Another Beautiful Day

Today was just another beautiful day in Paradise. Alison & I did a bit of hiking in Osos at one of my favorite dog walking spots. Check out a map of our hike or download it to Google Earth.

We had lunch in Avila with Katie and Conrad, some good friends from Santa Cruz, who now go by the name of Katerad. It was either that or Connie :)

Then, just to make sure my carbon footprint for the day was enormous enough to make up for all those days of van-pooling, I drove down to UCSB to watch the Gauchos destroy my Mustangs in soccer. The drunken UCSB fans were doing some serious hating, but some of them were hilarious. The funniest thing I heard someone say was "Go home! Your cows are getting loose". Yeah, well your couch is on fire, and your yard is falling into the ocean!

It was sort of hard do decide who to cheer for since I work at UCSB and I got my degree from Cal Poly, but it was a great match either way.

Set your clocks back. Goodnight.

Uuktuberfeist with Spanglerkel

I ran in an Uuuktuberfest fun run this past weekend. Mellissa Spanglerkel talked me into going out there, and I had a great time. I didn't exactly push it, and the only training I did involved curling silver bullets, but I was happy with my time. If you don't know already, it's time you found out that I'm always rushing to get wherever I'm going. This day was no different. I woke up with plenty of time to spare, but I just waited and waited around my house until there was just barely enough time to make it to the start line before the race started. I then realized I didn't have any cash to pay the entrance fee, so I made a quick pit stop by the ol' faithful parents house to borrow $10. Thanks mom and dad. The run was fun, and then I kept things going by hiking up to the Eucalyptus grove at the edge of Montana de Oro state park. Good times. Jeff and Alison need to run next time. Here are some pics.
Here is a video.