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.