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70s retro disco night

valtrain — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:33:01 +0000

Last night the Padres had a retro 70s disco night, which meant they wore their old yellow and brown uniforms from the 70s and the fans were supposed to come dressed in disco outfits. Of course this sounded like a lot of fun, but it presented two major challenges:

1. I didn’t actually know what 70s disco outfits looked like.
2. Since I didn’t know what they looked like, I was pretty sure I didn’t have any.

Google came to the rescue on the first problem, so I set out with a friend to find some 70s clothes. After some driving around, we found an excellent clothing thrift store called “Rags” down in Ocean Beach where I found a huge afro and some excellent retro disco pants. A short walk down Newport I found a tight blueish polyester shirt that showed a healthy amount of chest hair and we were in business!

After the game (which the Padres managed to win 7-0 against the Cardinals!), I headed out downtown with some of the dodgeball crew to hit up Rock Bottom and Malloney’s.

10 hours of drinking, fortunes foretold, and a new hairstyle

valtrain — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:56:46 +0000

Now that you’ve been properly introduced to the roommate, I may as well post another update. We went drinking today, and by today I mean “the entire day”. We got started around 11:30am this morning and went bar hopping around PB for approximately 10 consecutive hours drinking an obscene amount of alcohol. I have no idea how many drinks we had, but inbetween ingesting massive quantities of booze we managed to get our fortunes told by a creepy old woman, play a few games of pool until neither of us could hit anything, and get our hair dyed.

Getting your hair dyed while you’re drunk kind of sucks, it was a little painful and I almost passed out sitting in the chair. End result: I’ve got blond highlights and Christina’s got red highlights. We both look awesome.

Attention world: my roommate is swell!

valtrain — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:55:56 +0000

Apparently I’ve gone several months without actually ever mentioning my roommate in any posts here, so in order to satiate your curiosity here’s the 30 second crash-course introduction to my roommate.

1. Her name is Christina.
2. She cooks all kinds of delicious food including (but not limited to) chicken cutlets, spare ribs, pork chops, and brownies.
3. She’s an aerospace engineer and also went to RIT.
4. She’s only tried to kill me once (that I know of).
5. She’s got a pet turtle that eats its body weight in green stuff every day, then craps like you wouldn’t believe.
6. She somehow conned me into carrying our 7ft christmas tree four blocks back to our apartment.. by myself.
7. She shed hair all over my old bathtub and clogged the drain, resulting in the landlord having to call a plumber.
8. She won’t let me watch the Lost DVDs without her and only allocates about half an hour per week for watching Lost. Result: I’m seeing the DVDs at a slower pace than regular TV.
9. She bribes me with food if I go to church with her.
10. I taught her how to drive a stick with only minimal damage to my car’s transmission. I also got a nice case of whiplash to commemorate the event.
11. She’s terrified of spiders.
12. She thinks “real” pizza should stand straight out like cardboard when you hold it. She was not impressed when I accomplished this by leaving the pizza out on the kitchen table all night.
13. She makes us keep the place clean, much to my chagrin.
14. She’s not afraid to tell me when I’m being retarded, although she does it with alarming frequency.
15. Despite all the grief I give her about it, living with her has turned me into a better person.