oh shit.

Now I'm gon' hafta move! (<--link)

being recognized

So my big gigantic employer recently awarded all 40K+ US employees with 4 extra days of personal time off in appreciation for good performance in our most recently closed fiscal year. YAY US!

They asked us to submit photos of what we did with our extra time off - so I submitted a few photos from my ALC6 experience and they chose one... see below!

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Gandhi

Rough Rider

Yep - that's me, waiting to get my ATV to rip-ass around the Pismo Dunes yesterday. It was CRAZY amounts of fun. I almost launched over the handlebars about 4 times. But luckily I'm in one piece. But dang do my back and shoulders ache today.

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

-Gandhi

height and saturation

I decided I needed some beauty (other than me, of course) at my desk. So at lunch, I tooled out with my work girlfriend Alejandra and we bought flowers.



They're real pretty:

I only hope their beauty comforts when when I get yelled at by my manager. Because in prepping my flowers for their big debut, I spilled about two-cups worth of water right on top of my laptop. Thankfully, they have already performed a shell-swap and all is good with the world for Gina's harddrive.

HOWEVER, when IT sends the water-logged shell out, I have to fess up to the water spill, with repair costs of roughly $600-800 hitting my manager's budget. Booooooooooo!

luxury

is this shower. two sides and an overhead rain head:


not sure if the water reads in the photo - but here it is in action:


I think showering with an open door and seeing the gorgeous CA sun-filled sky has me beginning to understand outdoors nudism...

form

I took these because I was feeling the circularity (that's not even a word, but go with it) of the shots:



These I was feeling the angles:


And these I was digging the combination of right angles and circularity (there, I've used it twice now so it is a real word):

more palm springs

here's some more pictures I took today while out and about...



It's so gorge here...

1970 in more ways than one

Yeah - I can't even begin to describe how many kinds of ridiculous this house is. I am thinking it's missing some trays of party drugs and some naked pool boys running around. Oh wait, I'm sure there must have been at some point in the 70's.

LOVES IT.

shiny happy puppies treading sand

These are two happy pups. You'd be happy too if this was your playground for the afternoon:





Some of the pics are blurry b/c the sun was so bright. All were taken from my Treo, so not a proper phone. But this is the Pacific Ocean as witnessed on Ocean beach, in my home, San Francisco. I'm coming back sans dog, con iPod and a book.