Update – Don’t block cookies on your on web blog February 16, 2008
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Took me a good 5 minutes to get the exception list fixed so I could log in. So much for troubleshooting skillz!
Let’s do some brief monthly updates to catch up shall we?
July – Got married to Jen at the end of the Month, went on honeymoon to Oregon Coast and had a great time with our California family.
August – Went to PAX which was awesome. So much so that we are going this year for the whole 3 days and booking a room down town to fully enjoy the experience with friends.
September – Worked worked worked.
October – Applied for Senior Analyst position at work.
November – Promoted to Senior Analyst, mayhem ensues (actually I just continued to do whatever I wanted).
December – Had two Christmas’. One at our Apartment in Seattle with Jen’s family, another in Vancouver the weekend after with my family. Received a sweet LCD TV from my parents.
January – Made New Years Resolutions: Get less fat (not working), love life (working as intended), keep in touch with friends (going well!).
February – Jen is traveling alot for work, I am trying to maintain a Job at my company as my group is currently being looked at for Outsourcing… hopefully I can keep my awesome momentum at the company.
This weekend we are driving down to Vancouver to visit the family. We plan on eating out at our favorite restaurants (Burgerville, Lindo Mexico, Sushi) and seeing our friends. This will be fun but I am missing my second week of LEAGUE BOWLING. Yes that’s right, I joined a practice league with some friends. I take it very not seriously so it’s great. Every Sunday I drink a bunch of beer and bowl with my fellow “Tacocopters” (the name chosen after the compromise for the two most voted names, “Taco Fiesta” and “ROFLCOPTER”) . I used to be a fierce bowler but I don’t much care anymore. This weekend I hope to purchase my own Bowling ball… surpisingly the one of my choice is LIME scented, did you know bowling balls came in scents?
I still play the WoW! I have 33 druid on Jen’s brothers PVE server. It’s a nice change of pace once you pass level 20. I’ve also been playing REZ which is such an experience I highly recommend. Also we play Rock Band almost every weekend with friends and drinks which I can’t stress enough how fun that is. Call of Duty 4 on Xbox and getting delt by my own brother online (it was bound to happen).
I’ve been reading various self help style books. Cool Time which is nice Time Management book that explains why you are bad at managing your time both psychologically and physiologically. I’m working on Project + Certification book which is dry but necessary for the resume. Also plowing through Never eat alone as I never really thought about networking at all until this book which is also a great read. Also reading a book about finding the leader within but I really don’t remember the title. Mostly work related since I used a work gift card to buy them. Learning a lot and hopefully enough to land at some position in the company after the sourcing.
Book Review: American Gods June 30, 2006
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I finished Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” which I would have underlined but that is one of the actual formatting abilities this thing doesn’t give me. It’s a large read, around 600 pages that took me quite a while to get through. Mostly because around page 350ish it just really starts to feel long where it doesn’t need to be. There were alot of moments that I just stopped caring about the little side stories he tells about the different Gods and their coming to America that I would just skip at length after reading several of them since they didn’t really give me much more thought into the God’s themselves since he gives so many different one’s to consider and only focuses on a few. I enjoyed it though, despite it feeling long in some sections, it was still able to compel me to finish and write this. My only other complaint other then it’s overall length is that… well no it’s just the fact that it’s so very long and I don’t see why alot of it couldn’t have been cut down to fit aroudn 400 pages or less. If you are interested in the content of the book a brief synopsis would go like this: Shadow, an ex-convict recently paroled from Jail to tend to his recently deceased wife, is employed by a strange man he meets on a plane ride back home. This guy turns out to be a God, and throughout he learns about the many American God’s and their struggle versus the “new” gods created from our current societies values. I enjoyed the idea he presented but not the overly intense look at so many different God’s and the overall time it took to move the plot through the several plot lines he wanted to develop, they do tie together if you can make it to the end but if you want a more put together/ ties up all it’s lose ends very perfectly tale of his, I suggest “Anansi Boys” instead. It was written after this but is in the same vein of “god’s are among us” and a better presentation of the story he had in mind.
