Pictures for your viewing pleasure from my SF trip

Here is a photo of two devilishly good looking people.... Me and my Wife!

Here is an off kilter image I took while walking through a very bad part of town. In fact right after this picture we walked through four drug deals.

I love taking pictures off center to make them look unusual. This is just right outside of Japan town, and that is Ray waling across the street.

Here is another silly photo. Adam didn't know what was behind him (dirty magaines) when I asked him to point over to his left. I title it "I think the perverts went that way"

Here is ray being silly agan. Although I don't think the ladies are buying it

And this is a pic of some good ole fashioned childish humor

Here is ray looking gansta at the fortune cookie shop

Here we are, well everyone but me obviously, this was taken outside of Japan town

Here is an action shot of Ray making some fortune cookies in China Town. No one else seemed to like it but I liked the blurred look. Gives a sense of fast paced motion.

Well that is it for now. I will try and post some of my night shots I got from Twin Peaks. They came out pretty good.

Till then

Graduation

Well tonight was my graduation night. The funny thing is most people who know me know I am not into pomp and ceremonies and titles. So I really did not want to go. However I am really glad I did go. The funny thing is our last day of school isn’t until April 16th so we, as a class were joking, I sure hope they don’t tell us when we get there that they evaluated how we were doing and thought it might be wise of us to sit this one out. LOL Well anyways on to why I was so glad I did go. My parents really wanted to see me walk. They have never seen me walk before. This is my third degree and I didn’t walk for the other two. I was homeschooled and graduated on my own by taking the California High School Proficiency Exam. I tried the GED but I guess there is an age requirement and I was too young at the time. (Which really pissed me off because it was more about public school politics than anything) So I agreed to go for my family. Well during the ceremony for each major they selected one student for an outstanding student award. When they got to the paralegal majors they began describing the student, I started to look around to see who I thought it could be. I thought wow this student sounds good I can’t wait to see them so I can hoot and holler for the paralegal team. Then they said my name. I stopped and looked up at the dean with a shocked look on my face. I couldn’t believe it. She looked at me and acknowledged that yes they did in fact say my name. As I began to walk up my entire class stood up. I feel honored to have such a great class of fellow colleagues. My family was sooooooo proud of me. I don’t think I have felt so honored before in life. So I am glad that I did go. I know that my family was proud of me, and that makes it all worth while. As for my fellow students who stood up for me, I appreciate your honor and respect. I feel that as a whole we all should have been up there. Thank you for all of the help you have given me as well and I hope that some day I too can honor you. Well enough for now. Its time to go to bed so I can get up early and hit the books tomorrow for another homework assignment.

Birthday Weekend

Well I need to post some pictures on this bad boy because I had a great weekend. Last Thursday an old friend called me up and told me that he wanted to take my wife and I to San Francisco for the weekend for my birthday. He knew that we hadn’t gotten out in a long time and wanted to treat us to nice weekend. So we went to San Fran and had an absolute blast. We went to China Town, Japan Town, and the Metreon. I also managed to go to Twin Peaks at midnight and got some freaking awesome night shots. We did a lot of walking and my calves are still feeling it. It was great all around. I had Fried Pork intestine, and anyone who knows me, knows I won’t pass up an opportunity to eat strange and new things. I picked up a new pocket knife to add to my collection of odd and unusual knives for just 9 bucks. My wife and I scored a silk outfit for our son complete with hat, and a braid of hair on it to make it look real. The hair on the hat is even real human hair. She also picked up a sweet silk diaper bag.

After the trip I got to celebrate my birthday with my family and went out to Tokyo Fro’s Sushi for some grubbing sushi. My parents even liked the food there and think they had a pretty good time even my dad who has been feeling pretty crappy because he has been fighting off a nasty cold.

On Monday we had planned to take my son to the Zoo for the first time. However it looked overcast and there was a chance for rain. That combined with both my calves feeling like hamburger meat made me decide that we would just go to a bunch of pet shops and have my son play with the animals. Our son is a real animal lover and had a pretty good time petting different animals. He was surprisingly gentle with them too considering he is a pretty rambunctious two year old. Well going to the pet shops probably wasn’t the best thing because we ended up taking home two pet rats. LOL My son thinks that they are coolest and loves to pet them. When he does he whispers Sa, Sa, Sa. Which I think is him trying to say soft.

We were thinking about getting a pet hamster or mouse for him sometime in the future because of the cool cages and tunnels. However I remember having both rats and hamsters and absolutely loved the rats more because they were very social. Hamsters can be skittish, can bite and like to run away. Rats however like to be around their owners and can even be trained. I have never been bitten by a pet rat and I probably have had close to ten of them in my lifetime. I know I had a rat I had trained to stand up and come on command at one point in time. I looked around online and there looks like there are a few rat clubs in Sac too. I just might have to go to a few of them. I bet my boy would have a blast watching all of the rats and seeing all the different things that they can do. Well that’s my blog so let me give a good and hearty thank you to my boys Adam and Ray for showing a great time in San Francisco. Till next time.

The good and the bad

Well it has been an interesting weekend. I found out a friend of mine got put in the ICU sometime Sunday morning. No details exactly what went down other than he got beat within an inch of his life. It looks like it was probably a hate crime as he is pretty active in the gay community. My prayers go out to him and his family. It just makes me so angry who could do that to him. He is a great guy, and wouldn't hurt a fly, yet there are some A holes out there that feel the need to get physically violent over things of that nature. Violence has its place in this world, and should be relegated to the area of self defense. I just can't stop thinking of it. Josh I hope you are doing OK buddy. Then I find out on Monday morning a co-worker of my moms had a bad weekend too. Her daughter got beat within an inch of her life too by her husband and she is in the ICU also. I was like man what is going on with the world. So her family needs the prayer too. I guess the daughter has five kids too. The husband is at least in jail right now, hopefully he stays in there for a long time.

The other news is, I found out what my bride and I are having....... Drum roll please..........

Its going to be a boy!!!!

So its not going to be a girl which is what we were hoping for, but its healthy and that's all that matters. If we keep up at this rate I will have to open a plumbing business Called Jason and Sons just to keep the family fed. LOL

Well there it is a short post, I will try to keep my posts smaller as I do seem to write posts that are a bit too big, at least in my opinion.