My life..and what I'm doing

Offsite and Astoria

2007-08-12T21:38:06Z

I haven't updated in forever, and I'm sure much more has gone on since I last posted...I know I have more pics to put up or at least post about (like the PA pictures).

~~Last~~ two Friday's ago I was able to go out to Mt. Hood Ski Bowl with work, freakin' great! 18 holes of the most evil disc golf I've ever seen! Missed out on the bungee jumping and go karts, but I did get to have some beers, eat some food and play on an amazing (if unkempt and thougoughly hard) courses I've been to yet! Even though I lost 4 discs (3 of mine and 1 of the 2 I found) and the brush was up over my head :) Take a look, lots of work people in there (a great shot of Tweet driving with Mt. Hood in the background)

2007-08-02 - Ski Bowl Trip

Went to Astoria Friday night and yesterday...saw a great parade, which Kate and her dad were riding in....in a Jag! Saw "Shanghaied in Astoria," one of the craziest stage shows I've ever seen! They change actors every year, so I'm tempted to go back next year. Kate went last year and won one of the raffles for a bunch of Scandinavian gifty stuff Finally got to meet Kate's Uncle Doug and his family as well. I added comments to almost every picture, take a look (there's a great one of Bob's dog Show-nee)

2007-08-09 - Trip to Astoria

Off to buy new discs :D

Short update and games!

2007-07-21T17:10:51Z

Hola amigos!

I've been so lackadaisical in my posting lately it's not even funny! Not that anything too exciting has happened...well, I guess it has since Kate got a new job! Hell yeah! No more of that horrible call center and it's idiotic people! Happy day!

Work, as usual, is going great. Bread delivery is still going great. Great!

Picked up a few games, that don't require a tv. Holy crap, hell's going to freeze over! I have been wanting a copy of Set for a few years now and finally picked it up. Our friends Josh and Tara turned us on to Apples to Apples, and wow, hella fun! Highly recommended for anyone who can read and as a sense of the absurd. In A Pickle is pretty cool too, much along the same lines as Apples to Apples, but using spatial relations instead of meanings. I suppose one could use some of the Pickle cards with A2A. Oh! Been trying to track down a copy of Quarto as well, but then I found you can play it with Set cards! Huzzah!

I did get to see Transformers at work. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, I'd actually watch parts of it again (like everything but the plot). Hopefully going to go see Harry Potter at the IMAX over in Tigard...who knows if that'll happen or not though.

Shit, I keep forgetting to post pictures and now my Picasa crashed during an update (I blame XP...it's been a bitch to me lately, my Ubuntu box runs so much cleaner! Stupid Zen Vision:M tying me to Windows) So, I'll do that one of these days since I still have pictures from PA to post from close to a month ago now.

That's all for now!

Pop Pop and the weekend

2007-06-25T17:42:40Z

(typed this last night waiting for an airplane)

Sitting in the Philadelpha Airport...stupid place wants to charge me $8 to get online...what kind of crap is that!?!?

So, why I'm in PA. Last month my Grandfather passed away, since he didn't want any services we just waited until the family could get together to spread his ashes. It's been almost two months, so the services weren't as difficult to get through as if it had been just after. Very nice and very short (under 30 minutes). My mom spoke, as did his cousin and some of his old union buddies. I did take some pictures of his family plot, which is right next to my great-grandparents from the other side of the family...weird. Don't know if that was planned in some manner or not. lindsaycb wrote a letter to him, which we did place on the site for her (and no Lin, we didn't read it :)) I really miss him, his smile, his weather-centric phone calls, the constant picture taking (must be where I get it from :)) and just knowing that he was there for all of us in whatever we needed. Not a fun trip, but it could have been much worse, like when my Grandmother passed away last summer. Both of them in a year. Now I have no grandparents left, but plenty of support from the rest of the family.

Other stuff happened too. My second (third?) cousin Kyle had his 11th birthday party on Sunday, which my mom and I attended (Dad and Caitlin few out before it started) so I got to see my Great Aunt's side of the family. Bunch of little kids playing in a really nice park (oddly, right next to the hospital that my grandmother died in last summer) with the adults munching burgers and cake. My little cousin Alexis is absolutely adorable!

Next time I come out it will have to be under better circumstances...my cousin Scott is engaged, so maybe I'll get to go out for a wedding instead of a funeral :)

What else what else...not really much going on with me lately. Kate and I have been working on the new apartment, got the new kitty kat, driving around the Portland area and finding all sorts of new stuff to go see and restaurants to try. Been hanging out with our friends Gail and Cory quite a bit, and hoping that Josh and Tara will start their planned monthly visit to Portland so we don't have to come out to The Dalles just to see them (Josh has visited 3 times, Tara once...lame! I hope you read this Tara, you need to make it out here more!)

Got a backpack and a laptop from work! Finally have a system running linux that I can play on without screwing up either a) my home computer or b) someone elses computer. Maybe I'll get around to some kernel hacking, I'd really like to mess around with the memory controllers :)

That's about all for now, my flight leaves in 30 minutes and I'm kinda munchy...can't wait to get back and see Kate, Stormy and Quarter :)

(still need to post pictures)

Belated Memorial Day post

2007-06-09T17:05:50Z

Haven't updated since before Memorial Day, and yes, we did decide to go to SLC and see Caitlin...took a flippin ton of pictures too! (ie, almost a dvd's worth) I'll let them tell the tale :D

2007-05-25 - Driving to SLC

2007-05-26 - Boise to SLC

2007-05-26 - Caitlin's house and party

2007-05-27 - Discing in SLC

2007-05-27 - LDS Complex and Squatter's

2007-05-28 - Driving home from SLC

Not much else going on, I do have some pictures from last weekend to sort and post still but this week at work has been crazy! The van pool decided to try 4/10s and OMG it freakin' drained me! Not doing that again anytime soon (without a damn good reason anyway). Lots going on this weekend, mostly errands and catching up with stuff I couldn't do during the week (like this post ;))

So, off to not be lazy :D

Finally moved (feel like crap today) and other stuff

2007-05-21T17:23:52Z

It's been a few weeks and some interesting stuff has happened.

Finally finished moving out of the old apartment. Did a walk through on Saturday morning and it was "one of the cleanest apartments" they'd ever seen. Admittedly, they've only had the place for 3 months (with the aforementioned decline in service that they brought) and that wasn't the best (or worst) complex I've been in, it really didn't surprise me when she said that. So glad to be out of that place!

We got a new kitty kitty! His name is Quarter (came with the name) and he's 4 with no front claws. One of the guys at work had to get rid of him (new baby/jealous kitty) and I snapped him right up! Super cute, but will not sit still for a picture! (Let alone a half decent picture with my shitty camera..more below). Been getting along better and better with Stormy, actually slept next to eachother on the futon! Quarter really likes to sleep on pillows and last night slept above Kate's head all night (while Stormy was at our feet!).

So, I ordered a new camera last night! Woo! A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX07 (review) in red. First heard about it on Boingboing a few weeks ago, and my cam has been steadily declining in quality since Christmas (no zoom-out, poor battery even though I bought a new one, slow, focus issues, I can go on!). Did a little research, saw some pics on flickr, poof! Hopefully it'll be here soon...because...

Kate and I are going to try to get over to SLC this weekend to see my sis' new place. She's having a housewarming party on Saturday and it's only 10ish hours from here, plus, I really haven't seen eastern Oregon or Idaho in the daylight, so that'll be cool. Not enough time to get a trip together for Illinois, but that'll happen sometime. My summer is pretty packed with people coming (or thinking of coming) out here! Jen, Nate, Maja (n8's mom), my bro and sis...plus going out to PA in late June. Craziness! The only thing holding us back from going is Kate getting Monday off work (I already have it off)

Oh! We stumbled upon Fat Albert's Breakfast Cafe on Saturday. Holy crap! We're definitely going back! One of the best breakfast burritos I've ever had, the only one better was in L'ville coupled with a bowl of mac and cheese. Certainly some of the better coffee I've had in Portland (something to be said for that!) and rivals Bob's Red Mill as the best breakfast within 15 minutes of us. (also, rekindling our "new restaurant a week" thing we tried to start a few months back)

Later all!

Long time no update....new digs and pictures!

2007-05-07T01:59:55Z

(so I wrote this last monday/tuesday and never posted it...here ya go! Pics and all :D)

Long time no write, eh? I know I promised pictures to everyone (even people not reading this), so they'll come below. Lots of things happening in the world of Josh nowadays.

Kate and I got a new apartment a few miles north of where we were. Much bigger, quieter and no funk wafting over from the wood processing plant. Another bonus, we got new downstairs neighbors at the old place, who seem to love dealing who-knows-what out their window, bumping their bass at all hours, and have parties...every night. We went over on friday night when I got back to PDX and the bass was already thumping (at 7p), they *came home* at 8p and turned the stereo down (so as to not annoy people further...too late for
that), promptly bringing people to the window to sell whatever they sell out the window, and then the people started pouring in the door to their apartment. Bah! So glad we're out of there! Oh! For the entire year we were there we never had any problems with tagging, well, friday we showed up to an untagged door. Friday we left to a tagged door. Saturday we show up to a 2nd tag over the first on that same door. Seriously, it was much better before the people moved in below. Once again, glad we're out of there.

Started my first official day at Google last monday. Got my cool 'Noogler' beanie (with propeller!). Other than that nothing has really changed at work, new badge, new benefits, same van, same work :D

Still looking to get back to Illinois in the near future...it's going to happen! I promise :D Going to work with "bitchy" to coordinate trips, so he comes back to OR with me for a few days. Maybe memorial day? I still need to look at exact dates and get the ticket.

A few other things....

Stumbled on the Trillium Festival at a park on day a few weeks ago...literally stumbled! We were out lost in the 'boonies' of PDX and decided to stop and go to the bathroom at the next place we could...well, it so happened to be said festival going on. Walked around the park for a bit, took a few pictures, got rained on,
had fun :D

Found a killer little disc course in Newberg, lots of short holes with massive elevation changes. I really want to go back there when it's dryer...and play the holes correctly the first time though (we misplayed #3...who knew it had a huge hook?!?)

Back to the new place. We painted it some awesome colors...green, violet and dark purple. Pictures below :)

2007-03-31
- Trillium Festival

2007-04-08
- Herbert Hoover DGC

2007-04-21
- New apartment (unpainted)

2007-05-06
- Apartment painted

That's all for now! Now that there's intarweb at the new place, I may update more...may ;)

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

2007-04-03T13:43:57Z

Which is a good thing because....

I just accepted an offer to be a full time Google employee! No more contractual work for me! In 2 weeks I will become an official employee of the worlds best company :D

Thanks to everyone who gave me endorsements, tips, support, everything! You know who you are and I am truly indebted to all of you :D

OMG Need these!

2007-04-01T16:48:42Z

SurgeStix - inhalable caffeine!

5 weeks? really?

2007-03-30T15:42:41Z

Damn, I'm a slacker when it comes to upating...and the only reason I am now is b/c I'm home feeling like crap (stomach is killing me!). And really, there hasn't been too much going on with me to speak of. Just same old same old, and with the commute I never feel like doing anything when I get home except going to sleep...but that's changing (slowly) as we get a vanpool implemented and shift hours ever so slightly so everyone from PDX can actually have an evening to enjoy :) Yay!

Still listening to a lot of music...but more importantly, my dad tuned me into Jack Flanders. More specifically, "The Fourth Tower of Inverness", which is a fantastic "old" adventure serial from the early 70s and now the first follow up, "Moon Over Morocco" is a free podcast! It's not as good and has a whole new set of supporting characters (no Meenie Eenie or Little Frieda) but I'm only on the 8th episode (out of 50ish) and am anticipating a sharp upswing in the action/weirdness in the next few episodes. Check it out for some weird hippie new-age adventuredom in 12 minute chunks :D

What else? Oh, going through the process of becoming a full time Google employee at the moment....can't say much else b/c I don't know much else..turned in my paperwork, references were contacted, sit and wait. It would be frustrating if I wasn't constantly busy at work to keep my mind off of it :) It's all good.

I am getting much better and doing things with linux. practical useful things. Now I just need to take that leap and build a file server...already picked up a 500G drive at the (now closed) CompUSA...now I just need 2-3 more of them and I'll be set :D Still trying to get all my music backed up (at 80% now) before I jump to copying movies (yes, movies...all of them!) I think the 200Gb is dead...or the housing is dead...not sure, but I can't get to it anymore and don't have a computer to hook it up internally at the moment. bah!

Okay, that's enough out of me for now. I'm gonna go try to make my stomach stop hurting...Kate's got a wide assortment of GI drugs that I can try :)

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

2007-02-21T05:15:22Z

Found a Wii!
Bought a Wii!
Back to playing Wii!
Wii!!!!!!

Glass n stuff

2007-02-20T01:20:22Z

Well, I really don't have any new pictures of the area...this week looks to be pretty nasty for weather, but I'll see what I can do on the way to work :D

Got a freakin' ton done around the apartment today! Plus! Pictures! With captions! Woo!

Glass n stuff

What a good weekend!

2007-02-19T17:10:25Z

Nothing special really happened, but we did do a lot of stuff (unusual!) and actually went out with people (two weekends in a row!) Crazy!

First, three day weekend for me! Time to celebrate the presidents with hours upon hours of guitar hero and katamari damacy! Seriously, Katamari is in my top 5 games of all time now (MK:DD, Morrowind/Oblivion (RPG tie), Tetris and Halo being the other 4), hands down the most fun game I've ever played!

Saturday Kate had an upper GI done in the morning to hopefully figure out what's up with her stomach. My money is on acid reflux, but ulcers and such can't be totally ruled out. Hopefully get feedback from the doc today or tomorrow. After that we tried to find an IHOP near us, silly me turned the wrong way and we ended up just driving for quite some time...almost ended up in Salem! But ended up having a nice brunch (best omelette ever!) Before heading to The Stash and Kate picking up a gorgeous orange glass hookah with some jasmine shisha...tasty! I picked up a cute glass turtle as well...can't go wrong with glass :D Oh! I picked up a glass pumpkin for Kate for Valentine's day...maybe I'll post a pic of it later today (remember, three day weekend?)

Yesterday we finally got out to go discing at Rockwood Central with our friends Gayle and Cory. They'd never been before and Cory picked it up after 5-6 holes! I think he'll be a new partner for discing in the future (when it's actually warm and not raining). Ate dinner with them at Fandango Cantina, loud loud loud mariachi music, but the female singer had a fantastic voice! Holy crap! For a local restaurant which wasn't even full they had a great band! Back to Gayle and Cory's place to smoke some coconut shisha out of their new hookah, mmm...I hate coconut and it was super tasty.

Today, I get to do laundry, wait for our sink/disposal to get fixed (broke yesterday morning), oil change on the bitchin subaru, and maybe some Kingdom Hearts (or more Katamari!)

Later all!
*edit* - Yay for maintenance fixing the sink/disposal!

Goodbye bitchin' Camaro....hello new car!

2007-02-05T04:47:10Z

Well, we went out for a good chunk of the day yesterday to look at cars. Drove quite a few Subaru's and actually ended up buying one!

So...without further ado, here it is! We also drove up to Mt. Hood today...quick trip, but the car was great the whole time :D Oh, yeah, it's a '97 w/ 91k on it. Should work until I can get a new hybrid (in a year or two or three)

From hood n subaru

Aside from looking black (and being a sort of black-cherry color), it needed a new cd player, so I went out and picked up the cheapest one that had a line-in on the front...poof! Great car (so far!) :D

Off to finish laundry and pack for work!

Goodbye bitchin' Camaro

2007-02-02T03:51:53Z

So, if I haven't told you already, I blew up my bitchin' Camaro...well...I'm not so sure it's blown up, but it sure as hell sounded that way when I had to pull off of 84 at the falls...let me know if you pass by parts of my transmission if you happen to drive by there (ha!) (at least, the working speculation on numerous fronts is the transmission of some sort, but it hasn't been confirmed by an "expert") I was expecting to drive it until it died, I just didn't expect it to die last night (a few more months would have been nice...oh well).

Took a half day today and poked around a few car lots here...found 2 subaru's that would work for a few years (maybe, 900+ miles a week on any vehicle is obscene). They're both fairly cheap, but I still need to poke around a bit more on Saturday...since I really need a car now. I've been driving the bugadoo to work the past 2 days, and again tomorrow...and it's great, except I can't smoke in it! Bah! And it's too windy in the gorge to stop anywhere. Really, it's crazy windy all the time...or just nowhere to stop (exits that only have an exit, entrance is 8-20 miles further down (at the next exit)) Duh! Need my own ride, quick!

Off to look up cars! Whee!

*did I mention that I hate shopping for cars? I do. Very much so.

hooray for video games!

2007-01-23T07:00:10Z

I finally broke down and bought a PS2. Really for the few games that I've always wanted to play but never got to (Katamari), and try some games that I can't on the other platforms (Kingdom Hearts, Guitar Hero, etc).

So, anyone know of good PS2 games that both Kate and I can play together? (or GC or Xbox for that matter)?

Oh, I am getting a Wii...sometime...and try damn near every game (but you can bet that MP8 and Wario Ware will be in my collection :))

Parents weekend!

2007-01-16T18:14:48Z

My parents finally made it in from Illinois this past weekend and absolutely loved Oregon ("It's like another world here!" - Mom) Took them all around Portland, out to Astoria, and over to The Dalles. Had some wonderful meals at Bob's, Wet Dog and Oba...where the food is always great and the marionberry margaritas are to die for (I do believe I've mentioned the marg's many times in the past...yeah, they're that good). Ended up watching the Eagles game at a great little sports bar on Hawthorne, my mom didn't care for it ("creepy") but everyone else thought it was great. Not loud, no overpowering TV sounds, fireplace, people reading books (crazy!) and free wifi...how can you beat that?!?!?

Parent's flight finally got off the ground a few minutes ago (1.5 hours late) because of snow...which is why I'm able to post now, snow day! I got to the coffee shack at the end of our street and the bitchin' camaro did a 180 in the snow...I took that as a sign to go forward (back home)...check my email and it seems that everyone who commutes from PDX stayed home today...seriously, I've been looking out the window all morning and have yet to see a single snow plow on 224...with 3+ inches on the ground that is absolutely pathetic! I do hope the roads are clear tomorrow, I really hate to miss work.

Back to doing...stuff?

/who likes my Eduardo icon? Who knows who he is? FHFIF 4-evah!

**edit** I thought they got off the ground, but they're sitting on the plane on the runway, refeuling and deicing ATM...3 inches on the ground here and everyone's flipping out...still no sight of snowplows, but I kinda stopped looking

ague? you?

2007-01-09T18:03:20Z

Kate and I have both been sick as hell the past two days, I'm a bit better today since my fever broke...but right now, kinda feels like it's coming back...blah. There's no way I could effectively have done my job today, no way at all. Feel terrible about missing 2 days of work, but after the commute I would have been useless.

Parents are coming out this weekend for 5 days! Yay! I finally get to see them, the only stipulation, we have to find a sports bar to watch the Eagles game on Saturday (Old Chicago anyone ;)) Out to the beach on Sunday, maybe out to The Dalles on Monday (with everything on the way (waterfalls, locks, viewpoints, etc)). Pretty much up in the air for friday and monday for now though :)

Back to being sick...ugh.

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2006 Year In Review

2006-12-31T17:44:48Z

Whoa, 2006 was quite the year for me, eh? Just a quick rundown of all the stuff that happened:

Started my last semester of college
Visited Portland over spring break
Graduated from NIU - MS in OMIS (11 years baby!)
Moved to Portland
(long pause of nothingness)
Grandmother passed away
Brad & Doungchay visit
Got a job at Google!
Nate visits
Drove to Boulder for Thanksgiving
The fiasco of Christmas! (my first xmas morning w/o family)

Off to Astoria for NYE!

Everyone have a great New Years!!!!!

Yay for holidays! Boo to weather!

2006-12-22T19:19:48Z

So, as partly_bouncy pointed out, I haven't been around in a while...or so it would seem (mwaahahaha). Sadly, there hasn't been all that much going on around here, just preparing for the holidays (more on that later) and ~~commuting~~ working.

My parents are supposed to be here in a few hours, and Kate's brother was supposed to be here last night...boo to the weather for canceling both their flights. The parents are "stuck" in Boulder through the weekend and wouldn't be able to get here until after their return flight was supposed to leave...bah! So, I don't get to see them this xmas, but they may be coming out in January or February for a long weekend. Kate's bro ended up being able to come on Sunday, so I'll finally get to play with a Wii then...maybe.

Work is going good, hopefully I'll get hired on full time in the near future. I desperately need a new vehicle, I could go looking today, but nuts to that, I'm going to set up the xmas tree (ie rearrange the living room) instead...and maybe keep cleaning for the sake of cleaning...or at very least run the dishwasher as I play some video games :D

So a word on the Columbia River Gorge for ODOT...FUCKING PLOW I-84 BETWEEN WYATT AND THE DALLES!!! IT FUCKING SUCKS!!! Seriously...almost died multiple times yesterday and nary a plow in sight (and there's only like an inch of ice! toss some salt on that shit and be done with it!). Worse than any conditions in Illinois, and far worse than any in my 2+ months of commuting. Absolutely horrid...I dare say it should have been closed...then then I couldn't work...or go home :(

So, time to rearrange (or drink coffee) (or chat with ppl) (or watch Foster's)

Long overdue update

2006-12-05T05:23:12Z

So, as usual, it's been a while since my last update...hope everyone in IL bore the snow well and is all dug out :)

Lets see, things that have happened:
Drove to Boulder and back for Thanksgiving, saw bro and sis, ate a ton of food, utilized the north face discount, "climbed" Flagstaff, and drove back home...put damn close to 3k on the rental car (07 Camry, with MP3 player!) Got stuck in traffic in the mountains for 2 hours, glad we had Futurama on the lappy :)
I have some pictures floating around...if you're lucky I'll post them :)

Last week 84 was closed b/c of snow, and still having the bitch'n camaro, there was no way that I was going to trek the 70+ miles up the gorge, I really need to look for another ride...soon...

Oh! I saw the remnants of my first landslide today! Coupled with the 4" tsunami on the coast a few weeks go, I can almost cross a good chunk of geologic happenings from my list (volcano and a real tsunami are still on it, plus whatever else I decide, ad hoc of course)

I've taken on the massive project of archiving all my music, all I need now is storage...lots of it. This may call for building a file server of some sorts with at least a terrabyte of storage....if not more. Otherwise, <a href="http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=270">these are adorable</a>, but not really practical...well, depends on how much space *all* of this is going to take...I did make a decent start, about 90 cds so far, only a few...hundred...to go :)

That's about it for now, not really much going on except X-mas preparations (parents are coming out for a week including x-mas proper, yay!) including but not limited to reorganization of the apartment, fun!

Later all!

Long overdue update

2006-11-09T05:39:40Z

Well, this is long overdue for those who like to know what's up with me. Aside from my 12 hours of "work" each day (8+lunch+3 hour drive) there hasn't been much in the general sense going on....I am in the market for a new car, which I do believe I mentioned before.

Rain? What rain? Pretty much non stop since last tuesday until yesterday, when it finally stopped for a whole, oh, 18 hours without rain. Extra bonus for seeing rainbows yesterday at work and a double today on the morning drive! Not only that but the rainbow this morning stopped in the middle of the river, like 1500 feet from me! Plus, Multnomah Falls looks to be almost double in size at the top (more depth than breadth it would seem) which makes it even more visible from 84! Sweet!

Nate came into town this past weekend. Took him out to Tillamook (rich creamery butter) and Lincoln City ("the ocean is very oceanic"), stopped for a bit at the casino to spend a little money (and win far less) and drink a little drink. Much MK:DD and "hooker killing" fun was had, Nate took the last game...thus he won. Conversely, Nate can now be considered "fat" because he has broken furniture...the good leg of my futon...so not only do the past trusisms of Nate hold (being fat, ugly and being dressed funnily by his mother), but one is actually true! Hahahaha! Just sucks that the futon is busted now...need two stacks of books at the ready instead of one. Oh, and the earthquake! Overall, a fun weekend!

Probably going to end up going to Boulder for Thanksgiving, and probably X-mas as well. Fun...lots of driving, or plane...I'll have to check on that for both...who knows? Not I :D

Well, I've got some stuff to do before I go to sleep (like sort pictures!)

Edit: Duh! I completely forgot to mention that we took Nate to Blue Moose Cafe and had a wonderful veggie meal! Then to Oba for margaritas...mmm...

Yay! My first earthquake!!!

2006-11-06T05:47:07Z

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/uw11060534.php

Totally felt it too! Playing Mario Kart with Nate...it almost made us stop :)

Yesterday's shopping trip!

2006-10-22T21:07:05Z

So, you may know that I read Ken Jenning's blog, and if you don't...or you don't watch J! religiously, then you won't realize that this is one bad-ass shirt!

Picked up a new Zen Vision:M yesterday, f'n sweet. I can't wait to give it a test run tomorrow at work, see if the volume levels are good, actual ease of use, blah blah blah...also snagged copies of "What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole", "Spirited Away" and "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" (which you know is funny...anything with sliders as a central plot device has to be! where's the waffle house movie?!?)

Oh yeah, best pizza ever - extra cheese, garlic (lots), black olive and mushrooms...yum!

Stupid Gamestop is "sold out" of Wii preorders....fuckers. Apparently everyone in the area is "sold out"...so I may have to wait a little while after launch to actual get a system...which I *am* getting...damnit!

one week down....

2006-10-21T03:20:54Z

Well, it's been a week and I still have a job, I haven't screwed anything up, nothing's gone wrong, totally sweet :) It's still pretty surreal that I'm actually working there, I can't wait to find out what the next few weeks have in store for me, should be quite interesting.

Good things so far:
- The days fly by
- Everyone's totally cool
- Free lunch!
- Awesome views during the commute
- Audio books are great

Annoying things so far
- Having the opposite schedule of Kate (sometimes)
- Hurting/cut fingers
- Traffic in Portland

Stopped and picked up a bottle of marionberry vodka tonight, can't wait until it's chilled! Not sure what we're going to do this weekend...discing? shopping? lounging?

Anywho, off to do...stuff....

when it rains.....

2006-10-17T05:29:50Z

So if anyone listened to my phone post this morning, I was on my way to my first day at Google. All went well and I really can't talk about anything at all (multiple NDA's and such)....I really need to read their blogging guidelines before I even think about it though :)

The commute, while long, is beautiful and traffic outside of PDX is all but absent.

So, yeah, I'm tired and going to play video games now, but before I do.....
PICTURES!!!!! (good ones from the past few weeks :))