Uhh. What the hell kind of a showing was that? Garcia, as much as I wanted to see you succeed, you're going the way of Kurt Warner and just totally collapsing. It was nice knowing you but your accuracy just ain't what it used to be. Bring on the future. Rattay and Dorsey for QB.

Alright folks. I just want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Haha. You're all pretty good friends and I'm thankful for it.

Heh. I ruined my franchise. I acquired 5 first round draft picks for one year's draft. However, at the same time, I was left with a lot of cap penalties and low available cap. First rounders are generally more expensive so I had to let some people go and make some other trades. I'm not happy with my team. Haha. Although, with the first overall draft pick, I acquired a pretty good wide receiver from San Jose St. Hahahaha. What are the chances of a first overall draft pick coming from San Jose St.?

I didn't blog about this earlier, but I can't not mention how kick ass of a gift tickets were to watch a concert headlining with Rooney. Watched it yesterday and must say it was awesome to go see a concert of a band I'm a big fan of. They rocked but I definitely must tip my hat to the Sounds of Sweden. They rocked, arguably, even more.

LOL. Mark your calendar's everyone:



April 2, 2004: Rich's Straight Debut



Fancy invitations, coming soon?



Hahaha! Dude. That would be so freakin' classic; everyone please convince him to have a botillion. And solo, money, and hula dances. Easy money.

A blog for blog's sake.



Did someone say "sake"? A drunken party of some sort would be cool. Drunken party? Does anyone wanna go to New Orleans some time? Or anywhere for that matter? I just remembered I have a plane ticket coupon.

Is there anyone else out there as disappointed as I have been with the recent Smallville episodes? Don't get me wrong, I'm still a fan, but these last couple of episodes have been kindaweird and not as good as the first couple of ones. I dunno. They're kinda interesting but not as interesting as before.



And what's up with Lana only being in this one for like a minute? Haha. Not only that, but are we gonna be seeing even less of her now? Haha. Clark, man. That sucks that now she wants to start staying away from you. Hahaha. Sheesh. You might as well go to your Fortress of Solitude.

I thought this was funny last night during the Monday Night Football offensive introduction for the starters. You know how the starters all get to introduce themselves? You know... it goes like:



"Tim Rattay from Louisiana Tech."



And then they show he's the QB and then move onto other positional players, like...



"Terrell Owens..." then he pauses for a little while "... from another planet."



Hahaha. TO. As frustrating as some of your antics are, you're still one crazy cool mother f****r in my book.

I'm telling you, Timmy is freakin' crazy.

Timmy, you're awesome. Barlow, you're awesome. TO, you're pretty awesome, too. Defense, you're awesome. Way to go Niners!

Jennifer Garner is hot.

Blogging sucks. Hahaha.

Heh. I never got to see it, and I remember Chris telling me about it, but have you guys seen the Matchup of the Millennium? I think a couple of years ago they wanted to see who the best NFL team of all time was. After some voting or something, they put together all of this old footage and did some interviews and made it real game-like and all and had the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970's "playing" at the San Francisco 49ers of the 1980's.



What's cool is they're talking about who's playing for the team and who's in the stands (they show former Presidents Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, Jack Nicholson, Frank Sinatra). Joe Montana is starting, throwing to Jerry Rice, John Taylor, and Dwight Clark. But Bill Walsh didn't rule out Steve Young to play in the game. Of course you gotta have Ronnie Lott, there's Roger Craig, Tom Rathman. The assistant coaching staff Bill Walsh assembled consists of Ray Rhodes, Dennis Green, George Seifert, Mike Shanahan and Mike Holmgren.



I dunno. I think it's really cool.

Oh man. Monday Night Football tonight - your San Francisco 49ers versus the Pittsburgh Steelers. I hope we get out of class early enough for me to see the first kickoff.

I thought I'd take a cue from my brother and get in the holiday spirit by posting Jeng's 2004 Kick-Ass Christmas Wish List, giving you all ample time to forage through your couches and find some extra coin to spend on the Jengster.



Haha. I'm just kidding. Unless you have money to burn, I don't expect any of this stuff but I thought I'd just post it and perhaps if you were so inclined, y'all could post your's as well. I dunno. My "wishes" tend to be on the pricey side. I guess it starts off innocent enough but then gets pretty crazy. So here we go.



Jeng's 2004 Kick-Ass Wish List

- My freakin' Computer Engineering degree

- Snowboarding Gear

- Apple PowerBook G4 (15" SuperDrive)

- Apple Power Mac G5

- Apple HD Cinema Display (23")

- Some sort of large screen, flat panel display

- San Francisco 49er Season Tickets

- Bushnell Instant Replay binoculars to go with those tickets

- A private jet timeshare

- If not the above, any airline tickets to fly around the world will do (preferably redeemable before 2005)

- Porsche 911 Carrera

- Mercedes Benz 2004 SL600 Roadster

- 2004 Mini Cooper S (just for kicks)

- A house

- A winter vacation home

- Jessica Alba (or even Britney Spears)

- Laser Eye Surgery

- No questions asked, repayment unnecessary, business funding

- The winning Lottery ticket



Hmm... There's more but this list is getting long. I'll add some more later.

I almost forgot...



Cowabunga, dude! Kettle corn popcorn, M&M, ranch dressing and tabasco sauce supreme-topping pizza is gnarly! Turtle power!

Ok. I know I'm a bandwagon jumper to the Harry Potter ordeal, but in case you didn't know, the teaser trailer for Book 3 (The Prisoner of Azkaban) has been released. This turned out to be my favorite of the series so I'm kinda looking forward to this one. Haha. Riddikulus!

My brother, or maybe my sister, bought, or maybe borrowed, The Debut DVD. I watched it. It's kinda weird and cool in some ways. But there's also some stuff that I found uncool. Ah well. Good effort.

I'm on a blogging frenzy today. Anyway, I don't normally watch music videos or anything but Hands Down by DC is on and it's the first time I think I've seen a DC video. I think seeing a DC video is weird for some reason. Haha. It's cool though.

Do you guys do a lot of Google searches? In their labs they have the Google Deskbar in beta right now. Basically, it just adds a text input area on your Windows taskbar. I haven't really used it too much yet, but it looks promising. Haha.



Yes.

And so, 10 minutes after the spelling test, I'm told:



"k im done. so wussup"



Haha. I think that's funny.

When did you get your first cell phone? I guess they start 'em young nowadays, along with online addiction. Sheesh.



Today I got two IMs from two of my younger cousins who might actually read this blog. They're in junior high. One was supposed to be in silent reading time but, as he said, "I'm bored." The other was about to take a spelling test and told me she'd "brb" after it. Are they the only ones in their classes with cell phones? They say "no." That's ridiculous.

Aw man. So that kinda sucks. I found this discount Tahoe card thing (costs around $45) where you get one free lift ticket ($55 value) and 5 free equipment rentals (they say around $125 value). The only problem is that it's for non-holiday use only, and the holiday period is pretty long. Shucks.

Haha. Some of you may think this is a weird blog, but f**k it. Hahaha.



So this week has sort of been slowly turning into a bad week. Actually, Wednesday (yesterday) was the starting point for badness, I guess. I was making inexplicable mistakes left and right. Perhaps the worst of the mistakes is freakin' school. I used to be smart, honest to God.



Our professor, who by the way is a wench, returned our midterms on Wednesday. I knew I didn't do well but I swear I thought I did better than what she gave me. So I sent her emails and even went to go talk to her and then the shit hits the fan. It's utterly ridiculous. I studied pretty damn hard for that test. And for those of you who know me, you know I'm not a studier. In my other class, which I'm doing better in (I hope to God), my professor was slightly disappointed in the personal projects we were demo-ing for him. He told me to try again. It's understandable, but I'm having a tough time figuring it out. I just want to get through this damn quarter.



I don't understand what's wrong with me... It's tough to remain optimistic about the rest of the year. But I guess you gotta take the good with the bad, huh. On the bright side of things, I guess I have my health, somewhat. Haha. There's still an inkling of hope in that dreaded class with the wench of a professor. My other professor didn't have to but he gave me a second chance to fix that problem on my personal project and I'm confident (perhaps unjustifiably) that I can figure it out. At work I actually seem to be more on top of things because I'm getting projects that are more fulfilling (for lack of a better word).



All in all, this quarter has been a pretty humbling experience. Yet despite this, and it may sound arrogant, if I can get through this quarter, I am supremely confident in my potential to do great things. You'll all see. Hehe. And hopefully y'all will reap the benefits as well.



It's sort of like that line from No Doubt: "And when it's really bad, I guess it's not that bad."

I use Evite. I'm sure many of you do as well. I'm also sure many of you use Friendster. So I just thought all you Friendster addicts out there might find it interesting that Evite plans to compete with Friendster. I guess it's actually not that interesting but I just thought I'd throw it out there. Ah well.

LOL. I've never really listened to the lyrics of "Macho Man" by the Village People. It's on the set of disco CD's I just got and I must say, the lyrics are pretty funny.



Body (Body)

Body... Wanna feel my body (Wanna feel my...).

Body... Such a thrill, my body (Such a thrill, my...)

Body... Wanna touch my body (Wanna touch my...)

Body... It's too much, my body (It's too much, my...)

Body... Check it out, my body (Check it out, my...)

Body... Don't you doubt my body (Don't you doubt my...)

Body... Talkin' bout my body (Talkin' bout my body)...



I've got to be a mucho, mucho macho!

Dig the hair on my chest! Yeah!

I said, dig my big thick moustache! Alright!

I've got to be a mucho, mucho, macho, macho man!

Big broad shoulders! Yeah!

Dig my muscles!

Talkin' 'bout a mucho, mucho, macho man!



LOL.

Hehe. I just got my order of disco CD's in the mail yesterday. Haha. Fun stuff.

I'm an idiot on way too many levels.

I F***ING HATE ELEN 115: Electronic Circuits WITH A F***ING PASSION. YOU F***ING BITCH OF A CLASS! I HATE YOU!

Hahaha. You guys are funny.



"KRA-KOW!!!" went the thunder and lightning.



"HOLY SHIT!!!" I woke up to the sounds of screaming. I opened my eyes to people running around the room in a frantic pace. I felt water on the carpet dampening my shirt.



In the midst of all the confusion I just kept thinking, "Holy crap! The room is flooding!!"



So I proceeded to close the door where the water was entering through. Wait. That didn't stop anything.



Oh. Someone just spilled water on the floor. Haha.



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Hahaha.



"Since when do they make cameras for left-handed people!?"



The audio for that scene is pretty funny.

It's my dad's birthday today. If he's reading this, it's probably not a good thing. But if he is, happy birthday, pops!

LOL. It's like I'm asking for it or something. Dumbass.



Most of you who know me know that I'm not the cleanest guy around. My office's a mess, my unshaven face is a mess, my bathroom's a mess, my room's a mess, and more's a mess. My car's a mess, too. Today there was a mixup at work. Because of the mixup, I have to go and drop one of our heavy-ass servers off at our Santa Clara campus (I work in Menlo Park). To transport it I have to use my car. And I can't lift up this heavy-ass server by myself.



So I get one of my cooler coworkers to help me. He's one of the project managers and is arguably an important guy around these parts. I figured we'd put the server in my trunk so before we went out there, I went by myself and pushed a lot of stuff to the side, making it a little cleaner. But oh wait. There's another package that needs to go in there, too, that I forgot about. So when we get out there, he says we gotta put the back seat down and make more room and stuff. So he starts to help me out and begins moving stuff. I thought nothing of it.



"Don't worry about anything. I don't really care about this stuff. Just throw it to the side."



"What do you have these goggles for?"



"Oh, that? It was for my old chemistry class. Haha." I haven't cleaned the trunk of my car in awhile.



"What is this?"



"What's what?" I was moving stuff around and didn't see what he had picked up.



"This right here?"



"Oh. That's a..."



"Is this a [piece of paraphenalia]?" (Actual words have been replaced)



"Uhh. Nah-"



"It is!"



"It's not mine. It's my friend's."



Haha! This is the same coworker who probably mentioned to my boss I'm a bit laid back. Now he probably thinks he knows why. It's cool, though. After that he just said, "You should've just said it was for your chemistry class, too."

It's probably not gonna happen, though. Hahaha.

I should delete AIM from my computer. Haha. My screenname has been on for - let's see now - the last eight days? And for what purpose? Haha. There is no purpose! It's like I'm growing dependent on it as my only means of communication. That's no good. Haha. Freakin' AIM.

Sweet, Mother. Lord, have mercy. I'm not normally the praying type, but God, do I ever need You. I absolutely must pass this class.

Haha. JayJay, another question you could ask is why does Michael Jackson look like that? Man. Before he went into the doctor's offices and had whatever plastic surgery done, do you think he asked the doctors to make him the scariest looking creature on earth?

I'm a Honey Bunches of Oats cereal fan. At the moment I'm trying the one that comes boxed "with Real Strawberries". There's something peculiar about them, but I'm still a Honey Bunches of Oats cereal fan, even with real strawberries.

Heh. In our computer labs at school, my login name is "dreyes" (obviously initial of first name concatenated with the last name). Everytime you make a printout, the first page that comes out of the printer is a page that has your user name printed on it. Heh. In one of my classes, another guy was making printouts. His last name is Eng. His first name starts with a "J". Haha. Whenever I see his printouts, I always think they're mine.

Awesome. Freakin' freakin' awesome. Sheesh. But if not 8-1, we should at least be 5-4. Dammit. Great game though.

• Division rivals coming in with a four game winning streak



• Substituting a 3-time Pro Bowl quarterback with an unproven backup into a huge game that could've killed any playoff hopes. Rattay, you're f****n' crazy! Audibles? Seriously. Audibles!? AUDIBLY AWESOME! Haha



• Battered offensive line giving awesome protection!



• Missing leading pass rusher and down to third string free safety against a respected offense; holding them to 10 points!



• Cedrick Wilson getting redemption on the first play of the game with a tone-setting TD kick off return



• Mike Rumph, previously picked on cornerback, getting an interception and making plays



• I gotta say man - defense, you are totally freakin' awesome! Haha



• And the receivers! Brandon Lloyd, future Pro Bowler. Tai Streets, solid playmaking crazy ass. Terrell Owens, next time, roll down your freakin' windows when you got crazy fans like us next to you! 20 Crabs!



• Making extra points!!! AND a field goal! Yeah, LaFleur! Yeah, Peterson! You guys are crazy!



• Going with friends. Freakin' awesome.

Football. Mother freakin' awesome.



Some fun things from the cheering section:

"LET'S GO NINERS!"

"WHOOOOOOOO!"

"DE-FENSE!"

The Mini-Wave. HAHA!

"LET'S GO GOLD RUSH!"

"YOU CAN DO IT!"

"COTTON CANDY!"

"NINERS!"

"HEY MISTER, DID YOU BRING A BAG OF CHIPS, TOO?"