May 1999

• 5/28/99
  well, the futons arrived, and they took longer than expected to assemble, but at least there is now a spare couch/bed in the extra room (visitors, come on down!) and a couch to sit on in the livingroom (no more floors!). Unfortunately the place isn't as clean as it should be (still stuff to unpack too) but I think Kat can live with it for a weekend. Also I'm now completely Californized, having enrolled as a California State member of the AAA.
• 5/25/99
  it would be much nicer if my new Centerline net fit in the trunk without having to put the seat down. Now it's time to find someone to play.
• 5/24/99
  I don't know why people would live in Houston, its like being steamed to death, and it was only May! Team played ok, went .500 in pool, lost our A player to injury in the 2nd game, and had to pick up another BB hitter to replace him. Unfortunately we were out of the tourny in 2 straight matches. Oh well, maybe next year. Daryl wasn't quite the talk of the tourny this time, but one of the few straight women there thought I was gay, it must all rub off because our A player complained that someone thought he was straight too!!. It turned out to be an expensive weekend, I bought a new gym bag and a volleyball net. Oh and before I forget, Sandra is a loser, not only did she forget I was coming to town, she was going to leave, and even though she stayed in own, she didn't even visit me at the tourny or the airport (where I had almost a 2 hr wait) sheesh.
• 5/17/99
  Finally had a weekend in town, to myself, got lots of errends done and spent some money, still have to finish cleaning & unpacking but at least kat will have a bed in her room when she comes to visit. Tried the NAGVA gym and the play was pretty good, even ran into some ex-Seattle-ites AJ & Fritz. Met one of my neighbors, she has 2 gorgeous kittys, and luckily I'm not considered a noisy neighbor.
• 5/13/99
  Strange thing, they've just started running that Jack-In-The-Box commercial, the one where he challenges McD's & BK to "Change their ways" could have sworn they got up to day 84 in Seattle, but they appear to be stuck on day 23 here.
• 5/10/99
  Went to LA and it rained !! did see a pretty good match for the NCAA Men's championship though (BYU in 3)
• 5/7/99
  It's been a good news/bad news kind of week, car got tuned up and needs new tires, but turns out my car actually has the same size rims front and back (most cars of my model don't) so I can rotate them to extend their life. Found a Storables down here so I can get lots of (relatively) inexpensive home stuff, but it's about 30 minutes away and it's the only one in the Bay area. Was asked to play a reverse doubles (blind vball date) but she wants to play in May and I only have 1 weekend free, not only that but I've seen her play -- and she'd only be BB in Seattle and she's about 5'4". I don't know why she's telling people she plays AA/A down here, oh well we can play short and hard in A -- either that or there is something severely wrong with the rankings down here.
• 5/3/99
  Had an interesting trip to Seattle, finally fixed my dads machine, Sonics are out of the playoffs (but that saves me money), a friends dad is in the hospital, someone is moving, a few folks are pregnant, I managed to surprise a few people this time. I spent an evening with Tira seeing how sales closes out a department. Believe me, there is no better place for a single (straight) guy to hang out, than Nordstrom's Petite department, not only is active-ware to the left, but lingerie is to the right, and they put the mens restroom right there, very convienient. I also heard the sweetest real story in a long time during this trip.