It was awesome. Today was a much better day.
I am waiting at my house for 6 midwest yoyo kids to come over. We are going to a party. It should be exciting. yoyos for everyone!
10 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 12:10 AM
Tags: family, hiromi, travel, yoyo
It rules. I am having a great time. it is really fun to hang out with my cousin cole, my mom and hiromi. I am going to miss hiromi when she leaves.
Cole is becoming a pretty good yoyoer. that rules
I am in nyc. sitting at tommie’s apartment - listening to remixes and puffy electro. awesome.
the yoyo contest was a lot of fun. i inadvertently may have starred in my first “porn” movie. As a joke on another yoyo player - me and some Duncan kids got naked and recorded over some of their [...]
no job for me.
i have lots and LOTS of things going on.
Here is my travel schedule -
so if you are around during these times let me know
07/28-07/30: Orlando - world yoyo contest
07/30-08/04: NYC - work
08/11-08/13: colorado - play/work
come play. it would be fun.
I desprately need a new laptop. seriously. this is killing [...]
07 Jul
Posted by Harper in General at 05:32 PM
Tags: agile, blogs, books, coding, development, engineering, firefox, gtd, hiromi, management, projects, rails, ruby, yoyo
Yes. it is true. i am freakishly busy. and of course while being freakishly busy i find the most time expensive hobby ever. So matiss and i have been playing quake 3 again. We were playing the requiem mod for hours, but it got kinda boring so we switched to the urban terror full conversion. [...]
oh yea. i am here. well not really nyc. somewhere near i guess. got in this morning around 9:00am after leaving my house at 4:00 (that sucked for sure). Then i slept very uncomfortably on the unsleepable chairs at the airport. slept around 4 hours. and then went downstairs and yoyoed for 4 hours.
After [...]
i am sleepy. last night was another of claudia’s bbq’s. which was awesome. if i didn’t lose my camera - i think i have some pretty funny pictures. i barely made it home. heh. i mean i was in a cab and such. but i barely made it. eep. being hung over is dumb. [...]
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