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It’s funny that today was supposedly Blue Monday (the most depressing day of the year), because I easily had one of my most productive days ever. I knocked about a dozen things off of my To-Do list, got to check off just about everyone of my Joe’s Goals boxes, ate really healthy, exercised pretty strenuously, even found time to read for both myself and work. So I say “bah” to you depression. Cheer up.

Certainly one of the most inspirational stories of the past year was that of Randy Pausch. The Carnegie Mellon professor, who was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, delivered a famous monologue last year with his Last Lecture. If you haven’t taken the time to watch it, please do.

Randy passed away this past Friday at home surrounded by his family.

Last Lecture Professor Randy Pausch, 47, Dies – Well – Tara Parker-Pope – Health – New York Times Blog.

Actually it’s just me, no we, and I’m not going to start talking about myself in multiple third person like Perez does, but I’m watching Bender’s Big Score on DVD in preparation for it’s triumphant return this weekend on Comedy Central.

I’m still catching up from the past couple of weeks, and have lots to recap, but just wanted to write a quick post since I caught shit from Chuck for not uploading my blog. Hope you’re happy.

Is that not the lamest title or what? I was trying to think of something more creative, but just said “f*ck it”. It’s not even my birthday anymore, what the hell? This post is off to a fantastic start. It was a very nice birthday weekend. I went out for C.K.’s birthday surprise party on Friday night at El Cholo’s (freaking awesome blue corn enchilada’s), then followed that up with some epic Rock Band playing. Saturday, Deuce and I went for an extremely long walk, I wrote for a while, and went to the beach at midnight. Yesterday, my actual birthday, was the most boring day of the weekend. I got caught up on some little nagging work things and basically just bummed around. Went to the gym, watched some movies, searched for some new apartments online, totally boring.

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all the nice messages and well-wishes. Thanks Scott for the ducks. You guys all rock.

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Well, that didn’t go so well. At least during last year’s BCS Championship Game I was in San Francisco, out eating some fantastic chinese food with the guys from TUAW. This year, I was at home (I got an invite to go to a party down in Hollywood to watch it, but turned it down because I forgot I now have a reliable vehicle), watching LSU play a much better game while taking down the last of the christmas decorations and generally throwing things that shouldn’t be thrown.

Mr. Biro and I were talking within just the past week or so how we wish it was possible to “bottle momentum”; the Buckeyes could have used a big ol swig of that last night at a couple of points. Although disappointing that they lost, it has been fun that the Bucks gotten to the big game two years in a row and have a very very young team, so next year should be a lot of fun. I still think the BCS is a complete mess, a playoff setup would be more rewarding and fun, allowing those longshots and wildcards to have a cinderella-type post-season ala March Madness or the NFL playoffs. What sucks is this season was exactly what the BCS hoped for since day one: every game during those last few weeks of the season “meant something.”

Tangent aside, congrats are in order for both The Ohio State University and LSU, both had fantastic seasons, and one of them played a fantastic game last night.

One hour left until The Ohio State University once again becomes National Champs. I’m so pumped up. (Yes this probably could have been a Twitter post, but screw you)

The universe is a weird wild place. It always seems to give you what you need when you need it, whether you know it or not. This past month and a half or so have been pretty sh!tty for me and I’ve been trying to avoid writing about them, but things are going really good now. Plus, to top it off, a really good friend I haven’t talked to in years just sent me an email. Very cool.

Two days shy of my six month anniversary of departing Cincinnati for Los Angeles and I just experienced my first earthquake. The US Geological Survey put it at a 3.2 and the epicenter was roughly four miles North of where I live. I installed some shelves right above my head where I sleep (wasn’t thinking about that at the time) and it’s good to know that they’ll at least stay up during a little wobble. It was a very odd sensation, but not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. My early warning system (read: Deuce) really didn’t do crap though. He was sleeping at the foot of my bed and just kind of rolled over.

When I moved to Northridge I didn’t realize that it was the epicenter of the 1994 quake that hit Los Angeles so bad. A fact which was hammered home by jokes in both an episode of Entourage and in the movie Knocked Up… both which I saw within weeks of moving in. Huzzah!

So, just in case those that know me see something on the news (which I highly doubt, it lasted all of two seconds), I’m fine. I wish something would have fallen on Ken’s head though… that would have been awesome.

When i was little i always dreamed about being part robot… having a computer for a brain, or a grapling hook hand like the bionic commando, something cool. After having my part of my jaw removed and a metal plate put intoday I can say that this was not a good idea.

Gremlins 2 is on right now which is ironic because when i was younger i was really really sick with a heart disease one summer and was in the hospital for a couple of weeks and that’s when the movie came out. My grandma got me a little Gizmo handpuppet which I still have.

side note: it took me way too long to do that wikipedia link, i probably shouldn’t be blogging right now