Brunch today was at The Top of the Market. It is a fancier version of The Fish Market. In fact it is right upstairs of the Tuna Harbor location. I love a champagne brunch on Sunday! Especially with our crazy group. Notorious (to borrow a phrase), all of them. Just like Tori. Heh.

But the reason I post this is because we were near this very famous statue…

Unconditional Surrender, a 25-foot, 6,000 pound statue by world-renowned artist J. Seward Johnson commemorating a famous World War II photo was unveiled Feb. 10 at Mole Park in San Diego. Unconditional Surrender is a three-dimensional interpretation of a photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, 1945, following the announcement of V-J Day…. Unconditional Surrender was previously displayed in New York City in 2005 and Sarasota, Fla. in 2006. The statue made its way here, and will stand at the G Street Mole Park for duration of 2007 before traveling to its next home. The statue is owned by the Sculpture Foundation of Santa Monica, Calif., and is on loan to the Port of San Diego.

Apparently it is the place to get your photo taken. Lot’s of couples were mimicking the pose, all romantic. There are a bunch of shots on Flickr by various people. You get the idea…

Then there is our version:

We are sooo pervy. Look at that girl passing in the foreground. I could tell she was thinking we were total perverts.

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daniel · early evening · 4 comments · ping it

Today Richard went rollerblading with a friend. I opted out. I wasn’t feelin’ it today. Also, I tore up my feet pretty bad last time, and cannot do this workweek with painful feet. No way. But I put the time to good use. I went to the mall. I went to Starbucks. I went to the grocery. Then I came home and baked.

Mmm. Did he say bake??

Yup. I baked. I found this recipe online a week or so ago. I held back on making them, due to my new diet and all. Today I gave in. Now the recipe is called Vampire Cupcakes. They are very cool looking. They even “bleed” when you bite them! But the recipe involved making the cake mix and frosting from scratch. Bleh. I don’t really do scratch these days. I was raised in a Betty Crocker cooking household. Even the Betty Crocker cookbook had recipes that called for canned foods and boxed mixes. Heh. So I substituted the 2 cups cake flour,1 1/3 cups sugar, ect. for a supreme moist deluxe Betty Crocker mix. For the frosting I substituted the 1 1/2 cups sugar, 2 large egg whites, room temperature 1/3 cup water, ect. for a tub of Betty Crocker whipped white frosting. Everything else I followed exactly…

Take a peek:

Ingredients… Mmm! Fancy!

Cupcake innards.

Filled and ready to frost!

Creepy AND tasty!

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daniel · mid-afternoon · 3 comments · ping it

I put my handful of crazy fall decor photos in the gallery. I figured the ‘random’ category worked well. heh. Take a peek if you are curious.

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daniel · lunch time · say it · ping it

Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and “treasure,” usually toys or trinkets of little monetary value. Today, well over 410,000 geocaches are currently placed in 222 countries around the world, which are registered on various websites devoted to the sport.
via Wikipedia

The last time I went Geocaching was with my father. It was the ‘first taste’ of a really fun activity. Anyway, today we went with our good friend Fred. He’s newly addicted to the sport, and has all the equipment. We had a blast! The thing I love about it is that you end up in places you’d never otherwise visit. Many take you to areas of amazing views or natural beauty. I always find things to photograph! Here are today’s shots of Mission Valley from the hills above:

View 1, View 2, and View 3 (Did you spot Macy’s at Fashion Valley?)

See what I mean? Nice. And we had to work for it. There was some hiking involved, but nothing major. Well there was that hill climb that made Richard grumpy, heh…  Fred rewarded us for our hard work (being co-pilots is hard work, yo) with a trip to Chevy’s. Can you say margarita? Hollar!

UPDATE: Added random shots to the gallery.

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daniel · evening · 4 comments · ping it

Yeah, we have a new camera. Finally. There was this incident that resulted in the last one being broken. It was not my fault. I swear.

Anyhoo, it all started with my innocent quest to get an improved mobile podcasting solution. Like a digital recorder. I know there are ways to get an iPod to do it, but a new iPod would be needed. My Apple dollars are earmarked for the iPhone. So yeah. Something else, less expensive, would be best. That is what led us to Best Buy. Richard claims to hate Best Buy, but the last time we were there together (a few years back) we left with an enormous flat screen TV. Before that it was a surround sound speaker system. I think he likes Best Buy just fine, it’s the wallet that disagrees.

So while I found nothing at the computer side of the house (where the digital office crap was), he had selected a camera we were not in the market for. It was practically wrapped before I caught him he inquired what my opinion was. Of course any new gadget is fine with me… Heh.

Hello new camera.

This new camera is not as forgiving as the last. In fact it’s not as forgiving as the built in iSight on this iMac. I think we will have a love/hate relationship.

tagged: kiss best buy digital camera wink broken camera

daniel · late at night · 4 comments · ping it