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So we raced OCC and UCSB last Saturday. It started out kinda shitty cuz I was still sick from the end of the week. We didn't do so well against OCC but we did manage to beat UCSB. So that wasn't so bad. I don't think many of us were expecting to beat OCC anyways. So it's now Monday, and I'm still kinda sick and now we have to practice twice a day until Friday, when we leave for San Diego to race in the Crew Classic. On the plus side of rowing twice a day, I'll have a nice golden brown tan by Wednesday. Of course that means I'll also have 3 different forms of skin cancer by then too. :)

 

Good: no more school this quarter. After what seemed like a painfully long 10th week/finals week, I'm finally done with the quarter. That leaves one more quarter of 'fairly easy' classes left to take. Watch, 10 weeks from now I'll be complaining about how hard these classes are and how much I hate school. It's a cycle. I think I really fucked up in Math 105b, but I think I did good in ICS168 and Jazz. Oh, and let's not forget my automatic A in Math 171a. Joy. We'll see how I did next week sometime.

Bad: I'm getting sick. Correction, I AM sick. I suppose it doesn't help to get between 4-5 hours of sleep a night, wake up at 5am for rowing practice, and the stress of studying for finals. I guess it all caught up to me and now I'm feeling a sore throat and a little run down. Being sick won't help me too much next week when we have two practices a day for crew. I'm thinking of skipping at least the first practice if I don't feel any better. We'll see...

Ugly: Don't even get me started on rowing. It's generally a good thing to take a few days off every once and a while to keep the body healthy and in good shape. Of course, that's the LOGICAL idea. Our coach is anything but logical on the issues of rowing and what is best for us. After our narror lose against UCLA (which, by the way, we practiced pretty hard on Friday considering it was the day before a race), we havn't taken a day off, and now our coach wants us to practice twice a day from Sunday-Friday, then race our 2nd biggest race of the year on Saturday in San Diego (Crew Classic) I'm so worn out right now that I can barely stay awake. Not to mention how out of it I am mentally. Oh well, that's what I get for choosing the sport of rowing.

Wow, this is my longest entry ever. Must be a really boring day at work :)

 

Hipster, Masterd, Penboy, Sid0ze and myself went to a Yellowcard concert on Sunday night. It was at the Bren Center on the UCI campus and it also featured Steriogram, Rufio and Something Corporate. First thing we noticed when we got there was the abundance of little kids. Of course, 'little kids' is relative to me, so they were like, 10th-11th grade, maybe even earlier. Anyways, due to the smallness of the audience, it made for a prime moshpit for me. :) When Yellowcard started playing, the place just got crazy and the mosh pit was rocking. Anyways, I had a blast knocking everyone over and generally rocking out. I didn't care for Steriogram that much and I was disappointed that Rufio didn't sound as good as I thought they should have. I also have another concert that Heather and I are going to April 14th with NOFX and Alkaline Trio. That should be a blast.  

Today I decided that I've had enough of my stupid Sony NetMD piece of crap (actually the hardware is great, but Sony fucked up royally on the software) so I decided to go get an iPod mini from the UCI bookstore. All I have to say is, it kicks ass. Funny story on my way to go get it. I called up the bookstore before I left and asked how many they had left. They said they had 'several' silver and 'several' blue iPods in stock. I was looking to get a silver so that was perfect. So I took a trip down to the store and come to find out, no more than 10 minutes before I got there, some jackass bought all the iPods except one to sell on ebay. What a jackass. So the only one left was the gold iPod. I kinda liked it (although not as much as the silver) so I got that one instead. All in all, a very good purchase. Now I just gotta get the protective cover and possible the desktop charger dock thing.

 

So we had a race on Saturday vs UCLA up in Ballona Creek. Despite a harsh week of practice and a tough practice on Friday, we were confident that we could beat them. I have to say, it was the closest race I've ever been in. Right off the starting line, no crew had more than a 1-2 seat lead. Constant lead changes, a bear claw at the 1200m mark and a very fast finish resulted in UCLA winning by about this much...

 <-------------UCLA----------->
<------------UCI------------->

Sigh, those are the races you'll never forget. I believe the "official" result was UCLA by 0.01 seconds, or 6", however you want to count it. Of course, looking back on the race there were a few problems that shouldn't have happened, mostly due to our coxswain. Hopefully those can and will be fixed before we race OCC this Saturday.

 

I found a very funny video today. Whoever made the video did a REALLY good job remixing the sound...er I mean, shame on Bush for saying those things!

link

 

... to me! Seriously though, happy birthday to me. Today is my 22nd birthday, and I "celebrated" it by staying up late to write a paper and study for a final. Then I woke up 4 hours later and rowed. Top that off with a final in the afternoon and my birthday was just peachy. On the plus side, 1 final down, 2 to go. Woot!

 

So Brad and I signed up for the Camp Pendleton mud race. It looks like a lot of fun and I hear from Grant that it is a LOT of fun. It's on June 5th down at Camp Pendleton. Link is here. Looks like Joe is also gonna sign up for this thing too. Team Fly and Die will be out in full force that day!

 

Today is Heather's birthday. Happy birthday! Enjoy your cake :)

 

I got a few pictures of us rowing against UCSD and SDSU. So here they are. I'm sitting 6 seat. For those who don't know rowing numbers, that means i'm 3rd from the coxswain. (ie, cox, 8, 7 6, etc).


Here are two pictures of us rowing against the SDSU lightweights. Actually we're so far ahead you can't even see them in the picture. :)




And here we are vs UCSD.
 

!date pens's birthday in 5 days 14 hours 43 seconds. pens will be 22 joy  

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Not sure where this came from, but it's WAAAAY too hot here in Southern California lately. It really needs to cool off.

Anaheim, California --  1:23 PM PST on March 08, 2004
Temp:  92F/33C        Humidity: 20%
Conditions : Clear with wind ENE at 12mph/19kmh

Irvine, California --  1:21 PM PST on March 08, 2004
Temp:  87F/30C    Heat Index:  85F/29C    Humidity: 32%
Conditions : Scattered Clouds with wind SW at 12mph/19kmh

 

So I had a race yesterday up in Marina Del Rey vs SDSU and LMU. Unfortunately, LMU didn't have a 2V8 so we only raced against the SDSU lightweights. We beat them pretty good and we won their shirts, so it's all good. Plus, our V8 team beat SDSU and LMU by 0.03 seconds to win the Parker Cup. From what I hear, the race was decided by about 1 foot. Here are the two race results. More results at row2k.com

2V8:
UCI 6:46.4
SDSU lights 7:05.8

V8:
UCI 6:30.0
SDSU 6:30.3
LMU 6:46.2

 

Here's my latest screenshot, complete with the sexy new gnome clock/evolution/calendar integration. It also shows off a little of the nautilus spatial browser that's gonna be in gnome 2.6. For those of you wondering, the two things on the bottom left and center are called GoodWeather and StarterBar. They are gdesklets.

I have more screenshots here



 

I found a really neat program to edit blogs in linux. It's called BloGTK and you can get it here. This is my first post with this program, so it's kinda a test for me.  

I made some pizza tonight and it was really really good. I took some pictures of the pizza for all you pizza lovers out there. Now you can see what a real pizza looks like ;) I put fresh pepperoni, onions, olives, green peppers, mushrooms and freshly cooked sausage on it.

Here you can see the dough pre-cooking. It had a very smooth texture as well as a perfect consistency.

Here is the pizza right being being put into the oven. Very nice. And now for the pictures you're all waiting for, the post-oven pictures!

 

YAY for math! I never thought I'd say that in my life, but I happened to get one of the easiest teachers ever. Not only does he grade REALLY easy, but he gives tons of extra credit. This isn't regular extra credit, it's 'super duper extra credit'. So in class one day he says that the first 10 people to submit this 'super duper extra credit' gets an automatic A in the class and don't have to take the final. So I busted out my laptop and finished it real quick. So I got an automatic A, as well as Heather. So we're both really happy about that. Joy.

 

Last week we (UCI 2nd Varsity) beat UCSD in Newport by about 7-10 seconds. Not too bad, it was the last jersey I needed to complete my collection of all the teams we race throughout the season. On Saturday we're gonna be in Ballona Creek to race the SDSU lightweights. We SHOULD win and remain undefeated this year so far.

 

It's been a while since my last update, I guess I just forgot/neglected this site. I'll start updating more often now (cross your fingers)