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I am fantasy football. And, together with James and maybe Steph, we are a fantasy football team. Hehe.

Happy Halloweeeeeen.

Dana organized another bike trip down to the pigeon point lighthouse last weekend and it was awesome… This year, I biked down the first day and the sagged it back the 2nd… I think I could have ridden back, but yah, I guess I felt a little lazy. And besides, I’m doing boot camp like four days a week now, so I don’t feel like a total schlep. The ride was awesome. Friday rained enough to cancel my regularly scheduled baseball game on Saturday (which I was quietly happy about, since I couldn’t go), so I was a little worried about the weather for the weekend. But, the weather was absolutely gorgeous the whole weekend.

We met in the morning at the panhandle to start the ride, and headed through the park to ocean beach. The waves were awesome… like huge and breaking magnificently our entire ride down the coast. The route took us through Daly City, past devil’s slide to Half Moon Bay.. From there, we continued down the 1, stopping in San Gregorio for a beer, and then up and over stage road to Pescadero for lunch. We rolled into the hostel in the afternoon, and settled in for a relaxing evening. It was awesome.. The ride wasn’t too bad, about 60 miles, with “rolling hills” as Davin liked to call them. Yah.. California is awesome sometimes.

All pictures from everyone are being gathered here. Good times.

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So, Saturday night, a bunch of us went out to Berkeley for dinner — we hopped on the BART and went to Great China, which is quite possibly my favorite Chinese restaurant in the entire Bay Area. Yah, it’s THAT good. If you do go, I recommend the double skin salad and the crab & egg dish — the peking duck is also awesome, but those two dishes are really quite unique to Great China..

It was a great dinner (afterall, it’s not called *Good* China), but one scene keeps replaying in my head, and I keep laughing to myself about it all morning…

A little back story.. since we were kids, Andy has always had a thing about sharing food. He thinks is super gross or something. It’s not that he’s selfish, I think it’s a germy thing. Like, if you ask for a sip of his Coke, he’ll be like, “Yah.. um, ok..” (takes a huge gulp of coke, and then hands it to you.) “here you go, you can have the rest.” Hehe.. It’s one of those quirks that makes Andy, Andy. Anyway…

So, we’re about midway through the dinner, and there’s a big plate of food that is just about finished.. They come to clear some dishes away to make room… Seeing that there was still some food left on the big plate, someone suggested that they transfer it to a smaller plate.

The server nods, and then looks around for a second, searching for a utensil of some sort. She looks down, and seeing that Andy’s fork was sitting idly on his plate, grabs it.

Andy looks up at the server with like a concerned look, and I can just imagine what is going on in his head:

(Ed: This is what I imagined Andy to be thinking, and by his expression, I really think that he was thinking it… that said, I haven’t really asked Andy if he, in deed, *was* thinking this. I guess I could, but this version of the story has been running through my head all morning, and providing me with a lot of amusement.)

“Hmm.. um.. she’s really using MY fork to push the communal food? Eeeew. That’s gross. Wait.. It’s MY fork, so I guess I don’t have a problem with that, do I?”

I could totally see the internal debate going on inside Andy’s head. He kind of looked over at me, and I tried to give him a knowing nod to let him know that I knew what he was thinking, but who knows if he was actually thinking that or not.

Haha. Ok.. see, just writing up this post, I’m sitting here smiling. So if you’re not finding the amusement in my story, then here’s something that you better find funny… STAR WARS TRUMPET!!!

If you are not laughing now, then yah.. um. I can’t help you..

So, I found story today about teleportation.. seems like at the quantum level, scientists have been able to teleport things around. Pretty frikkin’ awesome. I sent it to Marcy, who then brought up time travel… which then made me think of this movie about the tenth dimension that mcc showed me like a few years ago..

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

Man.. this video is awesome… it makes my brain hurt a lil’ bit, but it’s super cool to think about this stuff… Yay geeky stuff.

Ok, this is a fitting close to this post.. a geeky joke, courtesy of our favorite punster, Audris:

2 atoms are rushing down the street and they crash into each other
atom 1 goes Are you alright?!
atom 2 goes, yeah, but i think i dropped an electron
atom 1 goes For realz???
and atom 2 goes yeah, i’m POSITIVE!

Back like almost 10 years ago now, my appendix decided to burst, and the nice doctors took it out. I don’t really know where it ended up, it’s probably in some landfill in bencia or something. Not that I’ve missed it, since it’s supposedly vestigial — but it looks like doctors in the UK now theorize that the appendix is used to “reboot” the gut during times of extreme GI distress… Apparently, it serves as a safe harbor for good bacteria until the bad juju passes. Hmm.. oh well, I don’t got one anymore, I guess I should really avoid amoebic dysentery then…