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Thought I’ll contribute to the blog revival.

Just got back from my SF trip over the weekend… It was a really really really good getaway – just needed to walk away from work and life for a little bit to rejuvenate (although sadly I had to do homework every night after getting back to the hotel). I guess the best part is seeing Bel and Brent after not seeing everyone for sooo long. There really is no substitute for this kind of friendship – we really just picked up where we last left off.

Cali is super pretty – beautiful place, beautiful people. No wonder all the photogs hang out there. I brought my SLR and maxed out all my cards (4G + 4G + 2G + my dinky 128MB). Which means way too many photos to edit (this is when I’m glad my keep ratio is not very high still, har har).

As Bel put it, typical of a YFA vacation (though I swear I did minimal planning for this trip – I was so busy leading up to the trip I booked hotel/rental car < 1 week before the trip, and I basically only had one e-mail of places to go from my SF friend) the trip is jammed back with stuff and you feel like you have spent an entire week there when you have in reality only spent a weekend there. Will go into detail about the different parts of the trip as I post photos later... but for now, here is the hommage I paid to Silicon Valley.... muhahahaha! (Belinda said I wanted to take this photo to spite others, but really I was pretty excited myself).

i just realized sadd3j posted over a month ago.. i would say lets revive it but i think we’ve tried several times in the last while with no success.

anywho, since theres nothing really new to report, i will post a photo. of what you ask? well i looked around my room, and the only thing thats marginally interesting is my current setup. the second monitor has been awesome (even though it doesn’t match the imac and according to sadd3j its a SIN). what did i use to take a photo you ask? (and this will probably annoy jasonC) but i used AIRME for the iphone, lets me take a photo and automatically upload to flickr. SWEET!

Well, I keep meaning to take photos to accompany my posts because text-only posts are boring.. but time doesn’t permit. So I will post and add a photo or two later. This weekend was a long.. long weekend. Saturday was a wedding, went pretty well.. we were maybe a little creatively strained.. but.. with all the work at work, and decisions for home decor.. I feel creatived out just about now.

Anyhow.. the most current project has been the second bedroom, also known as the studio, or office, or den. My goal has been to use IKEA sparingly.. and so far we seem to be failing miserably. But the core base furniture like white bookshelves I think it is a little more allowable. A haul to IKEA has been 4 Billy bookcases (each 98 lbs), 6 BYOM doors for the bookcases, some random necessities and Maximus. A photo of Maximus to follow.

So I’m going to try posting once again.. hopefully TPX, the blog.. will survive!

My main topic of posting of course, will be condo life. Seeing as a lot of my day is spent either fixing/decorating or researching about condos, it feels like all this information that I’ve gathered is going to waste. It reminds me of watching anime or tv shows.. you download it and watch it.. and then you feel bad about deleting it because you spent so much time downloading it and watching it, so you just burn it to a DVD and never watch it again.

The same with the condo, I spend endless hours researching one thing or another, and then after it’s been implemented.. all that information on installing, etc. etc. feels like it’s just gone. If I record it in the blog.. at least it’s somewhere.. although probably never read again.

I’ve actually had possession of the condo for near 3 months now, and for the first two months, nothing really happened (a bit of paint is about all. With the appliances arrived (not until mid july was it all sorted out!) and finally installed, things are picking up and getting done at a much faster rate!

So, I will backpost a little bit just to record what has already been done.

Estimated move-in date is this upcoming long weekend of August 2nd. The mattress arrives Aug 1st, this friday.. and even though I’ll have moved in.. many many things still need to be done.

So here we go!

24… the unaired pilot from 1994