This first fish is one from the Georgia Aquarium.





I'm starting to get my stuff somewhat organized at home. I know some of you may be shocked, but I cleaned the kitchen last night and it made it much more pleasant in there. Also, an old lady came by selling stuff she makes. I bought this wall hanging from her for $50. It is made out of tree bark with dye made from the tree, hibiscus, and other things that grow around here. She said she makes those to make a little money and that all of the materials cost her nothing since they grow wild here. I thought it was a pretty fair price. Also, she threw in a tiki carving. I'll include a picture of the hanging. Also the pictures of my house aren't too good, but if you are trying to figure out what is going on, there's a canopy hanging over most of the living room. I think I'm going to remove at least part of it. The ceiling is probably 15 feet high. The thing I bought is the brown and cream colored thing not the big piece of cloth hanging up. I have some seriously ugly curtains right now too. Jaymie might like them though, there are turtles on them.

Yesterday was the worst weather day by far. It just poured all night and then in the morning was still at it. It finally cleared up about 3pm, and then was pretty nice after that. Still hot at all times though.

I also bought the workout machine from Cost U Less. I can't rationalize paying $50 a month to work out in a crappy gym, especially when I have so much extra space at home.

For dinner, I mixed the "lo mein" with the curry, and that was pretty good. Hong Kong House may not be the best quality, but they don't cheat you on quantity. I have plenty left still to have dinner tomorrow and maybe Thursday too.

I got my bodyboard yesterday. So from Hawaii, it looks like mailing stuff takes about a week. Who knows how long my stuff I mailed from the Rock will take to get here. Everyone here is guessing about 2-3 months. The post office said 2-5 weeks I think. Supposedly, my stuff that I shipped was going to get on an earlier ship than planned. I don't know if that happened and if so when it is supposed to get here. The original day was March 19.

I listened to the gipsy kings very best 2 cd set as reccommended by Shane. It is really good. Thanks bittorrent.

Adrian, did you see I joined your stupid NASCAR league? Unfortunately, we don't get the ocho over here, so I won't be able to follow it too closely.

Huskies: I don't have much confidence right now... even less than 7%. I don't think they'll get thrashed anymore, but I also don't know if they can pull out the close ones at all yet. They could conceivably pull it together finally and win the tournament, they have the talent. But, I'm not hopeful at all. 4%. (oh, and I mean win the Pac-10 tournament)

And now... the unsolicited baseball predictions- standings edition:

NL East

Atlanta 91-71
Mets 87-75
Florida 86-76
Philly 76-86
Washington 55-107

NL Central

Chicago 93-69
St. Louis 88-74
Houston 88-74
Milwaukee 85-77
Cincinnati 76-86
Pittsburgh 61-101

NL West

Los Angeles 92-70
San Diego 88-74
Arizona 82-80
Colorado 74-88
San Francisco 71-91

AL East

Yankees 96-66
Toronto 89-73
Boston 86-76
Tampa Bay 71-91
Baltimore 67-95

AL Central

Chicago 96-66
Minnesota 87-75
Cleveland 83-79
Detroit 82-80
Kansas City 60-102

AL West

Seattle 89-73
Anaheim 86-76
Texas 79-83
Oakland 76-86

So the answer is no, I didn't sit at work doing all this crap. I write these at home the night before and bring them in to upload- so starting tomorrow, I'm going to write in the present tense when doing that instead of past. Now... know what I mean? Or maybe you had another question. That answer is no also. I've never picked any team to win the AL West beside Seattle.

I saw my first gecko at my house last night. He didn't do the robot dance though.