Maybe I should take a break?

Well... almost three weeks ago, I sprained my ankle. It happened while playing ultimate frisbee when I was trying to come to a stop and I stepped into a pothole. One of my friends heard it basically let go. So I didn't play volleyball for a week.

First volleyball class of the new session, I dug this one guy three times in a row, and he was hitting HARD. Well, ended up with a nice bruise on my left hand.

Another thing, my right knee had felt unstable a couple times while playing ultimate and the first volleyball class. So I wore a knee brace the next volleyball class. Well, next morning, my knee is all swollen and it still is three days later. It has gotten much better though and I'm guessing it'll be fine by Monday.

Oh, and my lower back bugs me once in a while, usually after playing volleyball.

Some girls really are that worthless

So I'm flipping channels and came across this show, "Pants-Off Dance-Off". Basically, some contestent dances and removes clothes to a song. Anyways, so they have these little snipits of interviews of the girls that are dancing. Check out this real winner (in slightly valley-girl tone):

"When I marry rich, I'm going to hang out with my girlfriends all of the time. I mean, I'll have to hang out with my husband once in a while. We can have kids, I probably won't have them, but someone else can and we'll buy them. We can adopt kids from other countries."

I'm still completely dumbfounded.

Housing is still crazy...

Since my sister decided to move out here, I've been looking around at housing and whatnot. I got home from volleyball class tonight and flipped on the telly. My roomie Maria had been watch the HGTV (home and gardening?) channel and a show called 'House Hunters' was on. This episode was in Canton, Texas and they had the Cowboys cheerleaders helping out with the show. I do miss my Texas girls!

Anyways, the couple was looking at this one house for $148k, 1800 sq. ft, on 1.3 acres of land. I just drove by this house in Redondo Beach, 1833 sq. ft, NO yard (all the houses are RIGHT next to each other), for the REDUCED price of $779k! It's actually a pretty good deal. There have been a couple of houses on the same street as me that have been for sale since fall and both are in the $1.2-$1.4 million range. The 4-bed/4-bath house across the street for me WAS for sale, but couldn't find any buyers, so now it's for rent. Only $5900 a month with $8k security deposit.

Cathedrals

So my manager just got back from a trip to our office in Brno, Czech Republic. He was showing up some pics of Prague and there was one of the cathedral there. I was a little surprised, but the cathedral in Strasbourg, France (right on the border with Germany) is of similar architecture, and completely different than the rest of France. Here's the one in Strasbourg (has some AMAZING stained glass):

It's warming up!

So it's hitting mid-70s this weekend! This is a shot from a webcam over looking the Hermosa Beach Pier area. Sometimes, when we're playing volleyball during December, we like to call all of our friends in colder climates and tell them to check out the webiste:

http://www.hermosawave.net/webcam/

Playing chicken with a Ferrari

Yeah... some moron driving slow in a Ferrari... So the location is the overpass ramp from the 405 to the 10 and it goes from one lane to two on the overpass, and merges back to one lane as it gets onto the 10.

So usually, there's one clear lane on the overpass, which bends to the left, to pass everyone that goes slow. A toyota corolla in front of me is going slow and stays in the left lane. So I switch to the right and then there's a Ferrari in front of me but he's going slow too. So I switch back left, after having passed the toyota, and pass the Ferrari 599.

We're catching up to traffic now in the left lane and it's going to start merging soon. I'm at least half a car ahead of the Ferrari, and he's not going faster than me, so I just close up pretty close on the car in front of me so there's no gap. The right lane has to merge into the left so I have right of way, and I'm half a car ahead. He runs out of road and is forced to slow down and pull in behind me. He was honking and gesturing at me like I did something wrong.

Lets see... He's going slower than me, he's in the lane that ends and has to merge, he's behind me, and he expects me to slow down to let him pass me and get into my lane? I think not... My sister was in the car and was completely bewildered by the guy in the Ferrari too. Oh, and too top it off, after we get onto the 10, the guy in the Ferrari gets all the way over to the left lane (4 lanes over) and drives slow.

Traffic

LA traffic a little after 5pm on Monday, in case you ever wondered what traffic was like here.