sha v 4.0

Had a pretty good long weekend. I could definitely get used to these 4-day weekend things. Friday afternoon, Buddy, Jess, May Ling and I went down to San Simeon to check out Hearst Castle. The drive down was pretty quick, even with the random (and sudden) stops for photo ops along the 1. Friday evening we had a mediocre dinner, and I finally watched an episode of Six Feet Under, which makes me feel lucky that at least my family’s not that screwed up. Saturday morning we had brunch and played a rousing (i.e. I got my ass whupped) game of Scrabble, before heading to the Castle for the tour. It was a nice, sunny day, and the estate itself was pretty cool, if not totally opulent. Pics are on the way, but I’m having some issues with my webserver (it got “compromised” last week, and they had to reinstall everything.)

Saturday night, Yar and Rahul came over to watch Labyrinth, which Yar had never seen. It was the first of our 80s movie nights, given that all of the classic movies of the 80s seemed to have skipped young Yar over. It was as awesomely bad as I remember, and as a bit of trivia, Gates McFadden of Star Trek: TNG fame was a choreographer for Labyrinth, but as Cheryl McFadden. The three of us had an interesting time figuring out whether it was actually her, or some bizarre previously-unknown twin sister.

The rest of the weekend was spent mostly relaxing and sleeping. Besides Labyrinth, I watched Dodgeball, Kill Bill vol. 1 (my first Tarantino film), and You Got Served. They were all good, except for You Got Served, which was only saved because of the dancing. Monday evening I had dinner with my neighbors, then headed up to Foster City to watch the fireworks. I was happy because they had the smiley face ones.

Other tidbits:

• Huge congrats to those crazy kids, Brendan and Diane!
• Enzo bonked his head on the doggy door when I closed it this morning.
• We all work too much.
• Cable TV will be the death of me.
• If you haven’t already, you should watch Mulholland Drive. It’s insanity