Gina Chiara sponsors: nastyphat, astro, flowlab, and doc16
los padres: Lexan and Rob
favorite trick: nasty phat nasty
special powers: flying . . ."just throw yourself in the air until hit the ground."

weibel chess club . . . . California state champions. the weibel chess club has been the dominate force throughout the 90's. The tiger woods of K-6 chess. amazing.

lake tahoe amazes me. The color of the water ranges from deep blues to turquoise and clear shallows that remind you of warm tropical beaches until you sink your toe into it, and bam you are right back in the beautiful mountains sitting somewhere above 6,000 feet. I haven't been to tahoe in far too many years. I love the mountains, the way the sound carries over the water, the rocking of boats, the distant engines, the wind through the trees, even bachelor partiers cranking black sabath across the lake as you lay in the warm sun. kerry oji invited us to spend the weekend at her families cabin, and we had a fantastic time. thank you. her brother had his bachelor party on saturday, and her sister mimi came up as well. all together there were a lot of folks there and things got a bit nuts. They have a sandy beach below the house and we didn't do much more then bask in the sun and float in the water, bask and float, for 3 days. we did play slosh ball on saturday and it seemed every girl there had played NCAA's. tough as nails. i loved it. anyways. i'm off to sleep. RUBICON . . . Goodnight.

i need to talk to joves about designing eddy's tatoo. he wants it to symbolize waves, the maori fern and symbol of life, and the basque four armed swirl. steve has a talent for organic forms. if it's tatooed for life i want to make it nice.

i was gonna clean my room
but then i got high

i was gonna find the broom
but then i got high

i still got a dirty room
and i know why

because i got high
because i got high
because i got high

--- afro man

I make sexy banners. the banners that scream sex.

ac·ro·nym (kr-nm) n.

A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as PONPASHBM for peace out nose picking ass scratching hairy backed man, or GWTTPOAOYC for girlfriends who think they pick out all of your clothes, or QAF for queer as folk.

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[acr(o)- + -onym.]
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acro·nymic or a·crony·mous (-krn-ms) adj.

We went to AIDA on sunday for papa Dale's birthday. I included a link to Aida and it chopped off my last post. I'm still figuring out the small kinks in blogger. Overall it's solid. We had dinner at Ponzu: korean bbq steak, calimari, melon salad, spring rolls, lazy man's ahi sushi. Delicious. My brother returned from Europe and we both brought our photo albums. Everyone was happy, it's good to see the fam. smiling.

posting from grey:::::::::::

i had a fantastic weekend. Sean invited about 22 people to canoe down the russian river to guernsville. It rocked. it was ridiculous, hilarious, and probably dangerous. Everyone decked out in their best river rat, trailer trash, white T. bests. The provider of the canoes was right when he warned, "don't drink too slow, because theirs a chance you might sober up on the river under the hot sun. it's not like drinking on the couch." so true. we were setting a record pace probably covering a mile in just under 3 hours while we basked in the sun. I love the sun, and its warmth. why do i not live in it.

We went to

playing with the template. . . . . did it work.

post2:: it's a bit daunting beginning an online log. i keep a journal, but that's of little help since writing down thoughts in a small leather bound book does not compare with typing into a small form that will be published to the world on the wide web. While writing in my journal i have pondered whether to vent and release angst and frustrations as if it were a receptical for these thoughts and feelings and by doing so i could excorcize them, freeing them from my daily life. Or am i writing a record of my life. Do i want to record the moments of beauty that make it all worth while, so i can remember them and read about them later in life. Do i want to someday share my experiences with others, or is the journal just a punching bag, a therapy tool, a place to get your sweat on and go home a more relaxed human being.

who knows. what excites me about blogger is that i spend an enormous amount of time on the web and almost all of it is graphically oriented. Designing and manipulating images, working with vectors and animation, typography, file size, downloads, restrictions. almost none of it is spent writing, and i miss that. This will be a new experience and I look forward to it. The fact that others may if at all read this makes me slightly nervous, like i'm stepping onto stage and grabbing the karioki mic knowing that this bird can't sing. but that's part of the fun.

If anyone is reading i'll try to keep it intersting, and maybe by doing this i'll dust off a few of my books and spend more time with my nose in them.

SELF-PORTRAIT by albert einstein

Of what is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do the thing which my own nature drives me to do. Arrows of hate have been shot at me too; but they never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world, with which I have no connection whatsoever.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.