All Things Yummy

I had what seemed to be one of my most productive days since I got to Santa Cruz yesterday - I went to BIAC for Dragon boat cleaning and practice in the morning (cleaning part was suspiciously like doing aerobody work for solar car), followed by quick stop at IKEA. I got home, vacuumed the house, cleaned the kitchen and my bathroom, did my laundry, changed sheets, went for a run along the Westcliff Drive with Jeff, made lots of food, built my IKEA furniture, and logged into work computer and got some work done.

Today, I woke up late and I could barely move due to the stiffness in my back and have basically accomplished nothing. Tried going out and getting some groceries but everything was closed (which I found odd, since Easter isn’t even acknowledged in US) so ended up staying home and wasting time doing this and that (though I found Answerology, which is kinda addictive in slightly voyeuristic way)

Lately, I’ve been spending some time thinking about how to lead a Christian Life. I’m still reading and trying to work my way through the issues that have come up when I realized something - I tend to be a very self-reliant and prefer to figure things out on my own from the resource that I have available. In most things - work, school, etc - this self reliance seems to have worked for me though I wonder if I would’ve turned out differently if I wasn’t so independent… I guess it’s something to ponder about.

I bought my plane ticket for Greg and Silvia’s wedding - I’ll be flying into Toronto on July 1st at 6:13AM, and flying out on July 4th at 4:30PM. So for those of you who might be in town around that time, I might contact you soon for places to crash. If things don’t work out, though, I always have the Midsun office since I still have my key. I mean, it’s got a shower and everything, and when the car gets taken our for the Canada Day celebrations, I can go have free burgers and sleep under the car! In any case, it’ll be fun - I’ll get to stomp around my old stomping grounds, meet some friends, tie up some loose business back in ‘loo, and otherwise have fun…

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about joining a dragonboat team. I went to their kickoff event held in San Francisco and had a lot of fun running all around the city. Ironically enough, I’ve been to the city three times and pretty much all three times, I’ve been doing stupid things where I cover a lot of ground and get to run all over the city, but not actually “see” the city… One of these days, I’ll just go do some tourist stuff there instead…

For the dragonboat team, the first practice that I’ll be attending will be this Saturday (preceded by boat cleaning, which I’ve been told I don’t have to attend… but I’ll probably go anyway) so I’ll make my final decision after the first practice.

Hmm… What else is happening. Canucks are barely keeping their playoff chance alive. If they can win both their Wednesday and Thursday games against San Jose, they’ll probably make it in. Well, Bobby’s going to the Wednesday game, and I’m going to the Thursday game, so we’ll see if we can influence their playing by our presence. :)  At least they got Ed Jovanovski back.

Before I get into this post, though…  Bobby, I hate you.  You absolutely, completely had me.

So, here’s the fun Picture Roundup for the month of March (I finally downloaded the pictures from my camera).  This is the day when it snowed in Santa Cruz, causing massive havoc and closing down the major highway that leads into the city.  Granted, I live by the ocean so it snowed a bit more at the mountains…  but yeah, coming from driving around in 2, 3 feet of snow, it’s something completely different.

As promised, pictures of tea and houseplants…  from (drum-roll) Canada!  Doesn’t the plants look absolutely dangerous?  (By the way, they’re not doing very well )

And yesterday, I went to UCSC with my roommate and etched a little something special on my iPod Nano.  Pictures of the trial run and the real run are here too.  I told you I’d do something unique and completely different with my iPod! :D  By the way, because the iPod is so damn shiny, it’s really difficult to do laser etching / cutting with normal run-of-the mill laser cutters.  I think the subtley of it suits my style just fine, though.