We Got a Present!

Attention everybody. Alinna and I got our first wedding present from our registry. We suspect that it was Amy. Thanks Amy. Watch out folks! They're going like hotcakes! Act now!

Day one of school

Ahh... back to school. Day of long lines at the bookstore. Day of packed lecture rooms (they don't qualify as "halls" unless they house at least 100 people... and seminary classrooms don't). Day of friendly people. Day of "nice to meet you." Day of handshakes. Day of catching up with people. Day of things new. Day of the familiar.

Lots of new people around. In a school this size, if you don't recognize somebody, chances are they're either first year students or transfers. Gone are the days when my name is a number. Oh, Berkeley! I knew you by name. Why couldn't you learn mine? Instead I was an 8 digit number. At times I felt like a convict. And yes, I still remember my number. I don't think I'll ever forget.

I've been tagged.

Music Tag

The Rules:
List five songs that you are currently loving. It doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs in your blog/xanga. Then tag five other friends to see what they're listening to.

My songs of the moment:
1. Golddigger - Kanye West
2. I'm Ready - Tevin Campbell
3. You're All I Need - Method Man
4. Kimi Wo Sagashiteta - Chemistry
5. Disco Inferno - Bee Gees

And I tag:
hotmonkies
fuzzylogick
stevelee
gee unit
ryan

And yet another list... I'm feeling pretty VH-1

To-Do Checklist:
To-dos on list: 94
Completed to-dos: 89

And they're out!  Please RSVP in a timely manner.  Thanks a lot guys!

The return

I'll be going back to SoCal either this Monday (12th) or Tuesday (13th). Real soon.

The first day of school: September 26th. It's time to get your nerd on.

To-Do Checklist:
To-dos on list: 111
Completed to-dos: 72

My first picture from Photobucket.  Our date at Fort Point!

Name mishaps

My name has been mispronounced since the time I started going to school. It's pronounced HEE-DE-YO. Of course it looks like Hideyo. So what do I get?

Hide-yo. As in "Hide, the aliens are out to get us!"

Video. Yes, it has happened in the past. And not jokingly either. I'm not for rent at Blockbuster.

hi-DEE-yo. And so, I have two greetings in my name. Or something that sounds like the dwarves' work song. Hi, yo! Hi, yo! It's off to work we go!

But recently... err, at my last job, I got two new ones. Really interesting ones.

Fidel. Yes. As in Castro. I now resemble a cigar smoking dictator who lives forever. Cigar smoking I'd be willing to do. Dictatorship... well, I suppose it depends on the day. Live forever? Getting eternal life with my God! Woo hoo!

Cuidado. The thing that cracks me up about this one is that the guy who called me cuidado wasn't a Spanish speaker. And from the limited Spanish training I got from the West Contra Costa Unified School District, I know that it means something like "attention" or "caution." Ahh, if only he called me "Peligro," then I'd be known as "danger!" Watch out for the piso mojado folks.

To-Do Checklist:
To-dos on list: 124
Completed to-dos: 59

Mystery public bathroom goods... the way things work

Recently, I've been intrigued by two particular products I've seen in public bathrooms... two particular bathrooms actually. In some of the Fuller bathrooms, there are these special urinals. They're no-flush urinals. Weird huh? And I don't mean urinals that haven't been flushed since who-knows-when... because lotsa people don't flush after doing their business at the urinal. You know who you are! Nasty, especially for the next guy. Anyway, Fuller has these no-flush urinals that seriously don't have a flush knob. And next to the urinal on the wall is a placard that designates it as a "no-flush" urinal. I've noticed that when I do my business at this particular urinal, some dark colored (I'm color-blind, what do you expect?) liquid comes out of the drain. I guess it's supposed to sanitize it or keep it from smelling because it does its job. One time I was so curious to find out how it works that I was about to lift the plastic cover that is found over the urinal drain... but then sensibility came and I remembered, "That's gross, people pee on that!"

So the other bathroom product... I worked in a warehouse this summer and in it there's this "soap" called Borax. It's amazing stuff. It cleans your hands quicker than any soap I've ever used. Wet your hands a little, put on a little Borax, rub your hands, add a little more water, rub your hands again, wash, and magically all the dirt on your hands... *poof* gone. I dunno though. Any cleaning product called Borax can't possibly be good for you. Sure enough, upon closer inspection of the box of Borax it says that it's only to be used for hands. I don't know if that's because Borax is potentially hazardous or because it'd hurt to rub the sand-like substance anywhere else on your body. Again... how does this stuff work?

Yes, I know I've taken a bit of a haiatus from the wedding updates at the end of the entries... but that's simply because we haven't gotten things "done" since the beginning of August. We're doing things... they're just not completed. Tux rentals, invitations, guest list, honeymoon travel plans, housing, rehearsal dinner sites, the list could go on forever. But to maintain consistency... err re-establish consistency...

To-Do Checklist:
To-dos on list: 124
Completed to-dos: 59