best sign ever

I laughed out loud when I saw the neon sign in the window.  I like that somebody understands that prop comedy is sometimes just worth it.

Joel took me here yesterday for my last sandwich as an unemployed schmuck.  Yes, that's right, I am starting a job today.  After almost a year of glorious unemployment I will be back in the grind.

Well hopefully, first I have to get there this morning.  I know sort of where this place is but I don't know for sure.  My manager was supposed to send me an email with directions but she didn't.  My plan is to leave early and wander aimlessly.

I will report on how it goes.  9-5 today, hitting the ground running.

don't listen to mariah carey alone

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Ummm I have never heard such good advice in my life.

www.drinkify.org

You're welcome.

And thank you reddit, once again you've pointed the way to a life changing corner of the internet.

Honey got me hooked on you

Jon took this perverted picture of me at the beach when I didn't realize.  He said it's me on the set of my music video.

The other day Christina aptly described me as having an, "LA face with an Oakland booty" which I think this picture speaks to.  I didn't realize that my ass was so big that it hangs out of the bottom of my bathing suit.  How embarrassing.

The point though is that this really does look like a still from a music video or something.  I have been trying to peer pressure Tayisha Busay in to coming down here to shoot a video, I am going to use this as evidence of why they need to.  In fact there were people doing a photo shoot on the beach just down from us on this very day.

It doesn't get much more picturesque than this.

Happy Birthday Gramps

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When I did a google image search for "91st Birthday" this was one of the first things that came up.  Somebody at Greeting Card Universe is good at their job, of that much we can be certain.

Congratulations Gramps, you made it to 91!  During the past two months when we were all helping out with his doctors appts and whatnot we would frequently be asked to provide his information including date of birth.  It never seemed real when I would say November 9, 1920.  I mean really, 1920?! My grandfather actually remembers when cars were the cool new invention that everybody wanted to have.  And by the car I mean THE car.  Not like the newest model or the fastest hatchback, just the car in general.

It makes me wonder what the world will be like in another 90 years.  I literally can't imagine.

So last year I shared one of my favorite memories of my grandfather, so I'll do the same again this year:

At some point a few summers ago I went over to my grandfather's house to hang out with him.  He has a habit of keeping lists with our names on it and under our names he writes down the things he wants us to help him with.  I actually saw my list before he had a chance to talk to me about it and was confused about why the only thing written under my name was "drip".

I asked my grandfather what the drip was about and he was so excited to get my help with what was apparently a huge issue in his life.  He didn't explain anything to me but just pulled me in to his guest bathroom with him and made me stand with him in silence.  He literally shushed me when I asked him what was going on and pointed ambiguously in to the air saying, "do you hear it?!"

I finally did hear a very faint dripping noise.  This pleased him even more, I think he was worried that he was going crazy, but what he wanted was to find the source of the dripping.  His theory was that it was somehow associated with the toilet but he explained, "it doesn't make sense because the dripping is very consistent early in the morning but then dies down as the day goes on".  I used my super sleuth skills to glance around the bathroom while he was talking and noticed that the window was open.  I looked out the window and saw what I figured I would see, a bucket my grandfather had put under the gutter to collect rain water.  Apparently the morning dew would run off the roof and down the gutter, dripping in to the bucket.

There have only been a few times that I have seen my grandfather as happy as he was when I pointed out the source of the dripping.  He hugged me in sheer joy.  And this is actually a pretty good example of my grandfather's attitude in general.  One might describe him as a bit of a drama queen.

So in case you were wondering where I got it from...

Happy Birthday Gramps!

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best friends forever

This is how we've spent most of the past few days.  Lazy lazy.

I think I've almost convinced Jon to move down here.  How can he resist?  They are clearly mfeo.

a large nice lady

Jonathan made one of my dreams come true last night by taking me to the Cheesecake Factory on Los Olas, but it was this nice lady who surprised both of us.  Apparently she is an Austrian Great Dane and also one of the happiest gentle giants I've ever had the pleasure to dine next to.

She seriously just walked around smiling at people and getting in the way of the waiters who were too scared to try and move her out of the way.

I want to cuddle with her!  : (

please come visit

This is what you all are missing by locking yourselves away in NYC/Philadelphia/Boston/Berkeley/wherever else you're hiding.

The weather is getting perfect now.  Touching the 80's during the day, perfect top down weather in the morning and evening.

And don't you want to tell your friends and coworkers that you're a snowbird?  There's no shame in admitting that you want to come down here.

This was where I spent the afternoon yesterday making new friends, drinking sangria, and getting a tan.