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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenhiem

Today’s word of the day is “Automagically”. The basic Urban Dictionary term says its

adv. Something that happens automatically, but that also has some mysterious, “magical” element to it. “Smart” appliances, features, etc. that do intelligent things with less help than you might expect.

Some people in business or computing use this term when they don’t know how something happened or when they want something to happen but don’t know how it should actually work. As in “I don’t know, It should just happen automagically.”

We got back from our honeymoon on monday and have spent the rest of the week working our way through all the stuff that was waiting for us when we got back. We have tackled the mail, work, boxes, Thank You cards, cleaning, laundry and car stuff.

You can check out pics from our trip on Alanna’s Flickr account here. I’m sure I will get some pics up on my own Flickr sometime before our next vacation.

Hawaii was so great. We had such a fun time in the water and running around the island finding everything we could possibly find to see. Next time we do a different island.

As a wedding gift to Alanna I decided last year that I would write and record an album just for her. I started last fall and finished with all the mastering and artwork just in time for the wedding. My plan was that everyone at the wedding would get a copy of the record.

Not to be out done, Alanna decided one weekend a few months before the wedding that she would write a cookbook with all the recipes that we enjoy so much and give that away to all the guests at the wedding as well. By the time I got up late that saturday she had already written like 20 pages of recipes just from memory. She had some help editing from friends and she got it done it time. In fact she even got her book before I got my printed CDs. She made such a wonderful book. I’m a lucky boy.

Our wedding over last weekend was great. Lots of worrying about details but everything went off so well. Alanna looked beautiful, the weather held up great, lots of fun people and the crew at San Benito House was calm and super helpful. I’m kinda of amazed we didn’t get through all the alcohol and food that we had but I think people always tend to over order on that stuff anyway.

Alanna has some pictures up here.

I started writing about the Yahoo!, Carl Icahn tug of war a while back but I just couldn’t keep up. It seemed like everyday there was some new twist or some new turn. I decided it was easier to wait until the dust settled, if it ever did, and see what happened.

So as of this writing, Yahoo! has had their shareholders meeting without much fanfare. Icahn has been appointed to the Yahoo! board along with 2 of his nominees. Microsoft is still mostly uninterested in trying its hand at being suitor and the Yahoo! shareholders have signaled that they are unhappy with the board but not enough to kick them all off. Seems like that was a long way to go just for everything to stay the same and get a couple of new board members?

I thought that there would be some sort of shake up or new direction. Guess I was wrong about that one. The silicon valley is so weird.

So the governor of California signed a bill today decreasing the pay of over 200,000 state workers in California until a budget could be agreed upon…

Does this make sense to anybody but Arnold? I think the state controller is right to give him the finger.

He and the other state senators cannot agree upon a budget so they cut the pay of people who have nothing whatsoever to do with negotiating a budget. I think the we should have a ballot initiative that if there is not a yearly budget that the governor and all the state senators do not get paid until there is. Cut them off. Them and their staff as well. No pay. No benefits. No air conditioning. I think we would have a budget on time every year.

Who would put this many pickles on a salad? Have they gone pickle crazy? What are the pickles doing on the salad anyway? I think it should be a requirement that people who cook should have to eat everything that is on their menu at least once. I would like to see the poor bastard suffer through those giant onions as well.

“Take human bites”

Alanna and I got lots done this weekend. After my haircut, we went downtown on Saturday and returned some stuff for other cooler stuff that we love. We found a cool shawl for Alanna to wear with her dress at the wedding. At Macy’s we got me some cuff links and socks to got with my suit. After, we stopped at the grocery store and the cheese shop on the way home and put together a great dinner. Then we got most of our ceremony worked out for the wedding.

Sunday we did a whole lot grocery shopping and we got lots of goodies for people who are coming to the wedding. Then we went cleaning crazy on the apartment, we even cleaned the wood floors in the living room.

Every week we think that we will take lots of time to rest over the weekend, but we just end up piling up lots of stuff for us to do. Now its Monday and I feel like I worked another two days. When do we actually get a day off when we can just be blobs and sit around and pick our noses. Less that two weeks til the wedding. We’re in the home stretch.