I've posted the pictures for David's birthday party online. Enjoy.

I've uploaded (a while ago) the pictures from Folsom Street Fair for 2007. Due to the content of the pictures, you must be 18 and over to view them. If you are, here's the link. The password is simply "notakid" if you are 18 and over.

I've posted some pictures from the Love Festival. It was ok. There must have been about 6 dozen LARGE speaker spread around Civic Center. Each set of a dozen or so were playing different music. Mostly, you just heard a bunch of noise and was hard to distinguish between different sources as there was LOTS of bass and thumpy. Mostly, the Love Festival at Civic Center in SF was really good at giving you a headache from just the shear volume of noise. We stayed for about an hour or so because we were all getting stressed out from the noise.

As usual, had a great time in the city. Friday night was early, and we called it a night around 10:30. Saturday, after dropping friend off at airport, I bummed around SF - was rather nice. At night, I went bar hopping and ended up running into a few peeps. Such a small world running into people in SF from other cities. I wasn't in the mood to take many pictures this weekend.

Had a great weekend in SF; the weekend before Halloween. Friday night, went to Dragon. There was not alot of people in costumes, but the night was still fun. Despite the lack of costumes, they still held a Halloween costume contest. There were some very elaborate costumes, and some, were, well skimpy; I suppose some thought it was a Mr Hunk contest.

Saturday, after sleeping in, we bummed around castro - didn't take a lot of pictures. Saturday night, went back to badlands and The Bar On Castro. We also roamed around Castro street a little bit. Here's one of me and a turtle on Castro street.

Random pictures:

Posted pictures from the San Francisco weekend of Oct 21 pictures.

First of all, my new car is getting better gas milage on the freeway. Check this out...

That same day, I went with Harrison to check out an apartment for him (he didn't get it). He had to fill out an application, along with the 30 other people, while still at the apartment.

Later that day, we ran into some of Harrison's friends at The Bar On Castro. They were alot of fun to hang out with - str8 girls are fun to talk about men with.

And last, but not least, meet Lola - Harrison's cute little puppy.

Yet, another AMAZING weekend in the city. The weather was pretty warm - about 75 to 78 degrees and sunny. Decided to head up to Twin Peaks to get a better view. Can you believe that weather in the middle of October?

Went to San Francisco a few weeks ago. Had lots of fun partying, and hanging out. We hit club Dragon on Friday night, it was okay. Went to Twin Peaks Saturday day, even though it was cloudy, you could still see the bay. Surprisingly, it wasn't windy up there! First time for everything I suppose.

Saturday night, we bar hoped around Castro, which is where I met some cool peeps - although I only keep in touch with Harrison, when we're not crazy busy, since he's a cool guy.

Flat Stanley is a little boy who got crushed by a billboard one day. Ever since that fateful day, he's been traveling the world. Since he's flat, he can be easily (e)mailed to nearly anywhere. Flat Stanley came to my office Friday morning. Here, I showed him my cubicle at work.

Flat Stanley came to me the same weekend Albert and I were to head to San Francisco. Since we couldn't change out SF trip plans, we took Flat Stanley with us on our adventures around SF.

Here's some maps of our travels.

Here's a map of California showing our travels.


Here's a regional map.


Here's where we started from.


Here's a map of SF area.

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After work, we were off to San Franciso. There were three of us - Myself, Albert and of course, Flat Stanley. While on the road, Flat Stanley was playing around with the GPS system to find the fastest way to get to San Francisco.

Once we got to SF Friday night, we checked into the hotel before we headed out for dinner.

After a quick dinner, we met up my friend Steve. I introduced Flat Stanley and took a picture of them.

After an early night of socializing with friends, we headed back the hotel to get a good night's rest.

The next morning we got some breakfast at a Vietnamese restaurant. All of us get some really good hot soup since it was a cold day in San Francisco.

After breakfast, we make our way to Twin Peaks, right in the middle of San Francisco. Up on twin peaks, we can see San Francisco and the bay area fairly clearly, despite it being chilly and cloudy. Surprisingly, it's not windy like it normally is on sunny days.

Stanley points out Market street. On this street there are three levels of transportation. On top, are cars, busses, and electric trains (not the cable car). Under that, is underground electric trains which service many parts of San Francisco. Under that is BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) which services the bay area. It goes under the bay bridge to bring people from the other side of the bay to and from San Francisco.

Looking (almost) north, you can just make out the Golden Gate Bridge. Alcatraz is hidden behind a mountain.

To escape the cold, we visited a few stores on Haight street between Divisadero and Stanyan. This is a nice relaxing area to hang out as there are lots of little stores and parks around. Stanley found a few things that would have liked to purchase, but there is no way he could take them with him in his envelope to his next location far away.

Flat Stanley wanted to buy a lunch pale with his favorite cartoon, but couldn't take it with him on his next trip. So, he decided not to buy it.

He also wanted to buy a mad libs comic book to keep his mind in shape.

After shopping, we met back up with our friend Steve for dinner at "My Tofu House" on Geary street in San Francisco. The food here is really good. Despite the name, most dishes were not comprised of tofu. However, we did order some and it was extremely good.

After dinner, we met up with some additional friends:

I introduced Flat Stanley to Kent. Kent thinks he's a doctor, but we wouldn't trust is doctor advise.

Harrison is a great guy, and is actually a doctor. We would trust his advise.

After a long day, we get back to the hotel. Stanley enjoys a glass of cranberry juice.

The next morning, we hang out at the Castro street fair.

After the fair, we head home. After some time, you can see Sacramento off in the distance - a sign we are getting close to home.

A neat sign on the freeway coming into Sacramento. This is on interstate 80.

Yet another month went by when we didn't go to SF. Here's some random pics from our August trip. We left for SF directly from Regina's Labor Day BBQ party.

The first night, we stayed around Union Squar in SF, and partied in Castro. I've been finding that I've been enjoying The Bar on Castro (TBAC) more than in the past. Perhaps it's my older age, but I've been quite enjoying that place. Midnight sun seems to be dead everytime I go there. I've lost interest in The Cafe. Badlands is just too packed - can't even dance there it's soo packed. It's hard to move around, much less strike up a conversation with someone since everyone is constantly looking for the next best thing.

Anyways, TBAC is a nice place to meet new people. They are friendly, easy going. Nice relaxing, but energetic dance tunes (sounds like a weird combination of genres - perhaps better described as "chilled house/techno") . It's a great chill out bar. My friend Lance and I learned one night, that to get the night started, order a tall long island ice tea - you'll see why when you do.

The second night (Saturday), we went out to Club Papi. Meh. It's okay. I enjoy a good latin tune here and there, as well as a latin feller once in a while, but I couldn't personally enjoy the music too much. I'm not dogging their song selection since they cater to latin guys, but I couldn't take the "same" music over and over. To me, it sounded pretty much the same the whole night, except when they played the occasional english singing diva song. For me, I'll have to pass on future Club Papi events. I enjoy myself at TBAC or the occasional friday night at Dragon when I want to put on muh dancing shoes.

I've posted more SF Pride 2006 pictures. However, due to the nature of the images, you'll need to email me for the password. Cheers..