Run With Scissors

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The place is great, maybe a ms paint blueprint to come

So after months of negotiations, the lady is officially on the road heading to california (First stop, Cleveland! The only city left jealous of buffalo!).  The current ETA is next sunday night for arrival.  So basically, this is my last weekend to sit around in a wife beater and play poker. And with any luck in one month we move into a nice 2br apartment up in San Francisco proper.

And as if this week wasn’t good enough, I just got the lady and myself tickets to go see Dave Chappelle in 2 weeks

So now that the sabres are down 3-2 in the series, I can only imagine the panick back home. I posted this on a blog this morning, it bears repeating…

I moved out of buffalo/rochester last october, and I have to say living away from some of all this is nice. I watch all the sabres games (and bills), just enjoying them without that desperation edge of “this game means everything to the town” feeling that just gives people ulcers back home. Like you all said, this is the most fun (and talented team) I’ve watched come out of buffalo. They’ve played an incredible season and are built for the long term. There’s no shame for the city if it had to end tonight (I do like our chances tho).

For any of you that dont read bill simmons (the sports guy), you should. He rails against the old boston media who does nothing but antagonize the fans with gloom and doom just to boost ratings. This year isnt wide right, it isn’t no goal. It’s a great team that went from nowhere to the eastern finals (at least) and played a hell of a year.

Go sabres!

So after months of planning and saying I should sign up, I finally had my first Jiu Jitsu class on tuesday (torkel signed up also).  Being that frank is a Federal Agent and semi-retired ninja, when he said the class was top notch I was all for it.  He mentioned the classes were “a little intense” and to expect a lot of cardio before the real ground work.

Well 45 minutes or so into the session, we’ve been running laps. Stopping only to do 50 Jumping Jacks (3x), 30 Squat jumps (3x), this wierd back crawl thing (5x across the mat), bear walks (5x), under and overs, (where you crawl under someones leg then leap frog their back 10x in a row for 3 sets), then sit ups.  It was the first time in a workout were I thought “thank god I’m just running now, I can catch my breath”.  By far the most intense work out, probobly ever. Teacher/coach/Kurt was impressed i was able to keep up, seeing i was the new guy and the only guy that didnt look like he was in great shape.

After that was another hour of learning techniques and sparring, and by the end of that I was exhausted but loving every minute.  And here just 48 hours later I can walk without a limp again.

Turns out Balco, of barry bonds steriod fame, was located about two miles from my apartment out here.

Google map directions from my place to balco

I just finished my first in and out burger 3×3. That’s a lot of cheesy beef.

From cnn…
In Rochester, New York, the temperature plunged from 60 degrees to the 30s in a few hours overnight. Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. officials said 1,000 customers were already without power by dawn.

Good luck with all that. People out here are bitching because it dropped from 68 to 52 this week.

So I’m here, all pictures are up, sans Nevada* (on Dad’s camera). Yeah, there’s a lot of nature scenes, they were fantastic to view, if you can ever drive across country, go for it. This whole things a bit of a gamble, and I won’t pretend I didn’t have a lot of butterflies about the whole venture. This whole summer in Rochester was a blast and a great time, hard to walk away from all I built up there, not to mention finally finding a great lady friend. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy I’m here, I just have plenty of reasons to go back and visit.Helping this transition is Craigslist, if you don’t regularly check this site you really should. I’ve set up four interviews from this site (and another bite or two from Monster suprisingly). Great little site that not enough people know about (which sounds crazy as everyone in the Bay lives by it). On the subject of website shout outs, check out partyben.com, lots of crazy song mashups & remixes.

*Quick Nevada recap for those tracking my gambling problem. Lost 125 on blackjack, only to make a blistering comeback on 3/6 limit hold ‘em. I broke even for the 2 days.