going going gone. our little circle of san diego is about to take some hits. b babb is moving up to oakland, turbo loh is going to san francisco, james wank is going to mammoth. while this may not seem catastrophic to you, it is to me. see, for the past few months, especially summer, san diego has been a giant den of slack and entertainment. sure some of us work, some of us pretend to work, but at the end of the day, we all bum and annoy each other. but people are moving on, getting their responsibilities in order and that is all a very good thing. babbs, victor and james aren't going quite yet but today we officially lost our highest estrogen producer, the one the only purple hippo. it was all she could do to handle hanging out with eight guys all the time and she's run off to hong kong to be by her boyfriend's side. an admirable decision of course but that leaves us high and dry in the female department.



we don't need many females for our group to function, in fact, fewer as opposed to plentiful is the ideal. but in nancy we lose our everything. she was one of the guys, yet still a girl. she was okay with being bored with us on weekdays and weekends. she laughed with us, laughed at us and basically set the standard for any future smurfettes. we have been working hard in search of a potential female "replacement" but as we well know, that is impossible. what we have is an exodus of people, starting with nancy, which means that i forsee life in san diego being pretty different. sure we have all the leftovers here, and many dope ass new people, but this endless summer will be hard to duplicate. and in actuality, it should never be duplicated again because if it is, we are not only residents of loserdom but denizens with no hope of escape.



in creating a "replacement requirement" list, we sought out many of the things that nancy gave us. we needed a girl who was easily amused. a girl who wouldn't mind being stuck in on friday and saturdays reading newsweek and watching some poker. a girl who got along well with everyone and could bring out certain stupidity just by being there. we also needed them to have a boyfriend, preferably far far away, so that she could get her fix of loving and care from him so she would be satisfied slumming with us freaks. and it would be nice if she got our humor, because hey, we are humorous but only to ourselves. video games is a must, plus willingness to eat and hang out at all hours. of course, no one girl can be all these things and so we'll have to struggle sausage-ly on. a picture of a strangely non-sausagey weekend, a rare occurence indeed.



the good news with all these people leaving is that our female to male ratio is about to go up. not by anything magical that we have accomplished but by sheer stupid subtraction. before, we had one girl and eight guys. now we lose four guys so if we even hang out with one girl at all, we will have one girl and four guys. that's eleven percent up to twenty percent without breaking a sweat. i love math, don't you?



in other news, when babbs leaves in a week, we need a basketball star for our team. preferably over six feet with great defense offense and everything else. we accept all applicants regardless of age, color and gender. as long as you can make us not lose by ten, we'll take you. we may not win any games but we want to put up some sort of fight. man, it sucks to suck at basketball.



for the record, the summer is officially over.