i’m sick of this winterish weather now that we’re in spring. there wasn’t enough of it in winter, and now i don’t want it. it just makes summer seem all that further off. although i did appreciate the overcastness this morning since i’m so damn hung over :) man, i’m definitely not bragging, more exhibiting my stupidity, but i drove home so drunk last night. not like tipsy or buzzed drunk, but fucked up drunk. i didn’t realize it until i got to the freeway and had to do this long turn and everything was moving weird ways. i figured at that point though, that it was just as far to drive to a friend’s house as it was just to get back to mine. but yeh, i need to get a dui already to set me straight. maybe i’ll just go rent “red asphalt” :)

i hate to be insensitive to other religions and cultures, but this is fucking ridiculous:

-CNN-
“NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) — A Muslim couple in India have been told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the husband “divorced” his wife in his sleep, the Press Trust of India reported.

Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word “talaq,” or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers on Monday.

When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab’s words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as “triple talaq.” The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split.

The religious leaders ruled that if the couple wanted to remarry they would have to wait at least 100 days. Sohela would also have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn.”

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/27/india.religion.reut/index.html
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me and eric meant to get out for the sunset fishing, but we had to redo some of the pump wiring and by the time we were on the water, it was already pretty dark. the weather was nice and the water was really calm. there’s nothing more peaceful that i do than sitting out on the boat, fishing on a nice day, or in this case night. i caught one nice 15″ calico on a 2″ red flake plastic, and a 10″ sandbass on a 5″ sardine :) there was no moon out so it was pretty much black other than our internal lighting, and the glow from the city about 3 miles away.

so as sanam so astutely pointed out, my last rant about my cell phone dilemna was a bit convoluted. .. forgive me, i was flustered =p. so in a nutshell what happened was that i was with at&t/cingular, switched to t-mobile, and am now with regular cingular under my company’s business plan. the reason i went to t-mobile was to use this phone that ben’s dad gave me, but the problem with t-mobile was that 1.service was really crappy at my apartment and at school and 2.they didn’t have an international calling plan. so through my company’s fan program with cingular, i got a free black razr with a 17% discount on service. i sold my unlocked silver razr on ebay for $200, and am returning ben’s dad’s blackberry and the t-mobile phone/contract which has a 30 day return policy. my poor number’s been ported twice in the last week, but all’s well that ends well ;)

fuck, so i guess the wbc tournament is something that’s going to go the way of the olympics and be played every 4 years, although the next tournamentis in 2009, so i’m not sure what gives. anyway, i guess that makes sense, because if they played every year that would probably become too expensive for the host countries to put together teams with so many a-list players. anyway, see ya in 2k9!

so today i actually bought a real book from a real store. i’ve come a long way baby. it was required reading for this south-east asian history class i’m taking (of which there aren’t any hot south-east asian girls? wtf?! at least it’s not as bad as the time i took a class called “women and their bodies” and it was a bunch of fat, men-hating dikes). anyway, i bought it at about 10a and finished the 200pg book by 4p and i even worked a few hours inbetween chapters. “the quiet american” by graham greene is about 1950’s vietnam under french colonial rule and a love triangle between a vietnamese woman and a british and american journalist living there. it wasn’t as easy to read as all of those dan brown books i’ve been going through but it flowed easily enough. the interactions between the vietnamese woman and the white guys were particularly interesting to me because i saw lots of similarities in interactions with girls in my life. i also come to find that they made a movie in 2002 by the same name that starred brenden fraiser and michael cane… i’ll have to rent, er, download it ;)

wholly shit, talk about a comeback! japan had only won 3 of it’s 7 games when it made it into the semifinals by the thinnest of margins and the wacky rules of round-robin play. korea was due when japan finally beat them on saturday, but to come back tonite, and beat cuba 10-5 in an amazing game (japan scored 4 runs in the first inning and cuba hit a homerun of it’s first swing of the bat) is sure to make the world baseball classic a game that’s gonna be around for a while. the game on saturday had 51% television viewership in japan (a game at around 12p on their sunday). all of the games at petco park were sold out with only expensive tickets left on ebay, and even the japan/korea game me and ben saw at anaheim had a crowd of 39,000.

but what a great series. i’d've been happy to see either usa or japan win, but since usa didn’t advance, i was rootin’ strong for japan. it’s amazing how strong all the other countries turned out to be. usa was beaten by mexico, canada and korea, and technically japan too but that bogus call let usa slip by with that one win. i just got like 5 texts while typing this, like mike’s that say “hooray japan!” … werd.

NEW YORK (AP) — Budget constraints are forcing some FBI agents to operate without e-mail accounts, according to the agency’s top official in New York.
“As ridiculous as this might sound, we have real money issues right now, and the government is reluctant to give all agents and analysts dot-gov accounts,” Mark Mershon said when asked about the gap at a New York Daily News editorial board meeting.

“We just don’t have the money, and that is an endless stream of complaints that come from the field,” he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/20/fbi.email.ap/index.html

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how fucking insane is that? i can get 100 email accounts for $9.95/month in the private sector. is the public sector really charging that much for email accounts, or are they really that poor?

the busier my week gets, the more i seem to do on the weekend. on friday after gym, i went home and took care of bills and laundry and other stuff that i’d been neglecting. saturday morning me and eric helped ben move up to la. luckily ben bought a truck that was way too small for all his stuff, so we were able to fill it up in about an hour =p after unloading all of his stuff at his new place, me and eric swung by the la convention center so i could get my race packet and then we went back to long beach and took out the boat to do some fishing. eric caught a nice calico bass, but me aside from a few good hits got nothing. it was nice out though… i’m looking forward to taking the boat out more often now that it’s officially spring. after we cleaned up and covered the boat, i rushed home to watch japan take out korea in the semi-finals of the wbc. i wanted to go to sleep early, but since of a 1 hour rain-delay in sandiego, the game didn’t end until 11p. i went to sleep as soon as it was over, but had to wake up at 4a for the acura bike tour. after the ride which ended at about 9a, i went home and slept until 3p then went to pick up taka in la. we had dinner at lone star and then watched ‘8 below’. i have to admit i got pretty misty-eyed towards the end, but i’ve got a soft spot for dogs, and one of ‘em was named shadow… awww. the funny thing was that this movie started off an awful lot like dan brown’s “deception point”, with the NSF searching for a meteorite in anartica. but if it was deception point, paul walker and all of his dogs would’ve been dead in the first 15 minutes. anyway, i def recommend it as a date movie. bah! on with another week.

so of all the people that said they’d go or even registered, me, costin and mike were the only ones to make it out. we woke up at 4am to be ready for the start at 5:50am. the ride was really fun and super easy. there were lots of bottlenecks in the course so there was a lot of crusing but we finished in about an hour and half.

the rest of the pics are here

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