Digital Impulses

Dinner @ Benihana in Torrance, CA

Having another delicious dinner at Benihana. I love this place!

Watchin the HR Derby in HD

An chillin watchin the HR Derby

Breakfast on a Sunday morning at Piggie's

This the view from my table at Piggie's in Hawthorne, CA on a lazy Sunday morning in July, 2008.

Waiting in line for the iPhone in Manhattan Beach, CA

It's 0705 and I am in line to buy the iPhone 3G at the Apple store in the Manhattan Village Mall in Manhattan Beach, CA.

Test blog post from the new TypePad app from the Apple App store

This is a test image upload from my iPhone.

1,000 posts

Well.

A milestone (for me) to celebrate.

Some Stats to consider:
I started this blog on Friday April 2, 2004 and here I am, just over 4 years later and this blog post you are reading marks the 1,000th blog post I have made on this blog. There have been 1,558 days between 4/2/04 and today.  So, it took me 1,558 days to enter 1,000 blog posts into this TypePad blog.  Or, 222.57 weeks. Or, 51.22 months.  That is an average of .64 blog posts per day or a blog post every 1.558 days.

However you want to look at it, 1,000 blog posts is pretty cool.  Just being able to do a search across this blog for key events in my life has been absolutely invaluable.  I look forward to reaching the next milesotnes like 2,000, 2500, 3000, 5000, etc in the future while still here at TypePad.

Home appraisal completed

So my phone rings at 1125 this morning and it's the home appraiser. He was calling to ask me if it would be OK if he could stop by early since he had had a cancellation.

I told him it was fine with me and he arrived at the house around 1130.  After a brief introduction, he set about measuring around the outside of the house. Once he was done measuring the property on the outside (including the backyard), we stepped inside and he walked around taking pictures and asking an occasional question.

Eventually he had all of the information he needed and stated to me that the rest of the report would be completed at the office and left.

Well, now that this stressful part of this process is done, all we can do now is wait for the loan people to look over his report and call us up and set up another appointment.

I wish I had some way to look forward in to the future 30 days to see where we are.

*Sigh*.

Hancock: A Mini Review

Just got back from Pacific Theaters in El Segundo, Ca where my son, his girlfriend and I went to see the 1900 showing of Hancock, the summer blockbuster starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron.

The movie was entertaining and fun to watch.  Pure escapism on the scale we've become accustomed to from Hollywood.  Not much of a story, but the special effects are amazing. a 6.5 out 10.

Quiet Errand Saturday

The usual uneventful Saturday, punctuated by an early breakfast at Piggies, followed by a visit to pick up a DVD that was transferred f rom an OLD VHS tape we had lying around the house.  I also stopped by Redondo Beach self-storage to look at their storage units. We used to have an account at this place about 11 years ago, before we bought our current house.

Around 1930, I took off for Palos Verdes to play Scrabble.  I had the BLACKEST AURA I have had in many, many months and consequently ended up losing both games.  The evening conversation revolved around an old mini-cassette recorder that I found in my office that had some Audio journal recordings that I made in January of 1995, 13 years ago.

It made Bert solemn and withdrawn and all we did was just talk about negative shit and discuss the fact that my current change in my financial outlook is "just a fad" or "the current kick I'm on" according to Rojas.

Today marked the 2nd Saturday in a row in which I DID NOT eat dinner at Bert's mom's house because of her inability to cook due top her recent shoulder operation.

The week ahead is going to be busy, what with the appraisal happening on Monday and the iPhone 2.0 (3G) going on sale on Friday, July 11, 2008.

It ought ot be at the very least a very interesting week, to say the least.

July 4th, 2008

Quiet day for the most part.  Stayed around the house and in my office most of the day, until it was time for the family to start arriving for the traditional fireworks show in front of our house.

Fireworks
I bought $125 worth of Fireworks at a local fireworks stand and David and I hada great time setting them off for my mom and the rest of the family to watch.

A.J. in San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico
Unfortunately, there was an undercurrent of sadness to the whole day for me because my son was not here with us for the fireworks celebration.

He left the night before to visit San Felipe with his girlfriend's family.  I hope he had a great time.

Scrabble
Around 2130 after the family left, I took off for Bert's house in PV to play Scrabble. I arrived at 2200 exactly and we managed to get two games in. I won the first one and lost the second one.

Bert, of course, managed to mar the entire session with his stupid, asinine behavior and mis-placed anger at the fact that David and I shot off some suspect fireworks.  I clammed up and didn't say much else after his outburst and ended up leaving his house just after 0:30.  What a dick.  Jesus.