Hey there. Sorry I forgot to post towards the end of the week last weekend. We were doing software consulting at work and I was away from my desk, and then I took off the afternoon on Friday.

For lunch on Friday, the office went to an Indian restaurant in Buena Park. I took off from there to meet up with my mom and sister at Disneyland. Speaking of which, I renewed my pass, so if any of you ever want to go together, let me know. We spent a lot longer there than I expected (thought mom would poop out), so I got worked because I parked at Downtown Disney and didn't get validated (I thought you could get validation from purchases at a store, but actually you need validation from a restaurant or the movie theater). Twenty-eight bucks later, Jenny and I went to downtown Fullerton and spent a while at Starbucks.

Saturday, I worked on finances, put on another layer of paint on the baseboards in the living room, and lounged around the house. Ric and I made a trip to Lowe's to buy a few things. In the evening, the Andersons called us up and asked to come over for a while, so we all played Wii for a while together.

Sunday, we went to church with the Andersons as usual. I spent the afternoon playing through my classics songbook on the piano, then Ric and I returned to Lowe's to finally make a purchase of a new water heater. We also got the duct work for the microwave. Too bad we're having trouble making it fit! I put another layer of paint on the living room baseboards, and Ric and I watched some tv together. Finally, Ric got bored (I was already bored) and asked to go to see a movie. We ended up at the cheap theater to see The Spiderwick Chronicles. I topped of the night with a bit of laundry.

All-in-all, a kind of slow weekend. I could have used some more excitement, but I guess it was fine. I got some stuff done.

Up this week: working on the condo, a dinner with the Andersons, and probably more work on the condo.

Tatiana, an old friend of mine, has a new blog and for one of her first posts she wrangled up one of Matt Wignall's (former front-man of Havalina Rail Company) journals while he was on tour with Cold War Kids in Europe. Check it out. It's a really good read. Here's a highlight:

I've learned that these UK festivals largely consist of mud, and people living in it. The bands for the most part live in their buses only exiting onto a metal ramp where they are whisked onto stage. The Cold War Kids are not big enough for a bus as they are still a pretty ma and pa organization, they have something like a bus, and while not living in squalor, they sure don't live like the people called Razorlight. So we spent the day in Scotland looking for places to lay down and get free food both of which were graciously available in the main hospitality tent. There was little contact with mud, and the gig went famously, right after Sinead O'conner in fact, who we all agreed is looking very hobbit like these days.

Reading this journal brought back fond memories of my own adventures with Maust and Nate Rose. It's pretty crazy thinking about where we all ended up. I wish Wignall played more music these days but it looks like he's focusing more on his photography, which is really amazing. If and when that Havalina reunion happens, I'll be there, front row center, yelling for them to play "Sha La La." Yeah, if you were wondering who that was at all those Orange County shows, that was me.