no, not the NFL, my own. =P

my scab is ITCHING like you cannot believe. i’m trying really hard not to scratch, but MAN, the itching is becoming intolerable!

i went to lunch at what is rapidly becoming my favorite lunch destination here near work, bar code. i know, i know, it seems obvious that i would have a bias for a pearl tea shop, but their food is actually pretty decent and reasonably priced.

while i was there, grease was on tv. i was watching it while eating and though i wished that i could have seen the “grease lightning” song. i did see the “you’re the one that i want” song, though.

the movie reminds me of a simpler time. it reminds me when you would say what you mean, do what you want because you want to do it, and there were no complications. the last time i felt like that was years ago. it seems that the older one gets the more complicated life becomes.

still, it was a nice memory to relive when things were simpler.

i went home last night to see if i can fix my parent’s DSL. my brother had complained that it was broken so i decided to check it out to see what was going on. it turns out that the hardware was fine, but something was wrong with the login, so i told my brother to go and call the DSL people to get his account all fixed up.

while i was at home, i also decided to put on my plates on my car. i haven’t memorized them yet, but it’s just a little sad to see my car with license plates now. for some reason, jenna just doesn’t feel as new as she used to. what surprised me was that jenna’s already got 10,000+ miles on her! man! that’s crazy!

while i was leaving home, my parents asked me if i needed any briefcases. that’s right. briefcaseS. plural. of course, i asked them why i would need more than one briefcase, but they didn’t seem interested in answering that question. instead, they produced two briefcases for me to inspect. one of them had imprinted on it a HUGE LOGO of my dad’s company. apparently my dad’s company made a bunch of these polyester briefcases made. they are actually pretty nice.

the second briefcase is one that my dad got in his recent golf tournament. it is aso made out of some kind of heavy duty polyester material. but it’s a titleist briefcase. i’m not sure if that was supposed to impress me or not. but i took both. =P

i also took home their broken replaytv and i’m going to try and fix it one more time and use it myself. we’ll see if it works any better for me now. this will mean that we have 4 replays in the house. 4. i’m going to let jen use one of them, but i’m going to enforce a STRICT no asian soap opera policy on it.

someone asked me recently why i don’t hang out with jen in the living room more often. i told them that jen is constantly driving me out of the living room with her soap operas instead of, you know, watching some english tv.

last night while playing volleyball, we played against this team that was young, but pretty good. one of the girls was wearing this VSA (vietnamese student association?) shirt and on the back it said:

“PHO SHO”

cute.

i think that i’ve bought something off ebay twice. the first time was for nelson’s birthday present. it was some space ghost shirt auction. where else can you find that stuff except on ebay? the second time was for this board game called compatibility. both times i’ve been very happy with my purchases.

this time i’m bidding on another birthday present for another friend. it seems that the only time i really go to ebay is when i have something very specific in mind and am desperate to get it. we’ll see how this auction works out, i’m currently the winning bid, but i bet that’ll change as the auction date gets closer to ending. i really hate auctions, it’s too stressful, especially when the prices get close to retail price.

can you tell a real smile from a fake smile?

how well do you read people?

try this test and tell me how you did. i got 16 out of 20. my friend got 18 out of 20, i never knew he was so perceptive. =P

co-worker: “does it hurt?”
me: “yeah, still hurts, but it’s ok.”
co-worker: “maybe you need some vodka.”

hahaha, everyone has a different way to deal with pain.

this was probably one of the first lazy weekends i’ve had in a long, long time. i’ve always had something planned, somewhere to go, or something to do. this weekend, i had a few minor errands, but nothing planned that took more than half an hour. it was odd.

it was odd not having to go somewhere. it was odd not having to rush from place to place and fill up that weekend. but it was also nice. i got to do things that i don’t usually get to do. i watched a DVD.

celluar seemed like kind of a lame movie. the idea that some woman calls some random guy after she had been kidnapped and everything that transpires after that seems very unlikely. still, i was able to get into it and it was alright. i would have to say that the movie ends rather abruptly, i’m not really sure if i really liked that.

i’m thinking about watching another movie before turning in tonight. we’ll see if i have the energy to do it. it’s still relatively early though.

i also watched the niners game today. MAN! talk about a niner fan’s dream come true. WHO IS tim rattay? i mean, i’ve always heard all these great things about him, but wow, he played better than i’ve ever seen him play. and bryant young. man. what can you say about his performance, except, wow.

the game was pretty amazing, nothing at all like i had expected. i’m very excited to see the rest of the season play out now.

after football, i went to coach the JACL C Pool league. that was pretty fun. we had a lot of people show up to run drills and i think that it went pretty well. we’ll see how many people come week.

i went to see na leo and keali’i reichel last night at villa montalvo. i have never seen na leo before, but they were really incredible. i really liked them a lot. i have seen keali’i reichel before and i really enjoyed his performance, but i felt it was really all too short.

i have never been a fan of hawaiian music before the first time i saw keali’i reichel. part of it is because he is a great storyteller and he really lends a better understanding of the music with his story about where the song came from. part of it is also because of the hula dancers who are so expressive. i never really had much of a appreciation for hula dancing until i understood the words and i could see how the words were being expressed through hula. it was all rather amazing.