Club review: Dolce

@ Dolce in San Francisco / North Beach - "Koo" rating



The run down...

It was koo to be out with the fellas.
The women here needed some work.
The bouncers acted like this is the hottest club this side of the universe. (far from it)
And... The women here needed some work.

See what I mean!!



So anyway, nothing more to report. :-The up side is we got on their website :-)
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My Pics
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-tp-

The sound of one hand flushing.

"FLUUUUSHH"

Ahhhh. The sound of victory! :-)

Being a bachelor isn't easy. It may look easy. But it is far from it. You have spend large amounts of time trying to figure out how to waste your time, forgot important events and dates on purpose and be frugal with your money all while making it look easy.

Being frugal is one of the hardest, from eating PB&J every day to restraining from buying needless items. Which leads me to my latest triumph... the toilet.

The stars have been set and ever since I've been born I can't help but to clog the toilet :-(
I can't help it. But it's not my fault!! I have a 25% increased chance of clogging a toilet just because I'm a man. I have another 25% increased chance of clogging the toilet because I'm a bachelor. So that adds up to a 50% increased chance of getting a frog in the throat of my poor toilet.

Most people handle a clogged toilet with a plunger. But I can not. Remember I am a bachelor. Why "pay" for something when you can figure out a way to do it for free. So here are a few of my methods for getting a clogged toilet unclogged ;-)

Plan A: After noticing the clog, let the water go down some and reflush the toilet!!
---------- 10% of working - Usually this doesn't work but being a bachelor you have to always try the easiest option first.

Plan B: After noticing the clog, and Plan A did not work, wait 30mins to an hour then try Plan A over again ;-)
---------- 75% of working - Usually this does the trick. I guess by waiting a little bit you soften up the sh-eets of paper and they go down the toilet easier.

This morning I had to poop and guess what I clogged the toilet :-(. I tried Plan A AND B but no luck. I figured I 'd let it sit all day and try again after work. When I came home I tried Plan B again. No luck. So now I'm a little worried. "Would I have to buy a plunger?" "naa I could just borrow one from someone" "but that means I'd have to go door to door asking people, too much trouble"

So I decided to try Plan B after a few more few hours, but no luck. I was planning to let it sit over night when I realized I had to pee. :-| So I need to get this thing fixed quick. Or I'd have to pee in the sink(which I've done before, but I was a kid then and innocent).

So all this led me to ...

Plan C: After noticing the clog, and trying Plan A and B several times... grab a coat hanger and jam it up in the toilet!!!
---------- 10% of working - Don't expect much from Plan C but it sure is fun!

After doing Plan C I started praying ..because I had to pee :-$ and then it came to me!! How did I forget about this one....

Plan D: After noticing the clog and trying Plan A,B, and C ... grap a bucket of HOT water (about 1/4 gallon) and start pouring it in the toilet. About 1.2 seconds later flush the toilet!! Presto! And you'll hear the sound I posted above.
---------- 95% of working - Pretty much guaranteed man. :-) Not sure if the magic is in the hot water or the extra water going down the drain but it works!

If Plan A,B,C, and D do not work for you, as a last resort try...

Plan E: After noticing the clog, feel free to try this plan first. This is what you do , invite a friend over and make sure he/she eat/drinks something at your place. With good luck he/she will have to do #1 or #2 in the bath room ;-) When he/she goes in there and flushes the toilet... it will back up on them. Boo-yahh! When they come out with a funny look on their face.. run in the bathroom and say "What did you do to my toilet!!!" Then insist they fix it before they leave and put it back in working order as it was before they came.

True bachelor style ;-)

-tp-

Life Goals part 2

I met the CEO of the MYIA organization, Herb Jones, a few weeks ago. I heard about about the organization on NPR. They did a story on his daughter which the org is named after. I googled the organization and found the email address to Herb. I wanted to get more info on the org for my little brother , Katrell, so I emailed him :-)

To my suprise he emailed me back and a few days later we were talking on the phone about the MYIA program, our backgrounds and life in general. We had a very fruitful discussion.

I mentioned to Herb how I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with my life and he mentioned Steve Jobs's Commencement speech to Stanford a few weeks ago.

Reading the speech makes my stomach and heart burn a little more. From beating to the bounce of "what am I suppose to do with my life?" to bumping to the beat of "I can't wait to find out what I love."

Side note: I have this same feeling when I think about who I am to marry. Even though I've never met her. I'm excited to meet her because I already know her in my heart.

Anyway, I suggest everyone spend 10min of their day and read the speech and take time to list your goals.

-tp

PS - VIP table for Pat's going away party this Thursday!!!

Life Goals

Kindergarten - 5th grade: I wanted to be a Fireman or President of the United States

9th - 12th: I was class president all four years :-). I learned there is a age requirement to be President and you have to deal with politics. :-\ I can deal with the age thing, but I hate dealing with politics. The thought that I have to scratch your back to get my bill passed doesn't sound right to me.
Also in high school, I loved psychology and computers. I always liked helping my friends in little problems they got in to. And computers were kool because you could use your brain and hands to create something. No different than someone who's a mechanic.
Going through high school I figured I would go to college, get a job and live the corporate life going up the ladder.

College: I choose computers before the "boom" happened. And while I was going through college it happened. I thought to myself.."man I picked the right major!!"
I moved to Cali. and started working in the Bay Area the Tech. Center of the World.

Present: After working about 1 or 2 days , I thought to myself , "I made it out! Now this is the life. I got money so now I can do the things I've always wanted to do." Then I thought, "man this sucks this can't be life. I can't see myself doing this job for the next 40 yrs!!" :-|
And the thought of switching job to job trying out different positions seems lame to me to. If am going to be switching job/positions I would want all of them to relate to one common goal. What ever that goal is :-
I know that God will show me what he wants me to do. But it sure is hard waiting. Especially when you look around at other people and they are using their talents.

So who knows what life holds for me. But I know I will help people and God will bless me.

So while I wait to figure out what I will grow up to be :-) I list my life goals. I'm sure I'll add and subtract them as I go through life. But You have to get started somewhere.

So here we go(but in no certain order).

1. Teach in some 3rd world country to some kids.
2. Find something I want to do for the rest of my life.
3. Visit every Continent.
1. 7 Natural Wonders of the World
2. Snow board in South America
3. See a Myan Temple
4. See the pyramids
5. See the Nile (and Mississippi) river
   
6. See the Rome coliseum
7. Snorkel in the 'Great barrier reef'
8. See the great wall and pee off it :-)
9. Party in Ibiza that island off Spain.
   
4. Start/Run my own successful company.
5. Meet the current President of the United States(at the current time I am doing this goal)
6. Make my on trilogy movie.
7. Write my autobiography.

I think if I can do 1 of these things a year I should be kool.

More later :-)

-tp-

Sonic Drive ins

Has anyone seen these Sonic Drive in restaurant commercials??

I have seen these commercials for over 5 yrs. From when I was back in Indiana to now being here in Cali. And I can honestly say I may have seen maybe 1 of these places. But I can't be sure it was from far away and I was trying sorta fast. But I see their commercials about their chili hot dogs all the time. I even went on to their websites and stuck in my Indiana AND Cali zip code and ....... nothin!

I think this business is just a front for the mob ;-) They just act like they are doing normal business but they are REALLY doing some sort of money laundering scheme. But you didn't here that from me.

I don't want any guys in suits, Hot Dog hats and a bulge under their jackets coming up to my place trying to give me the "Sonic special" :-|

But its all good. I'm ready for them.

As a matter for fact , if anyone can show me a camera phone picture of one of these places I'll give you free tickets to TP BBE 2005(more on that later ;-)!!!

-tp-

We Be Clubbin.com: Hustle Center

After years of planning and dedicated research from four different international institutes....I introduce to you the We Be Clubbin.com: Hustle Center aka the We Be Clubbin store!!!

The WBC store allows you to take a little bit of We Be Clubbin with you every where you go. All the products displayed in the store relate back to the WBC web site or just life in general. My first line of product is T-Shirt apparel.

It's a celebration, enjoy yourselves.

-tp-

The worst phrase you can say to someone.

Due to some people leaving at my job I inherited some of their work on top of my day-to-day stuff :-
I always like to learn new stuff. BUT this extra job I have to do just happens to be the worst job in the company. Maybe even in the Bay Area. It's the equivalent of having a job where you have to pick up all the poop over a 5 square mile area with two baby spoons.

Okay maybe I'm exaggerating but not by much. Ever since the word got out I have this new responsibility all these people come up to me and say (in a humbling voice)

"man.... I don't envy you."

After they say that, I feel drowning myself in 2 inches of water... really frustrated.

Man, I can't think of a worse thing to say. True it is a sucky job. And true no one wants to be in my position. But I was still looking for some piece of encouragement. Of course there is not much you can say to a pooper scooper who has 5 miles of poop to pickup.

"Well at least you'll get your exercise!"

Oh well. I'm learning something new , I get to make this position a little bit better for the next guy and I can make a tshirt out of it :-)

-tp-

Indecent Proposal part 2

After thinking about .. chewing on it... praying on it... I couldn't pull myself to do it :-
But on a good note, Chris talk to Dub and decided to make the deal with him. He won't drink and Wilson won't smoke for the rest of their lives.

I gota commend both of them. Hats off to the two of you.

-tp-

new question

I updated my profile with a new Blogger question.. get your peep on.
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-tp-

Indecent Proposal

My boy Wilson aka "Dub" smokes. He smoked in college but when he moved out to Cali he kicked the habit. Then he got married and had a kid. Now he's smokin again :-
All of his friends, myself included, try to encourage him to stop. But you can't make anyone do something they don't want to do. They have to be motivated to do it. I can talk to him about smoking statistics or about the health risk to his baby daughter(he doesn't smoke around her but we all know how smoke can get on yourself & clothes) but it all doesn't matter unless he wants it to.

So all this leads us to yesterday. I was over Dub's crib for a BBQ and he was like

Yo , I was planning to ask Chris this but I'll ask you too. You guys are always saying how I need to stop smoking. And I assume you all are saying that because you care about me and not trying to be self righteous. So I ask you this... Would you be willing to give up drinking if I give up smoking.

At first I'm like "whoa". Then I consider it for a second. Then I'm back to "whoa".
I'm thinking.. drinking and smoking are completely different. Dub's like .." smoking is bad for you ; drinking is bad for you; so what's the difference"? Then I say, "They are different. With all things being equal smoking is worse. I'm not addicted to drinking. And one smoke is a lot worse than one drink. I don't see drinking as problem, but smoking is."
With about 3 other people in the room(all smokers) Dub went on to make his case. But at the end of the discussion I think they all agreed with my point.

But that still leaves the initial question. Would I stop drinking for Dub?

Now we are pretty kool peeps so if it were anyone else I probably would have smacked them twice then laughed in their face. But for Dub I gave it some thought and told him I'd sleep on it.

On one hand I feel like giving up drinking is a pretty big thing :-| drinking is part of my social. On the other hand, Dub quitting smoking is important. And as a friend I'm down for that.

And I don't abuse drinking. I drink 1 or 2 times on the weekend. And that's it. I don't drink to gain confidence in myself. I don't drink to make myself feel better about myself. I don't drink to forgot my 'troubles'. To me drinking is another form of relaxing. Now I don't drink during the week. I don't need it to relax when I'm at home. But it sure does help when I'm out clubbin :-) plus it makes me feel good(which is the relaxed feeling I get).

To me giving up drinking would be similar to me asking a runner to stop jogging. Or asking a surfer to stop surfing. These things are done for enjoyment. And of course if these things aren't done in moderation one can hurt their body. Similar to how retired NFL Football players are all crippled in some way. In the 5 or so years they play, they wear their bodies out because they push their bodies to the limits day after day , game after game.

So I see my drinking as a hobby or sport :-) As long as I am doing it in moderation( and don't drink and drive :-\ ) there are no harmful affects. But just one smoke is doing damage to your body(and others around you).

But if you knew giving this up would help your friend stop smoking is it that bad of an offer?

Of course it's kinda messed up for me to ask you to stop surfing or jogging to help stop me smoking. But then again.. if this is my only way out....?

So I continue to ponder and get my prayer on.

-tp-

12 yr. old Chinese Emperor - Day 6

Whats the best way to end a bad travel experience????

Lose your luggages :-)

And guess what....

My stuff is somewhere in Atlanta :-What makes this stupid is that I asked two different Delta people about my bag. And they both said it should be kool.

Like I said before .. "Gota luv it."

-tp-

12 yr. old Chinese Emperor - Day 4

Ooooook let me start out on a good note.

I did very well at my Grandma's funeral. Everyone was digging my speech :-) So I'm proud I was able to represent ;-) Everyone said they liked it.

The family is doing kool. Most people didn't seem to take it as hard as Grandpa. I'm not sure why. Everyone has different reasons. But maybe most of the pain was released with Grandpa.

I got to meet more Powells too :-) So that was nice.
My Mom and brother were even trying to pimp me out to prospective women at the funeral. I met this one babe Roquell (I know I misspelled her name). She was cute. But just going to college(in NY). So will see.

I wish I could chill longer here. But duty(work) calls.

Now if you read the previous post you would know I had the worst time getting here.
So when I checked my bags to leave JA I expected nothing less :-)

So of course my flight from Kingston to Montego Bay was delayed for an hour!
Then I had a 2 hr layover in MoBay.

And guess what..... The plane left without me!!!!! They never updated the tv screens to show the flight was here!! OR it was leaving.

So I sit here typing waiting for the next flight out. I will miss my connecting ATL flight. Which means I will come into Cali Monday afternoon >:-<

Gota live it.

-tp-

12 yr. old Chinese Emperor - Day 1

My Jamaican grandma pasted away a few days ago(While I was in Miami). So right after I got back from the Miami trip I had to get on another plan heading for Kingston. Which was hectic :-$

Because of the short notice I had to drop grand on a plane ticket that leaves SFO at 11:54pm. I really don't mind red-eye flights but I never get a good rest on them. For my trip to Kingston I had to go from SFO->ATL-Kingston :-\ Uhhg. But It's all good because I get to see my family so I'm not really complaining.

But as for my status right now... I still haven't met up with everyone yet. In order for me to get to Kingston , I had 3 delayed flights, 2 missed flights, and 1 cancelled flight :-(. All in this full day of traveling. From 11:54pm May 31 -> 10pm June 1. I normally don't have this sort of trouble coming to JA. But yesterday was different. Oh well. I'm glad I am finally here. I am writing this post from my cousin's office in Kingston waiting for my Dad(or family friend) to come pick me up. Which he just got a flat tire :-( So I most continue to wait. But I'm not complaining. But it is just weird that I have to go through all this.

My Aunt asked me to speak at my Grandma's funeral. Which is kool and scary at the same time. I get to honor my Grandma. At the same time all these people are expecting something from me. If you look at our family tree I am on the only person who can carry on the family name. My Dad was the only son. My Dad had two sons, Lamont and myself. Lamont has 3 girls and is done having kids. So that leaves me. Trevor Alexander Powell. :-)

All this makes me feel like a 12 yr. old Chinese Emperor.

I am one of the youngest in our family tree. I am the youngest out of the cousins. But here I am about to speak at my Grandma's funeral. I think to myself.."man there are a lot more worthy people who should speak in my place." But as a Powell, I have to step up and speak into the mics(so to speak ;-).

I'm still scheming on what I want to say at the funeral. It will come to me. I'm a little bit nervous. But that's good. No other option but to succeed.

-tp-