Addendum

Thanks everyone for the great dinner and company! And for those that wanted to come but couldn’t, thank you too. This is my last birthday in LA for a while and it was a great one. :clap:

Wah hoo!

First, I get a kiss on the cheek while I’m half awake.

A couple hours later, I jump out of bed to check my Step 3 score and find a super birthday card on my laptop for someone named “Husband,” that’s me. And once my laptop is finished chugging, I find out I passed Step 3, the last of 40 hours of licensing exams!

After all the cheer, Angeline makes sure I read the back of the card where all the writing was. Who writes on the back anyways?

And finally, planned for dinner is some really good meat!

Happy birthday to me. :king:

~100% assimilated

Yesterday, I came closer yet to being back to a full Californian by registering my car here. I was sad when I took off my vanity plate from Michigan and put it under my glass desktop for display. But I’m still going to hang onto my Michigan driver license!

Quote of the day

Saw this on my iGoogle homepage under the “Quotes of the Day” section. Doesn’t relate to anything in particular for me right now, but it’s something to think about:

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. – Oscar Wilde

Christmas Getaway

I got my Christmas present early this year. It had to do with timing, but I think the timing was just right. Geline booked me a little getaway to this cool place in Desert Hot Springs called El Morocco Inn & Spa.

During the day, we went up the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. There was a foot of snow! (We secretly miss the Michigan snow.)

Obviously, we made ourselves a cool little midget snowman. It looks fast in the collage but it took freaking forever without gloves. Anyways, say hi to Fred!

(click for larger size)

Thanks honey for a great weekend and Christmas present!

Price we pay

I thought the article below was interesting. The question of its validity is even mentioned but, sadly, it still speaks using an international and multicultural language. :ponder:

» Cost of war

Pat W. Johnston

Director of Consumer Services

For some reason, this guy/girl (can’t tell from the name), keeps sending me mail encouraging me to open up a new line of credit with Capital One. Not only does this piss me off, it is an absolute waste of paper. With the advent of email where the only waste is the energy required to drive the electrons toward Gmail’s excellent spam filters, there is no excuse for such negligent waste upon futile experiments like sending me offers. Not only is it completely irresponsible, it is a covert attack on my financial identity! I have to take great care to be sure I tear/shred each one just in case a different breed of freak tries to open up a line of credit for me. It’s insane. Then, I look at the rubbish container beside our group of mailboxes overflowing with junk ads located disgusted to realize there are three more such things scattered about the complex. When the wind blows, some of the squandered tree products end up on the ground only to get caught in the storm drain already clogged with yesterday’s edition of dead trees.

I’m beginning to think that in the age of email, the only reason the US Postal Service allows for this and isn’t charging a dollar per ounce is the vicious cycle evidenced by the “Presorted Standard U.S Postage Paid” printed within the little square on the corner of all my trash (if someone already thought of this first, I apologize). I don’t think the mailman would appreciate it either if I started putting Yuki’s poo in my box. :rant:

AllLookSame

So I saw my white co-intern messing around online and he was taking this quiz. The quiz tries to determine your ability to distinguish between three asian races (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) by evaluating simple head shots. The outcome was the he got 7 of 18 while I got a measly 2 better than he. I guess I’m not truly asian. :crybaby:

» AllLookSame Quiz
(user: asianslooksame, pw: my first and last name)

Oh, and if you’re wondering why the pw is my name, my co-intern said, “Because I looked around and you were the first asian I saw.” Is that hilarious or what?

Brainedness

I can’t get the model to spin the other way. Maybe I’m too tired since I’m on call right now but I’m getting dizzy and it only spins clockwise no matter what:

» Left vs Right brainedness

Prom at The Factory

Happy Halloween! This is the first time Geline and I dressed up together. Hey, who’s that lucky guy?

Check out some cool pumpkin pics while you’re at it:
» Cannibal pumpkin
» Jack pumpkin (the best one)
» Hilarious pumpkin
» Cool pumpkin
» Barfing pumpkin
» Regular ‘ole pumpkin