I had to prove that I could make dinner myself. I wanted to make low-carb pizzas so I used slices of eggplant for most of the “crusts.” I used a portobello mushroom for one of the crusts. Toppings included chicken, turkey pepperoni, jalapeño, mushroom, and red bell pepper. Some had homemade pizza sauce that my roommates made, some had alfredo sauce, and some had both. They were super tasty.
We ran the Chapman 5K on Saturday. I was slow, with a time of 35:56.3, but I never stopped to walk. I’ll consider it a victory.
Edit: The results are online now.
I was 455th of 630 males. I was 49th of 57 in my age group (25-29). My chip time was 35:56.4, and my gun time was 37:33.4. My average pace was 12:07/M. Also, gem was listed on that page also under my name, so yes, my name shows up twice. She signed me up twice and failed to sign herself up, heh.
A couple days ago on 9/30, I tried to make a post on WebPageless but got an odd error. After trying repeatedly, I noticed it now said WebPageless had zero entries. When I listed the posts, it saw all of them except the most recent five. Trying to edit any old entry failed though.
It appeared the database was corrupted.
Luckily, I had backed up all my entries a month earlier. Because I was using an incredibly out-dated version of Movable Type, it seemed like a good time to upgrade. I decided to go with WordPress, which is what I’m using on my two other blogs – Korkron501st and Polygons and Pixels. Those two sites are hosted on WordPress servers though, so this would be a little different. I’d be installing the WordPress software on WebPageless.
The installation was relatively easy, and it imported by entries from Movable Type easily. I had to manually add the posts from the last month, but it wasn’t too difficult. Movable Type didn’t have tags, so I added some tags and reorganized things a bit. And now here we are.
It feels a little odd to have something that looks like a standard blog rather than something custom, but WebPageless never had a custom backend anyways, and the front looked amateur-ish. I guess it’s not a big loss. I can always do more customization here anyways.
Yesterday we played some games at a going away BBQ for Alex and Darnell. We each wrote a sentence on a separate page. Then we passed the papers and drew the sentence we read. Then we folded the papers so that only the drawings were showing. After passing, we had to write a description of the picture. This just continued until we got bored. Here are our results.
Next we changed to a different game. We each took turns drawing a segment of a picture. We couldn’t look at the previous segment, but the lines would be extended down slightly so that the next person could see where their section connects. Confusing to describe, but you’d probably understand if you’d just scroll down and look!
I thought I’d share some of the videos I took of ASIMO at Disneyland on 9/24/12.
Here he’s introduced to the audience for the first time.
ASIMO shows off a little bit.
Dance moves? Yeah, he’s got those.
Last but not least, ASIMO uses the stairs,
Following the weekend excitement of Temecula, I met up with Alex, Darnell, Devin, Lorena, Gracie, and John for dinner and drinks Monday night. Gracie and John had to leave, but I went back to Alex and Darnell’s room to stay the night and go to Disneyland the next day. The woman working the desk at the La Quinta, Erica, was super friendly and excited to see we were carrying in Apples to Apples. We enjoyed the game, and Devin did very well despite being half asleep.
The next day we spent the morning in California Adventure. We went on the Ferris wheel, California Screamin’, and had lunch.
Of course, we had to play Toy Story Mania too. I beat gem, but her animal was better.
We met with Daniel and Mallory and headed into Disneyland.
Lots of fun was had in Disneyland, including meeting ASIMO. While having a slow machine do simple tasks I could more easily do myself isn’t useful right now, it’s definitely cool technology.
High five!
After Disneyland we had dinner at the House of Blues before returning to the hotel room to hang out a little. I was pretty worn out when I got home, but it was great fun. Now I just wait for the parties this weekend!
Because Alex and Darnell are back visiting in California, we went wine tasting in Temecula over the weekend. Here we’re at Leonesse Cellars, the first stop on our tour. We had a pretty full van – Alex, Darnell, Alex’s parents Hal and Mary Margaret, Darnell’s parents Devin and Lorena, Mike, gem, Gracie, our sober driver John, and myself.
We got to try the grapes that were destined to become wine. They were tasty this way too but different than the grapes you’d buy in a grocery store to eat.
Our guide took some time to explain the process itself and showed us the large tanks.
Then we went inside for the actual tastings. I didn’t know anything really about wine, but our host spoke for a few minutes on each wine. It was a lot of fun.
The Wilson Creek Winery was much more laid back. They also had a port served in a glass made of chocolate. It was interesting!
We picked up a pizza to eat in the van on our way to the next winery. The Maruice Car’rie Winery had terrible service. Luckily it was photogenic!
By the time we reached the Black Market Brewery, I had had enough to drink. I talked games with John before heading outside to chat with Mary Margaret.
We had dinner at Public House, a pub with fun, live music. The plan was to eat appetizers and have drinks, but a few of us wanted real food. Hal got us a table at the restaurant so he, Mary Margaret, Alex, Mike, gem, and me had a nice dinner. I had some tasty chicken stuffed with peppers.
In the evening, Mike, Alex, gem, and I had fun conversation in which we decided the van was its own nation, Vanica. It very quickly evolved into a corrupt state with a religious figure, John, used to keep the front passengers in line. Art imitates reality.
A post like this doesn’t really do the trip justice. What was great was talking with friends. I miss Alex and Darnell, and it was wonderful to see them again. They have good taste in friends, so seeing our mutual friends is also fun, and they both have amazing families too.
I had a blast!
Edit: I forgot to add that those meanies made me dance at the Public House. Oh well. It wasn’t so bad!
Nate’s going down this week.
Last week was my great-grandmother’s 90th birthday. We met at my mom’s house Saturday around 6:45 to drive to Vegas to surprise her. During the car ride I got to enjoy some Super Mario 3D Land and podcasts, which was fun. We visited with my grandparents for a bit before heading to the restaurant. Along with my aunt and uncle, their kids, my other uncle, and his daughter, we all hid and yelled surprise when Nana got there. She’s 90, but luckily she didn’t have a heart attack.
After dinner we all went back to my grandparents’ house. There was a delicious looking white cake with strawberry filling, but I didn’t eat any. We talked for a bit, but there was a super loud football game on TV with a lot of yelling (because what’s not exciting by people arbitrarily placed into teams and running into other people), so I escaped to another room to hang out quietly.
We went back to Nana’s house to sleep for the night. She spent quite some time explaining different rules and information she thought we’d need. This included the fact that we shouldn’t open a window because then someone could just come right into her house! Also, all the overflow drains in the house were taped-over. She doesn’t like bugs.
She did show me photos of her husband, who I never met, and his medals from World War II. That was very cool!
In the morning we got up at 6:15 and hit the road my 6:30. We were back early enough to have plenty of time for activities at home!
A couple weeks ago I saw the Aquabats at a free concert at the Orange County Great Park. It was outdoors, and while there was a large crowd in front, hardly anyone stood off to the side. That’s where I was. It let me get close without getting jostled, which meant I could actually film. No, I couldn’t really see Ricky Fitness, but I never really get any good shots of him.
They actually performed two sets, which was pretty cool. They put a break in the middle, pointing out that parents with young children could take the kids home. I’m sure it was mostly the fact that they needed a break.
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Sorry for singing a lot. I couldn’t help it.
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