pasketti

today I made some spaghetti!

javacat cafe

hanging out at javacat café fighting the powers of wep and enjoying the weekend sun.

beer

mmmmm beer *drool*

Broken Present

it's too bad that crate & barrel can't ship items packaged safely. :(

the oldest is the youngest

there's a concept that i've known most of my life, but just recently have become aware of. the oldest child in a family, is normally the youngest child among their friends. however simple and frankly incorrect my hypothesis may sound upon the first read, there's more to it than a comparison of years.

children who are the oldest in their family (physical years), are the pioneers of the children in their family. father and mother are too old to be "cool" so the child has to find cool on their own, which is usually tv, friends, school, etc. these children are normally a bit less mature and hip than others their age who have older siblings.

on a daily basis the oldest child spends time with their younger, immature siblings. they may be accustom to watching nickelodeon after school because that's what little sister wants to see. whereas the children who have older siblings come home to mtv reality shows about million dollar birthday parties and the next cool bands. in a sense, the oldest lives much 'younger' than their peers who have guidance from older brothers and sisters.

i remember the first time i heard a friend of mine use the word "sick", in a way that meant something good (like the word 'bad' in the 80's). i came over to his house on a summer day, to hang out and listen to music. we were 14 or 15 years old, and rap music bonded us. i had just purchased a new cd, and he had a few new ones for me to listen to. his older brother had given him a hackey sack, and he showed it to me while we were jammin' some urban anger in the suburban comfort. he said to me "look at what my brother gave me, isn't that sick. it's a sick hackey sack isn't it?"

i paused for what felt like 15 seconds but must have been just one or two. "yea, that's pretty (pause) sick." minutes later i heard his older brother down the hall on the phone, talking about how something was "sick", the good sick.

i'm the oldest of three. and even today i feel the young-ness of being the oldest. there are things that others are aware of, awaiting, shooting for that i'm slowly discovering exist. i feel like the younger one, the more inexperienced, even though i'm the oldest child.

roaring into the new year

granted i'm a few days late in posting up my celebration of 2009's birth, but blogs can now be backdated -time holds no power here.

we had a roaring 20's themed party. yes i bought that hat, and plan to wear it no later than oct 31 2009. perhaps i'll be a red suspender guy from the 20's!

i had a great new years eve celebration, as did everyone i celebrated with. finding the right new years eve celebration is normally a diamond in the rough. $150.00 cover charges, virtually no taxis, bad weather, entrance lines, lines a the bar, and the list goes on.

i've started 2009 off right. it feels like the first day of school. everyone starts out with a 4.0 gpa on the first day, all you need to do is maintain it till graduation.

photogene elsie

i got a new app called photogene for my iphone, and goofed around with it on a lazy sunday afternoon. of course i hired elsie to be my photography subject.