I'm pretty good at this one

There’s tons of good websites to do this: Ryze, LinkedIn, Orkut, FriendCircles, Friendster, MySpace, etc. This isn’t the real world at all, but it represents who you know. Actually, meeting people in person is much better for your real social network.

See more progress on: become a better networker

Beautiful enough!

Nothing too fancy, but still simple and nice. It’s my Geocities website

No work yet, but maybe later… It’s not as nice as my blogs, but I did write the code from scratch.

See more progress on: design a beautiful website

This has been done for awhile!

I’ve gotten at least 3 or 4 times my usual number of hits to my blog, so I’m happy with that.

See more progress on: Get more people to read my Blog

Plaxo and Birthday Alarm

Just a couple websites I signed up with to help achieve this goal. Hope it works!

See more progress on: keep in touch with friends

Just did!

I’ve been having insomnia lately, but this time it actually helped me achieve this goal.

See more progress on: put all my finances in Quicken

Road Trip

Me and my brother are planning to drive back down there today. I am happy to be able to see my sister, nephew, brother-in-law, mom, and cat today. My dad is already down there to visit my grandma. It’ll be nice to be home again, even if for a short while.

See more progress on: Buena Park

Test post

I am doing 43 things.

I was there last month!

There was a Vegetarian Bistro Crawl for my Alumni Association, it was okay. I think I ordered the wrong dish, next time I’ll have to try something else. It’s not far from where I live, so I hope to be back soon.

See more progress on: Herbivore

Nick Jago of BRMC @ Northumbria, 10.16.05

BRMC 13
Originally uploaded by nickpickles.

This is nice photo because he kind of looks like he's smiling here. Plus, it's usually hard to see Nick behind the drum kit. Either way, it's a very nice photo.

M Theory Photos, 2nd Annual Sonic Summer Bash, 8.13.05

This was the event I was pretty excited about a few months ago. I got the photos from a member of the Swervedriver mailing list. As much as I like Ride and Catherine Wheel, I somehow was a bigger fan of Swervedriver. Unfortunately, traffic was pretty bad getting down that day, so we missed half of Adam's set. I've heard some live acoustic mp3's of Toshack Highway before so I know what he sounds like unplugged. Anyways, it didn't make a huge difference since the store was too small and crowded for us to get inside. These photos are all inside and close up, which makes them all the more interesting. The photos me and my brother attempted to take from outside the store were pretty bad. It cleared out a little during Mark Gardener's set, but we were still outside. That was fine since there was free food.

Adam Franklin (Swervedriver/Toshack Highway)


Rob Dickinson (Catherine Wheel)


Mark Gardener (Ride)


I found these BRMC photos from a BRMC group on MySpace. There are actually four groups, and I joined them all! It's funny how someone on the BRMC forum said I was obsessed because I posted all those interviews yesterday. It's true, but I just said it's because I have a fansite. Actually, I probably started the site because I'm obsessed! I do like having all the information at hand, it's also been helpful in keeping my own concert dates organized. Plus, I enjoy reading my silly writing about all the festivals I went to in 2002! Going to a UK Music Festival was one of my silly teenage dreams that I put off until after college, but it actually came true! It was neat running into Robert at Leeds, but I didn't even want to bother him. The Welsh girl I'd met named Pip made me ask for an autograph. Then she called him a twat or a wanker for not saying anything! I think he just wasn't used to being approached by fans back then.

Robert and Peter @ the Garage, London, 8.22.05


Nick and Robert @ Virgin Megastore, London, 8.23.05


Peter @ Virgin Megastore, London, 8.23.05