Next week I'll be heading back out to California for my job. I'll be there for the majority of the week and spending most of my days at a conference. In the evenings and at night however, I will most definitely be finding some stuff to get into. Restaurants, sight-seeing, bars, lounges, clubs, shopping, etc. You know, doing the tourist type stuff. And of course, the camera will be in FULL EFFECT. And I'm NOT going to lose it (shot out to JAC)!
If any of you live in the San Fran area, know good people in the San Fran area, or are familiar with the area and can point me in the direction of some fun/cool/enjoyable stuff to do, please drop me a comment.
Online Pet Peeve #2: Ghetto usernames
Just in case you missed it...Pet Peeve #1
Recently, the usage of ghetto usernames for email accounts, myspace screen names, IM screen names, etc. has caught my attention. If you are an adult and have a full-time job with responsibilities like bills, children, a mortgage, etc. your screen name should not be ridiculously ghetto. Actually, if you're 23 or older, just give it up. For example:68andiowe1@whatever.com
bmore_dime_piece@whatever.com
trisha_boo@whatever.com
mandigo@whatever.com
tyronesbabymomma@whatever.com
...and so on and so forth. I can't imagine that people with email addresses like those above actually use these on their resumés. Or if you happen across an old friend at a gathering and they ask for your email address, do you give them this address? Seriously, there's no way Johnson & Johnson is sending you a job offer to t0ple$$_honie@gmail.com or thug_angel@yahoo.com. You can forget that! Do you think your email address could get you nixed from the pool of applicants? I wouldn't put it past people to do just that.
Being real, I will admit that I used to have an email address like this, boneymike@yahoo.com. That was my nickname back in high school and college, boneymike so I figured it'd be easy for people to remember my email address that way. But once I entered my senior year of college, I got rid of that and replaced it with a more "neutral/friendly" email address.
Once you're grown, you need to get rid of the ghetto email addresses and the ghetto screen names. Yes, it's hard to let everybody know your email address is changing. Yes it's hard to transfer all of your contacts (then again, not really). Yes it's hard to let go of those nicknames we thought were slick when we were teens and really young adults. But there's a time to let go!
If Kobe does land in Chicago (one of two places he mentioned he could have signed with a couple years back) he'll become a part of one of the best young teams in the NBA. And a competitive young team at that. Who knows if the trade would require the Bulls to trade draft picks, players, or a combination of both, but the prospect of Kobe ending up in the Windy City is an interesting one. 
Secondly, it seems that in Chicago you can relieve yourself on under-aged girls while having sexual relations with them and get away with it. 
The only downside I see to Kobe ending up in Chicago is that we probably won't get to see his wife Vanessa in those nice dresses as often. His wife is SMOKING HOT and that's about 90% of what I enjoy about Kobe Bryant. The other 10% is what he does on the court. But from what I understand Vanessa doesn't have many friends so she probably won't care if they have to move to Chicago. And since the 
I have a secret to share with you all. I heart the hell out of 
It would be rather difficult to sling rocks or shoot someone while manning up on a Chipotle burrito. Everybody knows 
I had a conversation with a co-worker earlier about why he didn't like rap. His exact words were:
For about 4 years now, I've only listened to the radio sparingly. At the most once per month. I started getting tired of hearing the same songs all day every day a long long time ago and I endured it for a few months, but eventually, I stopped wanting to turn on the radio. As a result, I started diving more into my CD collection by listening to old music and buying more CDs. Not long thereafter, I realized that I could find a lot of new music through the InterWeb. Blogs, websites, file-sharing, etc. So as time went on, I found radio less and less useful and pleasing. Granted, I sit at a computer about 6.5 hours everyday so most of the music I listen to is either on my computer already or via the Internet. 
Today I watched a couple videos online that made me realize that radio is probably a necessity in my life if I want to be able to fairly judge whether or not I like a song. The radio does one thing that's very important and that is enabling the listener to capture the music and not so much the image of the artist. In this case, I use image to mean appearance for the most part. 
I've been a fan of Floyd Mayweather for a minute now. No matter what his antics are outside the ring - and how much his mouth runs like a faucet that spews immaturely ignorant statements of self-absorbed banter and lack of care for what you think of him - I think he's a great boxer. For that reason, I root for him to win. I love watching his precision punching, immaculate defense, and overall swagger while in the ring. You CANNOT take that from him no matter how much his persona outside the ring personifies all that is wrong with being young, rich, and not giving a "you-know-what." I guess that makes him all the more entertaining. 
