Sunset @ The Pier

Biking In Redondo

Sunset @ The Beach

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We were at Sharkeez in Manhattan Beach with most of our West coast gang tonight because Janice had won a happy hour party. We had a great time and caught a nice Thursday night buzz while using our new camera for the first time. (See post below) Big thanks to Janice for inviting us and shout outs to all those who couldn't make it, most notably Casie, we missed you!!!!!

I saw this on Break.com earlier today and I literally laughed out loud! The best part is that it's not on some white trash car but a BMW!

Last night marked the end of the road for Kelly Pickler on American Idol and although it was her time, you still hated to see her go. She wasn't the best singer by any means but at least she wasn't boring. Hopefully she'll get some offers from Hollywood and we'll see more of her ditzy charm. Of course it doesn't really matter that she's gone seeing as how I'm ultimately rooting for Chris and Katherine to make it to the end. Seeing as how they were the top two vote getters this week, everything is going the way I want it despite the fact that all three judges crucified Katherine Tuesday night after she put on one hell of a performance. Sometimes I don't get the judges. I mean what were they thinking...or rather, what were they hearing?

In an effort to further my photography skills I recently enrolled in an intermediate photography class taught by a guy who travels the world taking photos and getting his photos published and on magazine covers, etc. for a living. Although I make a good amount of money doing photography and have had my photos on magazine covers too, I quickly realized I was not gonna be "the star" of my class which will be a new reality for me.

Of course I like being the underdog and even though some of the guys in the class were way beyond me in terms of understanding optics, aperture modes, and f-stops the real test will be when we submit our photos each week for critiquing by the class. And even though I'm gunning to win the "wow" factor from my classmates, I am there to learn and improve my skills and of course to take more great pictures like this one...

Cynthia McKinney is back in the news again after making a "fool" of herself during an interview with a local CBS reporter. As you may recall, McKinney got in hot water a few weeks ago for punching a congressional security guard when she tried to bypass a security checkpoint without her congressional identification pin. She obviously doesn't like talking about it and refused to answer questions about it when asked by a CBS reporter. She then got up and abruptly walked off camera not realizing her microphone was still on and proceeded to call one of her assistants a "fool". Once she realized her mic was still on, she came back and "informed" the reporter she couldn't use any audio that wasn't captured while she was sitting down. Yeah right! What an idiot!

• Watch Cynthia McKinney make a "fool" of herself!

We were getting tired of lugging our "big" cameras around just to take casual shots so I "requisitioned my company" to get us a smaller camera that would be easier to carry with us all the time. We got this new 6 megapixel Cybershot last week. It's slightly bigger than a business card and it's got tons of features and a huge LCD screen on the back!  Cool!

It was fairly nice Sunday so we started off by having a late breakfast i.e., brunch at one of our favorite little dives in Torrance. After that we headed to Target to pick up a few things and ran into Mike & Janice which was a really nice surprise. After getting out of Target, we loaded up our bikes and headed to the beach. We spent the afternoon biking from Redondo Beach to Torrance Beach and back again and then up to Hermosa Beach and back to Redondo. It was a quite a little trek but we could use the exercise. I'm really looking forward to summer and being outdoors more often!

I've been noticing more and more bees loitering around our patio this week, but couldn't figure out what exactly they were up to so I decided to get to the bottom of it Saturday afternoon. I spent a few hours looking to see if there was some hidden nest around our patio or whether they were trying to build a nest, but turned up nothing. Still, bees kept coming to the same spot on our patio and just hovering like they were lost. It took me a while to figure out what was up and then it hit me.

Our next door neighbors have an identical townhouse as ours and they have the exact same fence around their patio. Turns out they also have a massive bee colony in their wall and some of the bees were mistaking our patio for theirs. The bees would come to our patio looking for a hole in the wall that doesn't exist on our patio. I watched bees pouring in and out of our neighbors wall and can only imagine how many bees are living in the wall of their townhouse.

Luckily, they're just Honeybees and not killer bees, but it will still be interesting to see how the neighbors deal with it and how much honey they have in their walls.

We chilled out most of the day on Saturday just watching movies and being bummy. I tend to do all the housework during the week so we can have the weekends to do whatever we want...even if it's nothing. It was really nice outside so I fired up the grill and cooked some salmon to perfection along with rice, veggies and hollandaise sauce.

Saturday night we watched Just Friends starring Ryan Reynolds which was great and comes as no surprise as Ryan Reynolds is one of the funniest actors on the planet right now.

This certainly had me laughing out loud today. It's a clip of some mother and daughter confronting a teacher at a PTA meeting. The teacher is telling the mom that "Terri was doing marijuana and she had THC in her system" at which point the mom steps up and punches the teacher square in the face. It's far from a knock-out punch, but still pretty funny in a sad, shocking kind of way. The teacher is more stunned than hurt and the mother and daughter walk off with the kind of smug confidence that only white trash can. Judging from the unchanging blank stare on the daughter's face I don't have any problem believing the teacher on this one! These are the kind of people that make watching COPS so enjoyable. Enjoy!

• http://www.break.com/index/womenface.html

Someone sent me this earlier today and it cracked me up. Everyone knows I'm not against immigrants, just illegal immigrants. Why should I have to pay taxes when illegal immigrants don't and they use more social services than I do? That's bullshit! Anyway, you can find all kinds of funny immigration shirts by clicking on the t-shirt image below. I just may have to buy this one. Enjoy! 

This is great clip from FireFox fans making fun of all the other web browsers out there particularly Internet Explorer. I love the FireFox browser but still have to use IE more often than not because most of my web clients still do and as a designer I still have to design sites that are gonna look good in IE as well as FireFox. I've been trying out the beta version of IE7 and at least they put tabs in it but it's still plagued with little annoying issues. It's weird that the biggest and richest company on the planet can't build a browser that's as fast and stable as FireFox or any of the other open source browsers.

Ok, here's the funny clip...

• http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?id=19542

Try the FireFox browser...

The latest version of FireFox is UNBELIEVABLY FAST compared to IE over a high speed connection and I highly recommend FireFox to everyone! You can download it FREE using the link below!

• http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/