Hanging out in South Bay.

Today was Memorial day, and I decided I had to check out a few of the areas I haven't yet. First I made my way to downtown Campbell. (Downtown is a relative term in this case). It was a nice little strip, so I grabbed a water at the local Starbucks and surfed the net.

After that I decided to visit Los Gatos, another small town that I was told about when I was searching for apartments. On my walk around their downtown I ran into a Lotus/Ferrari/Lamborghini dealership. They weren't open but still amazing cars to dream about. One of the Ferrari's had a listing price of 129000 and that was WITHOUT a warrantee... I guess I better start working harder.

Campbell CA

*Drool*

129000... not anytime soon :(

Old school movie theatre.

Only I would do this!

Today we had another wave of great weather. it was about 37C (99F), so I went out did a few errands, cleaned up, and hit the gym. But what does every Canadian dream of doing when it's 37C out?

Findding a rink to play 90 minutes of hockey! So that's what I did. It was awesome. Much more intense than I was expecting, which is awesome. Mostly young college guys who haven't missed a beat of hockey their whole life. I still held my own, but I don't think I should continue to expect to be able to work out intensely before hitting the rink. They have a drop-in game at least once a week. Hopefully I can work this into my schedule. It was a ton of fun.

Logitech Ice

Man I'm going to be sore tomorrow, I'm out for now.
-Alex

Apartment, Work and Paintball.

No pictures today, but this weekend, I'm spending all my time working, Fixing up my apartment and today I played some paintball with a couple of guys from work.

Last night I was up crazy late with work, close to 4:30 in the morning. It was a pretty long night. Today was pretty great, I got up pretty early and went out to Los Gatos Pursuit for some paintball. It was pretty awesome. It's up in the mountain areas towards Santa Cruz. It was pretty cool. I really wish I had brought my camera, because there were a few times it would have been awesome. There was a few moments that we were in firefights that reminded me of a few videogames. Chris from work was actually doing the Solid Snake Slither (thing MGS4) to avoid enemy fire.

Tonight, I've been trying to finish up my apartment so that I can finally be finished moving in, and post some images.

I'll post again shortly.
-Alex

New Car

I finally reached a decision, and leased a car. I gota 2009 VW Passat.

It had all the features that I was looking for, including having a sunroof, while still having adequate headroom. It also has plenty of leg room, which is something, that was really annoying me about the Mazda6.
The engine really appeals to me. It is a 2.0T which has amazing gas milage for a regular gas engine. (Approximately 24/30 MPG). But what impresses me the most is it's acceleration. It hits 0-60 in 7.4 seconds. Not bad for a 4 Cyclinder Engine!


I'm still finishing up things with my apartment, and I'll be posting pictures soon.