Going Out in Style
This morning sometime after 5am woman who claimed to be a German musician was returning home in her hummer limo from some a night of partying. I'm guessing she was plazcracked out of her mind. Anyway for whatever reason (I'd heard something about an argument with her boyfriend / date), she decided it was a good idea to jump out of the limo as it travelled at 75 miles per hour past Fairview on the 405. As to what happened to her subsequently, suffice to say the hazmat team had to be called to clean it up.
Anyway, this was in just about the center of Orange County on one of the main arteries of north/south transportation. North/south transportation in Orange County was crippled for hours. Our techinicians coming from North County who were supposed to be at work at 7am didn't arrive until 10am.
Bobby came in looking traumatized. He had drivin right past the strawberry jam on the freeway. Described it as the most disgusting thing he'd ever seen and said numerous motorists were puking as a result. One policeman was being held up by two others, apparently overcome by such sauce.
Our dispatcher Colin (AKA Coliny, AKA Colination) however took the opportunity to inform us all that thats the kind of thing he had to photograph as a navy photographer. He seemed to take pleasure in the fact that other people were being subjected to the nightmarish scenes he'd had to deal with.
Edit, from Thursday's newspaper: "multiple cars hit [the woman], spreading the accident scene over several miles" (I think the editor switched "accident scene" for "her"), "worst traffic congestion in Orange County history." Also I watched the television news for the first time in years yesterday to get news on this. They didn't mention anything, but DID mention "two suspicious arab man were videotaping the Santa Monica pier" WTF thats not news! Another twenty minutes was dedicated to other completely bogus "terrorist" stories. No wonder everyone has such a warped view of whats going on around them, the television news is complete plaz-shit.
The other day we ate dinner outside. Everyone was getting bitten by mosquitos except me. I think its because I have bee venom coursing through my veins now.
This morning Jeremy and I got food at a local cafe called Streamliners. I had a delicious pastrami sandwich. Streamliners gets their rolls from a local bakery called Solomons. Solomons gets their honey from Theodore D. Marder III, our boss. Its the circle of life.
Today we did a job at a big fancy house in La Habra Heights. The homeowner told us we reminded him of his bodyguards (because we said we didn't mind "taking a few [stings] for him, to get the job done" or something like that)
I got a formal invitation to some "Green & Gold Gala" at hosted by Sac State. As far as I can tell it has something to do with the Sac State alumni association or sometihng? I have no idea why I'd get invited to such a thing. Governator Schwartzenegger & his wife are the "honorary co-chairs," and the thing is in honour of some rich guy named Alex Spanos & his wife Faye Spanos (& they have no connection to Sac State that I've been able to find). It doesn't appear to be a scam, but I can't fathom why I got an invitation. Its probably ridiculously expensive and will be full of old fogey people, but still I'm curious to find out what its all about because I jump at any opportunity to escort my Kristy to a formal event, and I'm just plain curious.
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I've made three versions of the new icon Shalane drew for me:
We'll call those versions 1, 2, and 3, respectively. In (3) the area around the snail was meant to be transparent, ie instead of being in a white square the snail would just have whatever the background of your screen was anyway behind it. Obviously I failed at that. If anyone knows how to make that happen I'd love to hear it.
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Alexis' opponent & a friend (see previous picture)
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200 pictures ago: Getting Mohawked - This picture was just knocked off my browsable flickr lineup because 200 pictures have been posted since then. The picture was taken by John Salido, an awesome barber and the only person I trust to not fuck up my mohawk even a little bit. Prior to being knocked off the flickr lineup it was the second-most viewed picture I had up, with just over 100 views.