Yesterday was Independence Day...

I did nothing for the 4th of July this year. I had planned to go up to Crescent City for a few days to party with friends but didn't have the cash to go.

Yesterday was pretty much a wasted day. Tues night I had a wicked headache that just wouldn't go away. My mom gave me a Percocet to see if that would work. It did to say the least. Less then an hour later I was barely able to stand. I remember sitting back against the pillows on my bed (this was about 2:30am), the next thing I knew I looked at the clock and it was 7:30. I was still sitting exactly how I was five hours earlier. Total black out. It would have been fine, but it didn't feel like I'd slept at all and about 8:30 I fell asleep again. I woke up at 3pm.

I made some guacamole and bean dip and ate that with tortilla chips for dinner. My mom had also bought a cherry pie and I had some of that.

After dinner and dessert, she wanted me to make maitais, but we didn't have any pineapple juice. I ended up faking it and blending up something I'm calling West Coast Rum Punch. It's fairly simple to make. 1 can of fruit cocktail, 4 oz Barcardi light rum, 1 oz Bacardi 151, 2 oz Triple Sec, a splash of grenadine, a splash of sour mix and top with OJ. Blend that with ice and you have a tasty beverage. We got a little faded on that and I sorted and uploaded some pics for her while we talked about hallucinogenic drug use and the raver subculture.

My serving class at my staffing company got put off till Saturday @ 11am so I think I'll wander around Alameda today and take some pics. My cousin and her kids will be here thru Sunday, but they have a busy schedule of vacation shit that they are doing so I don't plan on seeing much of them. They arrived Monday night and spent a couple hours here on Tues. We all went out to dinner Tues evening, the 7 of them, myself, my mom and my grandma. It turned out ok, the children were far more well behaved then I had expected. We went to Pasta Pelican, a nice Italian place here in Alameda. Their food was excellent as always. I had the Fettucine Primavera con Pollo and enjoyed several glasses of fine Kendall-Jackson chardonnay.

I started going to the public library here in Alameda. I just finished Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk and Brave New World and returned them. Now I'm reading Nausea by Sartre. I'm enjoying it very much. After that I have some more Sartre, some Voltaire and A Scanner Darkly to read.

I've also started writing again. For those few who have read my work, you know my style. I'll probably post some stuff on here soon.

I've been on a margarita kick lately. I think I'll go make one to help me unwind and perhaps cook some hotdogs for a snack. I don't have a grill down here, but you can fake it pretty well in a skillet.