so tonight, i'm going to watch the stanford/UCLA (#7 vs. #2/3) game with diana and all of her bruin friends. i'll be totally outnumbered, since i'm the only stanford person going. but i'll be representing! i'm going to bust out my new stanford t-shirt (the one with chinese characters on it) and my red shoes. go cardinal! speaking of which, the cover story on espn.com right now features columnist pat forde being the tree at the washington game, which i attended last thursday. it's an awesome story. i had no idea that a newbie was our mascot during the first half! good for him, how fun! i'd love to be the tree.
so last night's _the moment of truth_ was overhyped. the only really dramatic question was "do you have any secrets that could end your marriage?" (she said "yes.") man, what do you do with that answer afterwards? i mean, as a husband, of course i'd be totally curious, and i'd want to talk about it, but would i *really* want to know what the secret(s) is? i mean, if the marriage is in good shape, would i want to ruin it by digging around? but then again, i probably wouldn't be able to let it go, either. man, what a conundrum.
re: audit. so last year, i made a mistake in reporting my ESPP sales, so i amended my 2006 tax return. so the IRS must have started snooping around, so they looked at my 2005 return and decided to charge me an extra $5G's because i forgot to file my ESPP's for that year. i was like, "holy shit!" and freaked out. but then, i remembered that i had audit defense for that year, so i just used the service, and dude, that was a total godsend. so in the end, all i had to pay was an extra $250 or so. *phew*
so my code is looking good. i found a few stupid bugs here and there (mostly typo's and misdeclarations), but i'm fairly confident in my code now. the RTL freeze is this monday, and i think i'll be ready for that. yay! it was a fun design, not difficult, but i love coding, and it was an enjoyable process. however, my boss told me that there will be some painful changes for the next chip, and i'm not looking forward to that. ugh.
i'm craving dim sum. normally, grace and i round up the troops on the weekends, but both of us have been busy or not available, so we haven't gone in several weeks. maybe i'll ask her if she's free this sunday. it might be difficult since we lose an hour of sleep that previous night, so we'll see. plus, we'll be out late because of jimmy's bachelor party. fyi, we're going to morton's steakhouse to celebrate, followed by some potential bar hopping. yeah, no strippers. it's ok, though; i'm tired of strippers, and i want to save my money.
so here's a pretty weird google phrase i got hit with today:
"my mom cannot keep her hands off my foreskin"
huh? i mean, is the mom molesting her son? is she trying to give him a handjob? freaky! i just don't get what she is trying to do. the mental picture i have in my head is that she's bathing him or something, and she's trying to fondle her son's uncircumcised schlong, tugging the foreskin back and forth, trying to get an erection going. but the motive? i have no idea. anyways, a weird phrase, and i hope the guy can get her horny mother off his crotch.
i've always found parental/child incest creepy. or any cross-generational incest of the sort. however, sibling or cousin incest is somehow a perverse turn-on for me. i guess when the ages are similar, then there isn't that power abuse that seems totally wrong and criminal. (no, i don't have any sisters.) i remember hugh grant (back when he was going out with elizabeth hurley) one saying that he and liz were like siblings, and he got a lot of shit for it. but i think it was sort of a sexy comment. btw, didn't china approve marriage between cousins of the first degree because of the dearth of women?
i remember watching the howard stern show years back, and he featured these two lesbian sisters, taylor and jade. they claimed to be in love with each other. lesbian sex doesn't really do it for me, but for some reason, this was a turn-on. i mean, siblings have a natural affinity for each other, and they usually have an intimate knowledge of one another, so a progression in their relationship seems natural in some way, right? (i'm just thinking aloud here.)
basketball is a rough game. today, i got knocked to the ground when D tried to block my shot. he jumped right into me (i did a shot fake), and we collided and crumped into a heap on the ground. and after i left, apparently my coworker W got his tooth knocked loose by a forearm or elbow from another guy. man, that really sucks. like i said, i've broken a finger and a toe before playing basketball. it is not a game for the weak. (yes, i know other sports like football and rugby are way worse, but still! i know rugby is rough, but at least in football you wear pads.)
my old iMac is getting obsolete. it's too slow to run youtube videos at full speed (it chokes while downloading and playing at the same time), and it's still using the old powerPC processors instead of the new intel ones so i can't run the latest OS's. but i still love my old computer. sigh. i hate technology sometimes and having to upgrade every couple of years.
ok, time to head home and prepare for the game. first place in the pac-10 conference is at stake!