Posted by Kristian Golding on December 24, 2004
To all who are reading this blog, I wish you a merry Christmas! I don’t know where you’ll be spending yours but I’m seeing what San Francisco has to offer in the way of Christmas festivities. Alright, it’s been a hell of a ride so far and I have to go now for some sightseeing before I get called a nerd again.
Checkya later.
Posted by Kristian Golding on December 22, 2004
I really should be getting some rest at the moment, but I have a problem with getting any sleep before I’m due to catch a plane the next morning. I have this fear that I’ll sleep through my alarm so I’ll spend most of tonight waking up every half an hour and checking the time – and that’s even if I do get to sleep!
I got this SMS from one of my friends who I’m meeting up with in LA:
“Hey Gringo! Campfire tunes are going to crank. We just purchased a guitar, maracas, bongos and a flute from Mexico 🙂 Adios amigo!”
The next 2 weeks are going to be packed full of stuff. Tomorrow I fly into LA and whilst there am going to check out Venice Beach, Malibu, Beverley Hills and Hollywood. The next day we begin the drive to San Francisco which is about a 400 mile drive. We spend three nights in SF, doing such things as seeing Alcatraz and a whole bunch of other stuff. I’ve seen to it that the schedule for SF will be nice and busy. After SF we drive to Yosemite national park and spend two nights there. After that we go to Lake Tahoe for skiing and snowboarding, and perhaps snowmobiling. We spend New Years Eve in Tahoe which is supposed to go off! Looking forward to that. Then we drive to Phoenix and I spend a day hanging around there. I get back on Tuesday 4th Jan at 5am in the morning, and then I go straight to work. Hehe, I’m going to be stuffed.
Right, I better get to sleep… right after I transfer these Spanish lessons to my iPod. Hasta luego!
Posted by Kristian Golding on December 18, 2004
I’m going to a Christmas party tonight and I’m trying to decide what to buy for a secret Santa gift for a woman who has a good sense of humour and a couple of kids. Three options are currently buzzing around in my head:
2) Heidi Klum’s Body of Knowledge: 8 rules of model behaviour
3) “Has Been”, by William Shatner
The Heidi Klum book is just up there for a laugh. I could just imagine a mother wanting to take life advice from a model.
I was thinking with the William Shatner CD that she may have had the hots for Shatner when she was younger. I dunno. Good for a laugh anyway. I know if anyone bought me that CD I’d be stoked (that’s the well suppressed Star Trek fan part of me writing that). Plus, Ben Folds helped produce the CD so quality lingers.
I think I’m going to settle for “America: The book”, just because I know it’s damn good and I think it’s a good gift for an American. If she hasn’t already got the book it should go down well.
Posted by Kristian Golding on December 13, 2004
It seems that today is one of those days that just seems to drag on forever. I’ve been trying to get motivated to do my work but so far that’s taken nearly 7 hours to do. My body just feels like it’s a ragdoll.
I went to see Santos Renuentes play last night at a place called Broadway in Aventura. They were awesome again. They have a new lead guitarist who’s only 24 but he added a whole new dimension to their sound. It was a really, really good performance. I was talking to the band members commenting on how good they sounded afterwards and everyone seemed pretty pumped from the performance. They’re hoping to get a record contract in the near future. Good luck guys!
I recently changed my diet a bit. No I’m not getting fat, not even with the American diet, but I just felt that cow’s milk didn’t do it for me anymore. So now I’m having soy milk on my cereal in the mornings instead. I’d say that I’ve been feeling a bit better generally, but I’m not sure if that’s a false perception I’ve set up for myself.
I decided to change web browsers as well. Internet Explorer has not done it for me for a while now so I’ve been using something called Avant Browser which added tabbed browsing to IE. It was good for a while but I grew tired of it occasionally crashing. I’ve made the switch to Firefox and I’m so glad that I did. It’s quick, hasn’t crashed and there is a slew of plugins that can be used. I’ve added ones to show the weather, stock prices, google image previews, auto copy of text, and a Gmail mail present indicator. I find I need at least 6 tabs open at once when I’m trying to find solutions to problems. That’s basically what I do actually. I am the solution guy. If there is a problem somewhere I program up a way to fix it. I wouldn’t say I’m an ace engineer – far from it. I just know how to find stuff. Firefox makes my life easier 🙂
God that was nerdy. I better sign off now before I do any more harm to my image!