So I went to Compline tonight and then to Century Ballroom ( Read more... )

To sum my weekend ( Read more... )

Anyway, I leave late tonight for Pittsburgh. I'll spend time with friends, learning to dance Lindy. I leave behind a very busy week. Up and down with some very productive moments and then hours of compiler errors. I will return to an even busier week, including closing on a condo ( Read more... )

On Friday, work paid me to snowboard and otherwise improve my morale. It worked.

I next hiked up Mt Si on Sunday afternoon,, with my newest recruit: Heidi ("summit" photo). And sat there until sunset, hoping that the clouds would be parted enough to make an awesome view. It didn't work. So now we still had to descend in the dark using ( Read more... )

Or so my friend said to describe the Super Bowl after the 3rd quarter. The only question left was would the Bears put together two 1st downs in one possession before the Colts scored another touchdown. Well, the Colts scored. And that was that ( Read more... )

Another hike up Mt Si, again in about 2 hours with 25+ lbs. We could see the clouds rolling in over Seattle as we were on summit, and began facing some sleet turning to rain as we descended. Absolutely took our time going down the mountain, as well as ran into one of my instructors from Mountaineer's climbing course. So, summit to car was about ( Read more... )

At the cold wintry temperature of 50 degrees and sunny, I lead a group of two up Mt Si. More times have I climbed its steep slopes than any other. A good exercise it provides. And after so many trips of just carrying my crampons, I took them out and blazed past the other climbers as they were sliding on the skating rink (the trail). Crampons ( Read more... )

I went snowshoeing on Saturday up Hex Mountain, near Cle Elum lake. While crossing a windblown ridge, my foot listed placing additional strain on the support breaking the snowshoe. Pausing under a tree for a moment free of wind, we inspected the snowshoes and I decided for a time to hike without attempting to repair them. A couple hundred feet ( Read more... )

After such an interesting week, I wrapped it up by working 12 hours today. Interesting efforts today including studying the assembly of the Windows implementation of memcpy. And quite the interesting tool for NUMA systems that I wrote. But enough of work ( Read more... )

fun. On Friday night, I went dancing. I invited many people, but only Kirsten showed up and she brought along a friend, Saiko. But we went through the waltz workshop, so I can vaguely do a couple more steps now. And after interrupting her dinner, dr4b came by since it was her idea in the first place. So after years of sitting in baseball games, ( Read more... )