recently i have been heard expressing the following 1st world problems:

• currently, evenings in socal are too warm for fans set to ‘medium’ but not hot enough to set fans  on ‘high’. consequently, nights are spent in fan adjustment hell.
• when complimented by the pretty girl about a recent haircut i replied: ‘thanks, i think my hair’s getting thicker and it makes getting a good haircut increasingly more difficult.‘ complaining about thickening hair a week before your 30th birthday is definitely a first world prob.
• being pissed off because the amount of music/tv/movies in your iTunes collection is really slowing down mycomputer.
• complaining that the volume on my 42″ LCD HDTV fluctuates from one HD channel to the next.

for any one of these actions i should have all of my things taken from me and beaten.

the only thing more mind scrambling than car shopping is house shopping.

honestly. there’s a reason why there are so many damn apartments for rent on every street corner.

fuckers have it down to the dollar how much they can charge you to ‘rent’ without making it financially feasible for you to ‘buy’. viva la capitalism.

so my friend Hanre is participating in a marathon that raises money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. she’s been training like crazy and the past few months have been a life-changing experience for her. if you’ve got a few bucks that you could spare to help her meet her donation goals, you’d be helping her out and contributing to a great cause.

to donate or get more info, click here

from hanre’s Team in Training Webpage:

I am training to participate in an endurance event as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training. All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I’m completing this event in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line – a cure!

Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance the Society’s mission.

I hope you’ll visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your support!

so last night was christoff’s birthday and we celebrated at Tokyo Sushi. no one was really in the mood for pictures because they are all grumps. i had to resort to taking pictures of my food until christoff took this great shot of me not being candid for the camera as kim reacted to the other end of the table.

for my birthday, leanne & brandon bought me a much needed pair of sunglasses. they were nice enough to give me my present a few weeks early so that i could sport these bad boys on my little getaway trip this weekend.

here’s a photo essay of my new spy optics, cooper glasses with bronze fade lenses. which jeff-in-his-new-glasses-look do you like best?

so the past few weeks i’ve been house shopping and it’s scrambled my brain. the bright side is that i can now have an intelligent conversation about fixed/adjustable/FHA and other various types of mortgages. i’m a grown-up.

after work i went and picked up some dinner from oscar’s and while i was enjoying my spanish cuisine the phone rang. i returned to find that buster had snuck outside with my side order of spanish rice and by the time i realized what had happened he was laying on the empty container with a belly full of rice and the aluminum containter hanging from his mouth.
currently, he’s got this oh-fuck-look on his face and he’s moving at 1/4 speed.

buster is having a very smiley-one-eared-goof day

i stole this from raymi

also i think i’ve fixed the problem with all the spam on the raymi forums. if you’ve been scared off by that sort of thing in the past, you may now return and enjoy.