"writer's block impedes...."

it's been a bit difficult these days trying to find the time to blog. it's not that i am short of any stories of life updates to say, i just haven't found the time. and when i DO find the time, these days that time has been put towards sleep. i think the sleep deprivation has made it very difficult even to put my thoughts in coherent words. everything is jumbled in "coding" mentality which if you translate computer code into real life, it's broken english and a lot of redundancy.

maybe that's a reason why my grammar is so poor and at times no better than a 3rd grader?

sleep is something that i value a lot these days, especially since i don't get much of it. right now, i'm in this rhythm where one night i will get a great night's rest (7-9 hours) and when i wake up i feel like a million dollars (especially with my comfortable bed); then the following night i know that it will usually result in me working until 5am in the morning. last night was the long night but i didn't think 5am was all that bad last night. at around 2am everything just started clicking then i suddenly forgot that it was 2am and just kept on coding and coding with the hopes that it was a stroke of genius rather than a moment of insanity thinking that it's correct.

last weekend, i watched one of my good friends getting married. that weekend in general was crazy. starting from saturday morning:
7:00am wake up and get ready for bike ride
8:00am morning bike ride with mike, jackie, and jerry through alum rock
9:15am traditional morning coffee at starbucks at the end of the bike ride (which by the way, if you haven't already tried their new hazelnut macchiatto, go and do it, cuz its BOMB!!!)
10:30am went to work AT work @_@ yes.... saturday is now a work day
2:00pm got chewed OUT by upper management.... *sighs* and i remember thinking to myself.... i need an effing drink
3:30pm finally left work and started the epic trip down to socal
8:15pm made it into socal 4.75 hours.... not bad? i remember thinking to myself how dead highway 5 was on a saturday afternoon and what was more impressive was i didn't see one cop on my side of the whole drive!
9:30pm me, trev, angela, and dk head out to paint the town red.... barhopped around and discovered my new favorite drink: Old Fashion.... had maybe 5 of them... each old fashion holds about 2 - 3 shots of whiskey / brandy.... oops.... =P
3:00am and I thought we got back at midnight!!!! but apparently we didn't get back till 3am

Sunday:
7:30am woke up because i naturally wake up for some weird reason and get some work done (yes, i brought my laptop with me)
11:00am brunch in culver city with my best buds and enjoying the beautiful day out
1:00pm get back to rest up.... intending to take a nap but so did not happen... watched dodgers game instead
4:00pm wedding!!!!! i had every intention to leave the wedding at 8pm since i had to drive back but here i am in a wedding with all my college friends in the same room at the same time (it rarely ever happens) and it was just getting funner and funner as the night went on and next thing i knew it was already....
11:30pm UGH.... started driving back to san jose.... this was SO not the plan... u ever have moments when you look back and think what the hell were u thinking back then? that was one of those moments... that was one of those moments that at 7:55pm, i most likely told myself: "ah... i'll just stay.... i'm having fun now.... we can let 'future adrian' worry about that drive later" and i was cursing past me for screwing over future me!!!! but the drive was not as bad as i thought...
4:15am made it home safe... sent out my customary "i got home safe" text messages to everyone who was worried about me (thanks guys) said hi to my lovely puppy... crashed on the bed and woke up at...
8:00am in time for my 9am meeting at work.... WHICH by the way, the meeting was cancelled because at 9:05am some people couldn't make it in on time for the meeting to be at all effective... i was like REALLY?!?!?! i just drove 400 miles in the middle of the night, working on fumes and lack of sleep and even I made it in on time.... BAH!!!!

so that's where that was... and here is where i am now.... i don't know how much sleep i've gotten or rather how much i'm lacking... but it's friday.... happy friday to all.... it is a slightly happy friday for me, but i'll only find out after i check my work... i'm a bit nervous to do so because i'm in a happy mood right now thinking my stroke of genius(insanity) last night has me hopeful that it's working that i will be devastated and damn near close to flipping a table to find out that my code is completely incorrect.....

lets keep our fingers crossed

so much for writer's block LOL