Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
Will and I will be going to Hawaii for our Honeymoon. His mom booked our tickets this weekend. I'm so excited. We leave on my birthday (June 18) ....yea....I get to celebrate my birthday in Hawaii. We return on July 3. We will be in Oahu the first week and in Kauai the second. In Kauai we are going to meet up with Will's parents and siblings. On June 29th, Will's parents are celebrating their 30 wedding anniversary by renewing their wedding vows on the beach. It's going to be so beautiful. I can't wait!!!!
It's gone....She bought it tonight. YEA!!! Will's a little sad about losing the car....and so am I......but our bank account is happier.
Yes I knew this when I got into it......but it still sucks. I found a girl who posted an add on Craigs list that wanted basically our exact car. The only thing that she wanted that our car doesn't have is heated seats. And she said that wasn't a big deal. So this all started a little more than 2 weeks ago. She came by to look at it....was very interested. Wanted to take it somewhere to have it looked at before she bought it. As long as everything was fine, she said she'd buy it. Then I don't hear from her for a couple days. Then she wants to take it all the way to Concord to have AAA look at it. I said no, she'd have to find a place closer. So she takes a couple more days then finally makes an appointment. So it went last Wednesday and the only thing that they could find wrong with it is that it needs a new windshield wiper blade and the subwoofer isn't working anymore. So her sister returns the car wednesday night at like 10:30 because she's still at work and say's she'll call about the car later. Don't hear from her Thursday....today I get an email.....she wants to know more about the extended warranty and she'll call me this weekend. This is driving me insane. Either buy the car or don't, but don't string me along. I haven't even advertised the car. If she doesn't buy it, she will have wasted more than 2 weeks on my time....I could have probably sold it already. I keep telling myself that she wouldn't have paid to have it looked at if she didn't want to buy it.....but why is she dragging her feet. AHHHHH!!!
On Friday of last week I took the day off to guy riding with Eli. He used to run the service department of Cal BMW when I started as a customer there. He left to go back to school to be lawyer. We decided to do some riding together at the last Cal BMW shop ride.
This is an account of our ride... and a comparison of the 125 and the 525.
I started off the day loading the 125SX into the truck. I didn't bother to bring the YZ250F as the jetting is still hopelessly off. I rushed to Hollister to meet Eli at 9am in the parking lot by the vintage track. We each unloaded and geared up. I borrowed a pair of goggles with rolloffs rather then going through a ton of tare offs on my Oakley goggles that I use for MX.
Once dressed and ready we set off looking for adventure. The plan was to head off into the hills. We headed to the western portion of the lower ranch. This area differs in soil from the eastern portion of the lowerranch. The western area has a sandy soil made of decomposed granite, while the eastern portion is adobe clay. All in all it isn't that different from the US where the east coast tends to have clay soil and the west more sandy soil. We headed up though some muck into the much drier upper trail area.
We flew around up there for about half an hour or so then headed back to the trucks for a put stop to hydrate and relax. After hydrating we headed out for a much longer ride. We started out on
We took a break and I ate a bit. We went out again and played. We rode some more single track and some hills. Then we hit Jay's Way. It wasn't too bad. I was definitely starting to get tired. The next challenge was a long up hill. It was great until I hit a false finish and backed off only to be presented with the steepest part of the hill. Try as I might without the run in I was unable to get the bike up the hill. Eli wound up being a buddy and getting it to the top by shredding the clutch.
At this I was done. We did a bit of trail riding and had some fun but I was beat. We put in a good 5 hours of ridding.
Leason's Learned:
After many weeks of not playing I picked up Doom3 again and finished it. This is the first game I've finished since Unreal Tournament 2003. Now that it is over, I've started playing Half Life 2. We'll see how long that one takes.
Doom3 was good. It had a great atmosphere. Between my wife and the cat I was generally startled at least once a night while playing the game. The pacing was good and nothing was impossible. Some of the things you had to do took some thought and planning but in the end every thing worked out and mars was once again safe.
Will, Megan (Will's Sister) and I saw Hotel Rwanda last night. For those of you who may not have seen the trailer, It's about a man (played by Don Cheadle) who saved the lives of 1268 people during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. I would highly recommend, if not urge, people to see this movie. Yes, it's depressing......it is about genocide afterall.....not exactly an uplifting subject. However, it is an amazing story that is so powerful and moving. Don Cheadle's performance is Oscar worthy and all the other cast members are just as great. It's not only an important historical film but its also so well written and directed and acted. I was slightly afraid that it was going to show a lot of the acts of genocide....but they don't really. They show enough to make you understand what is happening without being too gruesome. They wanted a PG-13 rating so that as many people to be able to see the movie as possible. And they manage to make you horrified of whats going on without showing too much of the actual killing.
You do not believe you can kill them all?
Why not? Why not? We are halfway there already.
I got a new car this weekend. The Z3 is a great car (and by the way if you or anyone you know is interested, we are selling it ourselves). It was fun and a convertible and all but it's not what I would have picked out if I had bought it. And I really missed having a back seat.....and a trunk that would fit more than a small suitcase. Anyway, Saturday morning we picked up a 2005 BMW 330i. Its silver grey metallic with black leather interior. I picked out the car and Will picked out which package it came with so it has the performance package with the sport suspension and 18 inch performance tires, ect.... and I also got 2/3's of the cold weather package. So I have heated front seats and fold down rear seats. We are leasing it for 3 years and at the end will decide whether to keep it our get something else. It's an awesome car......I love it.
286 Hazelton that is...
My dear friend Tooch was hosting the system that runs PQBON.COM in his apartment, while my living situation got settled and dealt with. Now, that I have just gotten settled, he has gone and bought a new house. As of tomorrow morning PQBON.COM will be back at my house on my DSL. Due to this there will be a service disruption as I move the system to my house.
I'm looking forward to this move as it will be easier to make changes to PQBON.COM and much easier to the backups that I really should be doing. (Now that I have a 1TB array in the server room I have no excuse for not backing up PQBON.COM.)
Christmas was a busy time around the Deutsch house. This year the holidays managed to eat up about 2 weeks of our lives. First, there was all the shopping. All while we were still unpacking and getting settled in our new place. That ate up all the time before Christmas. Well, that and the day before the day before Christmas when I went riding on KTM 125SX.
Christmas involved getting to the San Francisco Opera house after for dinner and the Nut Cracker (when I got back from my ride and Tonya was home from work). We headed to my parents house so we could make it to her parents house the next day.
Christmas eve involved rushing to the mall so Tonya could pickup her contacts at Lens Crafters in Sacramento. While there we wandered around a little and looked for a Dresser. (I gave Tonya 2 dressers for Christmas.) Then we headed to her mothers house. There we had an early Christmas with her brothers and step-sister and our step-niece and nephew. We had deep fried turkey and all the usual trimmings. Dessert was some homemade pies. Very yummy.
The next morning was Christmas at the Deutsch house. All of my siblings were there. My brother's girlfriend Diedra was there, and Prashant came buy since his wife and daughter are in India... Actually, he would have come by anyway, but they would have been there too. The morning started with the traditional present opening, then we had Indian food for lunch (my dad and Prashant ran out at 2:30pm to get us some thing to snack on so we wouldn't die before the turkey and fixings were ready). We finished off the day with dinner and relaxing and dessert.
The day after Christmas Tonya dragged me to the mall to look for a dresser. We didn't find one. So we met my parents for lunch at BJs brew house or something like that. (The are a SoCal chain that in invading NorCal.) We then went to see if my mom's favorite jewelry store was open (they were going out of business but closed). We ended up at Throttle Wear. They were having a great sale so my parents, Tonya and I bought gifts for ourselves. Things we wanted but didn't get for Christmas. Later that day Tonya and I headed home.
We both went to work the next day. But for me that was it for the week. Tuesday was my birthday. I spent my birthday at home relaxing. That night my parents, Shelly, Alyssa, Ken, Tonya, and I went for Cuban in Palo Alto. Shane arrived as we were finishing up dessert.
The next day I went riding in Hollister all by my lonesome. I only brought my KTM 125SX since my YZ has been so unreliable as of late. Given that I was likely to be trail riding only, I didn't want to be a mile in and have the bike die. On the way out I backed into a very low fence post that was too low to see in the mirrors or with the bike in the back. The damage was minimal (I got a quote for $200 to $400 depending on if the dent comes out with out hurting the paint). I was bummed. After such a good day, that happened. Then in the drive way. The wind blew my KTM over. Not just over, but all the way over as in more then 90 degrees. The bike was leaning to the right the wind stood it up and dropped it on the left side. Now, I was really bummed. The fall twisted the foot peg on the left side. :-(
The next few days we chilling at home and doing more move in work. I put up towel bars in the bath room. Got the VOIP system up. I took down the Christmas tree and cut it up in to little bits that would fit in the Sunnyvale yard waste can. Disposed of the Christmas waste.
New years eve we spent some time at Mike Rubin's place. It was fun. Tonya wasn't feeling well so we left shortly after midnight.
The final day of the two week holiday period we went to Ikea and picked out two dressers. One is out of stock so it will be little while, the other is nice and is now living in our bedroom fully assembled. I managed to use a bunch of the tools I got my birthday while building it.
That is the end of our holiday period.
