Autoshow

 
Going to the San Francisco Autoshow the Saturday after Thanksgiving is one of the few non-holiday family traditions that we stick too. My Mom, Aunts and a Cousin all go shopping in the city on Black Friday and the following Saturday, while my Dad, my Brother, his girlfriend and myself all go to the autoshow.
It [...]

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Going Home

 
Returning home after several months at college is such a strange experience. Especially Thanksgiving. It is a three day taste of home before returning to not only the intensity of school but dead and finals weeks as well. After the two hardest weeks of the quarter the journey home begins again. This is probably not [...]

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Black Friday

 
Hopefully everyone has had a good Black Friday. I was not a full participant, I did not wait in line at 5am for doorbusters. Rather I helped move some very heavy conference tables and went out around six in the evening to do some shopping.
Not as much debris or wounded store staff as I expected.
For [...]

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Thanksgiving

 
I hope everyone is having a happy and enjoyable Thanksgiving.
If you are British maybe you can be thankful that you got rid of those pesky colonists.
The important part of this day is to spend time with family and eat enormous amounts of delectable dishes and perfect pies.
And of course celebrate the spirit of America by [...]

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Thanksgiving Traffic

 
I had a theory. I though that if instead of taking Highway 101 from Santa Barbara to my house in Sonoma County that it might be faster to go up to Sacramento and cut over and this avoid the traffic of Marin.
Well I was wrong.
The traffic that I normally encounter when going home for Thanksgiving [...]

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Rainy Day

 
It rained today in Santa Barbara, a rare event. It was not a real rain though, not a rain that lasts for the full day and is audible from inside any building. The sky did not darken nor did any lake size puddles form.
It was a british rain. A light sprinkle followed the afternoon into [...]

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Late Delivery

 
A little bit ago I did a review of iPhoto Print Service, Snapfish and Shutterfly. I mentioned how my first set of photos from Apple never arrived. Well they came today. They were printed on October 7th and took a month and a half to arrive.
Not the best of delivery times.
Instead of being the smallest [...]

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Weekends

 
Somewhere between High School and now weekends lost their appeal. During high school and even to some extent my freshman year weekends were this glorious time in which school was left aside and the days were thrown open to possibility.
That possibility is crushed now.
Weekends are now bastions of work and chores. Days lost to lab [...]

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Cal Poly Turkey Tournament

 
I had my first fencing tournament today at Cal Poly (SLO). I was competing in the mixed novice foil competition against about fifty other people. After the first five bouts, which are used to determine which pool I go into and initial rank, I was placed at 36th out of the fifty. Not too hopeful.
After [...]

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Sneaky Quarter

 
Fall quarter is a very sneak quarter.
The beginning is a fresh year, time to accomplish anything, finals a distant future.
A few weeks in a groove is found, it is known when homeworks are due and when to do them (most of the time the day before).
Then without out warning you are mired in a sea [...]

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