Santa Cruz Island

Ventura County Friend: We're going to Santa Cruz, you should come with.
Me: Santa Cruz? what for?
Ventura County Friend: To kayak, hang out at the beach, hike, snorkel
Me: You're driving five hours up the coast to... play at the beach?
VCF: no... its like a hour away.
Me: are you flying?
VCF: no
Me: Santa Cruz is like 300 miles away.
VCF: ...hold on, let me check the e-mail.... ... ... ..... ....


Santa Cruz Island.
Me: Yeah, thats different.
VCF: yeah.





I can be on Whale Wars... or Dangerous Catch... or something.

There are kayaking pictures. But the Ventura County friend took those, so maybe I'll see them, or maybe I won't.

Home

405 to 101 to 154 to 101 to 1 to 156 to 101 to 680

Los Padres Forest


San Simeon?


Mill Creek


Big Sur


Big Sur


Bixby Bridge


Bixby Bridge


Bixby Bridge

26-23 OT

So yeah, all those people on the field... and you see a sea of speckled blue and white. I realize its mainly white people out there. I also realize its cold and maybe blue winter wear isn't the first idea on your list. But can't you fork out some cash for more blue to watch your "ranked" football team?

(Yes I probably didn't wear blue to football games during 2004-05, but the only bowl games we were considered for during those years were ones involving toilets)

And the issues we had with the sod, non existent now that we beat a upper-middle tier team finally at home?

So off to play a so-so team from the "well lets all suck this year" PAC-10.

Point Cougars!

BYU and UTAH Battle for 2nd.

One more week and BYU/Utah get to battle it out for 2nd place.
BYU has won their games more points. The game is in Provo. BYU is 4-1 against Utah in Mountain West battles when I am NOT in the state of Utah (0-5, when in the state).

Come on BYU, Kaakun needs some FB bragging rights for a year. I mean come on, the A's and Sharks come up some what short.

Though I guess bragging we're the 2nd best team in the MWC isn't that impressive...

That Makes Me Miss Salt Lake

Android 2.0

I got my Motorola Droid. Its not bad... the touch screen isn't as nice as an iPhone and overall not as pretty. But its a pretty solid phone. Kinda like the Hummer of phones. Android 2.0 is pretty nice too.

Rubber Cement

So the phone has been trying to give up the ghost for the last month or so.

Its a slider... and well became a flip phone for a second.

So I busted out some rubber cement I had from a previous lil side project from March '08 and glued the sucker back together... making it less hingy...

It just has to last til the 19th. So we'll see what happens with that.

Pre-Halloween

Roommate: I have an idea we can get Star Trek costumes and you can be Captain Kirk and I can be Scotty (his name is Scott).

Kaakun: (blank WTF are you thinking stare)

Roommate: No?

Kaakun: (blank WTF are you thinking stare...still)

Awww Bill Watterson

Last Week Continued

It was kind of foggy at the beach.


Nixon library.

Tried to get the nep to raise his hands at the helicopter door.... instead he danced?

up in the Crystal Cove Canyon

Newport

Sunny Newport

Knotts Berry Farm

So the fam was in town last week. Off to Knotts Berry Farm we went (since two years ago we did the Disneyland thing).

Knotts Berry Farm?!? What is that my non-Californian readers asks?

The ugly red-head stepchild of Amusement parks, opened in 1940. Then left behind by the Six Flags, Disneylands, Sea World, everyone else of the amusement park world.

We did seven of the nine roller coasters. One being closed... the other needing six people to be able to be safely operated.

As we sit there... waiting for two more people.


As you can see, kind of empty on an autumn afternoon... Pretty much makes you feel like you're in Zombieland and about to be attacked by zombies.


You can just see the nep's excitement.

Oh Knotts, I guess I can't complain, $28 to have your own theme park for a day. They kick you out at 5:30 to prep for Knotts Scary Farm... which is when they let the zombies out I assume.

OC Auto Show

Never went to an Auto Show before. I guess the OC Auto Show isn't the first one you should go to. I saw most of the same cars in the parking lot... yawn.

Grant it, I had to pay to park my car, I got the show ticket for free...





Nothing like having guns at an auto show... you know if you want to hold up a place and get a get away car.... and only want to make one stop.


Hmm.... don't you hate it when your Camero can walk away?




Yawn, an electric car. Oh a Tesla... how awesome.


Oldsmobile... and their "Hey we're just not for old white people" concept car.


oooooh fancy.

Yeah overall its probably not even on par with Salt Lake's.

I mean you see fancier cars in the parking lot. Maybe if I was in North Dakota...

Kaakun Made a New Baby...

Blog.

http://yaysun.wordpress.com/

We'll see how long this lasts...

Capitalism: A Love Story

really should be re-named, "Corruption and Greed are bad..."

I'm pretty sure you can get a Catholic Priest to say anything is evil and of the devil.

Posted by Mary... Four Minutes Ago

Maybe its a little hard to see the caption



inappropriate? seriously?

Lets dive deeper into this...

Greg looks happy, maybe he has an Asian fetish?


Mary is shocked!!! She doesn't know who she married!!! He'd befriend a non-aryan brother?



It was better than previous ideas, harassing Rebecca showering her with hugs as I dangled off her swan-like neck. Now... that could be considered an inappropriate hug. At least there are shirts on.

Rotten Tomatoes 100 Worst Movies Over the Last 10 Years

link

I haven't seen any of them, I guess that means I have amazing taste in movies?

First!

Matt Carson (played for BYU 2000-02) hit his first home run last night.

Also happens to be the first MLB player with the last name Carson to hit a HR.

Go figure... Carson seems like it would be a common baseball player's name.

This should be some good news for an athletics program that is busy complaining about the new sod. link

MWC to TCU: Help me Horned Frogs, You're My Only Hope.

So the MWC got a big kick to the balls with BYU and Utah getting beat on by unranked opponents from the big bad look at us we're BCS conferences. Yep the fall TV premieres haven't even kicked off yet and the "Cinderella" season for BYU and Utah have already gone down the drain...

Anyways, last week I found the Kogi BBQ truck... Hey we're LA. Look at us we like hype and moving things around and fusion.

Mix that all together and what do you get?

A three hour wait in a parking lot to get something from a roach coach.

They own/rent/steal three trucks. Cook up some BBQ, mix in some things and shove in a tortilla. You know where they are from their website/twitter.

The Arizona-ites have done it with Chinese food, we can do it with Korean.

THREE HOURS...



This is who we stood behind. An Asian with a big camera!!! and a blond girlfriend. whhaaaaat?!?!

Ha

White kid from Idaho in the A's Organization

Mortensen: Well, first I signed to go to BYU, but a month before the school year started, BYU's head coach called me up and told me I didn't get accepted. And I said, "You're the head coach. Can't you pull some strings or something?" And he said, "At any other school, probably. Not at BYU."

Probably why the MWC isn't a baseball powerhouse...

09.11.09

So eight years ago, I was on my way to service, wheel chair basketball. Playing basketball with a bunch of Japanese handicaps and some Japanese co-eds, it was... well quite entertaining.

Spreading the good word was good fun and all... avoiding getting in a five chair pile up with angry, aggressive cripples... much more fun.



See good times... it was a good thing to look forward to... (Elder Zemp didn't want to be documented in a potentially incriminating photo with young females so... he turned around)

Well, since it was at a gym, they had TVs and we got to see the jaw-dropping action footage going on halfway around the world.

Fast forward 7 years and 11 months.

Kaakun: Mary, on a scale of one to ten, one being you'd publicly spit on my grave, ten being you'd fly cross country if I was terminally ill to nurse me back. How much do you like me, and be honest.

Mary: Three.

Kaakun to Greg: A THREE?!?!?!?!?!

(I wonder what low level Al Qaeda lackeys would get... couldn't be much worse.)

Anyways, Greg and Mary go gallivanting on their honeymoon, go back home to see their new apartment and it's not quite up to Greg's sometimes anal cleanliness standard.

So they spend like four days cleaning everything, before they move all their stuff in. Needless to say they busted out the AWESOME group wedding gift of camping supplies spearhead by yours truly and made use of them.

That coupled with the historical events of today should at least net me a score of 4...

She used to look at this blog. I think it was just to see Havasupai pics and recaps... So obviously she must have tailed off from being an occasional visitor, since Havasupai was a good 16 months ago.

I don't know if I get anymore visitors.... I should look into that.

09.10.09

So the attempt to be a...

musician, failed (note musical instruments sitting in corner gathering dust)

athlete, failed (note hockey stick/golf clubs sitting in corner gather dust)

southern Californian billionaire, failed ( note smoking jacket and billions of dollars sitting in corner gathering dust)

Philanthropist.... failed (see previous post)

video game wizard... failed (thanks for nothing Fred Savage)

chef... thanks to hours of the Food Network and the Internet. Kaakun is slaving away over a hot stove and cooking Cafe Rio knock off Barbacoa Pork. I don't remember what Cafe Rio tastes like anymore... so I can't say if it was a good knock off.

Here is my reasoning, no one minds if you're fat and overweight if got mad culinary skills.

What to Do?

So I was in a Trader Joe's, buying my stuff. This lady was bent over the counter three lanes over, talking to the cashier. By the time I was walking out of the store, she was sprawled out over the floor, with four people crouched around her.

WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO DO IN THIS SITUATION AS A CHRISTIAN/FORMER BOY SCOUT/NON DOUCHE?!?!

She is elderly, she probably lived a good life, heck apparently all this organic hippie stuff didn't help her breath better.

No one is shouting out for help.

No one is shouting for a doctor (which I am not anyways, not even CPR certified).

Standing around calling dibs on what possessions she may have in her purse did not seem like a good use of my time, so I left.

(Didn't even take a pic with my cell phone to add a picture to this post).

10 Years

So TGUK re-released Something to Write Home About.

So that required a trip down to Best Buy... because you need a 2nd copy of a CD you already own.

Anyways needless to say its still a top 5 favorite cd.

Random Jim Suptic quote.

"The punk scene we came out of and the punk scene now are completely different. It's like glam rock now. We played the Bamboozle fests this year and we felt really out of place... If this is the world we helped create, then I apologize."

Wooo College Football!!!

It was entertaining to watch live... and still entertaining.

The DVR is Going to Have to Start Working Again

glee wed sept 16
the office thurs sept 17
community thurs sept 17
how i met your mother mon sept 21
big bang theory mon sept 21
two and a half men sept 21
Castle Monday Sept 21
grey's thursday sept 24
Dexter sunday sept 27
Californication Sunday sept 27
30 rock thursday oct 15

the who knows when
Burn Notice?
southpark? 10/7!
scrubs??? (just out of curiosity of how much the "new" show will blow)

Veggies?

So the roommate's girlfriend came for a visit.
She brought her brother.
He likes eating things that don't really move when they were alive (they also have no disregard for the general public and reproduce in broad daylight the nerve!).
They were only here for a weekend so some of his food was left behind.

One of these things was Veggie Buffalo Wings.

yes, who knew veggies had wings?

Ingredients:

TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN (SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, WHEAT GLUTEN, WATER FOR HYDRATION), WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CORN OIL, CORNSTARCH, WHEAT STARCH, CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF SALT, METHYLCELLULOSE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, ARTIFICIAL VINEGAR FLAVOR (MALIC ACID, SODIUM ACETATE, LACTOSE, FUMARIC ACID), POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, GARLIC, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS FROM NON-MEAT SOURCES, SPICES, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, TAPIOCA DEXTRIN, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DRIED YEAST, CARAMEL COLOR, MALTODEXTRIN, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, PAPRIKA EXTRACT FOR COLOR, XANTHAN GUM, SODIUM ALGINATE, CELLULOSE GUM, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, INULIN FROM CHICORY ROOT, ONION, ANNATTO EXTRACT FOR COLOR, NONFAT DRY MILK, DEHYDRATED BUTTER* (CREAM*, NONFAT MILK, SALT, ANNATTO COLOR), SODIUM ACETATE, PAPRIKA FOR COLOR, MALIC ACID, BAKING SODA, CELERY EXTRACT, WHEAT FIBER, LACTIC ACID, BARLEY EXTRACT, NIACINAMIDE, EGG WHITES, CITRIC ACID, SUCCINIC ACID, IRON (FERROUS SULFATE), THIAMIN MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1), PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), VITAMIN B12, TURMERIC FOR COLOR.
*ADDS A TRIVIAL AMOUNT OF CHOLESTEROL

They weren't that bad actually. Crazy I know... still no idea whats in em, even after reading the list of ingredients.