Date:	2006-11-01 23:44
Subject:	Running this saturday
Security:	Public
Mood:	calm

Time: 8am
Place: Crystal Springs Reservoir off bunker hill(or 7:40 my house)
Description: 5 miles, slight rolling hills

Its been cold in the mornings, so bring warm running clothes!

Please RSVP if you are coming, otherwise I might leave early as no one has shown up the last 4 weekends.

Running this saturday

Time: 8am
Place: Crystal Springs Reservoir off bunker hill(or 7:40 my house)
Description: 5 miles, slight rolling hills
Please RSVP if you are coming, otherwise I might leave early as no one has shown up the last 3 weekends.
Yay for feeling more in shape!

Running this saturday has been cancelled! I am sick :(
Time: so be asleep 7am Saturday
Place to meet: not at My house
Snore: for at least an hour

Next Run:

Time: 8am Saturday Morning (Or 7:45 my place)
Place: Canada and Edgewood Road Intersection again
Length: 4 Miles with rolling hills, trail or road running

So I've been feeling out of shape recently. I haven't had time to go work out as I've been distracted trying to perform well at my new job.

This has got to change, my pants are getting tight and I don't really want to go out and buy new ones (well I wouldn't mind getting new clothes, but going up a size is just depressing).

I've decided I'm going to try and do a half marathon every month of next year.

I've got my eyes on an Angel Island Run on Jan 14th and the San Francisco Half Marathon on Feb 4th to kick off the year, and that gives me about 3 months to get my butt back into shape.

If anyone would like to join me in my trainings or for a race lemme know. I'm going to try and post when and where my long weekend runs are going to be (getting together during the week tends to be tricky).

So to kick off the training, I'll be doing a run saturday meeting at 7:30 am at edgewood road and canada road for a 4 mile run nice and slow (I run about a 10 minute mile). I know its early, but I have to run before I eat anything in the morning and making me wait to eat is not a good idea.

I won't get above 5 miles on the weekends until November.

Check my hubby's LJ for bikeride details Sunday! Cross training is important for training too!!

Date:	2006-10-01 09:21
Subject:	MUSE WAS AWESOME
Security:	Public
Mood:	sleepy

I had a kickass time at the download festival yesterday with my sis addy, TLEE, and LBC.

Muse was so freaking awesome! We rocked out hard, and entertained the guys behind us with our drunken/really happy/crazy dancing.

Honorable mentions for fun bands include Beck (and the Beck Puppeteers), Kinky, The Shins and TV on the Radio.

Crappy weirdass bands that made me want to shoot out the speakers include the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
I would like to hate Wolfmother for not showing up, but since the drummer just wants to be with his newborn baby, I'll cut them some slack this time...

Random events for the night include all of us seeing people from highschool that we hadn't talked to in years including german exchange students.

I would like to thank shoreline amphitheatre for selling cabo wabo tequila shots which kept us warm and happy (VERY happy in my sister's case).

Entertaining side notes:
1) "Snakes on a Bus" done with puppet representations of Beck and Beck's band.
2) They listed "TV on the Radio" as "TV on the Road" on all the schedule of events they were handing out.
3) An idiot that passed me in the dark on the narrow and twisty exits from the dirt parking lots at shoreline and then almost crashed their subaru on the next turn (its too bad that they didn't crash).

Definitely the best 30 bux I think I've ever spent.

I have an extra lawn ticket to the download festival this saturday! It's at shoreline starting at 2:30. Bands playing include Muse, Beck, Kinky, Wolfmother, The Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeah Rogue Wave, Coheed and Cambria, The Mutaytor, TV on the Radio, and The Like.

Lemme know if you wanna go! There are still lawn tickets available if there are 2 or more of you who want to come. (BTW ticket was 30 bux)

Date:	2006-08-22 19:38
Subject:	NewJob, SameHome
Security:	Public
Mood:	contemplative
Music:	Mythbusters

I have a new job at genentech, woowoo. I'm outta my dying company from which most of the intellegent people have fled or are fleeing. Start date is Sept 11th! Not looking forward to giving notice to the overly emotional supervisor. Definitely looking forward to getting the hell out of there!! gonna miss a few people though, sniff.

And, I don't even have to move! it's a wonderful feeling.

I think the next move we will make is going to be when we decide to become indentured slaves to a home.

This looks awesome, this Friday at the San Jose Civic Auditorium.

The San Jose Symphony is doing music from Super Mario Brothers, Halo, Zelda, and lots more. Crappy tickets in the back only cost 8.50. Who wants to go???

http://www.videogameslive.com/index.php?s=home

Date:	2005-04-11 09:16
Subject:	me so ti ti
Security:	Public
Mood:	exhausted

ah... we have moved... yet again. I think I bruised almost everypart of my body! Thanks to those who showed up to help move! We appreciate all the help. To those who didn't show or call... well, let's just say you owe us some serious housewarming gifts! (j/k) =] I know weekend time is precious.

2 days left at the old job, and I swear I'm counting the hours. I get to go out for a farewell brunch today tho, hurray! Free food! Unfortunately the hated evil boss will also be attending, so it can't be happy go lucky.

Then it will be back to the Richmond place to clean and fix stuff up. Boo I will be stuck there till Wednesday. I want to be at my new place!

If I can get the place in order, we're looking at a tentative housewarming party the weekend of the 23rd or 30th. Also we'll need see how much stuff needs to get fixed in Richmond, and also how long it will take us to get a high speed connection. I'll post when we know for sure.

Date:	2005-04-05 19:25
Subject:	Moving Details
Security:	Public
Mood:	crazy

We're moving, we're moving!!

When: 9:30 am Saturday the 9th
Where: 214 Park Lane, Richmond to 343 Ulmer Court, Redwood City
Incentives: Food, Coffee, and strip clubs!

For those of you who have a hard time getting up early you're welcome to come friday night for games and spend the night.

Date:	2005-03-30 12:17
Subject:	New Job, New Home, Same Hubby!
Security:	Public
Mood:	hopeful
Music:	whatever radio station my coworker has got on

So for all of you that haven't heard by now, tho I think I've told everybody because I'm so excited, I have given notice at Bio-Rad, and on Wednesday April 13th I will be starting my new job at Vaxgen. WOOWOO! Since my new company is located in south san fran we will be moving as well, because commuting over the bay bridge like totally sucks, or some junk. Hubby will hopefully be very happy as the roads on the peninsula do not have nearly the number of potholes so big they could swallow his whole bike as East bay seems to have.

We're still looking for a place, so if anybody hears of a nice place in Redwood City, San Mateo, or Pacifica, let us know. So far all the places have been small and kinda junky.

On another happy note, Rikihalo will also be moving to Redwood City, so we are actually going to be living near some friends. Hurray!

My company is sort of a start up still, so I will be working my butt off and learning tons of new things, a happy change from the current boredom I face at work everyday. Oh and they gave me some stock, so maybe da company will really take off and we'll be able to afford a house. (I'll just keep dreaming on that one).

Date:	2004-11-17 12:24
Subject:	And the years of butt kissing finally pay off...
Security:	Public
Mood:	nauseated

Ok, so Bush is nominating Condoleeza Rice for his Secretary of State. Her big task (if confirmed) is trying to make the middle eastern countries happy with the US and with each other.

The media and the Bush administration love to note how Middle Eastern women get no respect or rights within the Islamic societies. A wonderful excuse for liberating their country in order to get oil.

So why the hell hasn't anybody noticed that if Condoleeza Rice gets confirmed the middle eastern countries are in no way going to deal with her and will in fact probably be insulted that the USA sent a woman to "do a man's job" in their eyes?

I'm not saying that since Rice is a woman, she would make a bad secretary of state, but damn, in this day and age and with the war in Iraq you think Bush could at least use his brain a little bit and say, hey, maybe things will go a lot easier if I have a man in that spot for right now.

Plus Rice has no military experience at all, and she's basically a yes man yuppy to the Bush administration. I mean yes, it's wonderful that she is a concert pianist and can play the cello as well. She started college at age 15, and whoopdeedoo, she was a Stanford provost, but what experience does she actually have in trying to make crazy bomb happy terrorists in Iraq behave civilly?

As an added bonus, it was under her rule at the NSA that the September 11th bombing happened. Yeah, she sounds perfect for the job.

Date:	2004-11-16 09:52
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	intimidated
Music:	letters to cleo

There is this one lady at work that radiates the bitch factor. The moment she enters our lab, the icy fingers of angry black woman syndrome reach out and strangle any happy thought any of us ever had. For instance, today in lab I was singing "On top of spaghetti" (to the tune of on top of old smokey) for my chinese coworker, because she had never heard the song before. The bitch enters the room, and glares at me for even daring to be happy and carefree and immediately sucks all the spirit and laughter out of the room. Her bitch powers are quite impressive I must say, for the whole lab goes quiet when she enters, and our lab is about 60 feet long.

Oh and she sucks at her job, but her boss is too much of a pussy to fire her, because the bitch factor scares the crap out of him too. That and she's so freaking huge that she could suffocate three people at the same time simply by sitting on them with her ginormous ass.

Date:	2004-10-29 09:53
Subject:	spew!
Security:	Public
Mood:	energetic
Music:	Kinky - Ejercicio

So, I find myself again at work, with nothing to do and the urge to regurgitate and bitch about work. I will try and resist the temptation and instead comment on the randomness of the world at large.

The squirrels that live near my work like to run in the road, just down the road, not anywhere in particular as I can tell. It suddenly reminded me of the joggers that for some reason think that running on the asphalt instead of the sidewalk will save their already disintegrating knee cartilege. Not only do they run in the road, but they run like 5 feet out from the sidewalk and parked cars making it impossible for 2 cars to drive past one another. So does that mean that the joggers are as dumb as squirrels for running in the street? Or are the squirrels getting better at annoying drivers and randomly darting out in front of them trying to get people into car accidents. Well little squirrels, I have one word for you, *SQUISH!* Too bad I can't do the same to the joggers out in the streets...

I am excited for halloween! My mommy made me an awesome costume =] I shall be fabulous!

I saw the full moon eclipse on Wednesday! My mom came up to visit and to give me my costume so we stood outside for a bit freezing our patooties off watching the moon get all murky and reddish. Pretty cool.

I have to say I am dissapointed in my Scibuddies program, because my SB isn't that bright. I find it almost impossible to help her when she's not willing to do any work. So far she's just listed all the links I have suggested and used that as her bibliography assignment, I don't think she's even read them. She's the one that picked the hard topic! PSYCHOLOGY SUCKS! (sorry porgy) Bah, just makes me mad so I don't want to help her but then the SB staff gets on my case for not helping enough. Heaven help me if I have dumb children. (And if I do, they will be my hubby's fault of course, not mine)

We ordered a new sofa on Wednesday! YAY! No more crappy white chairs, and enough seating for me to stretch out and not have to fight with hubby's laptop! So when it comes in December, we will have a new sofa party =] I feel guilty for making hubby spend money, but then I remember, I'm the one paying the rent, all the bills and buying all the food. Not to mention doing most of the cleaning and cooking, and helping out with his business, so he owes me! Though to be fair he has been cleaning the dishes in the kitchen more recently. And he makes me happy (most of the time). And he squishes the evil spiders. So a sofa is a small price to pay, right? Bah, I'm still trying to justify spending that much of hubby's money on a piece of furniture.

Writing of spiders, I was trying to box up chairs today that we are returning at work, and a spider jumped out from one them and I screamed and jumped back. Then I realized, I'm wearing a lab coat and gloves, I can just squish the damn thing with my hand. I did so and still felt the heeby jeebies when I made contact. Bleck, I hate spiders.

I've babbled enough! Time to go read news online or find some other fashion to entertain my brain. (Hello minesweeper and freecell)

Date:	2004-10-06 11:06
Subject:	Breaking headlines, Bush taken down by a cloud of bubbles during the debate this evening....
Security:	Public
Mood:	devious

So my hubby and I have been watching the debates on tv, and we were talking about how useless watching them is because they end up lying so much throughout the debate and misquoting numbers like the how many soldiers we have in Iraq. We've decided that somebody should create "Pop-up Debate", so it would be like Pop-up video on VH1 where actual facts would pop up above the candidate's head everytime they said something phoney. Can you just see it? John Kerry sitting there saying how he supports blah and then a bubble popping in above his head saying "Kerry actually voted against 3 bills supporting blah." It would be freaking awesome. A new way to keep the politicians in this country honest and inform the public at the same time. I love it!

Date:	2004-10-05 13:52
Subject:	my bike seat hates me
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy

Hurray, so we successfully completed the tour de geo without any crashes, flat tires or injuries (not counting geo's supposed bloody nose while riding). It was a rather chilly ride, but we had fun burning stuff at the camp sites to keep warm. We also had porgypie entertaining us by pretending to be a momma bird, (for a reason now lost to me), for most of the trip.

The highlights:

Sacrificing candy corns to the weather gods by seeing how long they took to melt on top of a log in a fire.

Burning three cardboard boxes, 1 box of actual wood, and many roots on our pitiful little fires.

"Hey, I can see my breath" - The theme of the tour as said by porgypie.

Porgypie expecting to share a tent with Rikihalo and then ending up having to share it with Zoe. Burn!

A man driving an RV backed over a 6 foot bush in the RV park.

Overall it was a nice weekend, with good biking and good friends. Awww doesn't that just make your heart all warm and fuzzy? Ok, you can go close your window now in disgust.

Date:	2004-09-28 11:07
Subject:	ungghhhhh.... SQUISH!
Security:	Public
Mood:	blah
Music:	No Doubt- Rock Steady

So on Saturday my hubby, Tim F. and I went to see Shaun of the Dead, which is hilarious but a little too gruesome for me towards the end. I ended up having nightmares of me fighting off zombies all Saturday night. Sunday night was uneventful but then last night I had dreams of how I was too fat to fit in all my shorts and pants (probably due to the guilt I felt for consuming 2 donuts Monday morning). The frightening thing is that the fat dreams were more horrifying than the zombie dreams. At least I was kicking ass in the zombie dreams, instead of just having a huge ass. Oh and then this morning I went and ate another donut. Maybe tonight I can have dreams of crushing zombies with my ginormous ass.

So as most of you roadies know, Tyler Hamilton is under suspicion of blood doping based on a new test implemented at this year's olympics. Specifically he is being accused of getting a blood transfusion from another donor intended to boost his red blood cell count during the race and hence deliver more oxygen to his muscles.

This new test was developed by an Australian team of Michael Ashenden, Margaret Nelson and Ross Brown. It took me an hour to find a free copy of their paper on the internet about her new test since all the news articles were unclear as to how the test actually works. Unfortunately it has now been taken down so I cannot link to it.

A simplified description is below: (my apologies to the science geeks out there for anything that is incorrect)

Red blood cells have antigens on the outside of the cells that signal to other cells in the body what they are, so they don't get destroyed by the body, etc etc. The major antigen on red blood cells everybody knows as type A, AB, or O. A single person can only be one of these types. As it turns out there are many more minor groups groups of antigens present on the cells. This particular test looks at 7 of the more minor blood groups. The test detects which types of antigens appear in the blood sample so if more than 7 types of antigens show up in the assay, it means there is more than one person's blood in the sample.

Red blood cells only have a life of 120 days, give or take 20 days, which means that all evidence of the blood doping would be entirely gone after 3 months.

All preliminary data indicates that the test should be very accurate, but Phonak has hired an independent team of scientists to evaluate the test. More suspicion as to the test's accuracy has arisen since results from the same sample tested at different times are conflicting.

Personally, I think Tyler is innocent, and that the test needs some refining or at least better training for the people who are applying it. Unfortunately, I doubt he will be able to clear his name if the test results continue to be inconsistent. bah!

Date:	2004-09-22 17:37
Subject:	Sciencebuddies!
Security:	Public
Mood:	hopeful

All you science geeks and engineers out there who have a college degree should check out Sciencebuddies. They are an organization that pairs you up with a budding young scientist (middle school) who's working on a science fair project. Your goal is to help the kid along and all the while lure them into getting interested and excited about science All communication is taken place through posting on a safe environment online. Sciencebuddies lays out a plan and gives tips and advice so even if you have never done a science project before you can still give the kiddies pointers and encouragement.

Alternatively you can sign up to work on their ask an expert site, where you get shifts of answering posts from kids across the country wanting to know more about science (or their hw).

The best part is, you can spend as little or as much time as you like. The sciencebuddies team said that most people spend an hour a week, answering questions whenever they had time.

As a last little motivational poke, California schools tied for last place in all the states in science. That's really sad.