jen started blogging today. i never thought that i’d see this day come to pass. i guess we’ll have to see if she keeps it up.
Monthly Archives: May 2005
muir beach, part 2
after i got home from muir beach, i accidentally formatted my card without copying all of the contents to my hard drive. i nearly died. i probably lost about half of the photos that i took.
so i looked around and asked around and finally i found pc inspector smart recovery which is a program that will undelete/unformat files that you have deleted on your memory card. the program worked beautifully, and i was able to recover my files.
phew.
muir beach
christi and i went to muir beach today to scout out the location for a future photo shoot that i was thinking about doing for a friend’s engagement photos. i’ve never been to muir beach before and i very rarely head up anywhere north of san francisco.
originally, we were planning to head up there on sunday, but it turned out that the forecast was for rain so we headed up saturday instead. the day was just gorgeous. i was amazed at how beautiful the weather was in san francisco, blue skies, warm weather, it was hard to imagine that it would rain the following day.
i found this thai restaurant called thep lela thai restaurant while i was looking for places to eat on the trip. when we got there it looked pretty nice. the food was a little different than i had expected. i got my usual panang curry, which was good, but different. the larb gai was also good, but also different. i’m not sure how exactly to describe it. the dishes just weren’t what i had expected. but still, it was fun to try out a new place since we were uncharted territory anyway.
the beach itself was equally gorgeous. great weather, great sand, and many people just enjoying the day. i brought out two of my cameras today, one for each of us. i gave christi the 20D and shot with the 10D myself. i had forgotten what the 10D had felt like and though i know that the 20D is a better camera, the 10D was still very, very usable. i don’t think that i missed anything from the 20D that much in the bright conditions.
the beach had some nice terrain, sandy spots, rocky spots, and a little hike that you can take to overlook the beach from above, as well. if you have never gone to muir beach, check it out, it’s quite cute.
sometimes when i’m taking pictures, i look too hard to look for picture taking opportunities that i just don’t soak in what’s around me. i really enjoyed muir beach and after i had taken about 50 photos or so, i sat down at a log and just watched the waves crash onto the shore. there was just something peaceful and mesmerizing about it.
probably about 50 pictures later, i hiked up the side of this cliff to a bench that overlooked the ocean. i sat there for a while too just watching the ebb and flow of the waves and enjoying where i was. it was nice.
we headed back towards home and we had planned to go check out stowe lake in golden gate park, but through some kind of bizarre traffic and direction marvel, we managed to miss golden gate park…twice! i don’t know how we did it, but i thought it was pretty funny. i elected to just head back home because it was getting late and i was getting hungry.
we stopped off at san carlos where i ate at what used to be my favorite chimichanga place. i think that they have changed their frying ways, though, because they no longer use lard in their cooking. this is particularly distressing because the secret to their cooking was that they would put a bit of lard INSIDE the chimichanga and then deep fry it in lard. man, that was the best chimichanga i’ve ever had. and now they’ve ruined it with vegetable oil. poo on you.
week of birthdays
this week is a busy week in the birthday calendar. paul had his day earlier this week and mike and cheng have theirs coming up. we’re going out to celebrate tonight their birthdays at a place called faz restaurant & bar in sunnyvale.
it should be good fun. i’m trying to see if this is the appropriate venue for the lensbaby. i still haven’t taken a good picture with it!
it’s been all about clothes lately
i am what people in the “biz” call fashion-retarded. i’m completely not into trendy clothes. i’m not even into fashionable clothes. the one fashionable moment i think i had in my life was back in third or fourth grade. i was wearing cargo pants WAY BEFORE anyone else was. do you see all the cargo pants now? man, i was like 18 years ahead of the industry.
so whenever it comes to having to dress up nicely, i am a little fashion-challenged. it’s weird because my sister is a total fashion expert. like, omigawd, totally! no, i kid, she’s not an airhead. but she is fashionable and i’ve always wondered why i couldn’t have shared in some of those genes of hers.
there was a phase in my college years that i really liked plaid. i don’t know why but everything that i wore was plaid. sometimes i see pictures from that phase of my life and i cringe…not that i know any better now. speaking of which my mom bought me a plaid jacket for xmas. it’s quite tacky, but it’s warm so i wear it from time to time.
but i actually am in need of shopping for new clothes soon. nothing outrageous, just need to spruce up the selection a bit. and then i run into the same problem that i run into whenever i have this thought. i have no idea what kind of clothes to buy. if left to myself (which i have been for a while now) i inevitably buy solid t-shirts and shorts. it is a little alarming how many t-shirts i have. what’s probably more alarming is that i will go to the mall, look at clothes, and come back with more t-shirts even if i tell myself that i don’t want to buy t-shirts.
grrrrr.
so i’ve been thinking, maybe what i need to do is employ the aid of some female assistance. the problem is that i have a hard time trusting a lot of people with clothes choices for me, so finding someone who i can trust may be a difficult task in and of itself. we shall see.
wet morning
when i got into work this morning i saw my desk had been completely cleared. i was looking around and saw that everything had been moved and i thought that this was some kind of joke. as i got closer to my desk i saw that it was wet.
apparently the roof directly over my desk had sprung a leak and it was wet everywhere. my keyboard, mouse, and phone were drenched. looks like i will be without a phone for a while. darn.
helping out a good cause
last night someone from my volleyball league came and handed out a flyer about this fundraiser for a school. all you had to do was have pizza at pizz’a chicago and 20% of the proceeds for that evening would go back to the school. i thought that this was a great way to give something back to the community and recruited some friends to come and eat some good pizza.
in all, we had 14 people show up for dinner. i think our meal contributed something like $30 to the school. heh, not much when i think about it, but i guess every little bit helps.
i think it’s wonderful that places like pizza chicago are willing to help our their community with programs like this. it was a total bonus that we got great pizza and were able to help out a good cause.
people asked me how i met the girl at volleyball. i am a little embarrased to say that this was angel girl whose real name is not angel. 😛
lensbaby fun
i STILL haven’t had a chance to take too many pictures with the lensbaby. i’ll eventually do it. here’s one though that i took on my way to lunch today. it looks like learning how to use it will be quite the challenge.
new jeans
i’m wearing these new jeans that i got a few weeks ago. i’ve been a little unsure about whether or not i wanted to wear them or return them. they are just a little bit more fitted than i’m used. i usually wear pretty baggy jeans though, so anything that doesn’t have me swimming in my clothes just feels pretty restricted.
i’m beginning to think that clothes are way too much of a hassle.
paul’s birthday
paul’s birthday was over the weekend. there was 7 courses of beef to be had and a wonderful cake.
who could ask for anything more?