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Sunday July 30, 2006 2:47 PM
    Amazingly enough, I finally finished the last post just a couple days ago.  I had started the post right around Spring Break, but only to get swamped with a boat load of work, and so I pretty much put it on the back burner until last week. Between school and my job, I suddenly had no time for my site anymore.  Well, I still don't technically have time, but I'm trying to make some.  Too much time spent on MySpace hasn't helped either.

This summer I... went on an adventure.
    I've had a rather busy summer as well.  I took an Anatomy for Artists class that finished about two weeks ago, and I just got back from a major family vacation that took Eileen, my mom and dad, and I on a drive through Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and finally Montana for the Haniuk Family Reunion: 2006.  We hit five national parks on the trip: Little Big Horn in Montana, Yellowstone in Wyoming, and Arches, Bryce, and Zion in Utah.  There are so many photos from this trip that the gallery will actually have chapters to break down the trip by the parks we visited, the actual reunion, and so on.  
     My plan is to upload a "chapter" at a time, but hopefully I won't take as long as I took for the Christmas pictures... yeash.  But so everyone knows what I'm dealing with, the total photos from both cameras have been tallied at a total of 1,442 photos... and there's still another card somewhere to download!  I will sort through and find the choice photos section by section...  so this should be an easier task for me to create (rather than if I was to do it all at once), and hopefully this will be a more enjoyable experience for you the visitor (in that you get to follow my adventure chapter by chapter rather than rummage through hundreds of pages in a single gallery).  So stay tuned for the first chapter coming up shortly...

Yesterday I... went to the beach.
    Just yesterday, Eileen and I went to Huntington Beach to check out the surf competition and meet up with my cousin Aaron (who I just met for the first time in Montana), who is working the Sobe booths at the event. We watched the motorcross event, which was pretty cool, although one of the riders messed up his tail bone when he bailed off his bike.  He walked away okay so that's good; he's probably had worse injuries in the past.

Why Orange County has $$$...
    The same evening, we decided to check out the Orange County Fair.  I spent a little bit of money at the surf competition before hand, but not much, and I had in my mind that the Fair was probably going to be about the same.  Man was I wrong.  Between Eileen and I, we spent $5 on parking, $16 to get in (this is at 10:00pm!), and $14 on food... for a total of $35 in about 15 minutes!  We thought about riding some rides like the bumper cars or the ferris wheel, but at $4.50 per person, we decided to pass.  After a $5 photo booth and $9 worth of games later, we had enough.  So my hypotheses is this: people from all other cities come out to the Orange County Fair to spend their hard-earned money while Orange County continues to get richer.  Sure, John Doe from the Inland Empire can walk home a winner with his big stuffed animal after spending $50... but who really wins?

Other stuff...
    The last movies I remember seeing are Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, Over the Hedge, and X-Men 3: The Last Stand.  I liked all three personally, but both animated features didn't have anything noteworthy.  I liked Over the hedge a bit more just because of the humor.  X-Men 3 was pretty awesome, although X-fans that expect consistency with the comics won't be too thrilled.  Appreciating this movie and the rest of the trilogy for what they are, I'd say the movies are well done.
    George came back for a couple weeks this summer, and we all (the guys) had the chance to go to a couple bars with him and hang out, so that was pretty cool.  It will definitely be great to have him back completely, but that is about five months away.
    The only other cool thing I can think of mentioning right now is that Eileen's brother Aaron rented a party bus for his wife Tanya to celebrate her birthday. Between an open bar on the bus and clubbin' in Hollywood, I had a pretty fun time (although I must express my disgust for Hollywood... that place really is dirty despite the fancy restaurants and clubs).

Comments down.
    This has been a problem in the past and is so once again.  If you've tried to send a comment recently or were planning to, you will be presented with an error message from Carlos saying, "Sorry Comments Down, bug Carlos. Name and Comment Required!" Just ignore the second sentence since that isn't part of the problem.  The problem deals with spam from God knows where junking the comments database daily.  Carlos is in the process of creating an approval system that will allow me to select what comments I want posted.  So until then, e-mail me...

Wow... I have a Website?
Saturday March 11, 2006 9:29 PM
    Well I can make a number of excusses to as why I haven't made an update since Christmas, but the answer is one of the following:

   (a) I'm lazy.
   (b) I'm busy.
   (c) I'm distracted.
   (d) Planned on getting my computer fixed before I made any more updates.
   (e) All of the above.

In a nutshell...
    Much has changed since my last post.  I got some new clothes, turned 22, finished my work for Frontier Media, welcomed Dre home from Iraq, started my Spring semester, gave a presentaion on Catholic music, saw George off to Iraq, got my truck repainted, won a Halo tournament, and (finally)... got a job.

George and Dre.
   As I said before, Dre is back home, but now George is overseas.  As far as I know, George is in Kuait, which is relativly safer in comparison to any hot zone in Iraq (especially with the increasing riots and civil disputes going on), but I can't say that I'm not worried about him.  The weekend before George left, all three of us along with George's sister Amber and fiance Vinnie went clubbin' at Silk in Pechanga Casino.  A really nice club for anyone wanting to get thier freak on in a classy atmosphere. George will be gone for about a year, hopefully it won't be longer.  I ask everyone to keep him in thier prayers.
   I'ts good to have Dre back.  Since his return, Dre and I have had the chance to hang out and do fun stuff.  Reciently we've played some wholesome Paintball, and clubbed it up at Branding Iron with his cousin.  Branding Iron is a "Western" club, and I clearly don't have the cordination for line-dancing... nor do I care.  Although I did get to ride the bull, which was hella tight.  I did well... until I got thrown off...

Other fun stuff...    
     I usually mention every movie I've seen, but I think I'll just hit the notable ones this time.  From best-to-worst movies that I've seen recienty, Munich is a superb-must-see, The Producers was hilarious, The New World was... okay, and Firewall was more or less... carp. My church put on thier annual "Viva Las Newman" Marti Gras celebration, and I won a niffty "Legendary" sweatshirt in the Halo 2 tournament.  Besides that, I've gone to a couple other clubs and bars, an underground concert/show with Eileen to see Tyrone Wells, the UCR pool hall a couple times, and... that's about all I can think of.  Tyrone Wells is pretty cool if you like acoustic stuff.

No longer jobless...
     That's right, I finally got a job! I finished all my work for the internship at Frontier Media a while back, and ever since I've been lookin' for jobs through my school's Career Center and through Craigslist.  Craigslist came through for me and I'm now working part time for the advertising agency Mew Interactive (Update: Mew Interactive is now known as PartnerPeople).  Cool stuff.  It's good to have a job in the field.

New Photo Gallery!
    This should have been up in January, or at latest February.  Now it's nearing the end of March, and this gallery still isn't up!  So finally presenting: "Christmas 2005: Washington".  I know I didn't mention anything about going to Washington in the last post, but my mom, my dad, Uncle Marrion, Eileen, and I all flew up to spend Christmas with my dad's side of the family this last year.  It was a lot of fun, and these pictures should give everyone a little taste of Washington's best.

New Artwork!
    I'm spoiling all of you now, but it's about time that I added a few new works to the art gallery.  I've been hesitent because I've wanted to revamp the art section of my site for some time now.  Since I currenly haven't made the effort to do so, in the art gallery you'll find two brand-spankin' new galleries for your viewing pleasure: Graphic Design and Typography.  Both sound a bit boring, but there's some cool stuff to see in both sections.  Feel free to take a look.