I was supposed to do some more serious research on firms tonight, but I watched Inter lose to Chelsea tonight instead. TV's not working in this room and this happened to be one of the few nights that I decided to leave my laptop in the office, soooo I couldn't get anything done really while I was streaming the game.

Instead, I'm going to blog. Meant to talk about the weekend my cousins were here. Tyler and Becca got here on Friday. We took them to get yogurt and Pizza My Heart (they have pretty cool new shirts there by the way).

I spent Saturday morning at the Immigration Clinic in Japantown. Good time to be there, too, apparently. They were holding the Odom Festival there. We had lunch there. A lot of good food. We went straight from Japantown to Great America. The last time I was at Great America, this so-called "Flight Deck" was still called Top Gun. You might remember this time. We didn't ride it anyway. Not because of the long lines, but because we had our little cousins with us. Speaking of which, it was not crowded there at all, which is something I did not expect to see on a Saturday during the summer. Dumb economy. Kind of. We actually got quite a few rides in even with our long stop in the games section where everyone spent way more than the $3 I said they could spend on games. Good times. My favorite part of Great America is the little boat racing thing in the children's section. I was delighted to find that it was still there. There's also this new-ish Survivor-themed ride that looked interesting. Probably would have gone on it if we weren't with little kids. Next time maybe. If there is a next time. Disneyland >>>>> Great America any day.

Sunday, we went up to Rohnert Park to help Uncle Brian look for a new place. It was a slightly productive day. We took Bruce with us. There was a lot of traffic on the way back. Stopped by Chabba's house and looked at his India pictures. Then we went to the movies. Umma to the Proposal; Halmony, Tyler and Becca to Transformers 2, and James, and I went to Public Enemies. I really liked the movie. You can't go wrong with a movie starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Marion Cottliard. If you do, you should be given some sort of award for failing at life.

On Monday, it was back to work. I don't remember much of what we did that day, but I do know that we were sad to find out that the San Quentin tour we were supposed to go on was canceled due to a swine flu break out. Lame. After work, we went on a quick walk and then took Grandpa out to dinner for his birthday.

Tuesday was the first of the three days went spent at court in Palo Alto watching a trial. We watched jury selection, which is a pretty fascinating process to watch. After work I raced through traffic to get back home, sat down for like ten minutes, and then turned around to take James and the cousins out to Santana Row's Bastille Day circus. It was kind of a cute celebration put on by Left Bank.

It was actually a lot more fun and well done than I might have thought it was going to be. There was dancing, and body contortions and beat box juggling (which is pretty much as awesome as it sounds). They pretty much used like 3 French songs and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack though. I don't know how legit that is, but I like the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, so it shouldn't matter.





Oh and there was a guy spinning a cube around with his body. That was kind of amazing.

(this scene does not translate well as a photo, but I have to give you something to visualize the sheer awesomeness of the moment)

After the performance, we got more Pizza My Heart and yogurt, and then went home. They left the next morning. It was a fun, but busy weekend, for sure. I would post about this past weekend, but my eyes are about to fall out of my brain, so I should probably going to sleep.