It's official... I'm on Vacation!

As requested by my job... I'm taking a mandatory week off from my day job at Maxim! (lol, now you know!)

I think this is the first time in a very long time my wife and I were both requested from our jobs to take time off... at the same time! We could really use the time out. What do we have planned? Relax. That's the number one answer. It's time to put the laptop down (very, very light work load) and spend time with my loving wife. Who knows, we may just keep it local, visit the state capital, do a little Cache Creek, hit up the city... oh and there's the last game of the season this Monday! What's most important... is spending our time together. Happy Easter in advance folks!

Damn... Our Season is coming to an end

With my long time friend Madison... since way back when, Kindergarten!

As of next week, we as Warrior fans... Our Season is coming to an end! I just started really getting into it these past 2 months! I don't know, I guess when we finally realized that The Dubz weren't going to make it to the Playoffs I started going to games with my wife and friends just to hang out. Whether it was a 5 game losing streak or Crawford dropping 30 and still losing... it was still a great time out! While many have called it a lost season, (especially to fans) I'm glad that the Oracle arena opened it's doors to it's fans and gave us a good fight night out. (there were only a few blowouts!) Big ups to my wife (and her hectic work schedule) and all my homies who made it out with me when I had an extra ticket or two and just have a great time! 28-50 doesn't sound so bad, making our wins to number 30 would be better!

In Nellie We Trust?

Mo' Money! Mo' Money! Mo' Money!... in Nellie we trust... or can't trust it?!

With a 28-49 record (3 more to the magic 30!) and a season lost, do ya' trust the man? I will say our Youth is looking real good (Anthony Randolph and Morrow anybody?) and todays win against the Kings and even the Hornets with 7 guys active in our roster is pretty exciting... Coach Nelson's still has some tricks up his sleeves.

Respect goes out to Golden State Warriors coach Don Nelson who participated in his 3,364th NBA game as a player or coach, surpassing Lenny Wilkens’ league record.

Sorry Paul, not this year!

That was last year Paul... this year KG better be 100% for the playoffs yo!

Big up's to last years NBA Champs the Boston Celtics... they made some big trades and KG got his ring... that was last year. This year, it's a whole new ball game and The Celtics aren't looking too pretty. There's one thing in there way right now... LeBron. (oh, and the Cavs!) With the season winding down to it's final 2 weeks, this is gonna be a pretty exciting playoff run. Cavs and Lakers to the finals anybody?

Vallejo California's CC Sabathia

Vallejo, California... home of Bud's Burger, Tapioca Express, E-40... and CC Sabathia!

With the MLB's opening day closing in this week, I wanted to plug a shout out to Vallejo's very own C.C. Sabathia for making it big in New York... yea, he was so close to coming home to the Bay but with the Yankees fat check book, the Guy is gonna be sitting pretty on some serious green. Anyways, be on the lookout for my homie Nathan who will be representing this and a few more surprises at Yankee Stadium opening day. This is gonna be an exciting season!

Spend more time with your Family

Left: The Adults won't mind a little... Middle: Serving hot weiners Right: Niece painting eggs

Here's something new for me. Family, spend as much time as you can with them. Drop the beef or whatever drama you have with them and enjoy your life like you only have one. I'm not trying to worry anyone, last week I found myself in the Emergency Room getting a second chance at life. What's important is that I'm okay, and I did a lot of thinking these past few days... Many of you know what kind of work schedule I have. I work long hours at my day job as a Publisher and I put in a lot of time after hours doing freelance work. The stress finally just caught up and the sad picture that was being painted was that I was putting my job over my family.

This past weekend I was invited to my Aunts surprise party. Let it be known, when it comes to family party's, I'm usually late or so overworked on the weekend I don't show up at all and find myself making excuses. Not this time around... I actually showed up early, 2 hours early. I've been missing out! The good food is always in the beginning and folks who come early and leave 1st, I finally get to see. It's more than that though... I spent the time really getting to know my family, their background and how life is treating them as well in this rough economy. It made feel closer to all of them and not just the cousin that ALWAYS comes late.

To put it in mellow, Life shouldn't be treated like a deadline. Yea, you gotta make em, but when your plate is beyond full and you know you can't do it yourself, just do your best and put your family first over anything else.

More April Fool's... "The Suck" continues

The sad thing is, it's not an April Fools joke... we really do Suck!

It feels like we've been 25-49 forever. As of today it's been a 6 game losing streak but who's counting? Our team roster is depleted due to injuries, the Ref's are making bad calls, technical fouls are practically handed out in every game... the crowd is getting ugly at Oracle. Great way to end a season. Saying we "suck" beats folks to the punch line... its so true, so lets have a little fun with it. I've had may great time out's at the arena but a losing record isn't a pretty sight. No disrespect to the players and fans, this is truly a management issue... that and we need another big man!

Summer Time Golden State of Mind

Hardwood classic with a Golden State feel... don't forget the flip flops!

Back at it again. Just how serious am I about starting my own T-shirt designs? I don't know... I do know that I wanna just have some fun with it. A couple of months ago I had a would be client try 2 hustle me for designs. He told me, maybe if you design me 10-12 designs I could choose a few to buy... in this struggling economy, times been money but the idea of designing a lot and choosing a few isn't gonna stop me LOL. So far, getting the shirts out is gonna be small time hustle. Print out a few, try to create a buzz and spend the least amount of money possible... 1 color T's. (a few 2-3 color T's) Shoot, Puff Daddy and Jay-Z can do it!

Summer times coming up and I want my homies at Golden State of Mind to rock something special during those hot days around the Bay. I'm just messing around with familiar type cases and having fun with it. We can reverse the colors if needed, I'm more of a Golden State blue kind of fella. Simple design, one color and I'm sure it will catch some heads taking notice. I didn't want to throw in the Cali State, it's been done. Besides, peeps know how Golden Cali is.

Stakes is high... Monta Ellis

They said... a whole lotta $h!t! ...but Ellis is putting up some ridiculous numbers!

Since Monta Ellis's return from injury last week, Monta has been absolutely on fire! Ellis has scored at least 26 points in each of his last five games, with 4.6 assists, 4.4 boards, 1.6 steals and 57% shooting from the field over his last five games... Love him or hate him, I'm glad M.E. is back! I've read countless posts, articles and blogs suggesting that the Front Office should just void his contract and find someone new. Everyone is entitled to their opinion no doubt so here's mine. Keep him. The dude's learned his lesson, he's glad to be back playing ball and is putting up some ridiculous numbers!

Off the bench... Corey Maggette

He's The 50 Million Dollar Man off the bench... Corey Maggette

I remember 3 years ago (before the "We Believe" days) My wife and I went to see a Clippers game vs. Golden State. I vividly recall myself saying, "That would be dope if we had Corey Maggette on our team... that dude is explosive on offense!" 3 seasons later we actually got him! (Turiaf too who I wanted last season lol!)For 50 million dollars, I wasn't quite happy hearing the news of him coming off the bench at that price but he's putting up some serious 6th Man of the Year numbers. (20 points per game, etc) Maggs is the type of guy we need to boost up an already deep offense. But we also need a true point guard and some serious bigs to compliment Biedrins and Turiaf on the defensive tip. (Wright and Randolph are dope but don't help us produce wins, sooner or later they will!) Having Maggette sign to our team was a surprising move this season, I was hoping we'd go for a big man... like Elton Brand. Overall, I called it 3 years ago and I ain't too mad to have Corey on our squad. Just for laughs...