Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I think I’ve just been lazy more than anything else.

In about two hours I’m going to leave on an epic roadtrip. First stop: LA to pick up my brother, who’s flying in from Hawaii. Then we’re driving to San Diego, then from there, going all the way up to Vancouver with stops in SF and Seattle.

We’re spending America’s birthday with America herself. Comon Hyundai, don’t fail me now! COMON!!

I’ll try to update through the trip with pics.

I just had me a Guinness while playing Halo with some of the guys. Kerry, what’s your work schedule like? We gotta play when you’re free.

We’re probably just staying in tonight. We went down the strip this past weekend though, and saw that the Venetian colored the water in their indoor canals green. I’ll post a pic up later.

It’s Pi Day! (not like I’ll be doing anything to particularly celebrate it)

Hey Andrew - I’m making tomyum soup for dinner tonight. Woo!

Reid and Lori are coming over for dinner, so Kerri told me to vacuum the carpet today.

The stock part of the soup’s simmering on the stove now. Other than that, I just played Need For Speed Undercover all day. Maggie Q is gross. bleh.

I’m on my third beer tonight and I haven’t even started cooking the main part yet. Pabst Blue Ribbon FTW!

I watched the inauguration like everyone else. We get free HD channels here, so it was even nicer. Anyway, check out this compilation of front page images of newspapers around the globe reporting the event.

…In (somewhat) related news, kotteke.org (and a bunch of other sites) have reported the difference in the robots.txt file between this and the last administration. Huge difference!

Apparently, this Wednesday is “Ride to Work Day” according to the AMA website. I didn’t know there was such a thing, but I’ll give it some thought.

I actually rode to work once a couple of weeks ago. It might not sound like a big deal, but I start work at 8pm and get off at 3:30am. Getting to work was all right, but the ride back home was cold and lonely. And scary. But then again I scare easily. (Ghosts, you know..)

I came across this LA times article on something called Guerilla Gardening, where people take it upon themselves to “plant without approval on land that’s not theirs” like vacant lots and other unkept land.

I thought that photo there was somebody making desert, but they’re actually ’seed bombs’ - a mix of seeds, earthworm castings, and clay, rolled up into balls, for those quick drive-by plantings.

Sounds like a good idea to me. It reminds me of this place by the stream where we we used go to catch feeder guppies.

There was a lot of basil, lemongrass, and some papaya growing in the area along the stream, and I found out from one of the residents that they were planted by a group of Vietnamese that lived in the buildings across the street. I used to see some of them coming down to harvest from the palnts, but I didn’t know they were responsible for the plants in the first place. I thought that was a great idea.

Sadly, a lot of the stuff was wiped out during the flash floods through Manoa back in ‘04. We haven’t really been back since. I should check it out one day… and YOU should check out that story. It’s a pretty neat little read, and you can learn to make seed bombs!

I’ve been feeling way too lazy to post anything substantial lately. I don’t know if it’s me, the rainy weather, or something else. I got lots of pictures that I need to post, but just haven’t been feeling like doing it.  Man, even now I just want to go to bed already… I think it IS the weather..