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5:29am : I am sleeping on a cloud.

5:30am : The cloud shakes and I fall towards the ground.

5:31am : I wake up in a start and find my bed rocking back and forth.

EARTHQUAKE!!!

5:34am : I am back in slumberland.
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happy chinese new year everyone and may good health and prosperity be with you this year.

Wow. nothing like an oil tanker spill on 101 to back up traffic.  Good thing a coworker told me about it before I left work.  Turns out they closed the exits on 101 N from woodside road to whipple road, causing huge amounts of traffic from there on south.  I ended up taking central expressway and 280.  280 was pretty jam packed near the woodside road area, since thats where all the cars are doing their detour.  I have not seen so many cars on highway 84 for the past 3 years.  Just a “Wow”.

The weather has been pretty wacky these last few days in San Francisco.  The tempature was in the 40s on Friday. There was almost non-stop rain and a high potential of flash floods in the surrounding area.  This morning, there was a hail storm just around six but by the time I walked out the door, the sun was out and there was nary a cloud in the sky. Wacky.

I’ve decided that I need to transfer all my information and tasks to a PDA.  Why?  I have a lot of reoccuring tasks now.  Reports due every FRI.  Reports due at the end of each month.  Reports due at the beginning of the month.  Reports due every other MON.  Preparing all these reports is time consuming because upper management prefer to discuss these reports on PAPER!!!!  Thus I need to transcribe the data on a printable format.  On top of that, I have other projects and tasks that I need to work on.

Perhaps I don’t need a PDA.  Paper planner will suffice but tasks that I can’t finish, I would need to rewrite and push out another week.  Maybe my PDA is just a fancy electronic Post-It note?

Being sick bites.

I thought the sore throat and stuffy nose from Wednesday would be gone after a good night’s sleep, I was wrong. I took this medication called Sucrets which worked wonders. My sore throat was gone in an instant and my nose wasn’t as clogged. Unfortunately, Sucrets had a side effect they don’t list on the box or their website.

Sucrets numbs your mouth. Not the good “Haha, I talk funny now” dentist numb, rather it numbs the roof of your mouth and parts of your tongue numb. But, it does leave the bitter taste buds intact.

So, I popped this pill and it melts away right before lunch. I picked up a Vietnamese sandwich at this place on 2nd called Muffins, Muffins. My first bite had absolutely no taste. But, as I pushed it further down my throat, I could taste the bitterness of the greens. The meat had this gravelly texture as well. I could feel the fat granules from the meat, but it had no taste. If there was one time in my life where I would have gladly been a vegan, it was right then at that moment.

So what have we learned from this experience? Sucrets - the secret weapon used by vegans to convert carnivores to their cause!

Life is fraught with peril, and we get another example of it today. On the way to work, I notice a helicopter circling the area. Hrm… that’s new. As I get closer to work, one of the bigger streets is sealed off by police. Several smaller streets in the area are also closed. Hrm… something’s a foot. As I pass the nearby Walgreens, I see several police cars in the Walgreens parking. I turn to look at the other side, and crap, is that a SWAT car???

I start realizing something big is up, and it sure isn’t a traffic accident. The cause of the police action is a stand-off between the police department and a robbery suspect. Read more about the stand-off at the Oakland Tribune. But the underlying cause of it is Oakland. Oakland Oakland Oakland. Oak-Town is grummy and shadowy. With the exception of the Golden State Warriors, Oakland offers nothing. I’m just glad I leave this slum before the night settles.

I can not handle cold weather.

Born and raised in San Francisco, I prefer the outside temperature to be around the high 60s to low 70s with mild humidity and slight wind. Vibrant blue skies and fluffy white clouds would round out the perfect day.

Perfect Day

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In the future, here on Frobie, there will be blog posts authored by people other than myself. They are stray bloggers I picked up off the Xanga scrap heap and given a home.

In the past, I use to create a subdomain and install an entire new Wordpress for them. But, the space it takes for a new installation really piles up. Utilizing Wordpress’ role system, I can give them contributor access to one central blog. Now, I can totally supress their voice and no one will be the wiser!

All kidding aside, a few of the strays have their own “topic” blogs which I contribute towards–a bay area sports blog and a hype machine blog. Frobie, however, will remain as a personal blog for myself and the select few I trust to not put up anything illegal. You know who you are.

My work week tend to be sporadic.  One week, I am super busy with lots of meetings and action items.  The next week, I am just doing busy work.  This past weekend I was tinkering with my PDA– again.  Why?  It’s a question I have yet to figure out.  I went back to ‘analog’ quite a bit already but once in a while, I would pull out my PDA and play around with it.  Is it buyer’s remorse?  I don’t know.  I am trying to figure out how to best use it.  There is no way I can move towards a smartphone.  Been there, done that.  The more I fiddle with different devices, the more I question how much more productive I am from the start.  Am I getting from point A to point B in the shortest amount of time or am I getting lost faster?

Like my username say… it is just a syncing mind.