man, i am not getting a break any of these weekends. i've had bachelor parties two straight weekends. this friday, i'm flying to taiwan (i can't sleep on planes, and this is a 13-hour flight), and then i fly back the following saturday. and after that, it's greg's wedding. i'm gonna be perpetually tired! *yawn*
are there any good, experienced verification engineers who know systemC and are looking for a job? come work with me! my boss is back today (from toronto), and he's pushing me to take over the model. i keep telling him that we need to hire someone to take over the work, but in the meantime, i'm the guy. ick. it's complicated stuff, especially since i don't know the language. man, if we ever have to make big changes in the model, i'm gonna be screwed.
so last night, at greg's place, jen brought over her copy of the last _harry potter_ book. i was so tempted to read the last page, just to see who was still alive at the end. hehe. i do that a lot, reading the last page. usually, for other books, it's harmless, since i have no clue who the characters are and what the plot's like, so the last page has no context. but for this one, at the very least i'd be able to tell if harry had died, right? yeah, tempted.
i've been feeling sort of blue lately. i'm not sure why. maybe it's because i'm always tired. that could be one thing. part of it could be because i'm realizing that my life is nowhere close to where i want it to be. i don't feel like i've accomplished anything great or noteworthy. and it doesn't look like i'm headed anywhere. i'm just sort of drifting. hm. anyways, i hope i snap out of it soon.
at dio deca, i was talking to mikeT, and he got me thinking. is there such a thing as anti-love-goggles? i mean, something that takes an attractive girl and makes you think they're completely unattractive? i suppose it could be fueled by negative feelings or a bad taste in your mouth, but yeah, i think it definitely exists! we were talking about this girl i used to like, and i realized that i did not find her attractive at all anymore, although "empirically," i admitted that she was good-looking. but i couldn't explain why i had the change of heart. very interesting stuff.
man, i'm beat today. these past days, the thing i'm looking forward to the most is crawling into bed at night. usually, on mondays, i call up paul and nelson for dinner, but tonight, i think i may just have my usual weekday bowl of cereal. we'll see. i try to be social, but i'm just tired today.
ok, i'm gonna cut this short. i hope i have more to say tomorrow.
friday after work, i headed to mikeC's place to pick up his fishing gear. we hung out for a bit (watched some _scrubs_ episodes), and then met up with nelson, paul and leeya at maruichi for some ramen. i headed straight home afterwards to get some badly needed sleep in preparation for the early launch the next day.
my alarm went off at 4:30am early saturday morning, and man, i fucking hurt to get out of bed. i got up, grabbed my stuff, and headed over to greg's place. we made a stop at grace's place, grabbed her and john, and then headed to santa cruz. we made a quick pit stop at mcd's to get breakfast (ah, mcd's breakfast is sooo good!) and then hit the pier next to the boardwalk.
and then it was fishing. for a good solid 8 hours. we had two boats, and john and paul were in my boat. grace puked once, but then reportedly she was all fine. i felt a little dizzy when i looked down, and paul repeatedly told me to look up and focus on the horizon. i wanted to close my eyes, but when i did, i felt a little queasy, so i couldn't take a nap on the boat.
i did catch three mackerel, which was sort of exciting, but i didn't fish the entire time. john was hell-bent on catching a halibut, but alas, that was not to be. he caught some mackerel and rockfish, but the halibut remained elusive. later, when we bumped into greg's boat we found out that he caught one, and man, it was huge.
after we headed back, it was like 4-5pm, and i took a quick nap. i was so tired that i snored. i snored so loudly that i woke myself up. paul and i drove to los gatos to meet up with the other guys, and we had dinner at dio deka, this fancy greek place. i got the lamb chops, which were pretty good.
after dinner, we had drinks at this bar. greg got pretty drunk. (remember that this was a bachelor party.) i had only three whiskey's that night, so i was fine, but i did get a little headache. we stayed out pretty late, and by the time i got home, it was about 1:30-2am or so. man paul was crazy. he didn't get any sleep the night before; after maruichi, he proceeded to play lan games with mikeC and nelson, and didn't bother to sleep and went straight to fishing. like i said, crazy! :)
i slept past noon on sunday. i watched some tv on amc (the movie _dave_, which i like a lot), and decided to grab some breakfast at jack in the box. i realized the obon festival was going on at the mountain view buddhist temple across the street, so i walked on over to see if any of the taiko peeps were there. i couldn't find them, so i started walking back to my car, but then i bumped into joy and hiroshi, so i went back with them.
then, kara/gabe and susan/ray came, and then lucy freed up from the shaved ice stand, so i hung out with them for a few hours and then went home. i took another nap, and then i went to greg's place, where he grilled his halibut. i had dinner there, hung out for a while, and then went home.
all in all, it was a good weekend. i don't think i'll be going fishing for that long a period of time again, though. but it was definitely an experience!