Thursday, May 17, 2007

MILF




I was in Arcadia on my way home on Santa Anita when I saw a white Camry with a girl in it. I was thinking, oo she's cute. Then her car pulls forward and I see the two baby seats in the back. Dayum momma. Well I hope she was flattered.

humblehabits.com




I'm sure mother superior has important email to check but it still amuses me when a nun pulls out her laptop at the airport. It goes right along with Buddhist monks text messaging and policemen driving their personal vehicles in uniform.

Museum of Art




The Philadelphia Museum of Art is in the west side of the city by the banks of the Schuylkill River. They've got a big statue of Rocky outside the Museum. Not a statue of Sylvester Stallone, but a statue of Rocky. Too bad the museum is closed on Mondays. The museum is on Rocky's right but there is scafolding all over the facade.

Philly Cheesesteak




Took a few days off and went cross country. Here's a Philly Cheese Steaks from Pats in Philly. Man this is good stuff. Meat, onions and cheese, I think I'd eat this everyday if I lived over there. Meat juice was dripping all over the place. Anything that drips meat juice is totally worth eating, carne asada, burgers, crispy pata-- add cheese steaks to the list.

Monday, May 7, 2007

Weekended at Big Bear Lake




Happy Cinco de Mayo! I spent mines at Big Bear. We left Firday afternoon and suprisingly the traffic wasn't too bad. I think I drove up the mountian too fast, Jeff and Mary got car sick and Jeff lost his lunch. We rented a cabin, thanks to Ben and Daniel for making all the arrangements. Here's a pretty nice view at the top of a trail we hike. The trail is off Highway 18, right at the sign that says "Big Bear Lake city limit".

>On 2007-05-07,14:51:12 Blaise wrote:

>>And the pictures: Bear Pics

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Retire




I think its time to retire the Great White board (its white on the topside). She was a great board, but her edges don't bite so hard anymore. Maybe with a tune up she can go another season. Man I rode this thing everywhere. She was a factory second that I got from someone who worked in the factory, thats why the topsheet is plain white with no graphics but she was still Burton's best, light and snappy. It took like no effort to snap it two feet off the ground from a dead stop. She practically jumps into those turns leaving an S with an invisible transition. She definately still can. Oh well the snow melted. It's always good to have a second around so I'll keep her even if I get another.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Dr. Gill




Today I had an appointment with Dr. Gill a pulmonary specialist. Funny thing is he's Indian-Filipino, born and raised in the Philippines and he speaks our language. Apparently he spoke Indian too in additon to Tagalog. I told him I was born in Manila and my Chinese sucks. Since my medical records were signed off by a Navy doc, he mentioned he was in the Army National Guard and resigned his comission as a Major. Another funny thing though is that he enlisted in the Guard after getting his MD from Irvine and doing his residency. That made him a Private First Class with an MD. Well I guess you can't beat having a medic thats completed his residency. No offense, I met some great corpsmen, but nice to know when Doc actually is a Doc. He said when they found out he was doctor they promoted him to Captain and made him a field surgeon, even though his specialty was pulmonary medicine. Apparently they make everyone a trauma surgeon if you so happened to be attached to a front line unit. Anyway I had to take some test where I blew and inhaled into a pipe. I'm suppose to also do the same test on a more extensive machine so I'll be blowing a big old box later. I have to wait for my HMO to approve the test though so I got more waiting and paperwork to suffer through. Its pretty ridiculous that everything has to go up to some office in El Monte to get approval. Whats even worse is everytime they send me to a specialist, I'll get charged another 15 bucks in copay in addition to the 15 bucks I already paid my primary physician since I had to see him first to get a referal. I'm also having to drive halfway across the valley to drop by on some lab. Well at least I can throw away these inhalers they gave me in Quantico, they're not really doing anything.