Salmonella...

Pretty miserable day at work today and I get to my car and notice I have a voice mail. New voice mail is always excited as its like opening a non-junk mail letter.

It's from Ralph's (grocery store chain) saying that a recent purchase of mine is being recalled. I check the website and some bakery cookies I purchased last week were made with peanut butter that could be linked to a recent investigation into the Peanut Corporation of America. Whew, that was a close one, I was this close to eating the last two cookies in the container...

Mini

So I was wandering walmart this evening buying light bulbs and came across mini hot dogs.
Seems like a pretty solid buy. They are about the size of a pinky finger....so I guess its like eating delicious little fingers.
Kind of wish I could find some little hot dog buns to go with them. Oh snap..or I could just cram like four of them in a regular size hot dog bun.

Outside the box

Found this cartoon while stumbling the other day. Thought it was worth sharing.

Snow please!

In my mind I picture myself sitting on the porch with my snowboard and helmet waiting for snow. Since I can't get out and rip the snow I'll impart some snow wisdom upon both of my faithful readers.

Magne-traction = 4x4 for the board.
Last year I bought a Lib Tech Skunk Ape (162cm) after cracking my entry level in Colorado. Like anything else I purchase I did extensive research and came up with that pick (after finding the best deal on it of course). The difference was amazing. Suddenly I could find traction no matter the condition. Ice, no problem. Crunchy, Icy, rutted, steep sections, no problem. Now when racing with my buddy I can get gobs of speed and turn around to check on him with out fearing that the board is going to wander and catch an edge.

The difference comes from the fact that the edge is waved to increase the number of points of contact with the the snow when in a carve as shown here:Check it out here.

Nuff sales pitch, time for a funny story.

Last December I flew back to Texas for graduation (UTA). I loaded my Ipod with tons of stuff. Well, some of that happened to be classical which was fine by me seeing as its nicer to sleep to while flying.

Fast forward a week. Deleted all the classical music from my Ipod in anticipation of snowboarding, the I drove to Las Vegas so I could fly to Albuquerque. My friend picked me up there and we drove up to Wolf Creek. This is where I discovered my problem that I started on the trip to Texas.

I failed to delete Pyotry II'yich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Several things combined to make this a failure.
1) I stuff my ipod way in my jacket so it won't get wet or destroyed.
2) This particular Concerto is a hair under 21 minutes long.
I discovered this blunder on a chair lift and its funny now but was mostly unpleasant to try and 'give it hell' when your listening to chamber music.

I remembered that story while running just now...and having done so and with no snow to hit yet I'll go make a sweet snowboarding playlist.

Racing

This weekend was all about the cars. Saturday night was the dirt oval in Ventura. Sunday was the dry lake bed at El Mirage. First pic was at Ventura and the rest at the lake bed.

Pretty much the weekend just made me want to sink a boat load of cash into a sprint car or narrow racer.

Crap!

Realized that I hadn't stopped by to at least give the pictures of half dome a home. Voilà:

Cables on the last part of the hike.

Pretty cool spot...

Other than that, started my new job today...seems like a pretty nice place.

Still going to try and make europe for the better part of a month at the end of this year, getting really excited!

Cake!

From the new phone, the ZN5, at the cheese factory in fresno. Headed to yosemite to hike halfdome tomorrow, woot woot!

stumbling

So after a bit of reading I decided to install the firefox tool bar 'stumble upon'. Uhmazing. Its like the coolest bits of the Internet I've never heard about have been put right at my ADD finger tips. In the first couple days of this I happen to stumble upon something that I would like to share with others (or no one, as i don't know who reads this): de-noted. I guess I've never encountered such art in my travels. Does give me a good idea for when I'm bored on trips though.

Fun in the sun

So last weekend I took surfing lessons. Hadn't ever been and figured it would be a nice time to learn. My friend came and hung out on the beach while I surfed and afterward we headed to the 3rd st promenade to get some lunch and generally just wander around and have fun.

We're walking along and stumble through an 'elect Barack Obama' section of people and here is how things went:
[cute liberal chick]: Do you have a minute to talk about how we can elect Barack Obama?
[Me]: Oh, I'm sorry, (with a finger I draw a heart on my chest) I heart Sarah Palin, she's cute.
[cute liberal chick]: awww... I'm sorry...ok, well have a nice day.

No real logic to talk me out of that, Sarah you fox.

Weekend fun

Was in Santa Barbara again this weekend to hang out with Angela. Sang karaoke for the first time, which was a blast, and got a couple of photos in.