3 day weekend recap
I’ve never been a fan of 3 day weekends cause I always feel antsy come Monday when I’m sitting at home not doing anything, but I definitely needed the 3rd day this weekend. On Friday I went out and visited Jason & Kelly and went to our usual spot Bar 107 and then watched Role Models, which I’m convinced they based Paul Rudds character on me. Saturday morning I went to a blowout sale that Kellys work had and got 15 shirts for 10 bucks, not each – total! Got some sweet shirts like David Bowie, Iggy Pop, The Specials and got some for humor (House Of Pain).
My good friend since high school, Mike, has pretty much lived on the other side of the country since he graduated high school and has been back in town for a few months but recently passed the bar in Pennsylvania and got offered a pretty sweet job in Philly so he’s moving this upcoming weekend so his parents had a little going away BBQ at their house which was pretty much family only but I guess im sorta considered family since I’m always invited to those kinds of things. We ate some good food, drank some beers and watched some good UFC fights. I’m gonna miss that dude, but now i have an excuse to visit Philly.
Mike’s sister Kristina is doing the San Fran – LA AIDS bike ride next week and has been training like crazy for it for the past few months and asked me to ride with her group yesterday. I met up with them at Good Stuff in Hermosa, they had ridden there from Santa Monica, and rode to Santa Monica with them. It was a good ride except for they all had gnarly geared bikes and I was on my single speed, so some of their route was rough on me but i held my own. About a 4th of the way into the ride Kristina’s chain came off and me and her were separated from the pack but it was nice just riding with her. After we got back to their end location I was around the corner from Jason’s dads bike shop, Cynergy, and decided to stop in for a visit. After BS’ing with Jim for a little bit we started talking about me getting a new bike and well to make a long story short, I basically left the shop with a new bike. I don’t have it in my possession yet but I have it, it’s basically the geared version of my Langster called the Allez by Specialized.
After I got home from my ride I met up with Jason & Kelly and my roommate Michelle and we went and ate at Ortega 120, great food horrible service. After that Jason and I went and saw Star Trek, I’ve never been one for nerdy sci-fi flicks but that was a great movie & I’m looking forward to the sequels. So my “day off” was anything but that. My roommate is moving out tomorrow so i spent the day cleaning and painting and moving stuff in the house around, not fun.
Hopefully tomorrow I will be getting all my stuff i ordered for the P90X program, here’s hoping I have enough discipline to stick with it. I’ll be blogging once a week about my progress of it and plan on starting June 1st. Alright well I’ve run out of things to say so I’ll leave you with some designs I finished this week for promo shirts for a production company called F5. Live long & prosper.
Hope Rides Again
Yesterday near my work in Hermosa Beach people from the Livestrong movement were doing a really cool sidewalk chalk illustration and handing out boxes of yellow chalk encouraging people to write or draw a statement of intent, encouragement & inspiration for friends & loved ones fighting a battle with cancer & then take a picture and upload it to wearyellow.com. I’ve been a big Livestrong supporter for sometime and wear the yellow rubber bracelet every day so this was really cool to see in person.
Yes we did
Yesterday as i was leaving the local farmers market i saw this sticker on somebodys car. After doing some google investigation i discovered there were 5000 limited edition prints made of this poster, i’m bummed i missed out.