sprinkler regulations...

stupid vancouver sprinkler regulations state that even-numbered houses are only allowed to use the water sprinkler on wednesday and saturday between 4am to 9am and 7pm to 10pm. who the hell gets up at 4am to water the sprinklers? who? well i did this morning.

i don't have a very big lawn but i really dislike it because (1) it's quite a pain to mow the lawn (even tho i don't do it often) when you're allergic to grass and (2) taking care of plants has never been my strong suit. the only talking that i do to them is when i curse their existence under my breath. anyways.

lately it's been very hot around vancouver. so my conscience has been kickin' in and i've been trying to get around watering the lawn. well, this morning i set my alarm at 4:00am stumbled outside of the house and dragged my hose with sprinkler to the middle of my lawn and somehow managing to turn on the faucet. then i heard my front door slam shut.

this is when i realized that, due to habit, i automatically lock the door behind me. i also realized that i was in my pajama bottoms (which has quite a huge hole in the a$$ area and a tank top (yes, i realize that i should be living in a trailer park and not a neighborhood full of retired people). nothing wakes you up faster than the sudden realization that when your neighbors come out of their houses to water their lawns, you will be causing a collective heart failure due to seeing the hilarity/horror of an asian kid trying cover himself and setting the sprinkler while attempting trying not get wet (wow, what a run-on sentence that was).

i did eventually make in into the house without anyone seeing me. thank god!

why this week is ruling me!

it's not work. well not really. it's not like i have oodles and oodles of work that i've taken on this time. i believe that everyone needs some sort of balance in life. no tv, no beer makes ritchie something something. so i've been spending the last few days doing minimal work and much play. let's recap the last few days shall we?

• i've been cheating like crazy on my diet. the diet that helped me drop 30lbs in the shortest amount of time. so what (you might ask) do i consider cheating? spam, eggs and rice!
• i've also been watching anime, particularly a series called rahxephon. where the writers apparently came up with the story line and concept while on a drunken pub run around tokyo. why do i always end up watching the f*cked up anime series?
• working on my photo site. yes, folks i know this has been on my to do list for a while now but it will be up by the weekend. i never realized that cropping and resizing photos take up this much time.
• hanging out with my friends. the last few days have been great! bread garden is still the king of hangouts for these guys which accommodate me quite nicely in two ways: (1) it's cheap and (2) coffee is free. yay free stuff! did i mention that it's i'm cheap?
• also, i've been enjoying my car. which isn't really too exciting except the sheer joy that is air conditioning. the best invention to be ported into an automobile since the cd player. oh wait, the aircon came first didn't it? well you know what i mean anyway.

so yea, sorry for the lack of updates. i'm not on hiatus just enjoying the sun.

blog meet up

last night was the blog meet up and i went to meet some cool people in a downtown pub. actually i really wanted to see if it was true that internet people only do come out at night. ms fubsy was there, as well as col (who, contrary to the impression she leaves in her blog, isn't that bitter), richard, tanya (who i met for the first time last night, had this innocence to her and then reminded me that she had this thing for going to fetish parties) and jen too.

i did meet other cool people there:

• mel - who i almost didn't get to to talk to much if it wasn't for her bus being extremely late.
• devon - i did get to rub her shaved head which was cool enough in itself.
• nelson - bike rider and all around nice guy.
• darren - although technically i wasn't able to say hello since i got stuck socializing on the other side of the pub, it was cool enough to be close enough to bask in the glory that is mr barefoot.

now, having said that. i'm terrible with names and faces. i know i talked to more people last night. so if i talked to you last night, spotted me from afar, or just plain decided to ignore me because i just looked pretty creepy; please leave a comment to jump start my memory (and don't forget email and url - i love linky links).

for more blogger meet-up pictures, check out richard's site.

the new addition to the family

so, a week ago my best friend came down and brought his baby. i got to introduce renzo to the world. this time around, i want to introduce a new addition to my family here in vancouver.

filler post...

i was really reserving this space to blog something else but timing has really been crappy. so i bring you a filler post.

• i'm really scared of fish, and this floating aquarium scares the living bejezus out of me. i think my parents might like it tho.
• a blogger meet-up has been planned for the vancouver webloggers. i've only been to one vancouver blogger meetup. i'll be heading down to this one because lots of cool people will be there. so come!
• i have 3 new t-shirts from dieselsweeties. guess which 3-pack i bought. hint: my church-going friends might not like one of the shirts in the 3 pack.
• july 30th is sysadmin's day - go buy them some krispy kremes! trust me, they'll thank you for it. note: theres even a pagent.
• i love lego and this is just plain cool: spiderman 2 redone with lego and stop animation.

everyone, meet renzo

no i didn't say hanzo. i said renzo, short for lorenzo. that's his dad, my bestfriend, in the picture. yea, you know. the one that took a swan dive straight into married life a couple of years ago.

last night, they slept over my house (actually they're still sleeping as i'm typing this). that would be a milestone to mark in the calendars: the first baby to ever make it past the gauntlet of computer cords, electrical/cable wiring and non-baby safe hazards and live to tell about it. even tho he was very well-behaved, it was still a task to 'baby proof' some parts of the house.

parenthood amazes me. it's like watching a coordinated figure skating routine. one would eat for 5 minutes while the other would tend to the baby then switch after 10 bites of food from the dinner plate. wash, rinse and repeat. which makes me think... i wonder how my parents ever coped with me.

more unnecessary information...

shamelessly stolen from ari...

i'm the guy who:

• ... ran a bbs using the house telephone line at 15 years old
• ...read hand-me down pocket novels from my aunt: hardyboys, nancy drew and sweet valley high (i have no shame)
• ... developed a crush on lea salonga and vowed to marry her at the age of 5... and i'm still heart broken that she decided to marry some loser from my alma matter
• ... would rather hang out with friends over coffee than be stuck at home watching mind-numbing television
• ... has a 7 digit icq number and has it memorized
• ... thought he could create a better interface than windows 3.11 in DOS using batch scripts
• ... never looked normal without glasses
• ... managed to develop a fear of heights, dogs and fishes
• ... i was pronouncing wednesday: wed-nes-day... until i was 14 years old where i was mocked by my junior high friends

just because!