I've been working from home the last three days as Portland has been covered in snow.
So, while I got to stick around and get plenty of work done, all those fun meetings I would usually have got canceled or rescheduled. I did, though, get to mostly finish my awesome MS Word manipulation / conversion to PDF program. As I had to put in acres of ( Read more... )

Oh man, what a fantastic weekend. Rachel and I just dropped Kate off at the airport before heading to work this morning. We had just an amazing time. Both Kate and Rachel were feeling a little sick at times, so we had some time to chill and relax and refresh before heading off to the next thing ( Read more... )

Happy birthday old person! I'm not as old as you!

Woo!

Too much going on in December ( Read more... )

It's my birthday again. You'd think I'd get it off of work, or at least just take the day off. No such luck - too much stuff going on at work and I'm taking off for Japan in a couple weeks.

Rachel got me a totally sweet Black DS Lite.
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Pretty chill weekend. Our friend Alison is getting ready to head off on a crazy trip to other continents, so we spent several hours with her and other friends at C-Bar over in SE PDX. Fun bar - way too dark. When people took out their cameras and started snapping pictures, I was seriously blinded by their flash strobes. Ouch ( Read more... )

So last week was insane. Wednesday was a visit from the KATE! as well as the arrival of the giant TV. Rachel is less than thrilled with it.
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I've been working out, intentionally and unintentionally, more this past week than I have in months. So - a recap!

• Monday: Forty minutes in the company's fitness center: 20 minutes on weight machines and 20 minutes on a stationary bike.
• Thursday: Ninety minutes of moderately intense yoga.
• Saturday: Two hours of intense sword fighting. Running ( Read more... )

I highly recommend seeing Thank You for Smoking. Rachel and Jesse and I went and saw it last night. Just amazing for a display of both humor and politics. Aaron Eckhart is just phenomenal. Really, everyone in the movie did a great job ( Read more... )

Last night was the first night with a new gaming group.  We're going to be meeting every other week for many hours to game.  Going into this, I knew the GM very well and one other I had met before.  The other two were new to me, though the GM knows one of them well.  We sat around and talked about gaming styles, game systems, what we liked and ( Read more... )