Well my day was cut short by the lack of power at work. It took out all the workstations and we had to power down the servers that were on batteries.

On the plus side I got to see some old family footage with my sis before the power took out the video equipment. I was really glad that the footage didn’t get damaged while I was dubbing it and the power went out. (that would have sucked)

I had a dream that I went to a city and it was just a big mall in the desert. Oh wait that was Las Vegas.

Las Vegas has certainly come of age. The once sleepy old town built on the liquor, prostitution, and gambling money of the hoover dam has turned into the city built on…………….. well, the liquor, gambling and prostitution money of all of America. But now they have corporate sponsorship. (I think each hotel should sponsor their own set of hookers. Then each year they could battle them against each other in the hooker olympics.)

Some things that I will not soon forget about Vegas:

• A woman walking around the casino at midnight carrying a 3 month old baby in one arm smoking a cigarette in the other and arguing with her friends about where exactly the craps table is.
• Watching an entire hooker, John transaction take place in one of the walk up bars in the Mirage.
• Watching other hookers circle around the bars looking for likely customers. Unlike other cities where the johns circle around looking for the hookers.
• The amount of energy it takes to run the air conditioning in Vegas is enough to run entire south american countries.
• I fully understand why so much of the show “Cops” is filmed in Vegas.
• Somehow I always believe my girlfriend when she says with a gleam in her eye “It’s just around the corner, trust me”
• I will always remember “Lance Burton”, and I didn’t even see him the whole time

George Bush, when talking about the economy, says “huge propellars for everyone.” Later Dick Cheney was trying to clarify the issue by saying that the president was really referring to having a strong national defense. Under his breath the president remarked “No, really we should all have huge propellars”

Today was a day of fixing things around the house in more ways than one. Over the past couple of months I have been a retard with repect to telling my building manager stuff and it caught up with us big time this weekend.

I guess I thought I had a good working relationship with my building manager but that was an assumption that proved to be wrong.

Hopefully I got it all worked out but we’ll know soon enough.

Cold outside but warm in me
couching my afternoon away
with love

I woke up this morning from my meat coma, induced by my b-day dinner with Alanna at Mortons steak house, and I don’t think I need to eat meat ever again. I have hit my quota for my lifetime.

The wine and bread and appetizers and desert didn’t help much with the to much food problem either.

uuugh. Please just let me have a salad today.

Alanna and I also got into a scooter/Motorcycle accident together. Her scooter is recovering nicely at the SF scooter center and Alanna has a few cuts and bruises. We were right in front of the 500 Club so we decided to stop in for a drink while her scooter took a rest.

You say it’s your birthday nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah.

Yes friends and neighbors I am gettin older. I think it’s pretty easy to realize your age, when:

1. You have t-shirts that are older than most high school students.
2. You’ve seen most James Bond films in the theatre.
3. You remember when there was no such thing as an ATM card.
4. You remember when ATARI came out.
5. You can name more than 2 presidents
6. You have a wine rack and it’s full
7. You don’t remember your old phone number at the house you grew up in.
8. Suddenly there are just as many kids as adults in your family.
9. You start saying things like “Those damn kids” or “In my day”
10. You are comfortable in your own skin.

OK, this thing is sweet. Talk about model building. [link]
(wow, did I just say fuel cell models are cool??, damn I am a geek, time to go pocket protector shopping)

It seems to have a little magic in it, and not just cause I was born in it either. When you were a kid August held the height of summer and the end of summer at the same time. August holds those hot long days that seem to last forever and later on, once you turn that magical corner and September is in your mind, it seems to fly by like the days were on roller skates.

My birthday is smack in the middle of those fast days. Parents are dragging kids out to the stores pleading them to try on things that will not fit them by this time next year. Sometimes I think that my birthday is the fastest day of the year. Some years that is a good thing and some years it’s not.

As with lots of birthdays that are near other gift buying seasons I was rewarded with countless “back to school” presents over the years. Binders, shirts, socks, jeans, sometimes I wish I had saved a list of all the presents I’ve gotten for my birthday. I’ll bet sifting through a list like that would be strange, like seeing the seating arrangement for your 5th grade class.

“I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway-
I saw the Empire State laid low.
And life went on beyond the Palisades,
They all bought bright Cadillacs-
And left there long ago.”

Billy Joel