I heard this funny story last night from my brother (who used to work at a restaurant). Some dumb model-type blonde comes into the restaurant with some others. She orders for appetizer an artichoke thing. She stares at it for 5 minutes before my bro asks if something is wrong with it.

She politely asks ".....how do you eat this thing?".

My bro says "well you can eat it all different kinds of ways, some people cut them up, some just go leaf by leaf, some people..."

So the lady stops him and says oh, and just shoves three full leaves in her mouth and starts chewing away. After about 5 seconds you could see she was trying to hide the discomfort happening in her mouth.

If you've never had artichoke before, the best I can describe this situation would be like biting off a banana without knowing you had to peel it. This is probably funnier to me than you since I also worked at a restaurant before.



My sister gets married on May 17th. ~DonBertone visits San Diego on the 23rd, and my birthday is on the 30th. So, I am taking 2 weeks at the end of May off of work. I really need this break.


Car is being shipped as we speak. Should be in San Diego next week. Hopefully it doesn't leak. My outlook is not bleak. Don't pinch my cheek. These are not the droids you seek. Shower time for I reek. Do not even try to peak. Birds have a beak. Don't be so chic.



PEACE OUT

It's been a while since I've updated this thing. I don't update very often lately. Pretty busy guy I am.

I go to physical therapy three times a week for my neck and back since the accident. The doctor really does make my neck feel better, I don't know what it is he does exactly, I'm not a neckspert like he is, but it definately helps. Pain is not gone yet, not even close, but I'm in better shape now than when I first went in there.




I've been spending all my free time either looking up cars of test driving them. Yeah 2 months after the accident I still don't have a car. I have been kinda scared to. How many times do I have to do the right thing on the road before I get rear ended by someone again? I'm slowly getting myself used to it all, but driving will never really be the same thing it was before. My favorite thing in the world used to be cruising the freeway at night listening to music, now it's the last thing I ever want to do again.

I learned how to drive a manual in the last few weeks. I've been taking my moms miata out when nobodies on the road to get used to the feel of a manual car. Now I find that if I buy my own car soon I will only want a manual. That particular miata is so broken and screwed up that if you can drive that car you can pretty much drive anything. I'm much more confident now in my driving skills than I ever have been.



I have been test driving a lot of cars and I have a few favorites. My absolute favorite so far has been the BMW Z4 coupe. Just sitting and driving in that thing I feel like a fighter pilot in a cockpit. And I know everyone would disagree with me on this one, but I think it's the best looking car ever made. I've always like hatch fastback style cars, and this one to me is the best looking design of them all. It drives in a strange way... I would say the Boxster and the Rx8 I testdrove made much more sense in the way they felt while driving, but I think that only made me like the Z4 coupe more. It was more of a hands on experience, I felt like I always had to be paying attention, so it always kept me alert. But, I consider all of this a strongpoint. If I wanted an easy to drive car, I would get a, you know, automatic volvo or something. Keeping me even more alert than I always already was might help prevent me from letting other people get me into their accidents in the future.

I also test drove an RX-8. Very nimble and fun car. I love those suicide doors a lot and the interior space. A little more practical than the z4 since it can hold 4 people... however gas mileage in it is ludicrous, and oil changes required every 3000 miles due to it's rotary engine. It also depreciates like a motherfucker, so it makes more sense to buy a used one. Still, a very very cool car, but it might as well be as impractical as the BMW due to those shortcomings. And it feels a little... you know, for the people who would put a supercharger on it, get a carbon fiber hood and get a ridiculous spoiler on the back even though they never take it out to Willow Springs That's not tos ay anyone of you who own one are those kinds of people... don't get mad.

I tested a used Boxster S as well. Overall probably the best car I tested, but that doesn't mean I liked it more. I don't know why really, but it didn't appeal to me. Maybe it is because it kinda looked like a chick car, maybe because I see about 9000 of them every day, maybe because it's a ragtop. I don't know, I just really wasn't feeling the magic on the Porsche. It was almost too perfect, if that makes sense.

I also tested various other cars to get more perspective, like a Nissan Altima and a Honda Civic, which are probably the most practical two of the cars I testdrove. I was gonna test drive a Nissan Z but I honestly just don't like it that much. I sat in it, I looked at it and so on but I just wasn't feelin it. The Honda S2000 was kind of.... I don't know, just wasn't feeling that one either. The pontiac I tested was downright terrifying. Not teh new solstice, but their cheapest coupe. I felt like the thing was gonna fall apart whiel driving it, and the steering wheel felt like it hated being touched. That's jsut me though. Don't get mad.



When it comes down to it, most likely I will end up getting either a used z4, a used rx8, a miata or a used boxster. I'm in the lucky situation where my car doesn't need to be entirely practical because my brother works and lives where I do and drives us everywhere. Plus I will be helping `delya buy her own cheapy 4 seater car for her job down there in San Diego, thus making it so whatever car I buy could not possibly ever be in a situation where I need 4 seats.



Anyways, gonna be testing a used M3 this weekend, as well as the superduper dream car of mine the "M" version of the Z4 coupe, not that I can afford it, but I gotta try it just to try it. The 3.0si version I test drove a while ago practically gave me whiplash with its acceleration, I can only imagine what another 100hp added to that will do with the M version. Should be fun


I need a car soon thoguh so I'll let you know what I end up with

I just ate a fucking ton of apple sauce.




TV show I've been working on at work since May is done tomorrow. More news when that happens.




Oh yeah forgot to mention, I saw freakin Jon Lovitz on one of THESE today driving away from a Carls Jr next door to work. What the fuck! This city is awesome, you never know what is gonna happen next. And yes it was really him.