well, tomorrow i’m teleworking, so i guess it’s really only a 4 day weekend, but at least i don’t have to go into the office for the next 5 days. i’m still recovering from last weekend, where last friday me and the guys went drinking and bowling and i got way too drunk. for some reason every time i missed a critical shot, i’d punch the little score computer and i started doing it harder and harder. well now i have scabs on two of my knuckles and my wrist is really sore, dumb. on saturday i was hungover and throwing up until the evening so that day was a complete waste and then on sunday me and eric were playing army up in the mountains and i rolled my foot when i tripped on a rock, dumb. i’ll be more careful this weekend. all i plan to do is go to a car show, a gun show and eat turkey. gobble gobble!

since thursday, i’ve been on a good dosage of vicodin for the pain from my wisdom teeth extraction so everything already has been kinda foggy. the steroid i’m taking also has “euphoria” listed as a side effect, so with those two combined, every thing’s been weird. i played gears of war 2 and finished it on saturday morning, and while i think it was fun, i really don’t even remember it. i’ll have to play it again.

for some crazy reason, it’s been almost 90 degrees for the last couple of days here, and it’s been so smokey from all of these california fires in los angeles and the oc that there’s been an ominous orange glow outside which combined with my already foggy vision and memory just makes it all the more strange. i’ve only been eating pureed food and protein shakes, so that’s weird, and i got these 4 huge holes in my mouth. anyway i’m almost out of vicodin and today am trying to switch off to motrin anyway. i talked to my boss today and i think i’m going to take monday off as well and hopefully things will be back to normal by tuesday.

while i’m just as patriotic as any american, i don’t think i’ve ever owned or flown an american flag, but seeing a flag on the ground has been engraved in my mind as something that’s just wrong. so today which was windy as hell here in redondo beach, as i was leaving the gym, i saw a large flag blowing down redondo beach blvd. it had kinda stopped in the center lane, so i pulled over and ran out to grab it, but the stupid fucking wind kept blowing it further away, so here i was chasing the flag down 4 lanes of traffic. before i kept running, i looked up and fortunately cars in both directions stopped for me. after like 100 feet, i caught up to it, and drivers from two of the cars actually waved as they drove past me as i was walking back to my car. anyway it was one of those proud-to-be-an-american moments. i’ll hang it off my balcony on tuesday for veterans day.

Thank goodness I only live a mile from the ups store.

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That taka and I went and picked up my racket from my mom’s place and bought her a new one at big 5. I haven’t played tennis in years, and I’ve never really watched tennis before, but the Wimbledon match on Sunday got me excited about it again. I was literally on the edge of my seat for 4 hours (actually I took a break for the gym, TiVo rocks)… watching tennis! We’ll prolly play a few times and then not play for a few years, but at least it’ll get us off the couch.

thank god it’s finally friday. The week has been weird for me because i’ve been jet-lagged and because taka’s still in japan (she has a friend’s wedding to go to on Sunday and comes home on Monday). While I was there last weekend, everything was so busy that we had little time to enjoy ourselves so I’m glad she decided to take the extra week.

Anyway last night I had steaks, beers and played poker with the boys till almost 2a, so today I’m feeling the pain. This is gonna be a long day.

i went home early on friday because i felt a cold coming on, and it ended up being a doozy. i’ve seriously just been laying on my couch for the last 60 hours with a 101/102 fever and the worst headache and sore throat evar. i haven’t had a really bad sore throat in a while, but i remembered and googled a digg article that i read a while back that suggested to gargle cayenne pepper in warm water and it really works. i’d been taking cough drops, chloraseptic spray, and tea with lemon and honey with little relief, but gargling a teaspoon of cayenne pepper stirred well in very warm water really works. i have to do it every 15 minutes or so before the pain comes back.

i was bound to get this cold since costin, lauren, ben and most importantly taka had this in the last couple of weeks. at least i’ll hopefully have it done with before mike’s wedding on saturday and japan next wednesday.

i had planned on taking the boat out and doing some wakeboarding last saturday, but costin was sick and as it turns out, marine stadium was closed. taka was off and the weather was hot, so we met up with shal and sanam and went kayaking.

we kayaked around naples island and went to a cove where there were sting-less jellyfish that we could touch. we stopped at jamba juice and then headed back home. we were out for about 2 and a half hours and it was a lot of fun but i got pretty sunburned on my legs. my shoulders were pretty sore too since taka was only pretending to paddle.

kayaks on the water is at the end of bayshore off of 2nd st and costs $15 hour.

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