Owned

I was out with Brandon and his coworkers Jim and Eric yesterday. A beat up truck came by, trying to sound all vroom-vroom look at me my engine’s loud, but it didn’t sound like a vroom from a healthy engine. So Eric started ripping on how that guy would be trying to pick up chicks with that car. Eric: Yeah, he’d be like, “Baby, do you like cars?”. “Yeah, whatever that can get me away from you?” Oakley: So you hear that line a lot, eh? E: No. Actually, I *use* that line a lot. You know, all the unwanted...
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Oh yeah. That.

All these times, I forgot to let you know that the pictures from Red River is up on my Flickr album. Red River – 4th of July, 2005 A disclaimer: I haven’t touched up any of the photos. Once you see the pictures of the Barn and the valley from the Vietnam Vet Memorial, you’ll understand this disclaimer....
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Ronery

Feeling lonely in a room filled with people. It’s a cliché. And I’m living it. I am working in a friendly environment, sometimes chitchatting away with my coworkers in the next cubes. But something is missing with them. Then again, only a few people at my new work share my interests. No one is this geeky. Or random. I miss my old coworkers so much sometimes it physically hurts. Angela, my former manager, said it best that we could never find such camaraderie again anywhere else we go. We, first and most importantly, all shared the common hatred of the...
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First fire drill

Something triggered the alarm on 33rd floor, so a few floors above and below had to evacuate 5 floors below. That was my first one here. A little flashback of the at least once a week fire alarm at Fluor Tower my freshman year in college. Our building had just been renovated. The alarm was the “pull here” kind. Not “break glass” kind, and situated right by the fire stairs. So what did people do? Ran down the hall, pulled the alarm, and exited the building. We had to wake up in the middle of the night at the oddest...
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The Bean Has Landed

Welcome to the world, Amelia “Mia” Morgan Cactus-Fish! Congrats to new parents Chris “Rude Cactus” and wife Beth “So the Fish Said”! Traditionally for Thais, they give a little gold bracelet for the baby. You know, Thai culture is tied with gold. It’s something that adorn you now, and you can pawn when destitute. Great gift for all occasions. But all I can do for you today, the Bean Cactus-Fish, is to wish you good health, much joy, and plenty of success. One day, Chris, I could buy your grand kid a gold bracelet instead. 😉...
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