Responsibly Wild Blog

So I'm starting to perk up a bit, shaking off the malaise of waking up at 2:30am, when I suddenly remember that I forgot to move my car at 4am to the all day free parking on Sansome... that sucks. Today is not gonna be my day; wake up at 2:30, I'm the only P.A. here until 4:15 because I seem to be the only one who read the email about our shift being pushed back to 3:30, our apartment is being fogged for bugs around noon so I can't get into it until after 5p; ergo, I don't get to take a tasty nap in my bed... it'll have to be in my car... So is the day, now's let talk about the week. First off, you wouldn't think it hard to switch from waking up at 3a to 230a but dude, it is hard. I am all kinds of tired. I am gonna have to take a nap in my car on my break because I can barely keep it together. I gotta rethink my sleep schedule this weekend so I don't have to deal with this next week. Second, taking off a week (and two days) for our wedding has destroyed...

Hells ye-uh. The wedding has past and the beard is back. No reason to be clean shaven anymore! Might as well get prepared for the frosty SF winters... Hope you have a nice weekend planned, we have a house warming party to attend and Marieta is going to bring these cupcakes.. Yum. Savory Basil Pesto Cupcakes. Finally some of these cookbooks are gonna come in handy. OKAY! Maybe your days be merry and bright. Peace.

There are 13 videos on our wedding site. That's right, 13. I just added four today. Three are from our rehearsal dinner, and the fourth is a looksie at the bridal party's journey around Ames between the Wedding and the Reception. Oh man, I am having way too much fun with this stuff. Wait till I start chopping down the wedding. it's gonna be sick. Just straight up sick. Okay buddies. Go check it out . I love you.

People snapped a TON of pics at our wedding a weekend ago and they are all over the Information Super Highway; however, the pics from my phone & Marieta's camera have only made a little cameo on our wedding website . I got to thinking about it and figured why not just put em here. Seems a lot of peeps want to see them and are to lazy to check out our wedding site so here you go... a little slideshow from picasa.

It's a big week! I'm making my return to Hertz today for the first time in two weeks. You know what that means... next time I talk to yous I may been sans Hertz employment (not the cool). I've also got four days lined up at KPIX. That means I'll be slinging four times (well maybe not but I did sling 3 out of 3 days last week. Hey last week! What happened there? Oh just one whole week of marriage. Saturday being the one week anniversary. Marieta and I celebrated by going to Napa Valley. You can check out our little journey to grapetown over at the wedding website . Okay, quarter to 6... time to load up my horse and the dusty trail... to San Francisco. PEACE!

These are the videos we featured at our reception (in order) Marieta Boberg Patrick Boberg Marieta & Patrick Boberg

Marieta and I are now the proud owners of 6' 4" X 6' 8" of soft real estate. That's right, we own a new bed and it is awesome. After our little purchase Marieta and I sat down over dinner and mapped out our spending plan. Yep, that's right, I am treading in new waters... responsibility... For the first time in a year we don't have an evening dominated by thoughts or actions pertaining to planning a wedding. It feels really nice. Almost alien. The majority of our first year in California was controlled by wedding issues, planning, and to-do lists. Now we have all these new plans. It's fun. This Saturday we are riding the Napa Wine Train (cashing in a gift from a year ago), stopping into a couple banks to set up joint checking and savings, Sunday morning we're going to see a flick called Two Angry Moms , a story about a couple of mothers upset over the nuritional content of their kids school lunches, and who knows, maybe we'll get over to the cit...

I have never had more fun in my life than I did on our wedding day. Sure the morning was slow and I spent a good chunk of time worried about the audio in our church... but seeing my extended family, dancing with my little cousins, taking a boat load of fun pictures, riding in a limo, eating cake (and donuts), committing my life to the most perfect person I've ever met, putting on a show with a slew of fun videos, and just having a ball made this weekend awesome. I highly reccomend it. It's kind of fun to just say "my wife" in as many sentences as possible. (My wife and I were wondering if there are any specials? Would you mind switching seats with me so I can sit with my wife? I really have no clue, you'd want to talk with my wife...) I'm sure the silly novelty will eventually fade into routine but right now it cracks me up. So what's up with the Boberg's now that we've tied the knot? A whole hell of a lot, and at the same time very little. Since w...

So you want to see how we got down at our reception? Here's a taste of the cheese (7th grade style)... oh buddy

The Tshirts herein served valiantly before meeting their demise. These shirts represent my college experience, and while there will be more, I would like to take a moment to say... I love you guys, I really appreciate all they did for me... Thank you for taking the time to pay these garments the respect they deserve.

Welcome to Al Hajarah, Yemen via Current courtesy of Flickr . Holy Hamburgers is this place awesome. Google Maps can't find it but if I ever find out where this is, I would love to go check it out. Awesome, n'est pas?

It is time to unveil my third blog. Freaking Delicious . It's my conduit for food friendly discussion and I get to do fun little video things like this: Yes, yes that theme song is 100% pat goodness across the board. (Have I mentioned how much I love my phone & new computer?) There will be text posts as well, but I'm pretty excited for this. I'll be posting my first video review tomorrow evening. Later

Oh yes, Podcasting! I'm back at it. In fact, I'm so back at it! I have the added some pictorific goodness to the whole ordeal. Click on the title of this post to tune in! Plenty of topics covered; wedding, iowa, san francisco, movies, and I even tag a tune onto the end for good measure. I hope you're enjoying my last weekend as a free man! Peace.

So here is the complete get up I talk about my sling cam assignments (or roving web cams). Of course there is a camera, which is connected to the router there on the end of the table. Now that router is where the magic happens. Its called a sling cam because that router uses a slingbox to send the video over the web. Normally a slingbox is a consumer product that only transmits television but one of my bosses, Don Sharp, figured out how to send live video, and now it's a pretty famous get up. Now to power the router and slingbox there is a very heavy battery and battery bar converting that power into normal wall a.c. In this shot you see a tripod and laptop. Normally I don't have either of those, but since this time I went to a press conference and I had plenty of time to set up Don gave me all the goods to make sure I got a good shot and everything was transmitting well. See the laptop configures the router and makes sure the sling cam is seeing what we want it to.  So that...

Maybe this makes me a jerk but New Orleans is a lost cause. According to Wikipedia , New Orleans population in May of 2007 was just under 260k. That is barely over 50% of what it was prior to Hurricane Katrina, and if those numbers are accurate, that makes New Orleans smaller than Des Moines, IA. So as Hurricane Gustov makes landfall (right now), it is only logical to wonder what this will do to the numbers in New Orleans. Will the less fortunate be able to make the evac and return twice? Will those with means want to rebuild again? Will businesses or prospective residents want to move to an area that has not only proven to be disaster prone in the last few years, but is also uninsurable? In a modern world, maybe the smart thing to do is just give up on the idea of New Orleans... while the city and area may hold a rich history, it is apparent that building below sea level is not only dangerous, but indefensible. It may be true that New Orleans contains a culture that is not found anyw...