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Monday, March 30th, 2009
11:26 pm	So today I recieved an Email asking If I was available to ref at a tournament, not that shocking I get them several times a month. So what made this particular email worth dusting off the update button on my LJ you ask? It was for an INTERNATIONAL event!!! At JOs Wes Glon went to the international assigner for sabre and asked why I wasnt being used in sabre. I was used the following 2 days and apparently did a good enough job that the assigner feels comfortable asking me to ref at the Mexican equivilant of JOs. Problem, I dont have a passport. I have been going round and round with the state of CA trying to get a certified copy of my birthcertificate or in my case a certificate of live birth. Its different from most of the rest of you folks as I am addopted and its housed somewhere in Sacremento. They cant seem to locate it. I explained this to him and will try and see if I can find my baptismal records and use that to get a passport. Likely this event is gone but it is encouraging to even be asked. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
9:28 pm	Best tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy evar Stolen from arichi We’ve all heard the “official conspiracy theory” of the Death Star attack. We all know about Luke Skywalker and his ragtag bunch of rebels, how they mounted a foolhardy attack on the most powerful, well-defended battle station ever built. And we’ve all seen the video over, and over, and over, of the one-in-a-million shot that resulted in a massive chain reaction that not just damaged, but completely obliterated that massive technological wonder. Like many citizens of the Empire, I was fed this story when I was growing up. But as I watched the video, I began to realize that all was not as it seemed. And the more I questioned the official story, the deeper into the rabbit hole I went. Presented here are some of the results of my soul-searching regarding this painful event. Like many citizens, I have many questions that I would like answered: was the mighty Imperial government really too incompetent to prevent a handful of untrained nerf-herders from destroying one of their most prized assets? Or are they hiding something from us? Who was really behind the attack? Why did they want the Death Star destroyed? No matter what the answers, we have a problem. Best conspiracy evah (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
8:18 pm	Some how I have become.... jaybirdchoi 1st weekend of march sat in San Diego for Youth PCCs, sun CSUF for NCAAs western regionals. Last week Chicago for 4 days at NAC E This week 26 hours at home on tues followed by week in Columbus Ohio for NCAA championships. This is my first time at college fencing's big dance. Next weekend I will be going to Boston for the Pris de Fer SYC flying in on friday so as to actually SEE some of Boston as well as fencing. Last weekend of month off to San Jose where I will ref yet another SYC and hopefully SEE Jay to boot. If he is nice I can park my car at his place and avoid hotel parking. So the talley for the month 18 days spent traveling for fencing, by far the most in any month for me. Current Mood: chipper (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
10:53 pm	There was a time.. Some of you may recall my 40th birthday post where I commented that I had blue hair, The above Icon is from that time. This is what happens when you go rummaging thru you PC late on a saturday night. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
11:23 pm	Meade Hansford Anderson RIP Last week I received an email from a friend informing me that a mutual friend of ours was in the hospital after being in an auto accident. The news from his family was that he was recovering. Today I received an email with his full name in the title. I knew that it contained it bad news. Loosing a friend is never a good thing, What makes this so bad is that Meade is someone who I have known for almost a decade and had watched grow up. I feel so very sad for his parents as he was their only child. Meade was a good kid who made those around him smile. He was a wonderful person and a fantastic fencer. In 2001 he won the u17 mens foil national championship. He was a pleasure to ref and the fencing world will miss him. He had just graduated from Columbia and was home for the summer before returning to NYC to work. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
10:09 am	Weekly World News to meet GOD!!!!!!!!! Sadly an end of era for investigative news is coming to a close as ALIENS CONSPIRACY SHUTS DOWN THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS No doubt Tommy Lee Jones will have to find a new way to hunt down unruly aliens. The LA times has exposed the alien plot let a writer do an op ed piece about his struggles to resist the unholy alliance of batboy and GW the writing style of The best damn investigative news paper ever* This will leave a gaping hole in the education of the youth of today. They will have to rely on tabloids that focus on pseudo-celebs and their stints in rehab to keep them up to date with the dark and sinister plots of Hillary and Bigfootcurrent events. I suppose that this may be help keep the the wisest abreast of what is going on in the world. * free registration required (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
11:07 pm	As has become an annual tradition over the last 3 years, I went to the US Fencing National Championships. This year held in Miami, in the Summer, during Hurricane season!. 9 days of reffing 1 day of fencing, followed up by 4 days in central and northern Fl. doing touristy type of things. Miami was hot and humid and rainy, every day at 3 like clock work it began to thunder and lightning with rain to follow. The reffing went well, though I did have a request to be observed on the first day, for the first time in over a year. If someone (typically a coach) is having an issue with your calls they will run over to BC and request an observer to come over and watch your reffing. In sabre by the time the person has established that your calls are suspect and walked over to the BC to request an observer the bout is likely over. In U17 Womens Foil they can decide you suck walk to the BC by way of the concession cart to get a latte, swing past the armourers line and get there students equipment checked for tomorrows event, and come back with an observer in tow and if the girls are doing exceptionally well 2 touches will have been scored. As the request came in U17 WF the head ref was standing behind me for half of the bout. It was a painful bout to watch and ref, I know because when the girls where done fencing the coaches both told me that their charges did nothing to help me. I acknowledged that I did not cover myself in glory, to which the head ref laughed. When asked if she had any advice to help my reffing get better she had none. Based off of my further usage Im sure she had forgot that she even saw that bout. Final tally 1 gold medal match 3 semis 8 finals and 1 three weapon day. Not a bad event for me. The best day was in the U19 mens sabre where I had 5 national coaches with students in my pool and I only had 4 contested calls. A fun day to be sure. Central Fl was fun if a bit disapointing. We went to Disney World, and Epcot center. Which was ok at best. DW isnt as good as Disney Land. The Wild Animal park was alot of fun though. Had planned to visit another ref in Gainesville but his flight was delayed so we went on to a civil war battle site in Olustee Fl. then on to St Augustine. The oldest European settlement in the US. While in FL we ate a couple of Waffle Houses. It was amusing to see and the food was good. Funniest moment was had when we noticed that the wait staff was yelling the orders to the cooks, like they were overseers on a plantation. All sorts of horrible comments went back and forth between april_lirit and I. At the second WH we noticed that the entire staff there was white!!! I have lived in LA so long that to see any place with an all white staff is unheard of let alone at a service job. Also ate at a Sizzler, sad to say that I have dined on both coasts at a Sizzler. I also have driven on both ends of I 10!!!! All in All I had a great vacation even if I did drive as much on the last 4 days as I would if I had been home working. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
3:52 am	because irony is funny So I was eating at Valentino's at the Venetian while waiting for Phantom to let in and on the menu they had free range chicken right under the VEAL! Nothing like trying to make foks feel better about eating their free range chicken while offering caged calf. April had the veal, and you could taste the suffering. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
7:15 am	Who knew that the lead singer of hawthorne hieghts played spiderman? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
7:07 pm	Last night April and I went out for a valentine dinner(nothing like an hour + wait to be seated). An older couple was seated in the booth across from us. After their order was taken they pulled out a DVD PLAYER!!! God forbid they, I don't know, talk to each other. Leave out that they were doing this at in a nice resturant, they could have had the decency to atleast to not have it facing out of their booth. The mind boggles. Dinner was nummy and as allways I enjoyed the time and snuggling with my GF. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
6:43 pm	Global Warming Alert!!! Another sure sign of Global Warming, It snowed in West Los Angeles. Work kept me in WLA all day. As I driving down Sunset by UCLA there was an accident blocking a lane, the blockage allowed me to look to cars and I noticed a dusting of SNOW on the ground and on the houses aswell. I have photographic evidence that I will try and post later. Current Mood: Amazed Current Music: fox sports radio (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
9:17 pm	I am to be feared for my Anger... So this past weekend I had to travel to Richmond VA for a fencing NAC. Through my poor planning I booked a flight thru Cleveland in the middle of DECEMBER. What was I thinking. Get to airport a bit rushed but there nonetheless. Flight is delayed in LA because the weather in Cleveland is snowing. Not a little bit of snow we expect to melt, NOOOOOO this was a gale blowing off the lake 10" in 5 hours type of storm. Now this presented a problem as in my infinate wisdom I booked a connecting flight with a 45 min. window. (not bright I know) Arrive in Cleveland 30 min late, still not a problem as my flight is only 4 gates away, oh wait you mean its now in another concourse? Well call ahead and let them know Im running to the other concourse. I get to the gate and the gate attendant is just coming out of the door and tells me that the plane has pushed from the gate!!! Now Im not an idiot I can see them damn plane, it hasnt actualy left, and in Continentals rush to keep there ontime % up the pushed the last plane to the city I want to get to knowing Im on a connecting flight that has arrived and that im running to the gate!! They wont let me get on the plane that hasnt left, the send me off to cust serv. I get there and they tell me that they cant get into Richmond till 9am and this is flying to Charlott NC at 530 am, and then on to Richmond. This takes a good 20 min for them to research the best way to get the earliest to Rich. So disgrunteled I head off to the united concourse on the other side of the airport. I get all the way across the airport and they page me to tell me that my flight has had mechanical problems and that it has returned to the gate. Oh and would I like to try and get on board that flight or spend the night in the cleveland airport? So as near as I can tell in my anger my mind reached out and broke a transponder and that prevented it from leaving. See if they had been reasonable I wouldnt have been forced to such extreme measures and we could have got into Richmond only 5 min late rather than the hour or so that it took. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Solbury Hill/ Erasure (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
7:21 pm	Seeing as I havent updated in oh 7 months or so I wont bore you with details of my life. Instead I give you this from the Bad Writing contest. The runner up was damn funny, and not Bad at all: "I know what you're thinking, punk," hissed Wordy Harry to his new editor, "you're thinking, 'Did he use six superfluous adjectives or only five?' -- and to tell the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement; but being as this is English, the most powerful language in the world, whose subtle nuances will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?" Here is the article form AOL LOS ANGELES (July 11) - An opening sentence containing a burrito, an angel and a shovel was judged appalling enough to win the annual Bulwer-Lytton literary parody prize Tuesday. Retired mechanical designer Jim Guigli of California was proclaimed winner of the contest, which challenges entrants to submit their worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel. Guigli's winning entry read: "Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean." Guigli's powers of invention and his determination to succeed -- he submitted 60 different entries -- also won him a "dishonorable mention" in the historical fiction category. "My motivation for entering the contest was to find a constructive outlet for my dementia," Guigli quipped. The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest was started in 1982 by the English Department at San Jose State University to honor the Victorian novelist who opened his 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" with what were to become the immortal words, "It was a dark and stormy night." It began as a quiet campus affair and now attracts thousands of entries from around the world. But the grand prize winner receives only a pittance and other winners "must content themselves with becoming household names", organizers say. The 2006 runner-up, Stuart Vasepuru from Scotland, played with one of the most famous pieces of dialogue from the Clint Eastwood movie "Dirty Harry". "I know what you're thinking, punk," hissed Wordy Harry to his new editor, "you're thinking, 'Did he use six superfluous adjectives or only five?' -- and to tell the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement; but being as this is English, the most powerful language in the world, whose subtle nuances will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
7:51 pm	Coachisms Since most folks here have, or are taking lessons from a coach, I am curious to see what coachisms your coaches use with you. I have had a number of coaches in the 20+ years I have been fencing, and the best coachism ever uttered to me by any of them was "Practice makes..... PERMANENT" This was by Derrick Cotton. I have gleeful stolen this to use at USC, ofcourse now that DC is coaching foil the kids hear it from him directly. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
4:25 pm	Family camp? This happened to me recently. I had a delivery to the German Consulate, flyers for german unity day. Goto office for delivery, get buzzed in. This is not uncommon for consulates, what is uncommon was going to leave and having the door NOT open!!! My birth mom is jewish, so I was sure I was going be shipped to "Family Camp". Well except I was 5 stories up so they would have had a hard time getting the train up there but it was funny at the time. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
7:57 pm	In every stereotype there is a grain of truth And with these its a Bushel :D Life in LA is like this You're sitting in traffic for at least an hour at any given part of the day You go to the beach and see that real lifeguards actually do look like the lifeguards from Baywatch You begin to lie to your friends about where you are (i.e. "Yeah I'm like 20 minutes away"), when you know that it'll take you at least an hour to get there. You eat a different ethnic food for every meal Driving from point A to point B no matter the distance always takes about "twenty minutes". You somehow learned Spanish and can’t remember when. You've got to bring the cat/plants in when the temperature drops to 55 degrees. In the "winter", you can theoretically go to the beach and snow ski at Big Bear on the same day. You've bumped into a celebrity at El Pollo Loco. You know what sigalert, PCH, and “the five” mean. Your pizza delivery guy is also on contract with Warner Bros. If your destination is more than a 5 minute walk you drive. You have a gym membership because it's mandatory. Your TV show is interrupted by a police chase. You can't fall asleep without the lull of helicopters flying overhead. When tourists ask where they can get souvenirs, you direct them to Venice Beach, Hollywood Blvd, or 3rd Street. You know someone named Freedom, Rainbow, Persephone or Destiny. You've trespassed through private property to get to the "Hollywood" sign. You've partied in Tijuana at least once. You know there is actually a lake in Toluca Lake has. You don't actually stop at a STOP sign. You've lost your car in a parking garage. You've ever bought oranges, flowers, cherries or peanuts on a freeway off-ramp. You think that Venice is a beach. You can pull up next to a Bentley and not notice. You've started crossing a street and returned to the curb when the DON'T WALK sign started flashing. Calling your neighbors requires knowing their area code. You have a favorite Thai restaurant. You think Johnny Rocket's is an accurate depiction of a diner. You think Manhattan is a beach. You eat pineapple on pizza. You've been to Disneyland more times than Downtown. When giving directions, you follow up with the phrase: "With/Without traffic.” You subconsciously judge people based on there area code. Driving along, you see a high-speed police chase approaching in your rear view mirror. Without flinching you call your friends to tell them you're going to be on TV. You know that if you drive two miles in any direction you will find a McDonald's or a Starbucks. You never, ever go into the water at the Beach. You barely touch the sand. Everyone you know has at least three phone numbers. It is not unusual for your waitress at a restaurant to have blue streaked hair, a dragon tattoo and tongue piercing. You won’t get out bed for anything less than a 5.0. You think you are better than people who live in “The OC” (LOL). You live 10 miles from work. It takes you 60 minutes to get home. Walking out of Jamba Juice, you see that a movie is being shot on-location across the street. Unimpressed you are more concerned about how badly the shoot will tie up traffic/hose the parking situation. You have to yell at your bank teller/convenience store clerk through a 2 inch thick wall of plexi-glass. You go to Las Vegas for a weekend getaway and the whole trip cost you $100. You personally know at least 5 people with agents. You personally know at least 3 people who have been in a movie or TV show. You know what In and Out is and pity all the other states because they don't. You know that not everyone in Beverly Hills is a millionaire. You know who the giant radio hat guy on Hollywood Blvd is. You've gotten parking tickets from parking in the red zone in front of your house. When talking to non-Angelinos you say you live in LA when really you live in Alhambra, Brentwood, Burbank, etc. The guy at 8:30 in the morning at Starbucks wearing the baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney IS George Clooney. The gym is packed at 3pm...on a workday. Any invitation comes with, "Starts at 8pm or as soon as you can get through traffic." You have never met a waiter that wasn't really an "Actor." Whenever it rains you can count on KCAL to have “Storm Of The Century” coverage. You call 911 and they put you on hold. The three hour traffic jam you just sat through wasn't caused by a horrific 9 car pile-up but by everyone slowing down to look at shoe in the ..3 lane. Medical professionals will in all seriousness ask "you don’t drink or smoke, right?" The waitress asks if you'd like "carbs" in your meal. Non-Angelinos assume we all surf. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
12:54 pm	I had an LA moment just now In the course of my job I sometimes bump into famous people. That is part of living here. Today was fun because you don't often get compliments from an NBA center who has 4 championship rings. I was delivering some docs to be signed and John Salley was sitting at the table. He complimented my cool blue hair, asked why I did it, shook my hand and had a laugh at my explination. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
12:48 pm	The view from the top of the moutain... So allegedly Its All Down Hill From here. I'm not so sure I agree with that. I definitely don't believe that life begins at 40. I have had to much fun to think that what has happened wasn't part of my life. One of the fun things about dating someone half my age is that she will convince me to dye my hair, so now I'm officially a blue hair. :) Current Mood: amused (17 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 29th, 2005
12:19 am	Things I dont need.. Blue Hairs, driving poorly. SUV drivers driving with out using their mirrors. My dispatcher not looking at what they send me. Halloween displays in JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!1!1 Yes they really do have displays up at a Robinsons May in Del Amo. The mind boggles. The city of Suckremento. The 909. The mullets that reside in the 909. Aruba. Not that I have much against them but I dont need see this much of Aruba with out getting to go there :D The fencing seasons to start next week. Considering it ended for me on the 10th of July I think starting on the 6th is a bit much. but hey I will get a weekend in SD with april_lirit on some one else's dime :) and get some money for my time. Temps consistently in the 100s 40c for you Canunkelheads up there :D (9 Comments |Comment on this)
12:10 am	World War 2 updated for a new generation For those of you who are either history geeks or gaming geeks, this'll be DAMNED amusing... =) If World War Two had been an RTS game, it would have gone a little something like this.... (Blatantly stolen from Battlefront by way of a friends myspace account.) *Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.* *Eisenhower has joined the game.* *paTTon has joined the game.* *Churchill has joined the game.* *benny-tow has joined the game.* *T0J0 has joined the game.* *Roosevelt has joined the game.* *Stalin has joined the game.* *deGaulle has joined the game.* Roosevelt: hey sup T0J0: y0 Stalin: hi Churchill: hi Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks! paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks T0J0: lol Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression! benny-tow: haha america sux Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool? Hitler[AoE]: sure whatever Stalin: cool deGaulle: shit Hitler rushed some1 help Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy Roosevelt: i dont got shit to help, sry Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me Roosevelt: get antiair guns Churchill: i cant afford them benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is? paTTon: stfu Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys deGaulle: Eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick Eisenhower: i cant do shit til rosevelt gives me an army paTTon: yah hurry the fock up Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck *deGaulle has left the game.* Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k? benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair? benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head? Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh1t u fags im gunna kick ur asses T0J0: not without ur harbors u wont! lol Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u Hitler[AoE]: wtf Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler Hitler[AoE]: TOJO help me! T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path Stalin: WTF u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol benny-tow: haha benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1 T0J0: o shit i cant help u i got my hands full Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help Roosevelt: yah thats right bitch im comin for ya Stalin: church help me Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here Stalin: dont be an arss Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late Eisenhower: LOL benny-tow: hahahh oh sh1t help Hitler[AoE]: o man ur focked paTTon: oh what now biotch Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol *benny-tow has been eliminated.* benny-tow: lame Roosevelt: gj paTTon paTTon: thnx Hitler[AoE]: WTF Eisenhower hax hes killing all my sh1t Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record Eisenhower: Nuts! benny-tow: wtf that mean? Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun cocksocker Stalin: rofl T0J0: HAHAHHAA Hitler[AoE]: u guys are fockin gay Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city *Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.* benny-tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL Stalin: OMG LMAO! Hitler[AoE]: WTF i didnt click there omg this game blows *Hitler[AoE] has left the game* paTTon: hahahhah T0J0: WTF my teammates are n00bs benny-tow: shut up noob Roosevelt: haha wut a moron paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now? Eisenhower: yah me too T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol Eisenhower: fock u paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie Stalin: go to hell lol paTTon: fock this sh1t im goin afk Eisenhower: yah this is gay *Roosevelt has left the game.* Eisenhower: sh1t now we need some1 to join *tru_m4n has joined the game.* tru_m4n: hi all T0J0: hey Stalin: sup Churchill: hi tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff! tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY shit I GOT NUKES Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets T0J0: wtf is nukes? T0J0: holyshitholyshithoylshit! *T0J0 has been eliminated.* *The Allied team has won the game!* Eisenhower: awesome! Churchill: gg noobs no re T0J0: thats bullshit u fockin suck *T0J0 has left the game.* *Eisenhower has left the game.* Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for shit Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbarss tru_m4n: l8r all benny-tow: bye Churchill: l8r Stalin: fock u all tru_m4n: shut up commie lol *tru_m4n has left the game.* benny-tow: lololol u commie Churchill: ROFL Churchill: bye commie *Churchill has left the game.* *benny-tow has left the game.* Stalin: i hate u all fags *Stalin has left the game.* paTTon: lol no1 is left paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep *paTTon has been eliminated.* paTTon: o sh1t! *paTTon has left the game.* (4 Comments |Comment on this)