Daniel Spisak on Technology

So its been a full week since my birthday and I’ve been silent for a variety of reasons! Mostly I was dealing with my taxes, a ton of schoolwork, and catching up on some reading. Now throw in processing the photos from my birthday party, Jason’s 30th birthday party, going up to Long Beach to see Aaron perform with the rest of Downright live and trying to go to the gym on campus to workout and its been sort of a busy week.

As I write this right now the photos from the three previous events are being uploaded to my photo gallery website and I will provide links here for all to see once they are done uploading.

I want to thank everyone who made it to my birthday party, it was a total blast and I had a lot of fun! In the future I think I will just tell people to show up at 9PM however since no one was there at 7:30PM, but I more or less expected that to happen. I know some people were not able to make it for various reasons but its all cool, people let me know in advance so there wasn’t any big surprises there.  Jason’s birthday party at Dave & Buster’s the previous night was a blast also and it was good to get to see him again. Not that I dont see him usually but this quarter is just sort of working out that during the weekdays I have very little time in the evenings to do anything not related to school.

In other news I went up to Hollywood last night for my friend Annette’s 34th birthday bash at The Cat Club off of Sunset.  I got to meet some of her other friends from LJ and her roommate as well. Everyone was pretty much totally awesome. I almost didn’t make the trip up there however since it wasnt supposed to start until 11:30PM, but I told her I’d go and I decided I didn’t want to be one of those people who flakes so I made myself go up there even though I knew my money situation was crappy, but better then the last time I talked about it on here.

So after parking ($10, ugh) and getting into the front door ($10, blargh, well at least it wasn’t $20) I was confronted with an absolutely PACKED club. As it turns out Glamnation was up on the stage that night playing their final performance. They ROCKED! Did I mention they did a cover of ABBA’s “SOS”? It ruled. Later in the evening Jimmy Fallon from SNL got up on the stage and started doing his Jim Morrison impression, singing a Doors song or two. I forget which it was by this point, but he was pretty damn good at it. Afterwards they got Annette up onto the stage with  the band and had her blow out her birthday cheesecake (which was sinfully awesomely delicious I might add). By this point it was not far from closing and everyone said goodbye as it started to rain outside.

Amazingly enough, on the way back to my car as I was walking I found a $50 bill on the ground. Nobody was around so it must have fallen earlier in the night so I grabbed it and counted my lucky stars, every buck helps after all. Of course, awesome karma like that has to be followed up by something not so awesome. As I was driving south on La Cienega to get to the 10 freeway I was stopped at the light at Wilshire and some drunk-ass bitch in a VW Jetta managed to bump into the rear of my car. Luckily I saw her coming and noticed she didnt seem to be slowing down enough so I was able to move forward just enough that all she did was tap the bumper lightly. Annoying, but no harm done. She even waved to me from her car in that kind of “Sorry I’m a drunk jackass” kind of way. I didn’t bother to pull over or ask for insurance because I really didnt care and the bump barely registered so no harm no foul in my book.

Anyways, that some of what I have been up to lately. Now I have to go finish my laundry so I can get up to Matt, Trina, and Steve’s apartment to hang out for the weekend.