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Patrick

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln

About Me

I'm a laid back kind of a guy. I enjoy nothing more then sitting around with friends having a few beers. I also enjoy going to the woods and/or mountains. Nothing better then some fresh air and getting away from the traffic and other noises of the city. I have a dry, sarcastic sense of humor that was breed from watching the Blues Brothers, and other classic comedy movies.Thanks to my profession of working on ships, i've been all around the Pacific from Chile, Peru, and Mexico to Fuji, New Zealand and Australia. It also has landed me back in San Diego to work at the NASSCO shipyard on the bay. Even with my travels around the Pacific, I still wouldn't mind doing some more traveling around the US and Europe (Ireland and Germany happen to be at the top of the list).
Your Inner European is Irish!
Sprited and boisterous!
You drink everyone under the table. Who's Your Inner European?

My Interests

Oh some much to put here, but here are the top one: Hanging out with friends playing some pool or just having a drink, Sports(Hockey - LA Kings, College Football - SDSU, MSU, Baseball - SD Padres), the outdoors, classic cars (I like the Chevy's but a fan of most things that burn rubber), comic books and the shooting sports

I'd like to meet:

Seth MacFarlane, Dan Akroyd, the inventor of Pong, and hell, even you!

Music:

BB King, Dave Brubeck, John Lee Hooker, Ozomatli, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Pink Floyd, Queen, Veda, Reverand Horton Heat, Social Distortion, Rolling Stones, Sevendust, Ted Nugent, The Cardigans, Tom Petty, Fu Manchu, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rob Zombie, Frank Zappa, ZZ Top, Motley Crue, Metallica (before they sucked), Megadeath, Johnny Cash, Smoke Follows Beauty, The Flying Tigers, The Cars, Damn Yankees, ACDC, Spoon, Flogging Molly, Garbage, The Darkness, The Eagles, Franz Ferdinand, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Norah Jones, Parliament, Stone Temple Pilots, Thelonious Monk, Van Halen, The Peter Malick Group,.38 Special

Movies:

Mister Roberts, Spaceballs, Das Boot, Animal House, Blues Brothers, The Shawshank Redemption, Airplane, Office Space, Death To Smoochy, The Abyss, The Hunt for Red October, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, any Monty Python, Slap Shot, True Lies, History of the World Part One, Full Metal Jacket, Caddyshack, Lord of the Rings, Road Trip, Old School, Band of Brothers

Television:

The Three Stooges, The Marx Brothers, The Family Guy, Futurama, Mail Call, Oz, Fox News, Dead Like Me, ESPN, Anything on the History Channel or the Discovery Channel, LOST

Books:

The Radical Center, Blind Man's Bluff, Rainbow Six, The Flight of the Intruder, Valhalla Rising, Comic Books

Heroes:

Dad

My Blog

Relaxing Weekend

So today I went to the Good Guys car show at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.  It's becoming an annual event that I attend.  The show has some excellent cars.  And some are even powered by PBR!...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:15:00 PST

Turkey Week

I spent Thanksgiving week in Michigan with family.  Overall I had a great time.  I saw some cousins that I haven't seen in a while and even found time to go to a Detroit Pistons game with th...
Posted by Patrick on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:14:00 PST

Good Weekend

So this weekend started off pretty well.  I went off to see Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival.  They showed a few good cartoons but not as many as I remembered from years ...
Posted by Patrick on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:59:00 PST

A bad day at the park...

...is better than an afternoon at work.  I took the afternoon off of work to see the SD Padres playoff game.  It could have been a little better (a SD win would have been nice) but it still ...
Posted by Patrick on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:55:00 PST

Life's little curve balls...

The strangest thing happened to me while I was driving to work on Friday morning.  I was about half way to work when I heard a pop and my right lens of my glasses fell from my frame.  That's...
Posted by Patrick on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:32:00 PST

'Tis the Season...

To stay off the roads and do all the Christmas shopping online.  That's right folks, the madness of Holiday shopping and traffic are back with vengeance.  The traffic today was bad (thank go...
Posted by Patrick on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:40:00 PST

Heaven...

It might have taken a year to get their heads out of their asses, but Hockey is back!!    So far in the first 8 minutes of the LA Kings game,  they have scored 3 goals.  It's going...
Posted by Patrick on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:04:00 PST

A week to forget...

So,   let me begin by saying this week has finished in the top 5 of worst weeks ever experienced by me.  Let's start last Monday.  It started out as a good day, traffic was moving prett...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

People in San Diego Beware...

It's that time in San Diego.  Not summer time.  It's time for the nerds to invade downtown for the Comic-Con.  And I will be one of those nerds to go all four days of this event.  ...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

July 4th weekend...

The July 4th weekend kicked some serious ass!!  I went up to the northwest to visit Dave and to meet up with the rest of the old roommates Jill and Jen.  I also met up with other old classma...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST