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January 29: hey look at me working




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January 28th: veggie pizza




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January 27th: seared ahi







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the end of an era

The other day I was scrolling through Facebook and Twitter and kept seeing stories pop up about how this place, Woody's Bar and Grill in Bakersfield closed down. You wouldn't think something like that would be news, but for the handful of people on my list that used to work with me back there in Bakersfield, it kind of was.

See the radio stations I worked for, now owned by Clear Channel, are basically on the same lot as Woody's. You could run there in about oh 2 minutes if need be and so we all seemed to spend a lot of time there, either eating or you know, drinking very large glasses of beer. (Not me, I wasn't old enough for most of the time I worked in that building. Being the baby on the staff sucks.) But it was always a place we could have a staff party and everyone, yes even us babies could go and hang out.

I remember quite a few times sitting at the bar with my dad while the Sonics game was on or whatever having a coke and some fries after work.

The other thing that made it kind of neat was during the time I worked nights, myself and whomever was working down the hall on KKXX or KRAB (depending of course which one I was on) could call down and order our dinner. And because radio was different then and everything was on a CD or a cart (it's a big clunky tape) you would actually have to time out when you did things. So the order for the basket of chicken strips and the tereyaki burger would get put in and then when it was done, whoever took our order would call us back and ask us when we could come down and get it.

Whoever had the longest song coming up would then sprint down two flights of stairs and meet some poor server who had to come out to the parking lot and bring us dinner would meet you out back while the other person on the air would run back and forth between the studios making sure both stations were on the air. Good times.

Woody's was also particularly good on weekend night shifts because many many people thought that it was a closed restuarant and that the building we were in was a closed office building. There were always some interesting hi-jinx going down in that parking lot and it gave some very sleepy overnight jocks some strange entertainment over the years.

I don't really think it was the food or even the service that made that place special to everyone who worked in my building. It was just near by and the place you went to talk shop and unwind after a long day of making radio. It was really just an extension of our break room and anyone who's worked in radio knows the stations become your home, the people you work with become your family, so the places you hang out become special.

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January 26th: The picture before the picture. Teresa and Donelle at Buffalo Pub in SLO


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project 365 January 24th

January 25th: Alexander the Drake showed up at the office. Welcome to the world, kiddo.

Project 365- January 24th

Watching the Saints go to the Super Bowl at my friend Ricky's house.

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January 23rd: not cheating, this was taken after midnight. Pouring some shots out for a friend who doesn't work here anymore.




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January 22nd: at Margarita's Pizza in Grover Beach with Danny P




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January 21st: another day in radio land



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Project 365: January 20th

Shot this off of Front Street in Avila Beach, CA before work this morning. While you can't tell here because I couldn't get that close, we had some fairly monster sized waves due to the storm.


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January 19th




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January 18th: wine tasting at a new winery

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January 17th: waiting for the tv's to be turned on at marti's


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January 16th- Saints game at Ricky's house




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January 15: I went to the grocery store and saw this. I am very grossed out right now, just so everyone knows. Yuck, times a million.


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January 14: Cat in the tree.


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January 13th: a random deadbolt in my office...


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January 12: had a bad day....


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January 11: Just noticing how many commercials that I worked on were running in a commercial break on the Beach one afternoon. Hi, I'm on the radio, ALOT.


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advertising campaign failure, SLO style.

So the other day I was driving to the radio station and happened to be on Broad Street and drove by the Taco Bell there and saw a poster in the window for their new Drive Thru Diet line of burritos and tacos. Basically the concept being this is "healthier" fast food for you to eat, which I get, gotta compete with Subway and everyone else who is doing a "healthier," menu, etc.

Now being in radio, I subsist on cheap food and any time one of the people who have a value menu want to add healthier faire to it, I'm all about it, but the thing that's driving me insane about this ad campaign is WE DON'T HAVE DRIVE THRU'S IN SAN LUIS OBISPO. It's truly absurd seeing something advertising drive thru anything on the side of a building that doesn't have a drive thru.

I seethed about this inwardly for a few days and forgot about it. I mean really, who let's stuff like that bother them? It's Taco Bell's problem not mine. I was sure I would in fact be the only person that noticed or cared about this drive thru thing. Then I got on Twitter today and found that Jojo and Danny P had been talking about it too and I then felt less absurd for having thought about this situation for more than three seconds.

It is pretty strange to think about the things that bother a person in life. Some people can't handle bad typing or nails on a chalk board or whatever. Bad advertising bugs me. It's official, I'm a nerd.

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January 10th: WTF at Martis?




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January 9th: this lady usually works next door at the Custom House. She is moving to Denver in a few weeks.


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January 8th- celebrating the Fall ratings period.




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January 7th- Del Monte Cafe. Kathy's birthday dinner.


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Ask and you shall receive..

So lately I haven't had a lot to say here, and have just been posting pictures. I figured this could get boring for you, so I did what all the other cool kids are doing now and signed up for a formspring.me account. You can access it here. Or by going to the little box on the sidebar to the right.

While I am pretty sure I'll only answer "appropriate" questions, if you ask, I may surprise you, so ask me whatever you've always wanted to know. If I get some good ones, I'll post them here.

JAN 6th: photo 365

Cat and the Fiddle statue in Downtown SLO.

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January 5th: at the office




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Project 356; must be Monday

January 4th: Back at work...




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keeping my new years resolution project 365

A few weeks ago I posted about trying to do Project 365 this year, a project where you take a picture each day of the year and post them either once a day or once a week. With the holiday weekend being so full of party, etc, I was afraid I'd already blown it, but the truth is, its just in my nature to take a picture daily. I have actually taken at least one every day this year (save for today) so I'm going to try to keep it going. In the mean time, here's what I shot so far this year.

January 1st: DJ Sol at Mo/Tav. Funny thing about this picture? It was at about 11am.

January 2nd: My BFF Megan in the basement of Creekside, wearing a friend's hat and being truly thug life.

January 3rd: At Mr. Rick's after watching the Seahawks lose at football. This is Big Dave, my neighbor, and Justin, one of the guys who works at Rick's, who I adore, downing Pacificos on a Sunday afternoon.

Did you make any New Year's Resolutions?

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