Went to my first Yoga class the other day and boy is my Aura tired… Had a fun time in my first yoga class. It was probable the most that my body got worked in about a year or so. I think I will make a regular monday night out of it. It’s wednesday and my back is still a little sore.

Got the huge white boards up in the new office. They look super fine. Now it’s on to other stuff that needs to get done around the office before the party.

Well got the rain to stop coming through the roof at work, now all we have to worry about is the big water stain on the carpet. Hmmm are we going to be ready for our party in a couple of weeks????

Sold my Marshall 100w half stack amp to a nice guy who will play it real loud as it should be played. A little less than what I wanted to sell it for but at least it’s going to a good home. Now all I have to do is get rid of my acoustic and I can start lookin for the super nice Taylor acoustic that I have been foaming at the mouth over.

Came in this morning to find that the rain from last night has shorted out our new alarm system at the new office space, because of a leak in the roof. Thanks to Paul for coming by the office when he got the alarm call and staying until like 4am emptying buckets of water that could have taken out our new phone system as well. We have some more rain due tonight so we are all crossing our fingers that all we be ok.

The office is a wreck with wood that we need to attach our massive white boards to the old brick walls and wet carpet along with a dehumidifier. All computers and phone are good.. Wheeeewwww

Pretty good week around the here. Productive work stuff, some Halloween parties, new office coming together. Halloween at Aretoula’s 80’s theme party Alanna was a cow and I was a cowboy. Fun was had by all.

No one has even sent me an email for the Marshall JCM 800 half stack that I have up on craigslist… I guess I should email it out to some friends and see if they want it. Alanna says she will put up for sale on Yahoo employee site.

Gonna go down to work today and see if we can get some of the larger construction things done.

Well, it’s something that you could test for yourself, and you can let me know if I’m wrong. Go into any room that’s got a mix of men and women, and ask them individually, so that other people don’t hear their answer: “If you could be CEO, with all that comes with it, with all the hard work and all the effort to get there, would you want that job?”

And I think that what you’ll find is that a healthy slice of the men, maybe a quarter of them, maybe more, will say: “Yeah, I’d absolutely want that.”

And the women you’ll find maybe one in the room.

So I don’t think that you can compare two groups where one wants something and one doesn’t want it as much. All things being equal, the group that wants it more is probably going to have more success.

I think women can handle emotional pain better than men, and that gives them kind of a super power in personal relationships that they can just make both of you miserable until that man gives up.

But men can handle humiliation better, like we don’t feel slighted. We can basically be the bottom dog licking the paws of the top dog for 40 years, if when it’s done we get a chance at being the top dog. We’re somehow just built for that.

But a woman can’t do that. I think a woman cannot suffer humiliation over long periods of time without thinking: “I think that I’d rather be doing something else.”

I look at people as machines. The women are designed to handle pain really well, just kind of general discomfort, like wearing uncomfortable shoes, but also you see a lot of women in jobs helping the sick and people who’ve got problems — social work — because you can handle more pain.

Men, we like to watch other people have pain, like sports people. The only time we like to watch pain is if it’s associated with either sports or humor.

Taken from Salon.com

Got the new office space up on running this weekend after some hassle with the network router… “IP we don’t need no stinkin IP”. Now all we have to do is wait for PacBell to get there shit together and switch over our phones…. Many thanks to the extra sets of hands involved including my girl alanna. Maybe now I can get my head far enough out of my ass to return phone calls and open the mail.

The word of the day to describe Microsoft’s new .NET

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Never argue with an idiot, they’ll only drag you down to their level then beat you by experience. (Not sure who actually said this, though everybody uses it. Sounds like Groucho Marx to me.)

RIAA’s obligitary business plan post:
1.Screw customers
2.Screw now former-customers
3.Censor the internet
4.???
5.Profit!

We live in a world where lemonade is artificial and soap has real lemon.

Several pigeons were put into identical boxes that would spit out a food pellet once every minute. Within a few minutes one pigeon was hopping up and down constantly, the second was continually spinning, and another wouldn’t stop bobbing his head… It turns out tha t they were assuming that whatever action they were doing when the food first was dispensed was causing the food to be released, so they would continue to do it indefinitely to keep the food coming! If A is happening, then it MUST be a result of B. Hmmm, sound familiar?

Great weekend where Alanna and I looked at Subaru Outback sports. No heavy sales pitches and car crap, it was nice we got to drive it and see what we are missing. Turns out my friend Bob was out buying a Subaru Legacy in Oakland on the same day.

Other things that I did this weekend would be:

• Strickly Bluegrass in Golden Gate Park.
• Saw old friend from years ago Sonja for the 4 time in like a 2 weeks.
• Went to Lowes and got some tools and stuff and almost got in a crazy road rage thing with some weirdo people in a Jeep Cherokee.
• Had a nice hotdog cookout to enjoy the weather.
• Watched “Signs” for the first time. (OK movie, but the Dolby sound kept cutting in and out)