sha v 4.0

Had an unusually active weekend. Saturday morning was full of chores — cleaning the bathroom, laundry, etc. In the afternoon I dragged May Ling along for soccer, which was the first time I’d played in about 7 months. I made quite a fool of myself by falling a lot (that much hasn’t changed since my childhood soccer days) but I had a lot of fun. In the middle, we were interrupted by some people from Red Bull, who gave us all free cans of Red Bull. We happily accepted (it was a cold beverage) but later regretted it as we came up with a new slogan for them: Red Bull — it gives you nausea! Later Florence and Babs joined us for dinner, and I went to Babs’ place afterwards to watch Blue Crush, which was awesomely bad, as expected.

Sunday morning May Ling, Babs, Buddy and I went for a 7-ish mile run on the Stevens Creek Trail. I set my alarm wrong so I woke up 8 minutes before I was supposed to meet everyone, but due to some highway acrobatics, I ended up being only about 25 minutes late. It was a somewhat disappointing run because I felt sluggish and tired the whole way through. I’m going to have to be better about my maintainence runs, or else I’m going to get totally out of shape! Afterwards I stopped by Fry’s to get some new RAM for my computer (1.25 GB woo!), and joined Cheryl for a snack at Foster’s Freeze.

Later I headed up to the city with Peter and Crystal for the Garbage concert. (Incidentally, what happened to the Garbage website?? I used to like to read Shirley Manson’s online journal…) The opening band, The Dead 60s, was pretty good. I might check out their CD when it comes out. Garbage, as always, was great. Shirley Manson is an f-ing rockstar. She’s my hero, even though I can only understand about 50% of what she says when she’s talking.

In other news, some of you already know that I’ve been moved to a new team at work. I’m still going to be doing central tech work, but I’ll instead be helping out on the system that does in-game cinematics. It should be cool, but it’s strange because I had been working on the same tool since I was an intern. But it should be a good experience for me.

On an unrelated note, yesterday on our Want Ads list at work, someone was saying how they had a bad experience with a moving company. She wrote, “On Friday morning a truck arrived with 3 foreigners that barely spoke English…” I can’t quite put my finger on it, but that sentence makes me very uncomfortable. I don’t think she meant anything by it, but it definitely doesn’t sit well with me.