On my rag.. on Valentines' Day!

Ugh, I spent the whole night trying to finish up a project for Nan, but I came up short and was not able to finish the project. Just to let you know, I got zero sleep. I got to tell you how my day started though. My mom calls me to pick her up this morning, which is fine because all I do is go to the hospital and pick her up.

Today was a little different. I drove there and waiting for a bit at the entrance. You're not allowed to park there, so I circled around a bit. She told me that she was going to take 15 minutes. I waited in the car for an hour.

I get home, put my contacts away and proceed to the bed to get some shut eye. My mom calls me to take my auntie to work. *sigh* Just my luck, I tell you. I leave my phone to recharge and take the BMW to JB's.

At the gate, there's a van that takes forever to punch in the code. I wanted to just scream out the code to person ahead of me. They finally give up and let me try. I'm expecting a quick punch of the code and I'm off.

Nope. The P.O.S. system doesn't work even though I tried two passcodes to get past the gates. I couldn't believe this! I was getting irritated easily. I raced back home to get my cell phone and tell mom to tell auntie to just meet me outside of the gates.

Now, I'm not mad at auntie by any means, it's not her fault, I'm just really grouchy when I don't get my sleep. When I got home, I microwaved a cold leftover egg for some breakfast.

After warming up my breakfast of champions, I slice the egg with my spoon and the egg literally blew up in face! It's like it was minature time bomb that exploded all over the kitchen. Luckily it was hard boiled.

Now I'm going to take a nap and hopefully wake up in time to get a haircut at Uncle Rollie's and iron my suit for tonight. Happy Valetine's day!

Get Lost... on dvd today!

A design ninja and his hungry wallet

I know its been a while, but I just wanted to recap of what happened the Monday prior to Super Bowl XL.

I was on my way to work and the traffic load was just more than I could bear. Stop-and-go from Escondido all the way down to the likes of Mira Mesa. I was late for work when all of a sudden a lane opens up for me and I start racing down 15 South.

Next thing I know, a CHP officer on a bike pulls me over and hands me a ticket. Who knows how much that ticket could cost me? Maybe two to three hundred at most? Believe me, when that ticket comes in the mail, Im going to be so pissed.

Oh how I wish I had a blow-dart gun and shoot that pig officer in the neck with a sleeping dart!

The next day, Joel talks to me about having the next 2-3 weeks off from the Chargers. Nice, a 2-3 week vacation sound good to you? Maybe where you work, but I love working for the San Diego Chargers organization. The pay is utter crap, but its what I love to do.

On Wednesday, my first day off from the Chargers and I wake up completely sick. I have a coughing sequence that seems to come by the dozens. With mucus and snot everywhere, I felt like crap the whole day.

Oh by the way, did I tell you that my student loan is due today? A cup of green tea and meditation wont help me here.

The following day, the cold seems to get worse. I have an incredibly dry throat and my body appears to go through spasms as I cant stop coughing. Oh, how I felt like committing hara-kiri or seppuku!

Friday, I was at San Diego State University and I realized that a fifty-dollar rebate that I sent a week or two ago might have the words, Return to sender on it as I was completely unaware of the postal rate rising from 37 cents to 39 cents.

Basically, Im not getting $50 because I forgot to add my two cents. If I wasnt already broke enough this kind of bull crap has to happen.

Speaking of rebates, I never got my Amazon rebate I sent over two months ago! Sometimes I feel like placing explosion notes on the foreheads of those rebate idiots!

Saturday, I get a notice from my eye doctor saying that my contact prescription has expired and I need to come in as soon as possible for an eye exam. There goes another $89 for contacts.

Should I get Lasik? That is an ultimate goal of mine, but I cant afford it with my current salary, er, I mean paycheck.

Now the day Ive been waiting for, Super Bowl XL. In a fantasy football league that I was currently in, I was in a position to come up with a third maybe even a second place spot and win some playoff money.

I made several transactions during the 2005-06 NFL season and the damage came to a whopping $44. If I get third place in the fantasy league, I would only have lost $18 over the season. However if I were to place in second, I would have came up with an extra $31 in my wallet.

I did all of the calculations in an Excel spread sheet for the top five placed people. I was only behind fourth place by 5 points and third by 13 points. This was great news because I had both Ben Roethlisberger and Jerome Bettis in the Super Bowl.

I had high hopes for my team, Tiki Barber Shop, going into Super Bowl XL.

That was until I found out that some miscalculations have been made and Ray was in contention of placing. He still had Willie Parker and the Steelers defense.

If saw Super Bowl XL, then you would have known that Big Ben did not have his best game as he threw two interceptions and The Bus didnt score a touchdown.

The combination of Roethlisberger and Bettis was not enough to overcome Matt Hasselbeck throwing for 275 yards and rushing for another 35.

I ultimately lost by a slim margin of roughly 8 points. To me, theres a big difference between $44 and $18.

Had I won third or maybe even second, I might have played another year of fantasy football. But come to think of it, Im kind of glad I didnt win.

Now I know that theres a possibility of people in the fantasy football league that are reading this right now, but you know what? I dont care. This is MySpace and I can write whatever I hell I want to write.

So if you are in the fantasy football league and are easily offended, stop reading this right now. I could have easily written this next portion as a new blog, but who actually is going to read all the way to the bottom of this one?

Now heres the $..! talking. In my first year of playing fantasy football, I wanted to play so that I could bond with more friends and cousins. It was a league of 12 people and I thought this would have been a great opportunity to see how well I could draft players and how I could manage a team during the bye weeks. I had high expectations for this league.

Boy, was I wrong! I was in a league that was solely in it for the gawddamn money! First I thought that league buy-in was $40. It was $50. Then I heard that the trades were $2, but I heard through the grapevine that it was $2.5. Luckily, it was stayed $2.

There was absolutely no friendly trash-talking after a game because everyone in the league thought it was bad luck. Yes, I do know that I ended up in fourth place in both the regular season and the playoffs.

Would you consider it bad luck? I dont. I placed higher than 8 people in the league and it was my first year! I think I did an exception job for doing my own research and managing my team.

Would there have been anything that I would have changed while managing my team? Yes, I knew Larry Fitzgerald was available in the 12th round, but I got bored of the draft and drafted Michael Pittman instead. Also, if I had picked up Santana Moss early in the season, I wouldnt have used up so many free agents.

Would you consider yourself a sore loser? Maybe, but I know I wouldnt be a sore loser if the game was more interactive and everyone had fun with it. People (with the exception of my cousin Eric) hardly ever spoke on the forums and I thought that made it a total yawn-fest. There were so many times I thought I was going to die of boredom!

All in all, I truly felt as if the league were set up only for the money. F*ck meeting up with friends and family. We just want the money. Wheres the fun in that? If I am at all incorrect in any my statements, then screw you, theyre my opinions. LOL

Fantastic book links!

Hey y'all, I just wanted to let you know that you should check out these books on Amazon.com:

For you graphic designers out there:

Logo Lounge 1

Logo Lounge 2

..and for the people who love to cook:

Everday Italian 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes (Hardcover) by Giada De Laurentiis

This is a good book too:

PostSecret : Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (Hardcover)