Dinner Feast Prepared by Brent

I just posted a few entries of the new apartment that may stretch through more than one page. Please take a look at it. The last post will be one of my room. KTHX ^_^b

The Table is Set

Annerbur (Annabel) is quite excited & so is the fun little fam

Delish Ensalada

Digging in & mixin the Salad

New Apartment Part 3

We're on the Second Story, not to be mistaken with a French Restaurant. Our stairs up... Mike hates the effort it takes to get to the kitchen for a beer.

The toilet room is separate from the bathroom
Mikes Room
Bathroom

New Apartment Part Two

My Room and the Toast

I moved into a new place in the Mission District of San Francisco the other week and after a couple crazy weeks of work and moving, I finally found some time to take a few pictures and upload them. Here we go.

Brent taking a look at the cork from the Dom P he just opened. The champagne was delightful, even my dad liked it. The next 4 pictures after, are few different views of my room. For the most part, it is done aside from getting some pictures.

Rating for Reviews etc.

Just a quick thing to think about when you are giving someone a review (ie. after you buy a car you may get a survey or Yelp or whatever else):

If you have the 5 options, whether it be stars, the popular strongly dislike-strongly like, or any other type of survey that may effect the business of a place thing of it this way. If you are giving 4 stars out of 5, you are basically saying they are below 80%... Is this really a C to you? 5 stars = 80-100%. I know this post is not well constructed, but realize that your consumer surveys do make a difference.

Quote from Ed Droste

I was reading an interview with singer Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear and really liked this quote:

"I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair. I'm as guilty of that as anyone else. The only thing I find a little strange about the download culture now is that people have so much music at their fingertips that it's really easy to dismiss an album quickly. I'm speaking from my own experience, where I've caught myself downloading a bunch of albums and then I sort of listen to one and I'm like, "Eh." And I wasn't really giving it my all or listening to it in the right order. I caught myself one day where I was like, "What am I doing? This is so not how this artist intended it to be."\

I'm with him on this. When you get something new, something unfamiliar, give it a listen. Then listen again and again. After five or so tries, over a weeks time if you do not like it, okay. If you do not give an album a chance like this, you will never really understand it.

Two Bands I recently found:
-Discovery
-jj

A few more pictures from Paris

So here are some pictures from my week in Paris. I will give a little explanation with each.

Here is a picture of me after a day in Versailles, after I mistakenly allowed Kyle to lead us to the Metro stop. Kyle basically has the worst sense of direction of anyone ever.. He lead us about 2-3 miles out of the way to get to a metro.... I should have trusted my instincts and just gone the way I said it was. Well, either way, this is a picture from the Metro stop where he would say, "your face when...." This one is a squirrel in my pants.


This is my face being frustrated with Kyles amazing sense of direction


This is my expression when we finally found a Metro stop

Okay, so that is it for that little sequence. There are some more, but my flickr account is maxed out for the month.


This was on the train after versailles, when were heading back to Paris.


I think this was in Versailles, but I don't recall (the city area, not palace)

For all the 14 year old, middle class girls that have such a difficult life and are contemplating suicide... Don't use pills, do it this way.

I found this painting to be quite beautiful / Another picture of kyle and I before we went out.. Cute huH?


Okay, well that is all for now.. Maybe I'll post some more pictures of art, versailles, etc.

I find this video to be of the awesome kind

HAHHAHAHAHAHA... Yes, Kyle is grabbing some bull balls

Paris

Well, I have now been in Paris for about 4 days and have been enjoying it thoroughly. However, for some reason Kyle and I cannot get up before noon. For instance, the other day we woke up at 8:00a.m. (it was still dark outside) and we started talking and listening to music before falling back to sleep until 1:00p.m. I guess all the walking and sightseeing is making us tired, who knows.

So far we have been to Galleries Lafayette (huge mall), Le Louvre, Notre Dame and many other neighborhoods. We have had many great conversations (with people from around the world) ranging from things to do in the city to books to read and how easy it is to move to another country.

Well today we are planning on going to the Musee D'Orsay, the Eiffel Tower, do some shopping (kyles feet hurt, so he needs to get some new shoes) and then possibly a concert. We are also going to venture around and try to find ourselves some French girlfriends. It is unbelievable how well all the girls dress. This led Kyle and I to try and learn some additional French. Kyle's memory isn't the best, so I had to remember how to say, "I love you" "You are very Beautiful" and "can I have a kiss." Kyle just greets them, then I have to do the rest.


I am still a bit tired right now, so I am not going to type much more than this, but I will share some pictures.

These Police were out and about because there was a huge protest down rue st. michelle (the street we're staying on).


Kyle gives thumbs up to boobs.


We are crying because we are le tired


Notre Dame... wasn't sure if kyle was in this or not, guess not.


Kyle enjoying a Baguette on bridge of the Seine River


Enjoying a little espresso with breakfast (or lunch, it was probably around 2)


Clothing for the evening

Off to Paris

Well, I am going to be leaving for Paris in a few hours. People keep asking me if I'm excited and to be quite honest, I am not. Only because I have this little thing called a 14 hour flight that I have to sit on before I get to Paris and for those of you who are not 6'3 (yes, if you are 6'2 it doesn't suck) or taller, it sucks. I will be meeting up with my good friend Kyle and we will be wandering the streets for a week. We are staying in a hotel in an area called St. Michelle, which is beautiful (it was one of my favorite areas when I was there last time). It is supposed to be pretty cold, so I packed every coat that I own and some thermals, etc.

I am also taking my camera (as expected right?) and hopefully I'll take some good pictures of the sites. I could only hope to take pictures 1/2 as beautiful as the ones below, which were taken by Zach Pianko the last time I was there (if you ever need some photos [wedding, sweet 16, Bar Mitzvah] you can find him at zackpianko.blogspot.com).