• Fare thee well US of A. I leave tomorrow morn for stranger waters. #

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sidenote- couldn’t sleep, watched the last two episodes of Heroes.  Sooo good.  Love the comic book scene, that really brought it home to the audience.  Who wouldn’t want to see their heroes come to life for real.  Having Seth Green and Breckin Meyer there was a nice touch.  Can’t see those guys and not laugh.  Plus I feel they are my people. 

Alright, let’s see if I can get some sleep now.  Plane leaves in 3 hours.

• Everyone look outside to SEE venus and jupiter shining along side the moon #

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The cops. I should’ve realized during this happy holiday time, the cops would be out like mad to ruin my holiday cheer, but seriously: two speeding tickets in 3 hours?! The second one I didn’t even deserve. Sure, I drive fast, but never too fast, never unsafely fast. I know my own limits. I know I know, that doesn’t matter in the eyes of the law, so I get it when I get pulled over and cited for speeding. But after that, especially on a long trip like driving the 3 hours from my house to my parents’ house, I stick it on cruise control the rest of the way and adjust it for whatever signs I see. So I’m going 55, FIFTY-FIVE mind you! freakin slow! Goin the general speed of traffic. I stop at a stop light, it turns green, I go, then suddenly there’s a cop on me. I literally had NO IDEA why I was being pulled over. Apparently, in that tiny little town I just passed, it went from 55 to 45 to 35, then back up to 45 and 55. I pull over right in front of a 60mph sign.

There’s so many towns where it does this, it’s crazy. Okay, I’m sorry, I blinked and missed the sign in your tiny hic town. freakin aye. So now I’ve got to go to court TOMORROW, if they even get my ticket in by then cause I’m leaving the country on Friday. Arg, ticks me off man.

• 1.79 for gas. I love TX #

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Oh my dear friends the day has finally come. The Wall Bed has arrived. I bought it from a guy named Ray who owns his own wall bed business up in Maypearl, TX. It’s called Texas Wall Beds and he’s one of the only guys around who’ll do king sized. He uses real wood, I got red wood with a dark walnut stain, looks really nice.

They came by today and set it all up, only took a few hours and here are some pics of the process. It’s sooo cool: recessed lighting, shelf on the side, locking mechanisms, and I have so much room when it is up and it’s a very nice mattress. Good buy.

• Back in texas ready to Get my wall bed installed. So excited #

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Went to Vegas last weekend as many of you know and won over two grand in liek 5 hours, plus got comped a free show: the Crazy Horse Cabaret at the MGM Grand. Pays to be in the Player’s Club friends. When I get back from Thailand, I’m strongly considering a monthly trip to Vegas, see if I can keep up the good luck. I do have a system. It works to a certain extent, but playing on a 6 deck shoe, you just never really know.

Okay, so this happened a few days ago, but I must tell it to the world. I was at the hospital and there are these elevators which are closer to our Command Center then the other elevators and they worked the week before, but this week, I pushed the button and it didn’t light up and the doors didn’t open. Come to find out, they were officially robots only elevators. Despite the obvious segregation, I chose to overlook this and continue on the few dozen feet to the human staff elevators for the rest of the week.

However, on Thursday, I was walking past the robots only elevators and there was a robot coming out of them so the doors were open. I thought, “cool, I’ll just sneak in here real quick.” So I get inside, the doors close and none of the buttons work. Not the door open/close, none of the floors, nothing. Shit was my first thought. There was a call button, but I really didn’t want to push it. I heard the faint sound of the robots moving through the halls, “Attention, Automatic Transport.” I heard the voice get louder and louder, getting hopeful, but then it would fade away. So I finally pushed the call button.
“Emergency? Emergency? Emergency?” the lady on the other side said really fast.
“Uh, hello?” I said thinking it was a recording.
“Do you have an emergency,” the human woman said.
“Um, no not really”
“this is an emergency only line”
“well I’m stuck in an elevator.”
“so you have an emergency.”
“I guess”
“What’s your name?”
“Zach” I said not wanting to give my full name.

So finally she says that she’s going to send help. I wait in anticipation while updating my twitter of my predicament. Finally, after a half hour, another robot summons the elevator to open and I am able to escape while keeping my dignity somewhat and not having to be rescued by anyone.

At the hospital I’m working at this week, on the first floor, they have a quarter mile service corridor where robots go back and forth carrying equipment and supplies from place to place. This happens in far more hospitals then you’d think. I found this out when I told my friends about it and they were stunned to learn that there are robots performing such tasks autonomously. So here’s a little footage I shot with my cell phone of two robots meeting up in a little traffic jam and one going around the other.

Not sure why the sound doesn’t work, but there’s a british woman living in each one of these machines which constantly says, “Caution, Automatic Transport. Caution, Automatic Transport.”