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Saturday, September 30, 2006

A Night out on the Town part 2..

Ahh yea checked out the new emporium, thats what i'm gonna call it. It'll always be Emporium Capwell for me. The mall is interesting since it's the Emporium sliced into individual stores.

Birthday DinDins!
We roamed a bit until 6pm where we headed off to the Seasons restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel. It's on the 4th floor which they call the 'lobby floor'. Dinner starts at 6, so we were the first people there, we get seated next to the window looking down at the Market street madness. Service was excellent, very helpful our water glasses were always full, and bread basket was always filled with a mix of tidbits. The Piano player seemed to be playing off of my itunes playlists! I ordered off the Fixed Priced (51$ ack)menu, and fluffielady ordered an entree of Salmon (31$)'Medium rare, the way the chef likes to cook it' the waiter says. That was the first time i've heard on how fish should be cooked. Food came at a good pace, the only thing that sucked was that the window seats are under the vents, which were chilly. My Blue Nose Bass came and it was excellent, buttery, smooth and soft. Fluffielady's Salmon was almost Lox like, also buttery, it melts in your mouth! Dessert came and we were pleasantly surprised!


I reserved online at Opentable.com through yelp.com and left a note stating that we're celebrating fluffieladys birthday, and look at what we got. Yummies! What an excellent place!
The best way to describe Seasons is that it's like a formal Cruise Ship dinner. Me Likie!

Friday, September 29, 2006

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Medium
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 60 / 100

10 May 1920 - 25 September 2006
Forgot to mention. Former Marine Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, passed away Monday, Sept 25th at his home. He started Gunsite, a shooting school in Arizona. He's a very practical man whos ideas lead to many of the modern shooting techniques. Such techniques he developed are the weaver stance when old school techniques as one-handed shooting were taught.
He theorized the idea of a 'Scout' Rifle, a light rifle, capable of taking down someone with a single shot, while having a wide field of vision and yet being very mobile. He was also one of the founders of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC), the speed shooting of today. His house in Arizona was purpose-built by Mr. Cooper with hidden and additional features to make it advantageous for the defence of his house. They were simple things, like portholes on the stairs and an internally armorerd wall partition on the top of his stairs. Kinda like how castles were built for the advantage of the defender.
He's a very good guy, very insightful and will be missed.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Medium
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 60 / 100

A website for you!

i'm starting to dig Yelp.com it's homegrown user reviews about places in the bay area as well as other metros. It's like citysearch.com but 'techier' The distinct thing that i liked was the ability to use the built-in google map and look for certain locals. Say i'm in the sunset district and i want good eats, just move the map and the flags change to your particular area. I mainly use it for food, but theres reviews of a bunch of places. The only downside is that you can't search for multiple types of food at the same time, like Burmese and Thai. Some reviews are ok, some doesn't really review the place, for example, one person put 4 out of 5 stars at one place just because of 'memories and she got engaged there' thats all nice n stuff but hows the food? i can see good things when the free wireless network around s.f. begins. Bust open your lappy and yelp for da next spot to eat.

Check this out! i want this! The Tanaka Auto Door, Of course in Japan where else! Each slat has an infrared detector, so when it detects something arriving it opens a bit more wider than the object. Star trek action!


Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Zero
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 60 / 100

A night out on the Town.. Part 1.

Somehow Fluffielady recieved an invite to Bloomingdales Pre-Opening opening. For going they'll be handing out 25$ gift cards to everybody till it runs out. I'm thinking, when we get there around 5pm they're gonna run out, it's gonna be a madhouse, people are gonna be everywhere. I suppose i was wrong, it was busy but not to a point where people are scrambling or your elbowing others. So what is there to get with 50$ free? The cheapest thing we found was a 55$ white t-shirt, next to that is a 65$ pair of gloves. They do have 500$ scarfs, and 260$ blouses! The store is in the backside of the mall, on the mission street area. I just wanted to go check out the dome and remember the days of the Empornium. But thats the new mall area thats not open till tommorrow. Bloomingdales is clean, open and it's got mini-boutiques inside it, there are ALOT of dressing rooms. The only thing that sucks is the bathrooms matches whatever gender they are selling. So the Mens room is all the way to the top floor.
After the fun and goodies we walked to a place one of my ex-coworkers told me about, Pazzia. It reminds us of these New York restaurants where it's sorta small, so theres tables outside. The place was packed for a Wednesday at 8pm and even more people were there after we left. Pretty good freshmade pasta at a pretty good price. It can get sorta loud in there since the place is pretty small.

Other news:
My brother is transplanting all the components from my old Specialized AIM to an older Rockhopper frame. The AIM's rear shock is blown and both of us think it's it for the frame. I'm going to figure out a way to use it as decoration at my house.. heh

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Today i had 2 interesting dreams:
1) i was driving a 1960 Corvette Convertible against a modern japanese sports car around someones mansion. The floors were marble and it had a bridge going over a river.
2) Fluffielady and i were shopping around and i wanted to look for some item that i now forgot. We enter this one place and it was like a giant pastry factory with belts and lifts. Well to get from one floor to another you need to ride these belts and lifts to your destination. There was also a cooking show of sorts.

Everyday i'm still having some sorta dream going..

Friday, September 22, 2006

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Med
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 60 / 100

-Made 100 rnds of .40
-Sorta Calibrated my other toolheads for 30-06 and .38 spl
-Oil change on the Rav4, nearing 50k miles. Next is 57.5k
-Yesterday My brother did a brake fluid flush on Delilah, ATE Super Blue Some more (Near 95k miles)
-Fluffielady getting ready to co-do a show at a Craft park in South City
-This Saturday and Sun is the Fog Festival, get your fog on on one of the sunniest days.

-HowYooDooin?

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Med
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 60 / 100

Woot! a 160-Megapixel Camera coming out! 16-bit Raw is a 307mb file, a 48-bit Tiff comes out to a 922mb file! I guess those 15$ Sandisk 1gb SD cards ain't gonna cut it.

Talk about a tank of a portable digi-cam! I See You!

Another neat toy coming soon too is rechargable Ni-MH batteries via USB. The USBCell

Bzzt!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Med
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 58 / 100 (these are so hard now!)

Helped my brother's friend, who also bought a used '98 GTi-VR6 flush his brakes (ATE Super Blue) and transmission fluid (Red Line MT-90!). In return he made a ghetto cabin foam filter for my car. i often wondered why when i put the fan on high, that all these flower and tree bits came flying out of the vents!

I looked up my score from sundays IPSC, ugh, i'm 11th out of 13. Team Alpha Mike baby!

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Whelp i'm now a team member of Team Alpha Mike..

Number of Rounds Let loose: 146
1st time popping caps at the Richmond Hot shots limited match. It was pretty clear, sunny hot day. I might be sunburnt from it. I've gotta pack sunscreen with my gun bag of all things!! I can already see it. IPSC is a game of purpose driven action. There is a reason for every move, mag change, shot sequence, everything.
Things i learned on my first go:
1) i have 3 high caps (Can load 18-19rnds!) and 2 10-shot magazines. The 10-shots don't work all that well on my magwell. I'll try to NEVER use them.
2) please do walk-through the entire course in case you *ahem* forget to engage some targets.

On the targets are 4 zones of scoring A,B,C,D. A is 5, B is 4 and so on. If you miss it's a 'mike'. It seems that my compadres that i shoot with seem to have this phenomena where you'd hit the A-zone and then miss the second shot. For me these 'mikes' were in the no hit area, a blackened out area representing hard cover. Weak!
Bah, hopefully thats the only problems i'll ever have.
The only thing that sucks is i'm there from 9:15am till 3pm! Thats pretty long to shoot 5-stages of oh 10 to 45 second stages.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

I had this dream where my neighbors were Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford as a redhead and we were at the backyard playing soccer with a red kickball. Well actually it was me and Cindy fighting each other for the ball. She was getting kinda flirtacious, and then i was awoken by fluffielady talking in her sleep. She says 'oh i forgot to give change.'
There goes Cindy..
Lately i've been having a bunch of different dreams!

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Med
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 58 / 100

Ahh yea my now Mobile-GPS-Laptop system is here! My baller x31 with a car charger and gps. Time to get lost!

Monday, September 11, 2006

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 1 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: None
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 57 / 100 (Didn't touch the book today)

Thanks Retro Check and Allowance!
All my goodies come to me! My order from Safariland, Dillon, Brownells all cometh!


My pistol rig is almost ready to rock n roll. The fiber optic sight is in backorder but i can start blazing away! Now i gotta get it all adjusted and then practice with it. I'm eyeing the 17th to go start at it. Let the games begin at the Richmond HotShots

Poor Fluffielady almost like clockwork shes sick once again.. Hmmmz can it be the school??

Thursday, September 07, 2006


Ahhh Smell the fresh smell of Copper Plated Lead.. It looks like Corn Nibblets!

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 0.5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Med
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 57 / 100 (was reading readers digest)

I'm cranking bullets left n right in preparations for the mad IPSC action that *one day* i'll go do. Once my gear is here. Hopefully monday. 100rnds a day taking about 40minutes, hmmz how many rounds do i need.. Then i got a coworker that wants me to crank some for him. Hmmz it might be a good way to suppliment my income... Bapbap!

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Level Of Difficulty at Work: 0.5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Med
Number of Sudoku's from the book finished: 57 / 100 (51+ is *Demanding*)

Time to think deep..


From the New York Times..

I accidentally clicked one of the archive links and didn't realize that i've been blabbing for 3 years now. Scary!

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Forgot to post this, but then i just converted the file:

Ahh yes the joys of being in the midwest.

As for me, the question of today is: Was 200$ worth it?

Not this month. i purchased a 400$ leather shooting jacket on ebay (of course) for 215$, it's pretty new looking and stiff as heck. I gotta break it in.

Goodbuy Old high school 'donated' 1950's Ten-x Beat-down-raggity jacket, hello Creedmoor Hardback Heavy (14pounds of cow!)Leather Coat!
Unfortunately:
Slow 200 Yard offhand: 177-1x out of 200
Rapid 200 Yard sitting: 97-3x
Rapid 300 Yard Prone: 86-1x (i forgot to shoot a round, doh!)
Slow 600 Yard Prone: 96-2x
Total: 456-7x

With the bay bridge closed taking the Golden Gate method only took about 10minutes more than usual. The weather wasn't all that great but what really screwed me was the guy shooting next to me. Anytime he got a badshot, he'd curse, talk to himself or whine, and it started to get to me. He's one of those guys with the 3500$ ultra match AR-15 (since his other 3000$ ultra match M-1A kicks too hard), 500$ spotting scope, gear up the ying yang and his shooting is whacked.
The jacket worked pretty well, but i was sweating the last 10 minutes of the match. I dunno if i can use this at Sacramento or Coalinga in the summer months. That'd be murder! I might hafta bring back the old school cloth jacket for that!

Work has been decent. Fluffielady started school last week and it's ok for now. Currently her friend Michelle is in transition from LaLaland back to Minnesota, so shes visiting all her buddies on her drive up. We all roamed the Napa valley yesterday and chilled today. I'm selling my Gary Fisher to her, for she is looking for a mountain bike to stroll in back yonder. My bike is like a piece of me, but it needs to be ridden. It's called Re-cycle, Oooo!

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