Nicole and I have had a lot of stuff happening with our teeth these last couple weeks. She's begun using her dental health insurance to visit a general dentist for her first real check-up and cleaning in years. Unfortunately, they found several cavities and areas that could use some work on her teeth, so twice in the last two weeks she's gone in to ( Read more... )

First off, Happy New Year! It's the first few minutes of 2011 but this entry will be about the last week. A real entry about reflecting on 2010 is forthcoming ( Read more... )

It's been about two weeks since my last entry. I typically try to only go at most a week between entries, but it's been strangely uneventful these last fourteen days. Outside of interviewing and doin' the job hunt thing, I've been doing the online sales thing. Ryan and I discovered a valuable printer on sale for peanuts at a Goodwill store and so ( Read more... )

Here's a photo of my brother, Ryan's, Emmy award. It was taken by someone affiliated with one of Ryan's co-winners who actually claimed the award in person. It's a rather bad, dark photo that appears to have been taken with a cell phone camera. I've cleaned it up as best I can:


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It's been quite a weekend! Ian, a good friend from college and a roommate for two of those years, needed help moving from one side of the Portland-suburb Beaverton to another. At the beginning of the year, he moved out here from central Oregon where he'd been since graduation back in 2004. He came out with his sister, her husband, and their one/two ( Read more... )

For months, it's been circled in my calendar that Friday the 19th my college buddies Matt and Cassandra were going to take me out for laser tag in Beaverton. I've been looking forward to it! It's been almost four whole years since I last played laser tag. It has been too long. We hit Laserport, which appears to be the laser tag facility of the area ( Read more... )