hanging out with friends ...

I'm hanging out with Patrick, Bethany and Josiah ...
It's 10 o' clock at night ...
Eating pretzels ...
I'm craving vanilla ice cream ...
We're getting ready to play Settlers of Catan ...
I'm hooked ...
Sheep and Ore and Brick ...
We're having a baby in 23 days ...
It's my life ...

anger issues ...

let's be honest ... growing up, I had anger issues ... I lived for a fight ... at school, at home, in the neighborhood ...

in the 6th grade, I fought the school bully ... he punched me and threw me on the ground ... everyone laughed at me ... with poise, I jumped to my feet and ran toward him like a train ... I knocked him down a steep set of steps ... he rolled to the ground ... then I ran to the principle's office ... by the way, the bully was hispanic ... yep ...

one time, I fought my brother Jeremy in the kitchen ... I was so angry ... I jump kicked him in the face ... true story ... now he's in a rock band ...

in the 8th grade, I was so angry at this guy ... my brother and I schemed a plan to attack him ... Jeremy slowly crouched down behind him ... out of nowhere, I ran at him and threw my body toward his chest ... he flew back and tripped over my sneaky crouching brother ... we broke his arm ... my mom grounded us for a week ...

one night, I fought my friend Dave Reichle in the Applebee's parking lot ... I was so angry at Dave ... he pushed me ... I tiger kicked him in the stomach ... he never pushed me again ...

fortunately, I'm a bit less angry these days ...

what's up with Redding?

It seems like everyone moves back to Redding ... why?

I moved away to San Diego ... I moved back to Redding ...
My wife Erica moved away to Cottonwood ... now back in Redding ...
My brother Jeremy and Meghan moved to Seattle ... yep, Redding ...
My brother Benji moved to Sacramento ... and Redding ...
Dan and Alyssa to Riverside ... they moved back to Redding ...
Todd and Deborah Skinner to Brentwood ... Redding ...
Dave Reichle moved to Portland (I think) ... and he's moving back to Redding ...

And Jeff Yoder is thinking about moving back to manage Red Robin ...

oh yeah, I forgot ... everyone who has ever lived in Redding has also worked at Red Robin ... but that's another blog ...

I dedicate this blog to Shannon Pirie, Sean Bagley and Richie Masadas ... we miss you ... come home ... and Moses Lam ...

david and nicole lim

yep, David Lim is finally married ...

I just got back from the wedding reception in Chico ... unbelievable ... this blog is a tribute to David Lim ...

a couple of years ago, it snowed in Redding ... everywhere ... david lim and I decided to go for a walk around town ... when it snows in Redding, everyone gets weird ... people dress weird ... and people do weird things ...

we found a shopping cart near K-Mart and we pushed it to the top of a hill ... for some reason, david lim decided to get into the shopping cart ... running as fast as I possibly could, I pushed that shopping cart down this steep hill ... and I jumped on back ... we flew ... have you ever seen the film 'Radio Flyer?' ... yep ...

anyways, I will miss david lim ... enjoy marriage ... enjoy life ... enjoy snow ...