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2010 Retrospective
2010 was a great year. I rarely write these retrospectives (only 2008 I think), but i think about writing them every year. It is so cheesey, …Japan Tech Friends
A couple weeks ago, I was in japan for some family events. It was a great trip. Hanging out with Hiromi’s family and friends was awesome. …The theme for this spring is travel
Man. It has been a long time since I really felt like blogging. Blogging is weird sometimes. I finds myself being VERY busy and not having …Those parties were awesome!
I am finally recovered from my flash travel/party tour. Being shuttled around the country going to parties is a rough life - let me tell …Our unofficial official wedding party
So the other weekend, Hiromi and I went to colorado to celebrate our marriage with our friends and family. It was fun. It was a party a year …Which laptop should I get
So I am in the market for a new laptop. I am currently using a Dell Inspiron 700M which I purchased a couple summers ago when I was doing …Sitting in the hotel lobby...
Ivan and I are in Santa Clara this week for the mysql conference. We are going to learn how to make threadless so fast that it breaks …The longest time with no Internet in recent memory
So I just got back from visiting Hiromi's relatives in the Yamanashi prefecture. We had a big New Years celebration and had a lot of fun. As …Going to Japan.
So I leave on Sunday to go visit Hiromi in Tokyo. I am excited. It will be my 3rd time visiting her this year and I will be there for 13 …Driving in Colorado
Dylan is driving me and Sarah to my grandfathers house, as I write this. its pretty funny that technology has brought us this far. I cant …Marriage. TOKYO.
So Hiromi and I are all married up now. Exciting. It was a weird and bureaucracy filled trip these last couple months and it all culminated …this weekend. it is now cold out. and i am wearing shorts.
I am freezing. Seriously. It suddenly got like 100 below zero up in this piece. But never fear. i have a coat. and i will where it when i go …whew.. almost all done..
So everything worked out and Hiromi and I were married on tuesday. It was really fun. and really barely more than signing a paper. which i …Big Time!
So i am going to tokyo on thursday to visit hiromi. I am really excited and quite happy. hiromi and i have been dating for quite awhile and …oh yea.
i am pretty sure i was a bit tipsy when i wrote my last rant/entry. hah. but nobody knows. i can’t possibly imagine that it makes a whole …spiders are apparently good luck
So i was playing computer and a spider crawled down my screen. It was really little. really really little. but now that it has disappeared i …kinda tired
i am about to step out and got pick up hiromi. She lands in about 40 minutes. i am going to attempt to time the foster bus perfectly to drop …So i finally came back.
I am currently at home. Hanging out. Having a great time. It is sometime sooo nice to be home. I forget that about traveling. Anyway. I have …waiting to fly
I am waiting for my flight. my family left to colorado about 30 minutes ago and my flight is delayed until 8:00. sad. only 4 hours. i …Man. Oh. Man.
So i am kinda tired. i have been sick for the last month. it is lame. First i thought it was just jetlag mixed with matiss’s germs from his …so.. my experience in tokyo
Sorry i have been in such a “not blogging” mood, but i have been in a real bad state since i got back. I got back last saturday and of …i just woke up... heh. 19 hours of sleep
hahaha. i didn’t mean to. i had set my alarms for 8pm last night. but apparently i didn’t hear it or anything else until about 2 today. hah. …woah.. yesterday i was in japan. today i walked all around chicago.
So i got back this morning. i wasn’t able to sleep or anything so i went on the needed journey to get some project pieces and tools. I went …i made it to tokyo
The flight was long. I mean… LONG. I was sleepy so i slept all the way. but i still got bored on the plane. I really needed to bring a book …I just uploaded a bundle of photos to flickr
Like 1500 photos. I uploaded a pictures from my brothers wedding, random club nights, my trip to india, some holidays and amjadfest. Check …I think its fixed
I needed a quick break while working on yellowikis.us. a site that is supposed to take over the world (we shall see… we shall see…) - so i …oh man. i am seriously on the bus.
its nuts. but i do love bluetooth. connecting to the internet magically while riding uncomfortably in a bus. haha so i am going to madison …this is a long awaited post
I am lost in regards to what to listen to. I need something new. Or old. i don’t know. This is really amazing. For some reason people are …wow. flickr. work. umm... holidays. etc.
So i haven’t updated in awhile. that is.. i haven’t updated since the beginning of thanksgiving weekend. Oh what a weekend it was. Filled …Airport internet. Free. W00t. Blocked.
Oh man. i am sitting here in midway. about an hour before i have to get on my plane. My internet obviously works - due to me being able to …weird...
there is a thunderstorm outside. its november. wtf. i am sick. i haven’t gone out in awhile. i have slept a LOT. a whole LOT. and cleaned. …homecoming college 2005!!
hehe. this weekend i took a flash trip to iowa to hang out with some old friend for my college homecoming. check out the pictures: flickr or …kinda bummed
So i mistakenly packed this swiss army knife that my brother got for me when he went to switzerland years ago in my carry on luggage. I …Radio Fame.
CCGraczyk: I WAS LISTENING TO THE RADIO LAST NITE CCGraczyk: ABOUT 11.20PM CCGraczyk: JACK FM CCGraczyk: 104.3 CCGraczyk: ANNOUNCES …sorta car sick.
its like the rat that has to step on the shocking plate to get the morphine drip to his brain. i am using my laptop and playing on the …driving across the world.
It rules. I am having a great time. it is really fun to hang out with my cousin cole, my mom and hiromi. I am going to miss hiromi when she …harry potter rules.
I just finished the newest harry potter book. I quite enjoyed it. (i have turned the spiolers white - unless you are in an RSS reader) I was …nyc. gay porn again.
I am in nyc. sitting at tommie’s apartment - listening to remixes and puffy electro. awesome. the yoyo contest was a lot of fun. i …YoYo
I am in orlando. yoyoing. it is incredibly nerdy. so so nerdyguess what
no job for me. i have lots and LOTS of things going on. Here is my travel schedule - so if you are around during these times let me know …holy butterball
I am back. i have been back since sunday night - it was a trip. I really liked san fran and i really liked hanging with noah and the gravity …in nyc
oh yea. i am here. well not really nyc. somewhere near i guess. got in this morning around 9:00am after leaving my house at 4:00 (that …nyc
i will sort of be in nyc for the next week. contact me if you are around. i may be able to play. play play play. i just saw batman begins. …heh. dichotomy. wtf
So i was chilling in phoenix and i called my dad. i told him that i wanted to make a website for my grandfather and that my mom and dad …phoenix is rather nice
the weather here is excellent. i likey. work is fun. the environment here is much more “low-key” than in chicago. the people are just as …ohhh... stuff got insane
oh yea. so stability, unrest and insanity are all ways to describe my current feelings. basically nothing is making sense and everything is …weird i know
but i am really rather sleepy. today at work really dragged. DRAGGED. i think i am going to pheonix this coming week. it should be pretty …just the other day
i was hanging out in colorado enjoying the 63 degree weather. worryign about sunburn. wathcing my cousins run around being insane. spray …by the time I get to arizona...
Those are my cousins. of course they are awesome. and I will be hanging out with them tomorrow. it should be fun. I am flying out tonight. …mapper of evil
so I have been thinking about going to des moines to see my friend derek and I was talkign to him and he was all surprised that I woudl be …fixed
i am fixed. but now I need a new book. I imagine I will wait until tomorrow - when I am in colorado. or maybe I will get one tonight. and …when showers attack
so today - I am chilling - taking a shower and my wall attacked me. I was just brushing my teeth in the shower and I turned around and the …so tired. this weekend. etv. weddings are fun and weird
this weekend I went to colorado to see my friend sarah get married. it was pretty fun. I really enjoy weddings even though they are so …Airport waiting
I am sitting here io the buffalo airport waiting for dylans flight to arrive. I am posting this with opera for my phone. Pretty awesome. I …yea.
kfc is a bad ideathis statement can now be made for both the U.S. and india. I should have known ;) tonight. suresh and myself are going out …last night i took it easy
so last night vinay and myself hung around bangalore and went to different catholic churches. I met his wife and his mother and we just …ok here it goes:: pictures pictures pictures
so I finally put the pictures up and here is the “annotated” guide to my photos. there are a bunch that I didn’t include. check them out …done
ftp: 24154010 bytes sent in 1676.59Seconds 14.41Kbytes/sec.not fasthowever I am really dumb and it didn’t work. stupid ascii. I guess …so. this is a story
yesterday and last nigth was pretty fun. guru, siddu and myself all went around bangalore again. this time we hung out in a very popular and …photolog 4 life
i can’t figure out how to get prepaid gprs. so no photolog. :( sad day. oh and before I forget. they played classic rock elevator muzak in …i figured out my phone.
so I can now make international calls to everyone. if you want to prank me - dial 9880281475. hah. umm yea. or something like that. I will …india. i am in.
so I arrived in india. it is pretty awesome. quite a change from california where I have secretly been living for the past ten years. it all …everything is coming together
now hopefully nothing falls apart in the next 12 hours. this is pretty funny. heh. stupid states vote republican. ;) haha. umm yea. stupid …wheee
i got my tickets to india today. it is pretty funny how every little step makes it more and more real. I imagien I iwll be writing on the …i spent some time.
today has been pretty good so far. last night was fun. I went to juggling club. yoyoed a bunch and then went to see the stare play at the …i got the good word.
looks like I am going to india on june first. the duration of my visit has yet to be determined. but maybe a longer time than a week. I …om
i am desprately tired. and possibly amid a financial crisis. in other news. my company seems pretty serious about sending me to india. it …heh. on the road.
I am in a truck stop in indiana eating some food. We should get into columbus around 2 or so. Then I will be installing my servers tomorrow. …omg I should use a computer
So I am in this cab, and he is zig zagging all over the city - possibly in an attempt to raise his fare. I don’t know. He is insane.today …the angels of darkness sweep over you.
i fixed it. well I thought I did. until it wouldn’t reload. I think that our internet here is really slow. I can’t even ssh to my boxen. …I am on the train
Hehe. I rule.where i go
today I am getting my hair dyed. it will be fun. on saturday I am getting my hair cut. that will aslo be fun. hopefully it will all turn out …good morning.. or not
today I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.. which is incredibly hard.. since there is a wall in the way.. but however I managed it.. I am …colorado again
tonight I fly out to colorado. it will be a lot of fun. hiromi will be coming which will rule. I really don’t know what we will do for the …i am so sleepy.
seriously seriously sleepy. I am excited to sleep on my flight. w00t. I love airport wifi. stupid att.Everything is so confusing.
So work got hard again. everyone is super stressed and really getting down about this project. I am confident it will be resolved soon …colorful colorado... REPRISE
so I just got back from colorado. it was nice to see my family and such. here are pictures and such. check out my cousins(cole, kile and …My Trip
here is what I am going to do this winter: Chicago - New York - London - Belfast - Glasgow - London - Vienna - Zurich - Helsinki - Saint …nyc nyc
So yesterday was nuts. I got up made sure I was packed for nyc and went to work. at work - I was whisked away on a cruise around lake …weird
Oh yes.. I rule. Sometimes I even wonder where my money goes.. anyway.. my new plan is to mount everything I purchased on ebay on to my car …wow.
so it rained really hard for a long tie tonight. well not too long but like 30 minutes. the hippie guy that lives next door told me that a …linuxKILLa: i feel like a trophy wife
I really do. It is weird. I mean….Well, tonight my grandfather and cousin come to chicago to hang out. It should be really nice. I am very …Smart
The situation with that girl that was abducted in salt lake city is poised to become very very strange. I mean she was gone for quite a long …trains like buses
I am mad at boston. mostly cuz it doesn’t make a damn bit of sense. the roads all go this way and that. I was not aware of how drasticly …today i am flying
i am flying today.. so here is a good flying link. I leave in two hours.. and just a second ago.. my ipod “lost” a bunch of music… 1.9g …Boston i will arrive in..
Tomorrow I will arrive in boston for search engine training. I am excited but rather bummed that I will be going. I don’t really want to …once again
i find myself in an airport terminal.. using my trusty cell phone as internet access. I was noticing today that I have magically switched my …Free WIFI in DIA
SO I take out my laptop to check my email using my phone.. and I for kicks turn on the wifi card to sniff around.. and much to my surprise I …driving in a car
as I am writing this.. I am driving in a carheheh. i am dumb :(
so I am traveling to colorado, the colorful colorado mind you, and I brought my laptop. so I could watch DVDs and such whilst on the plane. …U.S.A.
the US rules.so much it makes me want to tell all my friends to move here.whee….I wanna live in los angelos
I am now in L.A. visiting my brother.. I have wrote the following entries on the road.. and thus they are out of order.. well they are in …chicago info
here is a good list of books and such about chicago. It covers all sorts of ground. actually this whole site seems to be pretty good.hello. and welcome to the future
kwishot (8:03:47 AM): sup dude kwishot (8:03:53 AM): I'm in Africa right now kwishot (8:04:02 AM): but only 40 secs left before this comp …First time for everything...
I really need a new computer. I would really like a laptop.. with a UXGA screen. For the last 1.5 weeks I have been using my cell phone as …what up...
So New York is cool. Last night I walked from china town to my hotel in midtown. Wierd.. heh. so I show up to seybold and notice that …The magical mystery tour
This weekend was a great time. I modeled in another fashion show. I don’t know if I have any pictures as yet. I hope so. I met some rather …a lot has happened
since I last updated this page. On thursday.. I found out that I would be accompanying a bunch of servers to vienna, virginia in an …Late Night in the airport.
So I was walking in DIA heading to my terminal when I noticed a set of “net terminals.” I laughed and thought “how nice, free internet. Now …One year.
I recently came back from a nice little vacation. My girlfriend and myself have dated a little over one year recetnly and we had a nice …10 Months and the long drive ahead...
So my girlfriend and myself have been dating 10 months. That is a real long time for me. I mean it is nothing compared to some lucky peoples …I love other countries
Hehe. i sometime wish that i didn’t live in such a repressed community. to see what i am talking about check this out. heh.Spring Break
HeHeHeHe Its spring break. weeee. off to colorado. i have job interviews as well. hehehehehe. i am sooo excited.Anniversary
Well, i am off to colorado in two days. My parents will be having an anniversary party(they have been married 27 years). It should be fun. …Ireland
Today has been good, well the whole break has been good. my friend amanda is here visiting. its nice and fun. I had a good first of the …Insanity
I am going insane.. i spent 12 hours in a car today.. word.. that is a lot of hours.. i usually don’t mind.. the drive from iowa.. but this …Finishty
So i finished my class today.. it was nice to finish.. i hung out with kinnera some more.. woohaa.. it was nice… i brought my camera to …solution
I finally fixed this journal… hehe i got back from minne-sota today.. it was fun.. i saw my friends sarah and ladawn.. as well as my friend …chinatown
I haven’t left any messages in awhile… i visited cornell the other day… wierd.. the buildings are all so small and there isn’t enough …