Dinhternet

This week, peo­ple came to my site after search­ing for:

Daniel W (“gov­er­nor watts” x3)
Bran­don T (“bran­don take­mori”)
and Michelle E (“michelle encarnacion”)

I haven’t men­tioned any of you by name in a while. Are you search­ing to see what I said about you, or is some­one else cyber-stalking you? Hey, it could be a friendly stalker. (From Qwantz.com). Maybe a long-lost rel­a­tive look­ing for you? (From Wondermark.com.) Or maybe you’re just an online celebrity?

Sur­pris­ingly, I almost never get hits on my site from searches for my own name. Or they are good enough to not need to Google me. Which isn’t that hard, now that I think about it, because I try to put this link up everywhere.

Time for another update as I wait for some feed­back from Sophia C.

Let’s see… Mon­day… woke up and bummed online for a while. Peggy woke up and got ready, and I went over to pick her (and Harry Pot­ter) up and we went to Paintchip real fast for her to resched­ule her inter­view, and then to IHOP for break­fast with Bran­don, Joe M, and Lin. I told myself I wouldn’t eat, just sit and chill with every­one, but IHOP’s spe­cial right now is fun­nel cakes, so I had to try it. The fun­nel cakes were pretty good, although incred­i­bly small. I sup­pos­edly got two, but they both fit on a sin­gle cof­fee saucer.

Bran­don ate his Inter­na­tional Club in the odd­est way pos­si­ble — he asked for ranch, A-1, and a cou­ple other sauces, mixed them all on a plate, and would dip his sand­wich in it. Then he real­ized he didn’t get avo­cado in it like he asked for, so the server brought him some on a dif­fer­ent plate. Not sure how to incor­po­rate it into the sand­wich, I jok­ingly told him to mash them up in his sauce dish. And he did.

After break­fast, dropped off Peggy on cam­pus, and then went home and started crack­ing on Harry Pot­ter. I didn’t stop until Joe M called me around 7, when he got off work. He picked me up and the two of us headed over to the ARC to work out. (And as far as the ARC is con­cerned, my name is Bran­don Take­mori for Sum­mer Ses­sion I.) Saw a whole bunch of APhiO peo­ple, includ­ing Thu H, who joined us. Quote came up as we hit var­i­ous machines.

Yeah, she learned fast that if it’s not heavy, it soon will be. Any­ways, we worked out until the ARC closed, hit­ting up basi­cally every machine there was. By the end, I couldn’t lift my elbows above my shoul­ders to save the life of me.

Joe M dropped us off at home. I took a shower and then went online. Peggy came over to watch Stef Lau on Jimmy Kim­mel Live. Except that seg­ment was about the Harry Pot­ter release par­ties, and they had a guy run around doing silly stuff and read­ing from the mid­dle of the book. Peggy would cover her ears and sing loudly to her­self, so even I couldn’t hear what Stef was saying.

After that, Peggy would “study” and I kept ready­ing Harry Pot­ter. Which really means I would try to keep her from dis­tract­ing her­self as best I could. I think she got tired of it after a while and went home. I just read until I passed out.

Here’s a bonus post for every­one; I’m going a day back and cov­er­ing Peggy’s birthday!

Woke up around 9 because I was so anx­ious about fin­ish­ing her gift. Went online and waited for some­one from Kitty’s apart­ment to go online so I could ask to come over. In the mean­time, watched some animé and read some manga.

Kitty came online about 12:30, and said she had to shower first. In the mean­time, I went to get the sprin­kle dough­nut that I owe her. First I went to Albertson’s, because they have Krispy Kreme dough­nuts there. But as soon as I closed the door to my car, I real­ized that I had locked my keys inside. Grr! Stu­pid me!

Since I had no phone, either, I went to look for a pay phone, but I didn’t see one any­where around. Went into Albertson’s and asked to use the store phone. They were nice enough to let me, and I called Eddie C, one of the few num­bers I have mem­o­rized. (Sorry, guys. After I got a cell phone, I stopped remem­ber­ing them. And Eddie C’s is the only one of the Davis peo­ple I know who hasn’t changed their num­ber since before that.) He called around and even­tu­ally got Bran­don to come with his AAA card for me. Which leads to that day’s quote -

Hehehe. It’s cool, Bran­don, I wasn’t wait­ing very long at all. And I do the same type of thing all the time.

So yeah, he called for help, and the tow truck guy came and picked my door. It’s scary how easy it is to get into my car. All I need is a wire coat hanger. And if I’m feel­ing fancy, that plas­tic wedge he used to not dam­age the win­dow­pane or insu­la­tion around it. It took him about twenty sec­onds in all.

After that, thanked the guy and Bran­don. Went inside the store, but they again didn’t have sprin­kle dough­nuts. How do all the places in Davis have dough­nuts of every type except sprin­kled?! Gave up and went back to Sun­tree. Went over to Kitty’s and apol­o­gized to her about not get­ting a dough­nut again. Fin­ished the stuff for Peggy. (And the gift for Bethany, actu­ally. I just haven’t been able to call her and make sure she’ll be home for me to drop it off. Damn phone!) Kitty and Jeff were study­ing, and Jeff pro­vided lunch of clam chow­der and sour­dough bread for all of us.

Went back to the apart­ment and did a lot more plan­ning online with Mommy Van and Sophia C. I was going to take a nap, but ended up not hav­ing the time to do so. Mommy Van said that Applebee’s doesn’t do reser­va­tions, so I went at 6:30 to make sure they would have room for us. When I got there, though, they did have a table wait­ing, so it’s like they do do reser­va­tions… I was con­fused. But glad that I didn’t have to bitch at them. I told peo­ple to be there at 7, because Sophia C was sup­posed to kid­nap Peggy around 7:15 and get her there by 7:30. 7:30 came and went. We were all sit­ting there wait­ing for Sophia C, and she showed up and told us Peggy had gone to Wal­mart. In Dixon. What a brat!

So I drove Sophia C, Amber, and Drew to Dixon to get her. Despite what my pas­sen­gers may tell you, I had com­plete con­trol over my vehi­cle at all times. Got there and didn’t see her car in the lot, so we were afraid for a sec­ond that she had turned around already, but no, it was just hid­ing in the very cor­ner. Parked next to it and ran inside. I think the man­ager was slightly alarmed by the fact that we were run­ning around with water guns and ban­danas over our faces. Found Peggy and Po, and squirted them both. Sophia C was also hit by Amber. The man­ager yelled at us that we were cre­at­ing a safety haz­ard and I had to take the water guns out to the car. Waited for Peggy and Po to check-out, and then led her car back to Davis.

Oh, and Peggy says that she knew we were going to have a sur­prise din­ner for her because we didn’t do any­thing for her the whole day. How cocky is that?! She went to Wal­mart on pur­pose! Grr… That’s OK, next year… no sur­prise any­thing!

I think Peggy finally got her “sur­prise” around 8:30ish. Had din­ner. It was the stan­dard Applebee’s fare. Mommy Tang came just around cake time, which was unex­pected. Peggy creamed me. I thought about get­ting her back, but my plan back­fired slightly. That’s OK… I take back what I said before. Next year, we’re cak­ing her.

After din­ner, stood around in the park­ing lot for a while. Gifts were given. Hope you got every­thing you wanted. We finally went back to Sophia C’s and watched movies. Scary Movie 3 and Attack The Gas Sta­tion to be pre­cise. Every­one trick­led home. I went online shop­ping with Esther for a bit, and then went home myself.