it felt like i might actually drive right into the end of this rainbow!

Simply put, this is my new all-time favorite music site.   Its premise is simple, every friday, it gives you a new mixtape.   You know, like back in the old days when you would combine all your favorite tracks onto a cassette tape to share with your new crush?    The music on the MixTapes (there are currently 44 in all) is spontaneous, it flows, and man, it just keeps making me smile, and smile, and stop, breakdown, and just dance.    And they have very very cool graphics, and occasionally dancing avatars with really sweet moves.    I’m a busy girl whose youth was music and pop-culturally deprived, so thank you, Friday MixTape, for teaching me so much, and really just making my music enjoyment so simple, and damn, so so good!

So far my favorite is mixtape 22.   What’s yours?

I shared this food with great friends and we had an epic feast of roast vegtables and chicken, pairing it with a Rose, then did a little comparison of Grenache from California versus French Riviera.   California won!

Mariquita Farm is a small family farm located near Watsonville, CA. They grow organic specialty vegetables, greens and herbs for their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members in Santa Cruz County, Silicon Valley, Monterey, the Peninsula, and San Francisco and for many Restaurants in San Francisco.

Went to NYC for Halloween and partied with the Robot Heart Crew.  George and Kim know how to throw an epic party, and I took a few pictures before the 3 bus adventure around Manhatten and Brooklyn.   What a night!

Bonus points if you can guess what my costume is…

Kiteboating with Don Montague and gang in Maui, HI

When Ryan moved into the office he wasn’t super keen on the outdoor sports, so we picked up a free air hockey table on Craigslist.   It was obnoxiously loud, and only two people could play.  If you missed the puck you were liable to bruise your fingers, but if you hit the puck at just the right angle, you could sneak shots in all day long.  We mastered it within about a month, and after that it sat idle until Zach and Bobby decided to have a contest to see who could sell it for the most money.    Zach won by discounting it to the first buyer.

Proceeds were used to buy an old Harvard Foosball table, the perfect game for an office of 4.    We played our hearts out on that table. Ryan came out of his shell and emerged as the wittiest of us all, Zach started to be nicer when he realized it would only amp Bobby and me up and make us play better.    We laughed, we fought, and then we played some good foosers and realized how shitty we (and our table) were.   Ray, saved us and let us steal a Tornado table from the Yahoo offices.  We sold the old table for twice what we paid.   Over the last year, Zach has mastered the Snake, Bobby has stopped making Bobby goals, and Ryan has a wicked R-Force.   We eventually bought gribs, learned to scuff the ball and lubricate the table.   Although we’ve tried many times to change the teams, they end up always being the same.   Me and Bobby vs. Zach and Ryan.   Zach and Ryan used to win the majority of games, but lately we’ve been making a strong showing.    All of this has led to the evolution of the $5 game.   One game a day, its for $5.  Money is on the table immediately after lose.   Right now Bobby and I are down $15.   It’s only a little bit competitive.

All of our games have constantly reiterated the importance of play in the development of Triggit, and our growth as a team.   When we are angry, we take it to the table.  When we are celebrating, we play a game for fun.    When we just need a break, the competitiveness of our games demand your full attention.   We don’t take fancy retreats, and although great friends we really don’t hang out that much on the weekends, but we do play some foosball. And over that table, through play, we have created a foundation that won’t crack.

The iphone truly is extraordinary though, and in so many ways just has me shaking my head in disbelief.   In the upgrade to the 3G network, the phone has become a personal mini-computer that is connected to the internet almost constantly.

As someone who came of age during the rise of the personal computer (I have a picture of me playing on my first computer at the age of 3), it has been an unreal ride.  In the early days when we were kids we had what we thought was a pretty sweet DOS machine.  My older brother James was a whiz at it.  I figured out enough commands to play tetris, command and conquer, and power up Q & A to write my elementary school papers.    Every week Zach and I would rollerblade down to the local college to pick up a copy of Computer World so we could get the updated list of phone numbers for the BBS’s so we could dial-up and play Risk ‘online’.   Then came windows, and AOL and Prodigy.  I got really good at scamming as many free discs as possible and was right constantly canceling accounts and opening new ones as to take advantage of all the free minutes.

My family’s first laptop was this big white brick made by a company that doesn’t exist anymore.   Windows sort of worked on it, but man did it take ages to load.  I think I did a demo for science class on it once though, I thought I was pretty cool.

And now I’m getting an iphone.  I suppose it’s a cell phone (which is a different discussion then above for sure, as my family had an early car phone that I think was as big as my head.)    But truly it’s a computer that is infinitely more amazing then that old white clunker of a laptop.   I’m a bit terrified of becoming even more connected then I am now, but more then anything I am thrilled for my new toy.  And of course, I am super excited for it to become obsolete and surpassed with something even more rad in the hopefully very near future.