Ok, I had lots of cash leftover from my trip to CA (well, not LOTS, but lots), so I went to the bank to ditch as much of it as possible into the bank before I pissed it away... I managed to piss away a bit of it though.... I bought the Beastie Boys Video Anthology done up all sweet-like by those crazy folks over at the Criterion Collection. The ( Read more... )

I stayed in the Mountain View Inn Best Western last night, which was crazy-nice. It had better be for $185 a night!!!!! Holy crap that is one expensive hotel. :)

Well, so my interview at "unnamed company" went rather well. As with the phone interview, there were a number of questions I had difficulty with, but this time around, the number I ( Read more... )

Ok, this is kinda weird. Chris had to go into work early today, so I am just here chilling in her apartment. I figured I can use this time to brush up on various topics for my interview tomorrow. I also might get together with Kate today if time permits ( Read more... )

Ok. I understand that you can put just about anything between two slices of bread and call it a 'sandwich', but I am of the opinion that you should be able consume the entire thing without it falling apart into a slimy mess.

The interview nervousness is starting to set in. :)

Chris is finishing up her bills, then we are going out to Jamba Juice!!!!

Ok, i am getting tired now. :)

Flying sucks, but I am all safe in sound chilling in Chris' apt. Aironet is neat.

I like my soap.

Ok, so tomorrow I leave for California... I will spend a few days with Chris, then I will take on the long-awaited job interview on Tuesday... I am headed to Newark at 6:30am, so I will not get another chance to update until I am at Chris'.

Ugh. Today blew so badly. Wait, I should backtrack to my last entry....

So, the stuff at NASA continued throughout the week, Thursday night we had a DCS vs. MCS game of Laser Tag, which rocked. I did _really_ well, getting some of the best scores of the two teams (we had some non-SOFIA people playing, we couldn't get a game all to ourselves).

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Greetings from cisco. I am visiting Chris after our meeting at NASA today, and we are going to grab some chow in a little bit (once we stop hacking on her kernel).

We visited the Kuiper Airborne Observatory today, which is the plane that SOFIA is replacing. The plane is decommissioned, but they rolled it out for us to see today (which probably ( Read more... )

My machine BSOD'ed twice today, and it has something to do with my IDE drive.... I will have to figure it out after I get back from California....

I finally finished up my presentation, and I am currently tying up a few loose ends before my trip tomorrow. My presentation ended up not being as bad as I imagined, but I have to brush up on some other ( Read more... )