Stand up post

Pretty much, we got rid of the wicker chair that dubs as my suit/clothes to be ironed closet. So the clothes are on my chair. Oh yes. My anniversary present from Brandon is this: Yep. Suddenly my desktop trebuchet kit for Brandon looks so retarded. The rest of our anniversary was quite unexpected as well. We woke up late. Well, THAT was expected. I made brunch and we headed out to get our massage at the spa around 1. The massage and salt scrub was AMAZING! After that, we went across the parking lot for In N’ Out, then Ikea....
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Oh, look! Video!

Okay. Jakey-boy. You’re fucking awesome! P.S. It took me almost an hour to figure out how to embed a video onto here–surely we ain’t in Blogger any more!–so you’d better appreciate the goddamn video.  😉 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBj6qaiAV_8]...
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Ding! Oakz is done!

Yep. Done. Work? The craziness is picking up. Big event coming up in February and people are going to start registering. Guess who’s making all the collateral materials AND working on registration all at the same time? Home? I got home today and made dinner, did laundry AND do the dishes. I’m fucking tired, man. Brandon and I are adjusting to his new work hours. Brandon now gets home about the same time or just a tad later than me, but he has Fridays off. So what I’m used to his coming home to an already decompressed Brandon. That saves...
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Once again, I <3 Stephen Colbert

Dear Stephen, You handle O’Reilly so well last night.  Although, I didn’t catch you nailing O’Reilly later on but I’m sure it’s on the TIVO. I love you not only because of your bravery to stand up for Truthiness, your fantastic adventures with Tek Jensen, and your ability to get your name on a bridge, into a mascot, and even an eagle, but because your show gave me tickets and swag to auction off at my organization’s gala last year. Yours, OakMonster...
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I <3 LA in the morning

Especially when the sky is absolutely gorgeous. To be respectful to folks around me on the road, I did not snap a picture of Downtown LA skyline, backed by clear blue sky, lit by the magic hour sun this morning. First, it was the Choir of the Angels moment on the 710. I was crawling down the stretch on the 710, a leftover carnage of an already cleared accident. There was light in the sky. ]I came up the hill and around the corner, just where the far left lane doubles up to split off to the 5, and the...
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Justice? What justice?

LA Times – 2 men freed in L.A. girl’s killing Police say the gunmen were firing in self-defense at a rival gang member when the girl, 9, was hit by a stray bullet that entered her Angelino Heights home. A few days after a bullet from a gang shooting tore into an Angelino Heights home last month, killing a 9-year-old girl, police announced with much fanfare that they had arrested the two gunmen. But the suspects — Cesar Zamora, 23, and Steven Castanon, 20 — are now out of jail and back in their old neighborhood, to the dismay of...
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