i had a good outing at basketball today. i actually posted up! yup, and after that, i made some hook shots and stuff like that. for a while, i was an offensive force, making like 5+ baskets. i had the competitive guy, S, on my team, and even he was pleased, which is saying a lot. eventually, though, i lost my mojo, and we got schlacked in some later games, one of them being a 7-0 loss. benboy came to play today, and it was good to see him.
so my mavericks play the warriors tonight at 7:30 on TNT. i'm going to watch as much of that game as possible before i switch to _the office_ and _scrubs_. it's a revenge game, as the warriors upset my #1 seed mavs earlier this year in playoffs in the first round. ugh. i'm still smarting over that. they play each other in oakland again on march 30th, and i'm going to try to get john and i tickets to that game. bring it on!
i love sports. i didn't used to be such a sports nut, though; it all happened my 5th year at stanford when i had this roommate, jason. that was the first year we had a tv in our dorm room, and he introduced me to sportscenter. he was a michigan alum, and a sports enthusiast overall. and i was sort of bored my spring quarter (i dropped my only class that quarter), so in addition to doing taiko and playing video games, i started watching espn with him. and thus began my nut-dom. now, i can't go a single night without watching espn in some shape or form.
i want to start playing tennis again. it's hard, though, because 1) i need to find somebody to play with, and 2) i need to find a court to play on. there aren't that many courts around here, unlike dallas, where there were courts all over the place. i used to play with byron, but he moved down south to LA a while back. hm.
so things at work are getting a little crunched and stressful. we found a bug in one of our old designs, and S is working furiously on resolving it. the problem is that she's leaving us, and she starts work at her new company this monday. so, she's been working late, and she'll most likely be coming in this weekend as well. that also means that i'll probably have to come in this weekend to support the ongoing activities. yuck. but poor S; she's leaving at the worst time, and apparently her new boss was like, "you *have* to start on monday, or else you're fired" or something insanely unreasonable like that.
so sandisk (SNDK) fell below $40 today. it's near it's 52-week low, so i picked up some more shares of it. damn, i should have sold my previous shares when it hit $59.75. i had a limit order sell at $60, so it only missed by 25 cents! *grr* but now, i own quite a bit of it, and i'm waiting it for it to rise again. i hope it all works out. SNDK is a really volatile stock; it goes up and down by a lot each day, so watching it daily can give one a heart attack.
i remember when i first started buying stocks, back in like 1997. i used to check my stocks every 10 minutes or so. it was nuts! of course, back then, i didn't have much money to begin with, so i cared a lot about how my stocks were doing. (of course, that's not to say that i *don't* care about my money now.) but now, i've learned to invest long-term (relatively speaking), so drops and stuff don't ruffle me as much. still, though, it hurts to see all of the dead money i have in my etrade portfolio from dot com crash, like all of the 99% losses that i have. ouch! sigh.
it's getting cold, weather-wise. i'm wearing a sweatshirt for the first time this season. yes, my paul frank sweatshirt that mikeT gives me shit for. :) i still haven't been able to see my own breath, though, so it's not that bad just yet.
i still haven't busted out the little vegemite packet that cheryl brought back from australia. i'm so curious to see what it tastes like. grace likened it to beef bouillon, which doesn't really help me because i don't think i've ever had that before, either. i need to carry around that vegemite in my pocket because i never know the next time i'm going to have toast. maybe i should make a visit to stacks or denny's sometime soon?
all righty-o. how about that? a blog entry w/o mention of sex or bodily functions!