cali baby

so i got to san diego last thursday. it was a beautiful and easy drive, except the hour you're going through the mountains and you lose reception and there's no gas stations for 100 miles. but that didn't phase me and my wonderful mazda 3, we kicked that mountain's ass. i believe the fish enjoyed the ride as well... meaning they're still alive. i went to see the dbacks play the padres last night in petco park. it's a really nice stadium. the dog whisperer was there. i guess that's a big deal at petco park. they showed him on the jumbotron with a dog and gave away posters of him at the end of the game. well the dbacks lost which was a bummer, but, and i still can't believe it, i ran into SANTANAMAN! for those of you not privy with the phx sports scene, this guy has season tickets for the suns and shows up at plenty of other events always sporting black sunglasses and a full-rimmed hat. everybody (especially in beer vendor world) knows him. so it was pretty kickass because he bought me a drink and brought me down to his seats which were better than the one i scaled off the street 2o minutes til game time. he said i should go to the next two game too, but i really got to get some work done in the lab. they are going to the del mar racetrack on thursday, so i might join them (santanaman and company) for that. oh, also happen to be sitting next to bob melvin's cousin. nuts. she was a padres fan though.

things in the lab are going great. collected some eye tracking and kinematic data on friday and i've been analyzing it the past weekend and yesterday. i think there are definitely some behavioral differences present between the conditions (yeah, that's vague... but what if you're my subject? i can't fill you in on the details yet!) howard is a cool guy; he took me out to lunch yesterday after showing me the virtual reality setup they have. he's a great guy to talk to.

of course i had to get to the beach ASAP, so i spent some time catching up on journal articles at solana and pacific beach on saturday. met up with brandon (bert's roommate) and taylor (his girlfriend) which was cool. this weekend bert and andrew are coming up to visit, so it's bound to be pretty wild. justin's coming to town too to catch the giants play the padres, so this weekend is shaping up to be pretty busy! and i thought i would be by myself the whole time... sheesh.

ok, time to be productive...