| Hmm... |
[23 Nov 2009|10:19pm] |
Sooo, it turns out I'm coming back home a day earlier than I had expected. After my stopover in Frisco, I'll be flying United 0855 into LAX at 2:13 PM, Friday, December 11th. Everyone else is returning a day later...
...which leaves me without a ride home, as I'll be leaving my car at my parents' place in Saugus.
Would anyone be able to provide me with a ride home from LAX that Friday? I would be eternally grateful and will make it up to you.
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| Holiday in the Park |
[21 Nov 2009|08:12am] |
Just as I did two years ago, last night I brought my violin and my Santa hat to the storefront of Blast from the Past to perform Christmas carols (and various other requested themes) for Burbank's "Holiday in the Park" street festival. I played for about two hours straight. Halfway through I started to realize a lot of people were just lingering around listening to me play and requesting music, so I tried leaving my violin case open to see what I could get through tips.
For just over an hour's worth of playing (as well as a lot of dicking around and not actually playing), I made $17.
It's nice to know that if I ever hit rock bottom and become homeless, I could make a decent living panhandling with my violin. :)
Highlight of the evening: some random guy walked up with his guitar and together we performed an impromptu duet of "Hotel California." Never met him before; still don't know who he is.
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| I'm not racist, I'm just better. |
[10 Nov 2009|05:04pm] |
At Disneyland:
(Tony and Jess decide that we're all eating at Tortilla Jo's. Brian mishears this as "Tokyo Jo's.")
Brian: But Bryan HATES the Japanese!
At work:
Jese: Bryan, you have a lot of cracker friends. But I forgive you though cuz you live in Santa Clarita and there's a lot of white people.
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| Kato... the final update? |
[29 Oct 2009|04:04am] |
Two days left until Halloween. Let's see how the Kato costume's coming along:*hat - Done!
*mask - Done!
*jacket - Done!
*gloves - Finally found! Done!
*pants - Done!
*shoes - Done!
*nunchucks - Currently drying final coat of paint!
*darts - Postponing 'til Comic-Con!
Oh my goodness... could it be?
THE COSTUME IS DONE! :D
Now I just need to get a haircut.
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| Great minds... :) |
[26 Oct 2009|04:59pm] |
My sister's work is throwing a people-who-made-the-news-in-2009-themed Halloween party. So of course she's making a Michael Jackson costume:
Great minds. :)
Though I woulda gone as Octomom.
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| Kato UPDATE! |
[24 Oct 2009|06:32pm] |
One week left until Halloween '09, and my Kato costume is coming along quite nicely... and significantly under budget too, something of which I am quite proud. Last year's Captain EO costume cost me about $300 total to produce, and I was prepared and expecting to spend about $400 on a really authentic Kato (at least $250-$300 on the jacket alone), but it looks like I'll be able to pull it off for under $100. I chanced upon a great-looking blazer that I was able to modify into something akin to Kato's jacket, and since it was 50%-off at a thrift store, the buttons I sewed to it ended up costing more than the jacket itself. And I FINALLY just found a decent chauffeur hat a couple hours ago, which I'll have to modify a bit. Still looking for a decent pair of gloves, but if I don't find them in time, Jeremy's letting me borrow the ones he used for Henry at Comic-Con.
Oh! I went into "Junk for Joy" in Burbank yesterday, and my conversation with the pretty lady at the counter went exactly like this:me: Hi, I'm looking for a pair of men's black leather gloves--
her: Kato?
*pause*
me: Holy shit.
So, altogether:*hat - Found a decent one today. Gonna try modifying it with a support ring inside.
*mask - Almost ready. Still need to make some adjustments to make it fit to my face better. Will be applying some foam strips to it soon.
*jacket - 90% done. Just got a set of buttons today to sew onto the sleeves, and I might add another clasp to the front.
*gloves - Still searching.
*pants - Just wearing my pair of nice black slacks. Done. :)
*shoes - Just got them today!
*nunchucks - Still need to find a way to make them black. Don't really want to paint 'em. Electrical tape maybe.
*darts - Not really sure if I'll still be doing these. A lot of people don't even know that Kato had darts.
Matt's Green Hornet is well on its way too. I can't wait to see how we look together when it's done. :D
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| Try to bomb the harbor! |
[19 Oct 2009|10:18pm] |
Brett: 
Brett: >From my Japanese text book hahaha
me: Omfg hahahaha u damn racist Japs
Brett: I know! And it's under the section for "giving compliments" hahaha
me: "My, you have a very lovely harbor."
Brett: "...it looks like it could use some bombing." =]
(Incidentally, Brett's Japanese.)
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| Star Trek XI Gag Reel |
[13 Oct 2009|10:15am] |
Yay! They included Tyler Perry screwing up "Kobayashi Maru." :D
(Albeit just one take of it, but I swear that man screwed up the pronunciation fifty bajirrion times.)
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| Oooh you're my best friend, in a world we must defeeennnd... |
[09 Oct 2009|12:46am] |
So I had Emory on my lap while we were hanging out on the couch watching TV when he hopped over to Emi to sniff her hand... and he gave her a shock of static electricity.
Do you realize what this means?
MY CHINCHILLA IS A PIKACHU.
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| Update! o_O |
[06 Oct 2009|11:12pm] |
So I went into Urgent Care at Panorama City Medical Center after work today to see if I could get some antibiotics for my eye.
The good news is that I don't quite have conjunctivitis, as the source of the irritation was neither viral nor bacterial, so it's not contagious. So you can stop washing your hands so much.
The bad news is that I have two pretty severe abrasions in my left cornea that may even be corneal ulcers, and so I'll still need to take antibiotics to prevent infection. They prescribed me Zymar, which I'll have to put in my eye every 6 hours for a week. I'm not to wear my contact lenses for a few weeks, and when I can I should wear an eyepatch for the first few days to keep it from overexposure to light.
So the fact that Kristal and I came down with the same symptoms on the same day actually appears to be purely coincidental. :P
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| FYI o_O |
[06 Oct 2009|12:41pm] |
Kristal and I have conjunctivitis, aka pink eye (in my left and in her right). We both started to show the signs of it yesterday, but although we both worked together we both felt the symptoms before we got into the office, and the last time I'd seen Kristal was last Wednesday. Thus it seems unlikely that we gave it to each other.
So I dunno if we got infected by somewhere we've been, be it New Leash or Jeremy and my place or the RG office, or if we both contracted it at the same time by coincidence. Either way, I'm just giving a heads up to everyone who's been around us or around where we've been to be extra careful and wash your hands frequently; though it only spreads via contact, it is very contagious.
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| Y'know, I've realized... |
[04 Oct 2009|03:08am] |
...that pretty much the entire reason I feel such an intense trepidation with making advances with women is directly because I feel so completely and utterly uncomfortable when women in whom I don't share a romantic interest make advances toward me. I never know what to say so I freeze up and play the avoiding game, and in the end I'm a complete jackass about it all. It keeps happening, I never learn from it, and I can't seem to stop myself from hurting people this way.
I need a drink. -_-
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| I really do have the best friends in the world. :) |
[24 Sep 2009|12:45am] |
I've never had a surprise party in my life, let alone one as brilliantly executed or as massively attended as the one I got tonight. :)
Thank you guys so much. This really meant a lot to me. You guys are the best. :D
Gah, you've made me all mushy. ^_^
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