St Paddy's Festivities :)

The weekend before St. Patrick's day they have a parade out here because its not a public/bank holiday. There was a proposition during the elections attempting to make St. Paddy's Day a public holiday...i work on a schedule where there are no such thing as holidays, but I'm guessing the prop was unsuccessful as others had to work. Anyway I checked out the parade...well what was left as i arrived somewhat late. The parade was over but there where irish food stands with the attempts of Irish cuisine, gazebo's with booze flowing (they were cornered off...san francisco is changing...on event's like this you could just drink publicly), Irish bands singing christy moore songs and stuff and a little man wandering around selling 'lucky irish beads' which were clearly just mardi gras beads...anyway alot of green was to be seen as you'll see in the pics below...

On St. Paddy's day however... it was a 'neighbours'(Rodrigo/Ro for short-he lives in the building...) birthday so a little party was happening in the kitchen that evening...i had the late shift...so i was kinda late...i wasn't really in the mood to party but i had a beer (it wasn't green) of course...and that was that :) It was fun...check out some of the pics from this below too :D

Relocation, Relocation, Relocation

Apologies to all who read (not alot) for not writing here sooner. Not much has really been happening...im able to drink now...so that might explain the less blogging but i'll try my best not to replace my blogging time with booze drinking time. I've also got a rather large todo list in work...so...that also might explain it.

At the weekend however, i was working Saturday then i went to a movie in the park (gotta love em) i bought a blanket to sit on etc and Chrissi and I went ... it was in Delores park...the place was packed, i'd never seen one of these with soooooooo many ppl before. But after...YaChing asked us to a sushi party...so the movie finished and we went it was a dudes birthday...and there was a sushi chef making the sushi...putting it on the plate...and it was getting sent off...chrissi and i were rigt at the front so we were certain to get something...it was delicious :) i like sushi and i think ive mastered chopsticks :) wooohooooo not bad :D

Ok then on sunday...we moved for a third and final time to Turk St...now i was scared of moving here...i heard the neighbourhood wasnt nice etc...BUT I LOVEEEEEEEEE IT...HUGE ROOM...GREAT VIEW ack its amazing...and the beds dont squeek as much :) it is a bit far from everything but i have a bus pass now so i can just jump on the bus...so its good. Working uuntil sunday this week...making up the time so i can go visit Chels for christmas so...needs must...but ive a lot of work todo as well as a staff meeting tomorrow and a meeting with rodrigo and dave on wednesday. so...until then maybe i'll get another blog in later this week...

..He really is 21...

Woooohooooooooooo im now legal in the state of California!

Finally i can drink alcohol(legally)..i can stop for a pint on the way home from work...:D had an amazing night last night...we (Chrissi, Dave, Ali, Karyne, Karyne's friend(i dont wanna get the spelling of her name wrong) and I) went to Haight Ashbury and landed in Hobson's Choice...and the we are at the bar...and he wants to see our I.D. and someone said to him...'It's his Birthday' so he rings the last orders bell and makes the WHOLE bar aware...then he comes back...laughs and says 'He really is 21 and laughs...then he drops my passport into water! My effin VISA!...its all running and stuff...(it sounds worse than it is) but i was like Ree Ree...but we get our fat tires, go sit down, and im putting pieces of toilet paper between each page so they dont stick...on i slight downer from the passport incident, i wanna go to a night club and BOOOOOGIE...so we went back downtown and went to this night club called 'Slide' which is appropriate...as the club is downstairs you slide down into the club...but it was closed as it was Sunday...but still cool tho...we took the stairs.

Being Sunday, there wasnt many people there the whole night...music was good though...alcohol was pouring i had a GREAT night and just wanna take the opportunity to thanks everyone who came out and to Dave who helped to spread the word...and to those who couldnt make it...we'll party another time :D so until thennnnnnnnnn!

I got work tomorrow now...so sleep...g'night :)

This week in a nut shell...

Ok...The past week in a nut shell...

Monday - SES San Jose

Today I was at the Search Engine Strategies conference, in San Jose...wow...lots of REALLY smart people...i understood some of what they where sayin but most of it...man i had nooooooooo clue. It had various sessions with discussions on Optimizing search engine results and reducing the bounce rate on sites(not important if you don't understand :P) etc so I learned alot. Met a few cool people...not from SF tho...so im still on the hunt for friends... :/

Tuesday - Google Party!

OMG...AMAZING ... we went to Googleplex...(HQ) for a special glow in the dark dance party...wtf? i still cant believe how amazing Googleplex is...anyway with beer on tap...for free alllllllll night...and welll they arnt that smart up there at google...thats all im sayin...with free food, free beer, free amazing glow in the dark tshirts, this amazing pick n mix set up, video arcades...everything...they had a rock band...thing where you could go sign up and go on stage and play rockband lol...of course extranomical got up...tho i was the 'Photographer' (at my own accord)...they went out within like a minute ...but they rocked. Google's like geek heaven? If you seen this place you'd wanna work there...geek or not...and the ride back to the mini bus was amazing...if you didnt know....google have bicycles to ride you round campus...and well...we all took a ride on the bicycles back to the bus...so...with a beer in my hand and steering the bike with one hand...i pretty much had it under control...except...to slow the bike down... you gotta pedal backwards!...course not realising and in a state of panic...i almost went into the sprinklers...bad times...no beer spilt tho...good times... :)



Wednesday - Planes, Trains and Automobiles
So trip advisor...the travel search place..were hosting a screening of Planes trains and automobiles..in union sq...for free! It was class the place was packed the crowds where huge...but basically i love this film and it was really cool to experience it with soooooo many different people...though the lady behind me kept talkin crap... :/ but it was awesome...

Thursday...nothing exciting happened this day...tho it was my second day of the morning shift...'7am - 4am' is the scheduled shift...tho i stayed to almost 6 it was so hectic...the americans and their long hours lol...grrrrr...but yeh im answering phones and stuff so im gettin used to some of it... :)

Friday...today...im off work ... sitting in the park...chillin about to go read my book and catch a few rays for a few hours...fun times i love it...on my way up to this internet point...a lady named Natalie commented on my shirt (my Wierd Al 'White and Nerdy' One)...and we chatted for a wee bit...she was cool...looks like im making friends? well its progess...time to go read and see if i can make some friends :D