Congrats to Anthony & Tina on tying the knot! For those who couldn't make it out to LA for the wedding, here's a little photo recap of what went down...
Apparently the $5 three-pack of Hanes undershirts was a little out of Warren's budget. This picture has absolutely nothing to do with the wedding but has quickly become my favorite.
As the reception progressed, a recurring theme began to present itself. Not a celebration of marriage or love, but one of surpise grinding and fake groping. A few examples:
On my old xanga, I used to copy and paste IM conversations I had with people so I could remember some of the funnier conversations I had. For example, here's a screen cap of one of those conversations:
Continuing that tradition, here's a facebook exchange between Eric and Andy (afer "discovering" facebook) that I thought was fantastic:
I can't believe I'm saying this ... because I hate everything she stands for ... but I like the Fergie song, "Big Girls Don't Cry."
-- timothy
A photo recap of our trip to Cabo...
Things started our pretty normally. We met up with our friends, had dinner and caught up.
We took some good pictures at the hotel and some not so good pictures.
Someone thought it'd be a good idea to take a few shots of tequila...that had been soaking in a vat with two rattlesnakes.
After the tequlia, we all went out and did the next logical thing...buy Luchadore masks to give the wedding a totally appropriate Mexican wrestling theme.
And then of course, we HAD to get a shot of the bride and groom with a man dressed as a gorilla.
Finally, after all the festivities, Mike and Tina recevied what has become sort of a wedding gift tradition in our group now....some monogramed towels we got as a wedding gift and then re-monogrammed with some paint from Hobby Lobby and then passed on to the next couple who got married. As you can see, it's made it through quite a few weddings now.
Heather and I have spent the last few weekends test driving cars, and we're getting pretty close to deciding on the car we want. I've made no secret of my desire for a station wagon, particularly the Audi A4 Avant, but after looking at it a little closer, it's probably too small so we had to cut it from the list. It's a pretty amazing car though and is my favorite of all the cars we test drove.
So there are three cars we're trying to decide between right now:
The Acura is the most expensive of the three. The engine is a little stronger compared to the Mazda, but the difference is pretty minimal. The MDX doesn't offer any special technology options that the Mazda doesn't, but Acura navigation is, from what I've heard, among the industry's best. The warranty, offered service and safety features are a notch above the CX-9. The Acura drives the best of the three, and the cabin is incredibly quiet on the road.
WORST RIDE EVER. 15-25 mph head wind the entire way. The whole ride was basically uphill too and with the wind, you actually had to pedal on the downhills to keep from slowing down.
Us at the brewery:
Well, the MS150 is finally done! The ride was pretty tough but I had a great time riding with Jason, Kaz, Eric, Susan, Michael, Hao and Judy. A quick recap of each day:
Day 1:
Whoever said the first day was "all flat and easy" should be shot. Day 1 was by far the hardest of the two days. With the sun out, the road crowded with riders on hills (so you had to brake and lose your momentum) to the hills themselves, the first day just flat-out sucked. I definitely struggled the final 20 miles. It wasn't so much that my legs were tired or anything, but I was starving and just felt like I could fall asleep on the bike. The camp in LaGrange was pretty nice. It'd been a while since I'd slept outside, so it took a while to get used to sleeping on the hard ground, but fortunately the weather was perfect so there were no mosquitos or anything.
Day 2:
Thank God for GU. I'm totally solid on this stuff. Even though my butt was all sore and my legs were exhausted, the GU kept my energy up for the whole ride. The ride through Bastrop was tough but not as tough as people made it out to be. Don't get me wrong though. I'm not riding through there again any time soon. All in all, it was a great experience and a ton of fun doing.
A few pictures of the group:
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My dad is a huge Beatles fan. Not so much the post-Sgt. Peppers stuff but the Hard Day's Night/I Want to Hold Your Hand-type songs. It's probably one of the biggest reasons why I love them so much and why I still consider "Abbey Road" to be the single greatest album of all time. Any way, I remember a conversation I had with him in high school (either my freshman or sophomore year) where we were listening to "Nevermind" in the car (my choice of course) and me predicting that Nirvana would go down in history as one of the biggest bands of all time. At the time, it was a pretty foolish statement, mainly because I was a dumb teenager who really didn't know anything about music, but as it turned out, it actually came true.
Fast forward to last night...I watched a bit of Pearl Jam's VH1 "Storytellers" peformance and it got me thinking a little about iconic rock bands. History is filled with them -- The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who and so on -- and even when I think about my generation, bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, U2 (both a Gen X and Y band), the Chilli Peppers and maybe even the Smashing Pumpkins immediately come to mind. But as I look at today's music, I can't really find any potentially iconic rock bands that I think will last the test of time, and that's sort of sad.
-- timothy
