charles lives in san francisco and works in marketing. he's a dragonboater and amateur marathoner. he drinks a lot of coffee, mostly because the caffeine doesn't affect him. he also reads a lot. he no longer plays video games because he fried his last three video cards. he also likes to use brackets and start sentences with lowercase letters. appositives are his favorite language tool. the more complex your vocabulary is, the more charles will like you. it also helps to be able to differentiate between There, Their and They're. his favorite colors are black and orange, mostly because they're the colors of the San Francisco Giants, and also, conveniently, the colors of his dragonboat team, Ripple Effect. speaking in the third-person isn't something he usually does, but he thought it would be interesting, at least for this gigantic paragraph.
the term "csix" was taken from his first ever aol screen name, "c6freejack," but since no one knew of the 1980s epic called "freejack," which starred such dinstinguished actors as mick jagger & emilio estevez, he decided to leave that portion behind. there is no relation to the social network of high tech professionals of the same name, which makes things confusing, but then again simplicity wasn't the objective.
so i’ve been getting into the habit of meeting with people i hadn’t seen since high school and beyond. coffee here, lunch there. and it’s been surprising how similar everyone is to their former selves. physically, conversationally, and just plain essentially.
i mean, you’d think we’d change after all these years, right? i guess we have, [...]
it’s no mystery that i tend to keep very busy weekends. i often stretch myself way too thin just trying to keep up with all the birthdays and dinners and everything that’s already on top of work and practice.
things have come to a head recently because i had to travel to LA for a dragonboat [...]
it’s july, so is the year really more than half over? where the hell did it go? our goals and dreams for 2009 had to have come to fruition by now, at least a little. got that new job? buy all that crap you wanted and take that trip to hawaii? of course you did.