last post for a whileeeeeee

so ive been all over the place out here and therefore terrible at updating, my bad

song of the day is courtesy of win jones, good work buddy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuebHTD-lY

earlier in the week i went rock climbing with derek and its gonna be my new impulsive hobby, i can already tell



we didnt actually do any toproping (using belays and harnesses etc) but we did more bouldering which is just climbing routes that go up to like maximum 12 feet and you dont need all the protective stuff. Derek insta turned into a 6 year old and was running around and rolling on the mats like a gymnast on crack

but its really fun and good exercise and something new so A++, plus we can go when the climbing gym is totally empty like mondays at 11 am so its great

im on a reading kick so I spent the rest of the week finishing up The Jordan Rules (book following the chicago bulls through Michael Jordans first NBA championship season) and Into Thin Air (story of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster) and they were both awesome. Now im on to reading the roy williams and agassi autobiographies so i can steal their secrets and become wildly successful at whatever I do



sabo's birthday was the 9th and scott's was the 12th so we had some people over friday night to hang out. Being the perfect planners that we are, we managed to tell about half the people it was 80's themed and forget to tell the rest. We were gonna go to a thrift store to get 80ish clothes friday afternoon but we all fell asleep, so sabo and mithil dressed normal, sean wore an ugly christmas sweater, i just looked like an idiot, and scott ended up looking like a miami vice character. success? this is actually the only picture i took all night, but emily and felsha and juliana were allstars and rocked 80's to the core



my friends from across the bridge even made it out (and they were dressed to a TEE) but all those pictures are on maren's camera so i will put them up later

then the next day, two teachers from sabo's school were having a christmas party at their place in san francisco so we threw on some cocktail attire and meandered on over and sipped some eggnog and chummed it up. it was a fun time and their place is awesome so hopefully we can schmooze our way back soon.

on our way home from the party our friend Angel took us to one of her favorite taquerias where sabo and I promptly ate 5 tacos each. Theres a wonderful authentic taqueria on every corner of every block in san francisco and I will miss that when I leave fosho



sabo, scott, and mithil were ALL sick this week (hahah the 3 of the 5 of us in the house who interact with the real world = sick) so ive been desperately trying to avoid it before I fly out wednesday. Its all gonna be in vain because I know I will get owned as soon as I get back into the continuous sinus infection pass off between the baker/dew households in NC but we can all dream

Sabo and I have a tour de california planned after christmas break, which should be really fun. he doesnt start school until pretty late so tentative plans are

jan 1: we both fly back into SFO, we drive to tahoe
jan 2-3 : snowboard at tahoe
jan 4-5: drive to mammoth and snowboard/ski there
jan 6: drive down to pasadena
jan 7: go to alabama vs texas at the bcs national championship game
jan 8-11: bum around southern california down in OC and LA and san diego
jan 12: make our way back up to oakland

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

see you all soon love NICKY

ps - i typed this up while distracted playing cards so ignore something if it doesnt make sense

byebyebyeybyeybeybe

im finally starting to decorate

it only took me like 3 months. I printed a ton of random pictures I had saved on my computers and from facebook that made me happy from home and random travels and am putting them up everywhere. I decided on very expensive frames for every picture as you can see. Even milo and abby made it up there

for those of you already trying to scrutinize and see how many pictures you made, go ahead and click the images and they will get bigger so you dont strain your eyes too bad







i didnt take pictures of every picture (head explode) for you guys to see but you get the gist

I think im gonna get some plants tomorrow (I saw a plant called "lucky bamboo"and i decided i need it immediately) so maybe JUST MAYBE the room is starting to come together

printing out all of these reminded me of how fortunate I have been to travel so much... its still my favorite thing ever. It also gave me a serious urge to see a new country, so expect an update soon where I impulse bought plane tickets to Fiji or something. i know i know, ROUGH LIFE, but its gettin time for me to get a little this in my life



Im flying home dec. 16th to jan 1st, looking forward to seeing everyone!

Thanksgivingggggggggggggggggggg

Song of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7MK5Esy-L0

I encourage you to right click the song of the day and just open it in a new tab and let it play in the background while you peruse

Wow its been a week and I havent updated... I bet youre all just sitting at your computers crying and refreshing the page and waiting since this is the GREATEST BLOG OF ALL TIME (GBOAT)

Thanksgiving was relaxing up here, Scott and I went down to the rec center last week and played basketball with some local 15 year olds. Each of us had about an 18 inch height advantage, so a typical possession went:

1. Nick shot (miss)
2. Scott rebound (without jumping)
3. Scott put back (miss)
4. Nick rebound (without jumping)
5. Nick put back (miss)

etc. etc. etc. SKILLS. see you suckahs in the NBA



Thursday morning I took scott to the airport, swung by justins place in the city to pick him up, and then headed towards Sacramento to eat thanksgiving dinner with maren and her family. Justin is a fellow professional button clicker and maren is one of his good friends from law school. They both live in San Francisco and are good people


LOVE THE CANDID

I took my camera to thanksgiving but managed to take 0 pictures (trend?) so I had stalk this one from facebook. Maren is awesome so of course her family was awesome and they were as nice as they could be. It got out that Justin and I were professional poker players so we had to own some of her younger cousins after dinner in card games. Hustling teenagers on the basketball court and then in poker, BALLIN. When he was broke and started making wagers with Itunes gift certificates we knew our job was done (we didnt make him pay). Justin and I stuffed ourselves and chatted it up and then headed towards Lake TahoeEeeeee (2 hrs from sac)

Driving into tahoe I look in the rearview mirror and see this



YESSSSSS. The cop walks up to the passenger window and is noticeably angry. He tells me I was going 56 in a 40 and that he has been "FLASHING LIKE A UFO" behind me while I proceeded to drive for 300 additional yards (not sure how this was possible by the way). I tell him I was focused on the road in front of us and sorry I didn't see him. Justin is on his laptop in the front seat and the cop starts yelling at him, asking why HE didnt see him. "WHAT YOU DOIN ON THAT LAPTOP SON, YOU PLAYIN TETRIS ON THAT THING????" Justin just looks confused and says he doesnt know ahahahahahha.



So im like well this is great. He gets my license and registration and starts asking me about north carolina, if I like wilmington etc etc. He says have you been drinkin son I say NOPE. Its like a switch flips and he is suddenly our friend, cracking jokes and chummin it up about NC. He eventually tells us he wants to "catch a drunk" tonight and that we aren't his guys and lets us go. SHIP ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. Thank you God and thank you officer harrington

We roll into Tahoe, drop our stuff at the hotel, and go hit up one of the casinos for some poker.

Cliff notes of poker: Justin and I play cards for 4ish hours with the worst people ever but are never dealt hands and situations to take advantage of it. We sit folding 74o 30 times in a row while contemplating about ripping our hair out. We get owned by fish for like 100$ each and go to bed defeated, angry men

Ok it wasnt that bad but we did both actually lose money which is kinda funny considering we play for a living and these people were clueless. C'est la vie (look how cultured i am)

Lake tahoe was awesome and looks like this



It was snowing like crazy the day we were leaving so I cant wait to go back ya heard

Then I made my way back to Oakland and shattered the healthy eating plan. I ate a large mushroom pizza, 8$ worth of food off the taco bell 89 CENTS value menu, and 24 inches of subway in something like 36 hours. BLOBASAURUS rex reporting in

Phew this got long, ill put up the roommate post soon so you can see who i live with