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Our wedding over last weekend was great. Lots of worrying about details but everything went off so well. Alanna looked beautiful, the weather held up great, lots of fun people and the crew at San Benito House was calm and super helpful. I’m kinda of amazed we didn’t get through all the alcohol and food that we had but I think people always tend to over order on that stuff anyway.

Alanna has some pictures up here.

I started writing about the Yahoo!, Carl Icahn tug of war a while back but I just couldn’t keep up. It seemed like everyday there was some new twist or some new turn. I decided it was easier to wait until the dust settled, if it ever did, and see what happened.

So as of this writing, Yahoo! has had their shareholders meeting without much fanfare. Icahn has been appointed to the Yahoo! board along with 2 of his nominees. Microsoft is still mostly uninterested in trying its hand at being suitor and the Yahoo! shareholders have signaled that they are unhappy with the board but not enough to kick them all off. Seems like that was a long way to go just for everything to stay the same and get a couple of new board members?

I thought that there would be some sort of shake up or new direction. Guess I was wrong about that one. The silicon valley is so weird.

So the governor of California signed a bill today decreasing the pay of over 200,000 state workers in California until a budget could be agreed upon…

Does this make sense to anybody but Arnold? I think the state controller is right to give him the finger.

He and the other state senators cannot agree upon a budget so they cut the pay of people who have nothing whatsoever to do with negotiating a budget. I think the we should have a ballot initiative that if there is not a yearly budget that the governor and all the state senators do not get paid until there is. Cut them off. Them and their staff as well. No pay. No benefits. No air conditioning. I think we would have a budget on time every year.

Who would put this many pickles on a salad? Have they gone pickle crazy? What are the pickles doing on the salad anyway? I think it should be a requirement that people who cook should have to eat everything that is on their menu at least once. I would like to see the poor bastard suffer through those giant onions as well.

“Take human bites”

Alanna and I got lots done this weekend. After my haircut, we went downtown on Saturday and returned some stuff for other cooler stuff that we love. We found a cool shawl for Alanna to wear with her dress at the wedding. At Macy’s we got me some cuff links and socks to got with my suit. After, we stopped at the grocery store and the cheese shop on the way home and put together a great dinner. Then we got most of our ceremony worked out for the wedding.

Sunday we did a whole lot grocery shopping and we got lots of goodies for people who are coming to the wedding. Then we went cleaning crazy on the apartment, we even cleaned the wood floors in the living room.

Every week we think that we will take lots of time to rest over the weekend, but we just end up piling up lots of stuff for us to do. Now its Monday and I feel like I worked another two days. When do we actually get a day off when we can just be blobs and sit around and pick our noses. Less that two weeks til the wedding. We’re in the home stretch.

I got an email from someone who was on the jury trial with me, telling me the trial is over so I can go into my jury service a little more. I have also re-posted my snippets from the past couple of weeks. A surprising thing about my jury service is that I got paid. I got a check in the mail from the federal court. I don’t actually remember anybody ever saying that we would get paid for any of this. I guess that is what happens when you are on a jury for any length of time.

If you want to read in depth about the trial you can go here to see all the court docs. Funny thing I just noticed was that the court documents start in Feb. 2005. Less than a year after the parties initially contracted with each other.

Former vice president Al Gore has layed down “the green gauntlet” (kinda silly way to put it) to put America on the track to energy independence. I have been blabbing at people for years about this. Get a beer in me and ask me about energy, and I will spill out over the sides talking about how we need an “Energy Moon Shot“. The only people who are against this are people who have something to gain by it not happening.

• Update the US energy grid so that everyone can be a producer as well as a consumer
• Connected the entire energy grid to let electricity move around more freely
• Remove all Gas and oil taxes breaks and put them toward, Solar, Wind and Water energy incentives
• Remove the penny from circulation and round all transactions up. Use the money generated to first pay the national debt then put toward energy independence.
• New Manhattan Project - Task all the scientists available with creating new electric based fuel cell technologies

I am not optimistic about this happening though. A wise man once told me, “oil is the way it works, because it can be owned. As soon as energy is a process and not a commodity then all hell breaks loose. People who own the commodity will never let that happen.”

Check out this super cool 4 minute movie about magnetic fields. Its a Semiconductor film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt shot at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California, USA.

I have been on Jury Duty for the past couple of weeks but this morning that all came to an end. I was ushered into court by myself in front of the lawyers and asked, on the court record, if I was in fact blogging about this trial. Oops. While there is a stipulation that you not talk about the trial or form an opinion about the trial, I was under the mistaken impression that nobody but my family or friends read my blog and that since I wasn’t discussing the case or people in detail that I was being on the up and up. Boy was I wrong.

So I’m putting out a big “I’m sorry” to the lawyers, the judge and especially the court reporters in the case for any added stress I may have caused or for generally being an asshole with comments that were undignified. I think getting stuck in a room full of people for a couple of weeks and not being able to talk to anyone, even the people in the room with you, in any meaningful way about what is going on just kinda makes people go a little stir crazy. I guess it also doesn’t help if you have a quick and easy medium (blogging) to just blab on and on, thinking that no one is really paying attention.

Out of respect for the proceedings, I have taken down all post related to this until the trial is over.