Random notes from this past weekend:

-Went down to LA for Billy and Janice's wedding. The only time I ever meet up with people in my class is when I go to weddings...

-Basile has now found a restaurant he hates more than Chevy's. It's Pea Soup Andersen's, which is near the 5 Freeway on the drive up from LA to the Bay Area.



We joked that the pea soup looks the same before and after you're eaten it... Haha...



-During the car ride up, we had a conversation that led to a reference of the legendary Scott Song articles.

-When I got home to Emery Bay, our bathroom had flooded for some unknown reason and the excess water made its way into my room. Our apartment smells really bad, and the floor is all wet. Glad I'm moving out this week...

On Saturday morning, Allen, Chongo, and I went to the Richmond District in SF to check out a 4 bedroom apartment. (Albert was in New York.)

We really liked it because it was spacious, well-maintained, and not too expensive ($2790 a month).

Allen and I then continued to look at other places the rest of the day. But they seemed so much worse than the first one we looked at.

So after a long day of apartment hunting, we went home. We wanted to be the first to send in the application for the first place, so we went to Kinko's to fax 22 pages (application and credit reports) to the landlord.

But we were pretty mad when we had to pay $33 to send the fax! (Kinko's charges by the number of pages.)

Still, this will go down as the best $33 donation ever made to Kinko's-- 30 minutes after we faxed our application, the landlord called and told us we got the place!

For about 15 minutes, Allen, Chongo, and I celebrated as if we had just won the lottery...

Here's some pictures of our new place:

Living room


Kitchen


Bathroom


Backyard

In one of my fantasy football leagues, I made the following trade:

I get
RB LaDainian Tomlinson
WR Torry Holt

I give up
RB Willis McGahee
RB Rudi Johnson
WR Keary Colbert

It was basically a swap of our first 2 picks, with Colbert as a throw-in.

Giving up my top 2 running backs obviously hurts my running back depth, but I still have both Cadillac Williams and Willie Parker, so I'm OK with my running back situation.

The other guy had Reuben Droughns as his second running back, so obviously he got a huge upgrade at his second RB position.

As for me, I'm definitely happy to have the most valuable player in fantasy football and a top 5 WR.

Our company had another lunchtime Texas Hold'Em tournament today.

There were 3 tables with 8 players each. The person with the most chips at each table, along with the person with the next highest chip count, would advance to the final table next month.

The tournament was limited to 1 hour, so the action moved pretty quickly.

Hand of the day:
3 people left at my table.
5 minutes left in the hour.
I have about 1500 chips.
Player A has about 5300 chips.
Player B has about 1200 chips.

Player B goes all in and player A folds. I'm holding 9-8 suited, which is usually an easy fold when someone else goes all-in.

But:
1) I'm running out of time. Considering our blind structure, player A is a lock to finish with the most chips at our table. If I'm gonna end up as the non-winner with the most chips, I figured I needed to end up with at least 3200 chips.

2) Since I have 9 high, I know I'm going to be behind in the hand if I call. But I have a suited connector, and the only way I'd be in real trouble is if the other person has a high pocket pair or has an 8 or 9 with a better kicker.

So I call, and I'm happy to see that player B has Ace-4 suited. I get lucky and get my 9 on the flop, and I knock out player B.

In the end, I ended up with 3600 chips.

A non-winner at another table ended up with 3550 chips, so I made it to the final table by 50 chips!

Got an e-mail from my company's CEO that our stock hit an all-time high today...

In the last year, Fair Isaac stock (in blue) has gone up over 50% while the S&P 500 (in red) has gone up about 10%






But this is only after my company's stock dropped 35% from September 2003 to July 2004.

I'm now using Blogger's commenting system since the BlogBack commenting system will terminate next month.

Unfortunately that means everyone's previous comments have been deleted...

After 7 years, KCPC is finally back at 50 Northridge!

We just found out a few hours ago that we received the occupancy permit.

And now we're rushing over to the new site... We'll be moving a lot of things tomorrow and then having our first service there this Sunday (yeah, 2 days from now).

Hopefully nobody goes to the funeral home that is our church on Mission Street...

On Wednesday, my boss gave me the following book. I think he knows me a little bit too well...

The Starving Students' Cookbook



Here's a sample recipe. Seriously, I couldn't have made this up if I tried...

Reheating Macaroni, Rice, Or Pasta

1) Dump leftovers into saucepan.
2) Add couple spoonfuls of water. Cover tightly. Heat on medium heat a couple minutes or till hot.
3) Drain off any excess water, then use.

Yum. Ramen... dog meat flavor!




Thanks Allen for the picture...

Looking for some people who want to play fantasy football...

The draft is on Tuesday, September 6 at 7:30 PM. So far we have me, Albert, G1, James Song, Mejeld, Stephen, and my missions friend Brian Han. It's a pretty standard head-to-head Yahoo! league.

We could use more people since we only have 7 so far...