Things may look different around here for a bit because some asshole hacked joeydehnert.com and added over 1,000 links in my footer. I am guessing that he took advantage of a WordPress exploit because I was running a really old installation. It is really messed up that someone did this and I can’t wait for karma to punch them in the face for me.

The strange thing is that I only thought to check my site because my friend Sujan Patel told me that his wife Amy Patel got hacked in the same way. Some idiot just put a bunch of pharmaceutical links in the footer of her site.

It really pisses me off that the internet has to be full of these idiots, but I am over it because I got Dragon Ball Z: Season One today (I know, super old, but I have wanted it for a while). Now I might get pissed again if it turns out to be censored like it was on the TV.

So I am going to report this to google and try and get back in their index, but if you want to show some love you could link back to joeydehnert.com with a Joey Dehnert as the keyword so I can get back to where I belong.

We started the night off with some of the most amazing margaritas I have ever had (I think Jill has discovered a hidden talent). She purchased 4 different types of berries, tequila and some margarita mix. We had a nice variety of blended margaritas and the traditional margaritas.

Then, inevitably, Guitar Hero 3 was called upon. It was a party and the only way to party is to rock…and we rocked.

After rocking so hard we became famished and needed some food to replenish our energy. Since it was a Mexican fiesta the only real option for food was a quesadilla. And since we so happen to have a quesadilla maker we made the best quesadilla you could ever have. Jill got a little carried away with one of hers.

At some point in the night Ryan flashed everyone then disappeared into the bathroom.

I thought he was taking a dump for how long he was in the bathroom but it turned out he just wanted to fill a stereotype we hadn’t hit on yet during the night…he cut a mustache.

This was the best Cinco De Mayo I have participated in. So, if you want to have the most excellent party ever next year, use the formula in the title of this post and you will succeed.

While I was there I got a chance to hang out with my friend Sujan from San Diego who moved to LA. We went out one night to this hotel called The Standard. It was a total hipster bar/nightclub but it was awesome. All the workers wore all red uniforms, there was a swimming pool and these weird pods that had water beds in them. It was cool to hang out with Sujan and to get a glimpse of what a successful internet company looks like on the inside.

And I saw Dane Cook at a food court while eating pizza, it was weird.

Here are some pics:

Jill and I started to get antsy about getting married because we were thinking about future living arrangements and were tired of trying to figure out how we were going to coordinate living situations and all that crap. There was definitely more to it than just the living situation that made us decide to get married but it got the ball rolling.

I wanted to get a ring on her finger as soon as I could so she wouldn’t feel weird planning stuff so I secretly got a ring made based on a design she saw online from a local ring maker. The guy was super awesome. I went in there a week before I was going to ask her to marry me and he said that he would be able to make me a ring in 4 days. During that four days I kept on telling a disappointed Jill that it would take at least a month to get a ring made :)

By the following Tuesday I had the finished ring. The next day the 27th, I picked up Jill from school and we headed off on the trip I told her we were going to take for our 4 year anniversary. We got in the car and got on I-5 south and she got a little suspicious so I handed her a map of our trip to San Francisco.

We basically drove all day but we totally loved it, traveling is one of our favorite things to do. When we got to San Francisco we checked in to the Hotel California. We had stayed there in the past when I picked up Jill from Spain and we drove up the coast back to Oregon. The next day we woke up when we felt like it and headed out to Union Square, which is only about 4 blocks away from the hotel. We did some shopping at Urban Outfitters (Jill’s favorite store) then we went to Borders to get some books (Jill is a book junkie).

After our little shopping spree I took Jill on a cable car ride down to Hyde Pier and Ghirardelli Square. It was cool seeing the old factory and we had a cool view of both Alcatraz and the Golden Gate bridge. After we walked around and checked things out we got some lunch at a restaurant nearby. After lunch we walked back to the pier. I asked her if she wanted to go sit on the beach and look at her anniversary surprise.

I had created a book that was basically a graphic history of our four years together. It had all our movie tickets stubs, notes, plane tickets, etc. At the end of the book I wrote a little not that said “And now everything changes…” At that point I took out the ring and got down on one knee and proposed. It was a very surreal and wonderful moment.

After that we got ice cream at Ghirardelli Square and enjoyed the rest of our time in San Francisco. Here are some pictures:

Leaving the Hotel California

Cable Car Action

More Cable Car Action

We are now engaged!

Ice Cream and the Bling