Well that time of year has come again, it’s one of my favorites, that’s right it’s time for the US Open. Now it’s no secret I’m not much of a sports fan but I am a huge tennis fan and I love to watch all the events of the Grand Slam, but being an American, I do so love the US Open, the fact that I consider myself somewhat of a “honorary” New Yorker, the pride of watching the last slam of the year and the most attended sporting event in the world play out at the USTA National Tennis Center in nearby Flushing Meadows, NY is a bit overwhelming.

And last night during the opening of the US Open, it all became just a touch more overwhelming. Last nite, the USTA rededicated the USTA National Tennis Center as the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Billie Jean King is most likely the most important female athlete in the world. During her career, she fought tooth and nail for Equality for Women in sports. She won the “Battle of the Sexes” against Billy Riggs in 1973, this a year after she was named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year in 1972. Oh and did I mention that she’s gay?

Congratulations to Billie Jean King for having such an amazing honor bestowed on her.

Oh yeah and Andre Agassi won the first match in his final US Open.

The rest of Pinoyboy’s visit went too damn fast. Sunday was spent eating and gayimng. More Mario vs Luigi, Mario Kart DS and Mario Party 7 were enough to make 6 hours go by in the blink of an eye.

I will say aside from me, R, and my boyfriend, another person in my life found Pinoyboy delightful and wanted to spend tons of time with him, our cat Willow. She would not leave him alone because he was willing to rub her for hours. He got so much hair off her coat!

The evening wrapped up with the both of us getting a bit sad knowing it was time for him to leave. We did manage a few podcasts. Check out us recapping our weekend on Episode 111 and eventually 112.

His leaving was a bit sad for both of us as we really enjoyed each other’s company, I’m sure he, like me, can not wait to hang out in person again.

I want to say thank you to him for coming to visit and making my weekend so enjoyable!

Saturday was R & H’s housewarming. My sweetie couldn’t attend so Pinoyboy stood in. We had a fun time meeting (re-meeting for me) their friends. I am not sure if he reads my blog or not but I wanted to say to R’s friend Matt, thanks so much for being so friendly and making both me and Pinoyboy feel so welcome. Everyone was great of course, but some were just amazing people to be around, Matt and Nomi and her finance Gus were so much fun.

I of course have to thank Pinoyboy most for keeping me company. Let me tell you folks he is some good company. Add R into the mix and I was overwhelmed with friendship and camaraderie. Pinoyboy and R really hit off well and that made me super happy. They not only met up on the growing up Filipino but they are both so creative and kind. I’m truly lucky.

The evening was not over when we left R & H’s, it in fact was just beginning. Pinoyboy and I had some deep Deep DEEP conversation on the drive back to my place and I want to publicly thank him for it. I really felt lucky to have been in that place with him at that time.

Once we got home, it got even more fun. AJ and my boyfriend were there and we had some drinks and a wild game of UNO, until AJ had to leave. After, it was a great evening of talking, drinking and more UNO. I was also happy that Pinoyboy and my boyfriend seemed to get on so well. 4 am came fast and we all about passed out.

Not a bad way to spend a day…

Okay, lesson learned, do not blog at 3am. Here is the post I should have wrote instead of this one.

3 am eternal

It’s 3 am and I’m at R’s house. I’m lying on the guest futon watching a hellacious thunderstorm with Pinoyboy, who says it’s all my fault. How can a thunderstorm be my fault well, less the thunder and more the rain, apparently my actions today changed the fate of the weather all because I killed a spider in front of my Filipino friend. According to Pinoyboy and backed up by R (also Filipino) killing a spider causes it to rain. And today, I did in fact kill a spider.

Last nite shortly after Pinoyboy’s arrival, we headed out my back door on to my deck for him to have a quick fag (aka cigarette). We were stopped dead in our tracks by a spider web that went the entire length and width of the door jamb. I’m not joking the damn thing was huge. Right smack in the center there was a brownish spider with a white triangle on it’s back. Ewww. I do NOT like spiders. I resigned myself however to deal with the beast in the morning. Or at least the web.

Cut to the next morning when I did go out and knock down the web and the spider. And as it was scurrying away, I had full intention of stepping on the disgusting arachnid and mashing him to kingdom come. Just before I carried out it’s execution, Pinoyboy grabbed my arm and told me not to kill the spider because it will rain if I do. I laughed at his wives tale and gave that spider what was coming to him. Not 5 minutes later, it began to rain. And hasn’t stopped yet.

So here we are watching this amazing storm, giant flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder that continue for minutes at a time. So far, Pinoyboy’s visit has been great. We had dinner, way too much talking and geeking out last nite. Today, we gaymed, ate at Five Guys, laughed and had dinner with H & R. Apparently, a marathon Mario vs Luigi session was a perfect way for two gomos to spend an afternoon. Dinner with H&R was good and I think we’ve finally broken the bad restaurant streak between R and I.

I’m just grateful right now in my life at this moment I’m overwhelmed with happiness. I have a wonderful man who loves me, great friends and if you ask me, I think I’m one of the luckiest men alive.

To quote Peter Griffin, “Freaking Sweet!”

Oh and yes, it rained all day Sunday and yesterday was gray and drizzly too. Damn Spider!

Here I am, at 3am, watching an amazing thunderstorm talking to Pinoyboy. We’re at R’s house and the lightning keep lighting up the sky.

So far his visit has been great. We had dinner and way too much talking and geeking last nite. Today, we gaymed, ate at Five Guys, laughed and had dinner with H & R. A marathon Mario vs Luigi session was a perfect way for two gomos to spend an afternoon. Dinner with H&R was good and I think we’ve finally broken the bad restaurant streak between R and I.

I’m just grateful right now in my life at this moment I’m overwhelmed with happiness. I have a wonderful man who loves me, great friends and I think I’m one of the luckiest men alive.

To quote Peter Griffin, “Freaking Sweet!”

Today, my new Seagate Momentus 120GB SATA150 hard drive showed up. That was a lot of gomo words to say I got a new hard drive for my MacBook. The process of upgrading was not too bad, but it was laborious. The plan was to upgrade my 80GB HD to a 120GB, and then put my 80GB HD into my boyfriend’s MacBook which has only an 60GB HD. This meant, backing up my 80GB HD to my external, then moving his data to that drive, moving the drives around, and then restoring my backup to the 120GB HD.

All went well and I partitioned the new HD as a 100GB parition and a 11 GB parition. I want a “test system” to mess around with. After all was said and done, I tried to use Boot Camp on my MacBook and found out you can’t! You need to have a single partition! What to do? I am giving that some thought… any ideas?

Today was a good day. I worked from home, got tons done, after work I got the house cleaned and the cars washed and all was great until we tried to hang the new shower curtain rod.

I don’t know what they did when they built our house but it seems there is always something in the wrong spot behind the walls. And tonight was no exception. We drilled a hole where there was no stud, the drill bit went in fine but the anchor would not. I couldn’t see why, but I’m sure it was a freaking nail or something. Well it was all down hill from there.

We got it installed, it looks great but… some wall patching had to be done. And we were two cranky freaking people afterwards. Thank goodness for Pork Mei Fun, Designstar and the fact my baby is the sweetest man alive.

I’m so stoked my friend Pinoyboy is coming to visit us! I am terribly excited about his visit. We have some great stuff planned and I know there will be a podcast or two coming out of it. He arrives tomorrow evening and I can’t wait.

Photos to come I’m sure.

Yes I know it’s a Smiths song, but Kirsty is shouting it in my ear. Thank GAWD for my iPod.

Why am I singing the praises of my little white music box? Because apparently the people I work with have no manners. Today, I’ve had to ask 2 meetings and one worker 3 times to close their doors. People don’t seem to have any manners anymore. If you’re in a conference room in an area surrounded by cubicles, close the door. No one wants to hear you talk about what you are talking about.

To my coworkers, if you’re going to use a speakerphone, do so in an office, not your cubicle and if you’re in an office using a speakerphone…CLOSE YOUR DOOR.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program.

This was a great weekend, Japanese with Pinoyboy on Friday, Dinner and Uno with my sister on Saturday, and a matinee of the Lion King on Broadway on Sunday.

Sunday we headed up to New York around noon. Got into the city in plenty of time and found a great garage very near the theater. We were early enough that we even go to stop at Junior’s . We both got sarnies on twin rolls. I got the roast beef, he the corned beef and of course, we swapped. The food was fantastic. It was delicious, quick and the service was good.

After our sandwiches, we headed to the Miskoff Theater to see the show. We scored our tickets on THURSDAY afternoon, on a whim. I had no clue where our seats were going to be other than in the Orchestra section. We could not have asked for better seats. 13 rows back, on the floor almost dead center. Amazing. We’ve really been lucky with shows, and this is was the same. We both enjoyed it more than we thought. The costumes are amazing and the story was solid and moved quickly. I know I’m probably the last person to see the Lion King, but if you haven’t, I highly recommend it.

After the show, we hit up our favorite, Virigils (yes again) and enjoyed some BBQ before heading home. As always the food was great, but the service was very lacking this time.

All in all just about a perfect weekend with my baby.