curator-tour guide-like person was telling a story. Eventually she turns and goes, "What do you think of marriage?" Kaakun's reply, "It's a ball and chain" Then i promptly got smacked from Ms. "Marriage scares the @$%# out of me" Once again nothing was really surprising this year.

I guess you can say picking up and moving 400 miles within a week could be one, but I'm just strangely random like that.

Disappointment of the year-
There were a couple this year, but the thing that really peeved me was that we lost the first tourny game for floor hockey. I know BYU intramurals are kinda gay, especially if you have a rag tag ward team. But yeah, major disappointment (the fact that I only tallied one goal in six games didn't help much either).

A close second was when I stopped playing roller hockey in Alpine. I stepped up and played goalie in stinky ole goalie pads. It was a fun little activity. Especially since it seemed I always got lucky and stopped Drew then some crappy kid scores quite easily.

Funniest Moment of the year-
The plethora of powerpoint presentations and photoshopped crap! Yay for overly creative and slightly disturbring media. The other was watching Miss Little Sunshine (with Kim) and the Producers (Ellie and her brother, Scott)... those two movies had my eyes watering. Good times

Most Memorable-
It's a toss up between seeing Real Madrid play a meaningless pre-season game (From the 17th row, boo ya) or the numerous CA trips. It was amusing to see the constant following of flashes as Beckham ran around. It was also the first time I got to do a lot of touristy things in my home state in a while. San Fran Zoo (with David, Jimmy and his friends), Alcatraz (Rachel S.) ,reenacting O.C. scenes (Rachel C. How often do you get to stay in a lawyer's pool house in So Cal?!?!?!?)





Purchase of the year-
Brand New- The Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me
close 2nd: Party pants at Express for Men @ Fashion Island. yay party pants.

Most missed-
So just barely over a year ago (like a year and a week). I'm sitting in Demae chowing down on some Japanese grub and Alisa was like, I'm going to get married I think (or something along those lines). This kinda took me by surprise, since she was all marriage shmarige. Then I was a tad bit disappointed that I'd have to find a new friend to chow down Japanese food with. Then she was kind enough to share the sickness she was getting over, it was a nasty sickness, but the Xango cured that up in a couple days and I played hookey from work to hang out with Jimmy on the last sick day. GO XANGO!!! But seriously, the Japanese food intake and random getting lost on CA highways is way down. Now who am I suppose to sing along to Saves the Day with in the car?!?!?!


Dec 99. Man I look young. Actually I look the same. sad. maybe I'm fatter now... i dunno.

So that's my year. It wasn't so hot financially, being a college grad and all... but oh well. There are some other things I could make up categories for. But I won't. I'll just list of the other memorable thingies of 06.
- 1st carpet cleaned 8/31
- 1st plane that I jumped out of 8/whatever that was
- kinda surprised how many people were shocked I was leaving provo, actual number: 1.
- kinda surprised how I started getting along with Jordan, thanks to Jake changing gfs.
- # of Rachel's roommates annoyed with my awesomeness: everyone except Elise
- # of barfights: 25 I love Vegas.
-# of loose women I've woken up next to- Zero: I cuddle them to sleep then hightail it out of there.
- amount of money lost at the Craps tables in the Bellagio. $ 406, John and Lee Elle's first born, a mexican indentured servant name Francisco and a pair of Mockingbirds.
- # of people I met because I was the Ward assistant executive secretary- 1
-# the bishop thought I'd meet because the calling requires you to go out of your way and talk to people- 130
-# of times I've said goodbye to Barry Zito on my blog and he hasn't left Oak-town yet. 2.
-C0untries that my blog has been to; the US of A, Spain, Germany, New Zealand, The UK, Mexico, China, Japan, Canada, South Korea.
-# of times I've almost fallen off a toilet-1
-# of lies mentioned in this post, 5.
-Unfortunately the almost falling off the toilet isn't one of them. I know there are at least six of you that think me on my side with a bruised ego and elbow with my pants around my ankles is amusingly funny.

What I got free in the mail today (well actually this week)

4 Rolls of Professional Kodak 35 mm film. These aren't crappy 12 exposure rolls either buddy. These are 36 exposure fatties. Shoot I don't have a 35 mm camera. 14 oz of dark chocolate goodness. I guess having a sister employed by a chocolatier has some perks.

BYU is a tad bit cheap.

from a press release.

On both Wednesday, Dec. 20 from noon to 5 p.m., and Thursday, Dec. 21, from 10 a.m., to 1 p.m. is the Cougar Caravan. Take the second Mesquite exit (#120) to Mesquite Ford/Lincoln/Mercury (just off I-15 South, look for the blue and white balloons). The BYU Bookstore, BYU Dining Services, and the Cougar Club are providing FREE BYU Growl Towels (available to the first 1,500 fans), FREE BYU Creamery Ice Cream (available to the first 1,500 fans), and FREE BYU Flags (one per car, 300 available). The BYU Bookstore will also be selling the best selection of Official BYU Merchandise in Nevada! Restrooms available at the dealership. Click here for more information.

All I wanted was free ice cream (and maybe a Growl towel to wave in front of Greg for kicks and giggles). I don't see why I have to drive an hour towards Utah to get free ice cream when they're all coming here to Las Vegas. Bring the ice cream to Vegas, you lazy bastards!!!

I also think it's funny they had a rally at the Fremont Street experience. The only thing on Fremont street are $5 whores and people selling cheap junk and for one night, BYU.

Christmas in Vegas

So that shows you what you can do with a hedge trimmer and a hedge if you live in a golf community. Dirty carpet comes clean during the holidays. A box of Christmas cards in the home of a Jew!!! Snow in Vegas. crazy I say. That shows you how cold it is here. (Henderson got like two inches today I was told.)

Merry Christmas

The top one was stolen from AN. I just thought it was funny that Danny (I think it's danny) wants a pony. So the top family one is like a scan from a print off a crappy ink jet. The next one is a crappy photoshop diddy. Merry Christmas. It's funny because the left Kirk I tried to make look shorter by putting it lower, but now it just looks like my sweater is way too big... I don't know who has the original print of the top picture. maybe it's my parents. I dunno.

I guess the standard crappy christmas mass e-mail will go out sometime before christmas. I think you can all guess what super picture is going to be the header.

#2 of Mormon Friendships Gone Sour

So sometime in May of 2003 (I think), Kara and I was sitting in Kara's family's boat in their driveway. Joking around about various things. Everything from her on again off again relationship with Kyle to why the hell we were sitting in a boat that was in a driveway.

Now this was a very interesting friendship. Kyle and Kara constantly fought about me. When people fight because of you it should make you feel bad. But I'm a jerk and it was always entertaining (to me at least) to hear about the latest quarrel. He always accused her of liking me and thought I liked her and she would counter with a "he doesn't like me, he likes Irene". I think the truth was at one point she did like me. At one point I did like her, but I don't think the "liking times" overlapped.

Anyways, the "huge" distance of living in two different counties took its toll and the friendship dwindled into nothing. The reason I remembered this day was because we brought up the fact that once a year we could have a night of sweet sweet loving and it would be great because I'm like freaking awesome. Yeah we planned on having a long drawn out affair before even getting spouses.

I probably should have just dated her and maybe I'd still have a friend. Probably not, being a jerk and all. Just the whole fact that I'd have a bunch of short (she's 4-10, I'm 5-9, yeah they'd have been doomed to being short), left-handed (we were both left-handed so... the odds were pretty high I think, i dunno), black haired kiddies in Utah (the reason we couldn't date when i thought it would have been fun was because I didn't want to stay in Utah) kinda scared me from that.

Dreams

I also had a dream that I got like 3k back on my tax return. Which is probably almost all I've paid in federal and state taxes (yeah thats it, i'm 25, with the earning potential of a high school drop-out).

Two more weeks in 2006

So I've added labels to all my posts and now there are links on the side, so people can check out such exciting blog posts such as, Rants, contains exciting rants, or Internet thingies, contains Internet dandies. Fun Stuff.

I'm thinking of taking a weekend trip to Utah in January. I want to play in Midway on the tube shoots. Hopefully there will be snow. I am also thinking of checking out Matt's hockey team which I would have gotten stuck playing goalie for (if the league is up and running again when I visit). Hopefully there is a taco sunday on the week i visit. Other than that I don't know what else I'd do up there.

The Sharks and Ducks are tied with only a couple minutes left in the game. GO SHARKS.

Speaking of sports how many more team brawls have their been in basketball than hockey in the 21st century. Probably because there are nothing but thugs in the NBA.

It's sad that this is being labeled as " Things to look forward to".

EDIT: Never mind the Sharks won. woot.

E-Card # 7 or something

Who still gets e-cards from their friend's mom?

I do.

Because I'm cool like that.

But not so cool with the awesome mainstream music scene. I only have 3 of what Rolling Stones considers the top 50 Albums of 2006.

Article

I bet no one could guess two of the three I have. A prize to whoever guess right.

Oh and I've filled up my 40 gig 4th generation Ipod. There is actually too much stuff on my Itunes to fit on the silly thing. What happens on day 19 of constant play and I can't hear all my awesome tunes? (Too bad the Ipod battery will only last about seven hours or so... but I could keep it plugged in I suppose)

Here's my talent whats yours?

wtf? i can't even trace properly...

Roller Coaster Tycoon

http://www.filecabi.net/video/tycoon-rollacoster.html

when roller coaster tycoon came out I tried to play the game. I'd get it going then people would complain in the game. Then I realized you could just kill them.

#2 came out and got a little more complicated. But then I made just mind-blowing coasters that none of the little guys wanted to go on.

I didn't know there was a new roller coaster game, this video brought a smile to my face though.

Little Kids in Argentina like Iron Maiden

rock on little kids rock on hahahaha \m/

Payton thinks the O's have talent.

According to the Baltimore Sun, former A, Jay Payton said, "I've been to the playoffs twice and I told Jim, 'The two teams I went to the playoffs with weren't any more talented than this team is.'"

Sure since they seem to pick up every former A (Chad Bradford, Jay Payton, Ramon Hernandez, Miguel Tejada, Freddie Bynum, (they used to have Eric Byrnes, but gave up on him pretty quickly)) that they can grab and throw in a former Red Sox player, Kevin Millar to boot.

So I stole some pictures from AN from Barry's Strikeouts for Troops holiday event. Eric Byrnes, Jerry Rice, Barry and Nick Swisher were some of the locals that attened, C.C. Sabatahia and Coco Crisp from the Indians were also there.













































I think it's neat that Barry Zito set up the little charity with C.C. Sabathia. Kinda shows that all athletes aren't douchebags. He was also born in Vegas, so I guess this valley can produce some decent individuals.

Hm, guess I'm glad I saw this post-sky diving.

So here's a nice little song to be the theme song of my life.

What Do You Do With a B.A. in English- Avenue Q Soundtrack

What do you do with a B.A. in English,
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge,
Have earned me this useless degree.

I can't pay the bills yet,
'Cause I have no skills yet,
The world is a big scary place.

But somehow I can't shake,
The feeling I might make,
A difference,
To the human race.

Morning, Brian.

Hi, Kate Monster.

How's life?

Disappointing.

What's the matter?

The catering company laid me off.

The War against the common cold

or whatever it is.

So I started feeling under the weather Thursday. It's been an interesting couple of days. I've been downing the Xango and the Xanthones are dueling with the virus/bacteria or whatever it is.

It makes for interesting bathroom visits.

I've been kinda sucked back into The O.C. after a 10.5 episode hiatus.

I probably wouldn't watch it if i had something better to do, but I don't.

All I want for Christmas (or my birthday)

So I'm going to copy my friend Lauren and blog what I want. The lists are a tad bit similar.

- One Hastens bed, If you want to be exact, the Excelsior. It's sweet. After two months I have no problem with My Simmons, but this thing was amazing.
- One Mac Mini, Kevin had one and it was a nifty little computer.
- One 23-inch, Display to go with the Mini.
- One Ping 3 Wood, because the Golden Bear just didn't cut it.
- A Nintendo Wii, because who doesn't want to play with a wii.
- One piece of plexiglass, I need to cover my TV when I play with my wii. Apparently some people get to excited and end up throwing their wii controller into their TV...
- Free cable. Cable is great and all, til you have to pay for it. I've just been watching TV shows I find on the Internet or looking at all the fuzzies as I try to watch broadcast TV.
- A pair of Polk Audio R15s, I got my first pair for about $60 shipped, Once I get a 2nd pair, I can watch movies in 7.1 surround sound. woot.

I ended up downloading an episode of The OC. There was a big buzz about Autumn Reeser being a good reason to watch The OC. I gave the premiere about 10-minutes before giving up on it. This epsisode (#4, I think) wasn't bad. It had some funny parts. Autumn Resser is ok looking I guess but her charcter gets a bit annoying...

Eat, Sleep, Repeat.

A couple of years ago i stumbled on to a record label called, The 'Militia Group'. They had a bunch of bands that could write average to super great songs. Now I know this doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment. But I consider an average song to be a song that you'd bear through to get to the next song. I haven't really found a horrible group on the label either.

They released a CD by 'Copeland' that I am really enjoying. Apparently it was good enough to get them signed to a major label. Their previous CDs I thought were good, but not great, end up on your favorite Top-10 lists. They had some songs that stuck out, but their musical style matured on each CD.

It's really kind of my musical suprise of the year, that and the new 'My Chemical Romance' CD being actually pretty decent. Damien Rice's new CD was also a tad bit of a let down I thought.

Hello from a LG...blah blah blah

This is from like the last two months
A) what happens when you clean up your own pet's mess with over the counter pet treatment. you get your carpets cleaned and it wicks back up...tisk tisk tisk
B) I was sitting outside, waiting for John and Lee Elle to get home from
church. This cat crossed the street and eyed this squirrel in the tree. I was hoping it would have battled to the death and ate the squirrel, unfortunately this didn't happen.
C) That fabulous Las Vegas sunset...enjoyed from Las Vegas traffic.
D) Lake Mead, from some person's balcony...who's carpet I was cleaning.

I took off the mp3 player and put a weather.com banner on instead. Now you guys and girls can see how freaking cold it is out here. I thought I left the freezing temperatures... long sleeves are not enough.

Dreams #4

Do you get nightmares that you have to write a 10-page paper for school due tomorrow? I still do and it was 3 papers... ouch.

hmm

So every four weeks or so, Uncle Kaakun gets pictures from the nephew with a similar look to the left. He's intrigued by the box that goes flash or something maybe (and yes a five month old baby can e-mail, thanks to computers becoming user-friendly).



Maybe he longs for fun Uncle Kaakuneeeeeee, he's so fun. Look at how much fun he's having with Uncle Kaakuneeeeeee. (Thats like the day after meeting Uncle Kaakuneeeee people, he's so happy. )Uncle Kaakuneeeeeeee is fun, so i don't go poop poop or pee pee in my diaper because he's so much fun.

Well actually it's a look of concern for Uncle Kaakuneeeeee and his balance going from average to below-average.

Uncle Kaakun was sitting in a bathroom cutting toe nails. A chore no one enjoys doing. He shifted his weight from one cheek to the other and nearly toppled over since one feet was off the ground. At this rate, the next time I need to clip toe nails, I'll end up bleeding on the floor, because I knocked myself out on the side of the bath tub.

And that would make nephew go....




Notice people, I no longer refer to him as "it", Stacey, my mom and Ellie should be proud of the progress made and maybe slightly concerned about my balance regressing to that of a 78-year-old man.

LA Auto Show: 2008 Nissan Altima Coupe - the poor man's G35

it's true and I want one. the 200sx will be 10-years-old by then. I heart the G35 coupe and I'm a poor man. It's a match made in heaven.

The top 20 pop songs from the last 20 years

According to "Q", some British Magazine. article

1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana, 1991

2. "Hey Ya!" OutKast, 2003

3. "Sweet Child O' Mine" Guns N' Roses, 1987

4. "Unfinished Symphony" Massive Attack, 1991

5. "One" U2, 1991

6. "Live Forever" Oasis, 1994

7. "Bitter Sweet Symphony" The Verve, 1997

8. "Common People" Pulp, 1995

9. "There She Goes" The LA's, 1990

10. "7 Nation Army" The White Stripes, 2003

11. "Song 2" Blur, 1997

12. "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley, 2006

13. "Angels" Robbie Williams, 1997

14. " … Baby One More Time" Britney Spears, 1999

15. "Personal Jesus" Depeche Mode, 1990

16. "Like A Prayer" Madonna, 1989

17. "Firestarter" The Prodigy, 1997

18. "Brimful of Asha" Cornershop, 1997

19. "Stan" Eminem, 2000

20. "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" Arctic Monkeys, 2006

There are a couple I'm not even sure what they are.

There and back Again v1.2

Sunday: Went to CA

Interesting moments: saw a car fire on the 405, listened to Latin hip hop in a Hawaiian BBQ place, visited John and Lee Elle.

Monday: Drove up the coast, took the road less traveled, which was about 80 miles longer and probably 3 hours longer. Went up the PCH and 101 instead of the 5.
Interesting moments: The Ipod while on shuffle played Phantom Planet's California while I was cruising the 101 and driving up the coast was an amazing experience. Best idea ever.

This is the path I could have took, and just skipped the events of Sunday and Monday. Most of it was listed on the "best road in America" article that was on MSN.com earlier. article

This is the path I took, which took a lot more time.

Tuesday: Sat at home, got new brakes for the front of the car blah blah blah.

Wed: Sat at home.

Thursday: Munched down some Thanksgiving grub with the fam, uncles, aunt and great aunt. I was one of the billion people or so that tried to get a Xbox 360 on Amazon.com at 11 am P.T. but gave up after a minute. 1,000 xboxes, 1 billion people trying to buy one. I don't know why people tried for minutes on end. article

I was slightly disappointed, only because it would have been flung on e-bay and there would have been my Nintendo Wii money.

Friday: Golfed, I lost the head off my 3 Wood. I took a practice swing and off flew the head. I didn't hit the ground (at least that’s my story and I'm sticking too it, I didn't take a divot out...). So I need a new 3 wood, or at least a new shaft for the 3 Wood.

Saturday: Drove down to Chino Hills and hung out with Rachel and her Asian looking friend. It was aright. Picked up my quasi-Black friday deal, on saturday... Simpsons season 7 on DVD for $16.

Sunday: Drove back to "home"

It's weird to consider Vegas home. The whole drive I was thinking I had to go to Provo. Thanksgiving was nice. It was also nice to have Brand New sitting in my mailbox. Surprisingly the fish didn't die.

BYU actually beat Utah. I think the school needs to pay me to stay out of the state in November.

My first year was 99, which was a heartbreaking loss 17-20 in Provo. This was the only "holy war" I went to, the highlight was seeing the BYU fan tackle Utah's biggest male cheerleader, then triumphantly walk away only to get tackled and punched in the back of his head. Which led to a whole bunch of controversy.

2000, In Japan, BYU wins, 34-27
2001, still in Japan, BYU wins 24-21
2002, Living at Centennial, BYU lost, 6-13
2003, in Roman Gardens, BYU lost 0-3
2004, in Timp Gateway, BYU lost 21-52
2005, in Timp Gateway, BYU lost 34-41
2006, moved out of the state to Vegas, BYU wins, 33-31

I think a good $1,000 or so a year and I'd be willing to keep the initals UT out of my mailing address. I think I should talk to Cecil and BYU's A.D. and see what they'd be willing to do.

I miss playing hockey, even if it was in Utah...

Joe Pavelski and Marc-Edward Vlasic scored their 1st NHL goals tonight in the 6-3 Sharks win over LA...woot.

The Sharks are the only bay area team to have a winning record against those pesky LA folks (currently 2-1)

The Angels got the better of the A's with a 11-8
The Dodgers got a better record of the Giants, 13-6
The warriors beat the clippers and lost to the Lakers but I bet at season end, the Clippers and Lakers will get the better of the warriors who haven't been in a playoff hunt in like 16 years.

Dreams #3

I was watching 'Heroes' and they blamed all wars on cosmic events. It was a pretty crazy dream. I saw all manner of crazy allignments of planets and stars.

Then Las Vegas malls put strip clubs in there... Kinda like instead of JCPenny's it was a huge strip club. Interesting.

Dreams #2 or something...

So I know theres a lot of dreams that I have, but in the morning I can't remember all of them. Today's was remembered though.

It was some sort of like camp. They invited a bunch of people and you could pretty much do whatever you want. They had hockey, it was like summer camp, for older kids I guess.

The twist is, they just invited people to figure out who'd step up and take leadership roles while playing... They sent these crazy unmanned flying vehicles. They had like machine guns and small air-to-ground missles. It was dangerous. They eventually kidnapped most of the people that they wanted and left the rest of us.

We were going to devise a battle plan to leave but then I woke up.

It was crazy yo.

hahahahahahahahaha

it's sad, because it's true.

Apparently the Feds are saying with an Internet filter there is only a 1% chance of finding porn. Now I haven't seen this filter obviously, but if the Feds can't find porn on the Internet I think finding other problems like Osama Bin Laden or like people swimming across a river into our country are pretty safe...

So I was looking up lyrics to the songs on the 'The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me' and noticed that instead of having lyrics for half the CD, there were lyrics to the whole CD. This brought great joy to me because that means floating somewhere in cyberspace is the whole CD. Now before you get all "the RIAA says downloading music is bad" on me. I pre-ordered the CD at the beginning of the month. It's just like getting it a week early. I needed something to look forward obviously I wasn't going to camp out to get a Nintendo Wii. This is just as good and it was 1/20th of the price.

EDIT: One of the things I like about musicians that started out on an "indy" label is that sometimes they create different albums. Now I realize this might not be the most profitable business plan. But it is refreshing to hear an album that didn't sound exactly like that last one. 'The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me' is different than 'Deja Entendu'. 'Deja Entendu' was different than 'Your Favorite Weapon'. I'm a happy camper right now.

Oh and I cleaned the house of a lady who had an Oscar. Apparently when you're rich. You can buy an actual Oscar award. And they'll slap a "Best Mom" on the front. So you can give away Oscars... amazing.

Dreams #1

There was a time of my life where I'd wake up, walk down the hall and tell Greg, "I just had the craziest dream..." This probably easily happened for six months and there were probably some mornings where I woke him up, not wanting to deprive him of precious details that I may forget if I waited til later.

I usually dream if I don't have some sort of creative outlet. Needless to say, not really knowing anyone in Vegas makes me sit at home, depriving people of my excellent witty banter and butt kicking ideas.

This dream was about a girl. To be more specific, this girl.



She is probably the coolest girl I've ever met and pretty much set the bar of what I think Mrs. kaakun should have. Which is probably why I'm no where near finding Mrs. Kaakun, my bar is set ridiculously high.

Tangent: During my time at Timp. Gateway I developed an alias and would get all manner of free things, which came in handy whenever I ran out of soap, toothpaste, etc.

Saturday night was one of those nights, I ran out of soap and jumped out and flung open the free sample drawer. It took a while but I found some soap, Dove Calming Night (which I found to be disappointing, it wasn't too calming). I ripped off the attached lotion packet, ripped open the soap, lathered up and went on with my business.

Sunday night, post-shower I noticed the lotion and was like, "well might as well finish off this disappointing dove experience." I lotioned up and was plesantly surprised, I felt all nice and soft and girly and I smelt girly and I liked it (sad I know). I'm a fan of the smell of Dove Regenerating Night Lotion.

End of tagent.

So I go to bed all pretty smelling. While I'm sleeping the dream starts up.

I'm just hanging out with Mardee (of course she's enjoying my witty banter and tasteful jokes). Enjoying it so much that, soon we're in the bathroom, she's taking a bath and I'm in there chatting away.

So you'd expect me to end up in the bath tub with her, or at least toweling her off with some big white towel or washing her hair or something. Maybe even something innocent like playing with little boats or ducks or something in there.

Nope, nowhere close.

She finishes up the glorious bath, needs to take a #2. Which is convient since we're in a bathroom. The toilet overflows and I clean it up...

Apparently thats what true love is to me, she'll take a dump and I'll clean it up if it overflows into the rest of the bathroom.

Maybe thats why I'm a carpet cleaner, I love cleaning up other people's mess. All those semesters joking I was a MHFD major to become a manny. That's probably what I should have done.

So if you're ridiculously cute, petite and have a personality that is down to earth. Come poop in my toilet and if it overflows and I clean it up, maybe I kinda sorta like you.

Currently listening to:

Brand New: Jesus Christ

MLS Cup 2006

San Jo..I mean Houston Dynamo v New England Revolution on ABC right now. Go San J..or Houston Dynamo.

EDIT: Houston won. yay former San Jose players.

So I was sitting here trying to remember the people I've dated in the past. I couldn't remember many. Not because I've dated a lot, it's probably more because I haven't dated in a while. Then i tried to remember roommates I've had. That took a while, but I did it and now I'm going to share that info with you.

Name, state months (rounded up, i think)
Greg TX 28
John CA 20
David MEX 16
David CA 14
Jacob OR 11
Andy CA 8
Nathan KS 8
Stephen MD 8
Kevin UT 8
Kevin TX 5
Elliot WA 4
John GA 4
Lynn MT 4
Mark VA 4
Aaron UT 4
Scott UT 4
Jordan MN 4
James NV 2
Jake AZ 2

Sports news that makes no sense to me. For some reason, the Cubs signed Kerry Wood to a 1-year deal. A starting pitcher that has averaged only 125 innings a season during his 9-year tenure as a major league ball player. The O's traded for Jaret Wright, a pitcher who has had one above average season and actually gave up a major league pitcher and cash for him.

The 49ers won their 4th football game today, it took them the whole season to win 4 football games last year. I never knew Don Nelson came back to coach the Warriors. hm. oh wait i don't really care for basketball.

Fish update.

After two weeks. It looks like only 3 of the 7 babies survived to see a 2-week birthday.

During that two week period, 2 of the 3 adult guppies died and all three of the ghost shrimp died. I guess having 10 fish and 3 shrimp in a two gallon tank is too much.

Louisville, Texas, Auburn, California, Texas A&M were all upset in football. What a week for college football, or maybe that just means the whole ranking system is worthless...

The Sharks are 13-5. Behind those pesky Anahiem Ducks, who still haven't lost in regulation yet. Argh.

Remember when...

You had to have some sort of skill to win little money at a game show?

If you watch older game shows like jeopardy or 'Wheel of Fortune' they'd only win like 15k or something. Now with shows like 'Deal or No Deal' or '1 vs 100' There is very little skill required to easily earn 60k.

Needless to say I want to go on one of these shows, even if it's only as the friend of the contestant. It would be fun to be the "keep on going, 1 more time" guy.

Both shows happen to be on NBC. I think each season of 'The office' has been worse than the previous. But that seems to happen with most shows. eg 'Lost' or 'The OC'.

I've downloaded Opera 9.2 after seeing all the hype that it is faster than Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0. I think it is better than both browsers. But there I am finding it hard to leave the familar confinds of Firefox. But Opera's web browser does deserve a look if you're willing to check out a new browser.

Aww

Britney Spears and K-Fed are getting a divorce...

Really who didn't see that happening? K-Fed now probably gets alimony... He lived the american dream. Get married, do nothing. have a huge allowance. do whatever he wanted. blah blah blah

FHE in LV

There were like 100 people there!?!?!?

Crazy... None of this BYU 30 some odd people activities...

That was the last interesting thing. They played ultimate frisbee in the church gym. Outdoor sports inside rarely are any fun.

But like 100 people!!! holy crap...

# of people that Kaakun talked to? 1


Does anyone know where 'Deal or No Deal' is filmed? I think it would be fun to be the "supporting" friend or family member on the show. ______________ no deal... keep going. that would be funny.

The A's are moving

to Fremont!!!

Sure it's not Oakland... but at least it's not Portland. Fremont is closer to San Jose than Oakland... Fremont is (right now at least) safer than Oakland!

yay for the Oakland A's of Fremont.
or the Silicon Valley A's of Fremont.

Bay Area A's of Fremont.

Hopefully they're not gay like the Angels owner and keep the of Fremont out of the name.

Another weekend...

So I finally had my records transfered over to this ward and something funny happened. People start coming up, "Hi I don't think I've met you before." "Hi want some candy?" "Hey whats your name?"

I've been to this ward 5 times and on the 5th time. People randomly say hi. Strange.

This ward has a New member sunday school every 1st sunday of the month. Which may have something to do with the outreach... It was the first time I've been to the ward on a first Sunday. So that was kind of interesting to see.

The two adult female guppies died this week. Which is some cause of concern. Not the fact that I paid a buck 50 for each of them 2 weeks ago. But the fact that there is probably not something right with the tank. But I guess when you have 10 fish and 3 ghost shrimp pooping in a two gallon tank. Nitrate levels are probably going to go through the roof and start killing off things. I think all 7 babies made it through their first week.

Random Internet site of the week: Endurance50.com

I found out about this from the hitch50.com guys (they moving along quite quickly). But this guy ran 50 marathons, in 50 states in 50 days. He's crazy. I've heard of endurance marathons where they run like 75 miles in one race. But 50 marathons... in 50 days... in 50 states and it looked like he drove to each state. Crazy.

Congrats to BYU football, for breaking into the AP top 25. Do they deserve it? probably not, but the Cardinals probably didn't deserve to win the World Series. But they did...

going with the crimes theme

Known Hate Groups in the US.
website

Las Vegas
· Nation of Islam
Black Separatist
· National Socialist Movement
Neo-Nazi
· National Vanguard
Neo-Nazi
· New Marcus Garvey Movement Black Panther Nation
Black Separatist
· Southern Nevada Skinheads
Racist Skinhead
· White European Social Club
Other
· White Peoples Party
Other

That sure seems like a lot of hate groups for a valley that has only 1.7 million people...

Some where in central Utah (might be provo, might be price, apparently they don't know what city they're located in, if someone's bored maybe they can Dexonline them.

· American Front
Racist Skinhead

There were no known hate groups in San Jose, because San Jose is freaking awesome.

Damien

A couple of years ago I stumbled across Damien Rice. All four band member of Thrice recommended the album on their personal favorites. I then happened to find the tracks ripped onto the computer lab computer at school. I guess you can say it was fate. 'O' was a pretty amazing album. Probably my most played non-emo/punk cd.

You can pre-order his new album '9', on Amazon.com

You can also hear the new album played on warnerbros.com

EDIT: So much like Ben Folds there might be some adult content in the lyrics that might not be exactly safe for work (such as accidental babies or Rootless tree)... or church or driving down the street with your a parent. 11/3/06 6:18 PM

Safest City

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-30-city-crime-list_x.htm

San Jose is probably still the safest big city (500,000+)

woot.

Provo is 79.
San Jose is 112.
Salt Lake City is 247.
Las Vegas is 302.

This is out of 371 cities.

Sure Provo is safer, but San Jose is like 9x bigger and 2342542x cooler.
Yes Las Vegas isn't quite the safest city. but that's because like that other blog states, this city was founded by Satan.

Post #102

Hooray.

So I tallied up what all the topics have been for the first 100 posts.

Random Crap (thoughts, Internet stories, etc)- 30
A’s Baseball- 29
My travels- 13
Work-11
Sharks Hockey- 9
Things I want to buy/bought- 9
Shows/Events- 9
Hello from a LG/Panasonic…- 9
Spencer- 5
Playing hockey- 4
Vegas- 3
Ellie- 2
Rachel- 2
Anthony- 2
Kevin- 2
Mama Roberts- 2
Matt- 1
Jordan- 1
BYU sports- 1
Scriptures- 1
BYU- 1
JC- 1
JC’s fiancée- 1
Jenny- 1
Kim- 1
Little League World Series- 1
Steve Irwin- 1
CDs- 1
Golf- 1

Now I skimmed all the previous posts, so I might have missed one or two posts about something and some I threw into two categories, such as pictures of traveling got catergorized in travels and hello from…

Now if these were my priorities they’d be pretty screwed up. People that can talk to me only have been mentioned twice over a 7.5 month period. Now there have been more than two events with those people that warrant mention in a lowly blogger.com blog.
I apparently care about random crap 15 times more than anyone else.

Not really knowing anyone in Vegas allows for a bit more thinking time for Kaakun than normal. Sometimes I wonder if I should have stuck the year out at Xango. I would have gotten that good ole 2.5x holiday pay on Labor Day, since no one wanted to sit around in will call all day.

I would have gotten to go to a kick-ass Christmas party with the 1:5 chance to (I’m pulling the chances out of my ass) to win a Christmas party gift. Maybe some drill bits to go with the drill I won last year. Maybe some ski passes that would have eventually been passed on to Ellie, maybe something ridiculous like the big ole clock they had last year. I would at least get a xmas bonus in the ball park of 200 bones and a steady flow of Xango and Xango swag. I also gave up free health/dental/life insurance. There was a girl that might have hooked me up with a job at Fidelity Insurance in Salt Lake. I also had a “rehab” plan to ease my way back into dating.

That looks pretty good. I knew people, it was comfortable, kinda. I could have just moved to Salt Lake, starting out new in the SLC, with a familiar face or two just 30-minutes south. Sounds like a decent plan to me.

Maybe I made a rash decision, I got to work that Monday morning. I Y-jacked for about 30-minutes, decided I didn’t want to listen to the person I was Y-jacking with and went off to my desk. I turned my computer on. Put a Greg Martin desktop photo on my computer. Downloaded ‘Trillian’, logged on and told Ellie I was going to quit. Then I got up and walked over to my boss and said. I’m quitting.

Now her response kinda threw me back. She looked like she was going to cry. Xango had just moved into a new big building, a lot of call center employees that lived in Salt Lake quit because they didn’t want to commute to Lehi. I know she was probably stressed with the move and losing a bunch of employees and losing another person that could take 60+ customer service calls a day doesn’t help things one bit.

I felt kind of bad for springing this on her, she was going to give me special privileges, such as working on projects instead of answering phones all day. She was willing to work with me somewhat.BUT have you ever told someone that you were going to quit and you told them when your last day of work was going to be?!?!?!?! IT’s amazing for a moment you fill like you’re in control. You could probably throw some swear words in there too (I didn’t take advantage of this in this situation because I wasn’t in a cussing mood). But telling someone you quit is something you probably have to experience at least once.

In eight days I quit my job, sold my housing contract, packed all my stuff into a U-haul storage unit, played 36 holes of golf, said goodbyes as many choice people as I could and was in a different time zone, all based on a decision I made in about 10 minutes in a room that reeked of fresh paint and carpet glue.

Needless to say living completely on your own is a learning experience. I’ve learned a lot over the past 2 months in Vegas. Like the house always wins… when the bartender cuts you off, you can just go to another bar.. just kidding.
This is the reason I wrote this long dragged out post.

http://kaakun.blogspot.com/2006/07/so_115390213285953248.html

(This was the time I was dumped via an e-mail by someone I wasn’t dating and wasn’t pursing to date, I just thought it would be nice to see her once or twice a month.)

Now for the past 2 and half years there have been mixed feelings towards Camille, her friendship really meant a lot to me the year we lived in Centennial (02-03). It was a friendship that eventually caused a riff with my best friend and probably changed that relationship for the worse as well. There were fond memories of such exciting Provo-activities as grocery shopping and Margarita Mondays (they were virgin). She’s probably one of the few friends I actually have a picture of.

At first it was disappointed, which soon turned to hatred and then a mixture of the two. I felt like she ended the friendship for silly reasons and everyone I’ve shared the story with agreed.

I’ve checked her MSN space since I found it. She’s probably quite happy with her life situation. At least she looks happy. The “dumping” didn’t kill me, I’ve had plenty of great memories over the three years while being Camille-less.

Maybe she didn’t like her decision to drop kick me to the curb via e-mail. Hopefully she was disappointed to say goodbye to my mad grocery shopping skills, my witty banter and the creativeness that came with my friendship (during the time I was allowed to associate with her, I covered her walls with Kirk-art, which was actually crappy stick figure drawings on the back of church bulletins, ah memories).

The Point of this long drawn out story: IT was a necessary thing to do for her to move on with her life. Perhaps it sucked, hence the e-mail instead of saying it my face or on a phone or with a hand-written letter delivered via carrier pigeon.

Now I know you’re sitting there thinking, I read this long ass-thing for no reason, I could have told you that from when you told me this story the first time.

Sometimes you have to leave something and end a friendship or two for something better to come along. Do I miss Provo? Not one bit. Do I miss people in Utah? Some of them, I’ve learned a great deal about myself and life from some of those people (E.g. like what a Gibson girl is. I kinda figured it would be a pretty face for Gibson Guitar PR events. I was so wrong). Do I tell those people what they mean to me? No, they don’t even get mentioned in the as much as crappy TV shows or a city that’s covered in Smog.

I know you’re expecting a list of the people that have a special place in ole Kaakun’s heart that he wears on his sleeve. But there isn’t going to be a list. But really thank you for anything you’ve ever taught me and every experience we’ve shared.

PS The Sharks won tonight and are 9-4 to start out the season.