Well after a fun trip with family in Canada for my cousin Priscilla's wedding (click to see this trip) and a super long 4 days back at the office on a coding marathon... I made it to my much anticipated trip to Hawaii ... w00t!

So I left LAX this morning at 11am Pacific time and arrived on Oahu 1:15pm hawaii time.

Picked up the rental car around 2pm and took the scenic route down to the hotel along Ala Moana blvd...  it was hella packed.
Good stuff though , even though it was only 8miles, it took an hour to get to the hotel because of the traffic.

After I got settled in, I went out to the ABC store to pick up some food for the week. Went out to surf for a little, came back, grabbed a bit to eat at burger king and then now Im back in the hotel about to write a bunch of letters to friends =)

I dunno why but a bunch of people thought I was a local so I've been getting fat discounts on my purchases lol.  I asked some guy where the nearest post office was and he was like "u local kine dunno where da mail place is?" lol I just said I havent been around since 2005 and he was like "oh yah braddah just down there, make a left there on that street" ... lol didnt think that I could understand some piddgin.

So tomorrow I'll be meeting up with the Hawaii chapter of Team Integra. Ben and his wife offered to take me to one of the local meet up spots. I'll have pics up of that tomorrow.

Thats it for now, I have lots of letters to write =)

To recap:

Sunday -  a really good friend and I got into a fight and up to now she still does not want to talk to me. Plans with her this weekend were basically thrown out the window... so what am I going to do? Work over time to keep my mind off her and to make some extra cash since I'll be leaving the country next week.

Sunday Night - cousin sent me a txt saying my grandma was in the hospital.

Monday morning - cousin's text came in garbled and I thought she said  our grandma was dying ... week started off shitty.

Monday -  got into an altercation with a friend who didn't like what was posted on my twitter/facebook. What ever, it was squashed.

tuesday - came in at 730 am to work because a computer/programming glitched caused several inventory items to be listed at a million bucks. People complained and our account was suspended on amazon. We were locked out of the backend so we had to manually edit 13 thousand inventory items as oppsed to having our program update all the prices. Worked through lunch.  Finally got a hold of my cousin and she gave me the correct news about my grandma so i relieved.... Was gonna have a dinner date with a friend I have not seen in a while and she couldn't make it so those plans were canceled. Halfway home and the battery in my car decided to die and I had no radio or guage lights. It was effin 9pm and I couldn't see what speed I was going. Good thing my headlights still worked. I had to go to a autozone to buy a new battery for 100 bucks. FML.
Got home in time to watch the lakers lose.

Today - Got to have lunch with Joyce at least... put me in a good mood up till 2 hours ago

SOME ASSHOLE TRIED TO RUN ME OVER WITH HIS CAR.

So I went out on my longboard skateboard to cruise around and get my mind off everything that has been contributing to my shitty week and I see some headlight coming at me in the other direction so I pull far to the right and stayed really close to the curb on the right side of the road to let this guy pass. All of a sudden the asshole turns his car towards me and almost hits me head on. I immediately turned the board around and skated back to confront the asshole and yea basically he was telling me to stop skaing in the neigborhood and other random nonsense. I say whatever and skate back down the block to my house. the guy kept looking at me and staring me down so I skateback and I ask if he has something else he wanted to say to me cause he kept looking down at my house. He threatened to call the police and that was it told him off basically telling him i should be the one to call the cops because he trie dto run me over. That would have been attempted manslaughter. We go back andforward till he gave up knowing he was in the wrong and he just goes inside his house. what ever.

The next time this guy tries to pull that stunt again i am going to turn my board toward him and let him hit me so I can sue his ass for assault.

ugh....

Thanks for the talk Cyndi <3 I owe you.

Wow I haven't written in this journal in a while..I've been posting more updates on my twitter account @helloitsben , i guess it's just because It's connected to my phone and it allows me to post about things as they happen. I would post this entry on twitter but that was designed for quick updates, for something im about to blurt out, this would require the power of my xanga account.

Anyway, Im having one of those crappy weekends. I guess it all started on thursday when the executives at work asked me to plan and implement a category 6 ethernet network at the new office our company will be moving into next week. I agreed knowing this would be a fun job. So I put together a small team comprised of my friend who just graduated from college and an intern. The installation went smooth and it was a one day job. We were there from 9am till about 1:30am the next morning running 48 ethernet wires in the ceiling, the walls and termininating all these wires at each end and at the patch panel. We installed almost 5miles worth of gigabit ethernet cable. That was a really impressive task for a team of 3. Unforntuately the property manager thought  we trashed the hell out of the place but more on this later.

The next day I came into work only to start sneezing my face off because of all the dust i breathed in at the new office. The place was just painted and the floor and ceiling had so much dust, my black shirt I was wearing turned white by the end of the day. I ended up going home early because I could not stop sneezing and every time i tried to type something it would come out like "'ptkdl;ahkiv/W".  Bahh

So half way through the day, I get a call from one of the executives who informed me that the property manager was freaking out because aparently my team "trashed the whole warehouse and put holes and foot prints all over the walls and broke lighting fixtures". In my mind I was thinking "wtf? we did not have a friggin party in there".

I called the contractor and asked what the damage was and I said I'd come by on saturday to look at it. By the end of Friday I was feeling like ass I didnt even have the energy to go to my DJ gig in Huntington Beach, plus Trina was mad at me for some reason.

Saturday I get up and head to frys to get some things to complete the network installation and I headed to the new office to look at the damage and put the finishing touches on the network.

Here's some of the damage:

we were accused to doing this to the wall in the warehouse. we were not working in the warehouse, we were working in the offices.

apparently we put three large scratches in this area, those wires there are not our wires. she also accused us of punching that hole there.

this part of the ceiling was never touched as our cable run was on the other side of the room

these two were caused by my friend who fully admitted to breaking those and he didn't bother telling me, he accepted full responsibility.

Ok just because this was near our distribution box does not mean we caused it. we were not even near that wall.

we had to cut a hole in one of the tiles to get these cords down into the box (don't mind the duct tape, we ran out of zip ties ;p)
she said this tile was destroyed.

um, this tile is nowhere near any cables we ran.

To replace those damaged tiles, it is coming out of my pocket. FAiL.

So I leave the place and I decided to call my friends to find out if anything was going on but apparently not. So I drop by Cyndi's and basically got harassed by Trina coz she was intoxicated and she told me to leave. WTF did I do. Cyndi told me to stay but I was so pissed off from having a shitty weekend I just left. Cyndi tried calling me to come back but i just turned off my phone coz I was jsut not in a good mood.

It is now 1:47 am in the morning, sunday and Im supposed to go out with Mylinh later since me and her were too busy to have our little outting but right now I feel like complete ass and in such a bad mood that I might have to just cancel and shut everyone out for a day, maybe even a week. Hell I should just go to Hawaii and cut communication to the mainland for a while.