The Hollywood writer's strike is great. Who needs writers when you have a new drug advertisement every hour to warn of side effects like urges to gamble or sudden bouts of depression so severe you may want to kill yourself? The drugs I speak of are for restless leg syndrome and nicotine addiction. With side affects like these, it makes you wonder if restless legs and nic fits aren't just the bodies way of saying "take a vacation".
DABU Halloween 2005! This is a short stack of pics. Others can be seen at http://parties.dabu.com, http://rich.dabu.com, http://suzy.dabu.com, http://jhason.dabu.com, and www.dylangreene.com.
Foster City California is leaving a lot to be desired. The best bar here is at a Mexican restaurant and there is a 10 PM curfew for minors. While it's a safe area, it makes me miss the excitement of Vancouver where the bars are open unitl 4 AM and the next street corner drug bust may happen before your very eyes.
I have yet to play hockey here though there is a rink. I'll work on getting some time off work to hit the ice one Friday morning coming up. I have a feeling that the play will not quite compare to that at 8 Rinks in Burnaby, BC.
To be fair to Foster City, it is a nice place, just a little too quiet for me. San Francisco is too far from the office and the rents there are a bit higher. So the trick is to find an area with lower rent (I HATE paying rent...see me later for an explanation if you are confused as to why), and with more to offer.
So far San Mateo has a nice shopping and dining district with quite a few apartments. Palo Alto also looks promising. I'll update this when it gets closer to move time (February).
Photos from the trip to Cali. Did this solo in 51 hours. 2951 miles. That averages out to about 58 miles per hour.
Chronology below:
Day 1 from DC to Radford ~ 250 miles
Day 2 from Radford to
Day 3 from
Day 4 from
Day 5 from
66W to 81S. Trip to Radford started with heavy rain. I left at noon and arrived at 4:30. Nice to visit the parents and get some good Italian food at Sal’s.
81S to 40W. From Radford to
40W to 25N.
25S to 40W.
15N to 5N. endless desert and straight roads. Make good time at over 70 mph but man it’s a tedious trip. Traffic picks up after breakfast even on a Sunday morning. Tired of the CDs I leave the windows down. Gas at its highest 2.79 a gallon in some places. CA is gonna be great.
Throughout the trip, I had no trouble with the truck. Range was good and most times I had to stop before we needed gas. 30 gal tank is great. Just expensive at fill up time with the average cost being around $60 a tankfull. A little better planning, and each day could have been done with only one stop along the way.
