109 fucking degrees in the valley yesterday. Unfortunately I had to go there to the production house, which had no air-conditioning! Shitty.
Don’t feel like writing much, but maybe I’ll update a bit later. Just wanted to post the pics.
Love ya boogs! Off to NYU you go! Miss you so much!
– Sakai
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The Volume of Success Co-exists With Stress.
Its Medication Placing Tests on the Patients.
Prescription Lifting Profits,
It’s Death to the Obsessed.
Anxious Struggles Bless the Lucky Fortunate.
The Priceless, Doomed and Lucked Lay Lifeless.
The Dollars Keep Risin’,
Physician.
Is This a Surprise to Them?
– Sakai
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Friday: Hollyhock House + Wine Tasting + Vinoteca (as explained before)
Saturday: Saturday was quite whacky, a little bit of everything. Woke up and went into work to speak with a buyer of a new set of stores in Japan called “CHARM”. Things went pretty well, loved the line, took some notes, and will come back in September to place an official PO. After that, a little bit of time with my sister before she leaves for NYU! Crazy how quickly she grew and is leaving. Took her Go-Kart racing in 20hp karts = GOOD TIMES! After that is a bit hazy to say the least. Went to Sunset Junction with a couple friends but stayed up in my buddies loft (that overlooks Sunset Junction). It was the perfect view without having to be in that Carney-Infested-Hell!
A couple of my friends ate some marijuana cookies and all was fine for about an hour… And then this… 
This is my friend after 1 1/2 cookies. He’s sleeping standing up, leaning against a handrail! I know David, I’m an asshole for taking the picture, but I’d expect you to do the same to me. I mean this is skill, sleeping standing!
Head home at 1am and drop off our two drunkies/weedies.
Sunday: Brunch with Katie’s co-workers at The Bazaar at The SLS. Pretty sweet little buffet-style brunch. A delicious pastry that tasted like a candy bar (pictured below).
Then back to Sunset Junction, because our other friend threw-up on the side of the building and on the call-box. The HOA weren’t very happy about it, so it was clean up time. Hung out there for a quick minute and then to grocery store to pick up pool-party supplies. Look at Katie carrying everything while I take a picture of the Tecate I’m carrying! Haha.
After that, we hung out by the pool with senor Jon and senorita Morgan. Our tummies were yearning for some food and beer so we took a little stroll over to Wurstkuche for some sausages and beer. Came home and relaxed after that.
What a fucking weekend!
– Sakai
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The first of our group arrives 5 minutes past the scheduled tour time… They stand outside a roped off entrance to the house for about 10 minutes, then we show up. We wait another 5 minutes, thinking in our heads “oh I guess it’s not starting on time”.
Well it did start exactly on time and the idiots that run the tour finally come out and say “oh you were supposed to wait inside”.
Are you fucking serious? Oh, I should’ve known, stupid me, we’re supposed to hop over the ropes at the entrance of the house and trespass into the “music room” and wait there for further instructions.
Well now I know and knowing’s half the battle right? -GI Joe
A couple pictures from the house (above), notice my lady double fisting wine (now that’s a proper Louisianian lady!) in order to finish before sundown because that’s when they stop serving… Oh did I mention that they stop serving the wine tasting wines (that we paid for) at sundown? We had to chug just to get what we paid for! And we’re not alcoholics, I swear…
– Sakai
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What a couple of days!
This is how it went:
Tuesday morning wake up 3:30 am to get dressed and ready and drive myself to the airport by 5am for a 6:00 flight. Well, the flight was overbooked so I ended up getting shoved onto another flight that left at 8:20 connects in Palm Springs at 9:15am and then on to vegas for a 10:30 arrival. (The Casket Pictured Right)
… Off to Project at Mandalay Bay, no dropping off bags at the hotel. Instead I carried them around throughout the show. I decided to drop my bags off at my old employer’s booth (Work Custom Jeans). Sweating like crazy and completely uncomfortable in a large convention I sat myself down and cooled down so I wasn’t that guy sweating profusely. Then off I went to mingle and meet with future contacts; good times! I met quite a few different, potential contacts.
… Took a look around Workroom, ENK, Magic, etc. I then got to my hotel for check-in at 5pm. Haven’t eaten, haven’t slept. I get settled in my room and grab a beer, take a power-nap and am off to dinner at 8:15 with a guy named Kirat; a potential contact for manufacturing in India and China. Very interesting guy, ex-investment banker for JP Morgan Chase. We grabbed dinner and spoke for a good while. When all was finished at dinner, he wants to go to XS at The Wynn, the new hot nightclub in Vegas. We take a look around hop in there and meet up with my buddy Charlley and all the peeps at RevGroup. That place gets too hectic and crazy so we meander to another place, that’s a little more calm. It’s called Plushbar, also at The Wynn. At 2am Charlley and I decide that we best be calling it a night.
Get back to the MGM and knock-out.
I then wake up at 7:30 and pack and get ready for the plane ride home. Stopping very briefly at Project to say bye to Charlley and Kirat.
Hop on the plane and fly an hour back home. Drop by the house to find that my lady is playing hooky from work! Drag her outta the house to get her car taken care of and then into work I go for my 3 o’clock with a potential new freight forwarder!
What a day… I finished it off with a ***** and a **** and then knock out.
P.S. Some new kicks (Reebok Pumps) … a good new song – “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster the People
– Sakai
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3 years ago yesterday, a beautiful girl entered a denim factory on a school trip with not a clue of what she was about to get into.
3 years ago yesterday, a boy was trying to figure out life while interning at a denim company.
3 years ago today, the boy woke up and his life made sense; the girl he had found had everything that he thought was missing.
Today he’s as happy as can be, working hard and having fun in his down time. Things seem pretty well-balanced.
The first goal: The Perfect Girl
The second goal: Keeping her
The third goal: …
… that’s a hat trick
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BABS! LOVE YOU!
– Sakai
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I was happily surprised when one of my lil sisters came into work on tuesday to hang out and do some designing of her own (I posted a Picture of her design). She’s pretty talented at 9 years old! Can’t believe she’s that old already but she is…
Wednesday I was lucky enough to cook dinner with my older lil sister who is off to NYU in just 1 1/2 weeks! Going to miss her so much and so proud of her for leaving the nest and flying off to the big apple. Wherever you go weeeeee’ll find you (the parentals are already scoping out houses/condos in NY)!
Up on the horizon for the weekend: Golfing tomorrow with the two amigos @Braemar and then Sunday is the romantic hang out with the wifey day.
… we’re gonna run to the farmers market, pick up some fresh foods and head home for a romantic lil Sunday of cooking and drinking!
– Sakai
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A much needed Newcastle Summer Ale, which I haven’t tried yet, and is summer already coming to a close? Isn’t it weird how when you get older summers get shorter and colder? What happened to “Lazy Summer Days/Like Some Decrepit/Land Shark Dumb-Luck Squad Diluted…”?
I’ve come to think today that all life is after a childhood, an adolescence, and college is WORK!
A conversation that is all too familiar with me and people that I haven’t seen in a long time:
Friend that I haven’t seen in a long time: “What’s new man, how’s your life?”
Me: “Oh just work…” (Really, is that all that’s really going on or new in my life?)
Friend that I haven’t seen in a long time: “Yeah me too, just work…” (Is that really all that’s going on in their life?)
What’s really ironic is that I started my career at a company called “WORK Custom Jeans”.
As I’ve been sitting in the expensive Eames chair that I bought from WORKING! I can’t help but think to myself how stupid and fucked up it is that I even have an Eames chair at all. I mean to be honest I was content in the woods with my bow drill set and tarp, hiking 8-12 miles a day in Deusche, Utah for 3 months. When I finally earned myself a foldable cushion chair I was happy enough sitting on rocks that, well, I still just sat on fucking rocks!
Now I’m in a loft with an Eames chair with nothing more to tell my old friends other than “what’s new, well just WORK! man”
By the way the Newcastle Summer Ale just tastes like a watered down Newcastle. Don’t recommend it. Haha, I guess the cup’s half empty today.
– Sakai
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Session #1
The newest addition to my body besides the ten pounds, is an outline for a three-quarter sleeve tattoo that I have been waiting to get for years. It’s pretty fucking awesome and I can’t wait to get the rest of it finished up. Only 4 more sittings of painful needles jabbing into my skin unrelentlessly until it will be finished! My lil lady sat by my side for the first 2 hours.
She’s looking to get some artwork done too in the next couple months, but her skin (according to everyone) is too nice to ever ruin with a tattoo. More power to her though, right? I mean she’s already beautiful, and if she can have beautiful skin and a beautiful tattoo, does it really take away from her beautiful skin? I have done plenty of thinking, and I think not. So babs, go for it! Beautiful+beautiful skin+some beautiful artwork = pretty hot if I may say so myself.
… now that’s just simple addition, right?
– Sakai
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A vicious temperament that is surrounded by a moat filled with happiness. The drawbridge is cemented shut; no one has permission to enter the castle for fear that my introversion will be misunderstood as a lack of appreciation for others.
... Welcome to my cave.
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