• End of 2011: Got laid off and hit by a car in the same week
• 2012: Went to the wrong company (bad fit), then spent a lot of time tryng to figure out where I would best like to go. Got hitched to Carol. Found work at EnerNOC, making the world a better place.
• 2013: Went to EuroHash; vacationed in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia. Got ( Read more... )

For the last year-and-a-half, I have been commuting on my 1990 Schwinn, "Jose Jalapeño". As of yesterday evening, I have updated my frame to a 2010 Specialized Allez Comp... I give you, "El Jalapeno Negro"!


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I went snowshoeing up in NH, and stayed in a yurt on an alpaca farm. During this, I finally created a proper snowman for the first time!


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Beignet the Cat has learned how to open the blinds, even when they are closed to her. She puts a paw up, pulls down the blades, and then sticks her head through. As such:


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"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

-Richard Buckminster Fuller

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."

-Aristotle

And we like it that way.

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A note from Beignet the Cat:

"Please be aware; if you pull on / play with the strings of venetian blinds, while they are open, be prepared for some crazy shit to happen."

Just a quick update for you fine people out there in El Jay Land ( Read more... )

The wife and I are moving away from Atlanta :( and unloading a lot of stuff rather than bothering to pack it up. We have a lot of things that absolutely must go now, so it's all very cheap and much of it will be free to anyone who expresses interest ( Read more... )