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No joke, that's what they call Alaska. Well... one of the many things they call it. Okay, so I have tons of things to say and show you. For now let me just apologize for the fact that I was in Alaska for a week and only posted once. I had about 5 minutes of computer use Thursday morning. THAT WAS IT! I need a lap top. Okay, it's time to shower, go grocery shopping, and see the simpsons movie!

mvi_0517.avi sorry, short on time. catch you up later.

Before Alaska Okay so I have some issue with talking with a childish voice when a camera is on me. I started doing it pretty much after I started dating Marieta... who am I kidding I am child. So this post presupposes a lot. I don't know if I will have the internet anywhere, I don't know if I can upload pictures, and I don't know if anyone even cares. Either way I hope you check in over the course of the week and see me and my beautiful girlfriend enjoying our vacation in the great north .

In case you have noticed all these new widgets (that's blog lingo for these cool little guys to my left), I have started linking to cool shit around the web. Look down the page a bit and you will notice the Cartography links. I have started dumping serious man hours into these maps and I am in love with how fun it is. I am gonna add pictures and video to my points of interest and soon I will rule the world. The news map is the Food and Fun map. Just started building it today. Right now they are not in a special order but as I get it up to date all the new place I eat will pop up at the bottom of the list. Get with it people. Cartography rules.

Someday I will surf. It just looks too cool and peaceful. Today is not that day, but I do have an indo board . A balance training plank of wood that rolls on a hard plastic tube thing. I got a discount when I bought it because I bought the floor model. The other one with the design just didn't do it for me. Here are some videos of the board in action, from first use to a couple nights ago. Indo in the in the store P@ on the indo board at home Here are a couple of Marieta on the board: Watch her work turtle on the indo Yes thank you, thank you. we are awesome.

Let me share a secret with you. I haven't dropped a single cent on this trip to Alaska yet. I will probably only spend a hundred (maybe less) the entire time I am there. That's right, Marieta and I am are riding on someone else's dime to one of the coolest places I will ever go, Alaska. Who is paying Marieta's parents. It's an awkward situation to be in. I mean my parents have paid for several of my vacations but never anyone else. I don't know how to operate in it really. Vacation to me is about adventure and having a good time. If someone else is paying pretty much your whole way do you get a say in what activities you partake in? where you stay? it's a gray area. I really want to get out and high some mountains. That is at the top of my list. Followed closely by doin something crazy. I don't know what but it needs to be something I have never done before and fun to the max. Will these happen? sure they will but I don't really feel like I should d

Last night around 4:45am I felt my first California EarthQuake . Awesome, but still the idea is a little frightening.

I love pizza. The question is, who doesn't? Cheese baked all over some delicious bread, some salted meats, maybe some spices if you're adventurous. Yesterday, after I got off from work, Marieta and I headed over to the famed Monterrey Market. Being as it was 2.15 and neither of us had eaten lunch we decided to hit up the delish pizza joint just up the street Gioia Pizzeria. Now we've been there before but this place tugs at our hearts in the battle of Best pizza place in town. Pizza has changed man. Up until I was probably 22 or 23 I wanted my pizza to be classic (I grew up in the midwest. In 90's Iowa's best pizza was toss up between Pizza Hut and Little Ceaser's. Don't get me wrong I still love a pan pizza from pizza hut but it is fast food (oh that reminds me of a topic for a future post.) Chicago is pretty much the mecca for pizza of that genre. Deep Dish, greasy floppy slices, large new york style, etc. It's all in the windy city. California style?

The Devil Wears Prada is trash. The editor and chief from Northwestern University gets a job at a fashion magazine and goes to her 2nd interview with her potential boss completely unprepared (not to mention unkempt), and some how gets a job working for the "dragonlady." Bullshit. Who goes into an interview not knowing her potential boss, not knowing the company, the culture, what to expect for questions, and how to answer and dodge those questions. She would have googled her boss, the HR would have told her about Miranda (her soon to be boss), her friends who she has most definitely told about a second interview would let her in on Runway (because they all know 1000% more about the fashion world than her, and she would have been somewhat prepared. This movie got about as many good press clippings as Santa gets letters in the mail. As far as I can tell the only good qualities in this movie are that Meryl Streep continues to solidify her position as the best actress of all time

But today we are going to Santa Cruz. P.S. those summer league games look tough.

In Chicago our cable bill was (hold your breath) $103 a month. Comcast is such a bitch. We weren't allowed by lease to have dishes on our building so we were pretty much screwed into Comcast. Now that was internet and Cable w/the box but we didn't have like 300 channels or anything, so we were getting up the tailpipe pretty bad. The comcast setup was get all three services: Phone, Internet, and Cable tv for 99 bucks. Well that's all well and good if you need all three of those services but their phone service was loaded with all sorts of options that we didn't need and there were hidden charges (of course) what they didn't tell you is that you were gonna pay the same amount for the other two services at the same cost if you turn down the phone service. So we turned it down and then later learned its a hook up time promotion only. Funk you very much Comcast. That's what a town looks like when the cable provider holds a monopoly. Now the bay area, it's a nice