"We gotta make a change... It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive." 2Pac Greatest Hits - Changes

The Presidential politics of 2008 has been nothing but conventional - our next White House occupant can be one a black guy, a woman, or a "wringly white dude" (words of the great Paris Hilton), and the guy who looks like Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos. So then it can't be that surprising to learn that the fastest rising star out of the Primaries and now the general election is not a keynote speaker of any conventions, the spouse of a former president or candidate, or an outspoken religious figure. Instead, it's your big, white, gay - Rachel Maddow!

It was by chance that I stumbled upon a preserved version of the personal site I had from waaay back in 2000 when I first moved down to San Diego. It was was during those next few months that I came the closest to keeping a journal regularly than I ever had in my life. I kept 9 entries over a year, and updates became more and more sporadic as college life became busier, but boy, they sure covered some of the most important events in my life: 9/11, 21st birthday, first 1/2 marathon, first triathlon, and a even further blast into the past to my very first site.

Thanks to James for getting everyone off his/her ass and organizing the camping trip to Lake Arrowhead. We were 7 strong (me, Eric, Nisha, James, Saki, Sayako, and Shane), and former scouts Eric and Sayako made sure everyone survived. Very good stuff.

Well, we'll see about the "improved" part, but things certainly are different around here. Just when I swore off blogs few years ago, here I am turning Page 37 into one. Something happened to me recently, I've got a 9-5 (holy shit)!! And as a result I simply cannot continue to run P37 as a business anymore.