Christmas 08 December 25, 2008
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A few words for Christmas:
- Still a bit early for me to try and be happy and cognizant, need to remember to not stay up late watching scrooged with the family next year.
- White Christmas is over-rated. Being able to drive to see your family is better.
- starting on Christmas shopping early is really the way to go.
- Don’t buy yourself any stuff post November.
- Watch what you eat, holiday pounds really aren’t worth it most of the time. I regret eggnog.
- Pictures, movies, more memory capturing are always worth it in the long run
- Holiday films are only fun during the holiday, watch them while it lasts
- Vacation dates should be traded for working from home and snow days.
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.
Weekend in Vancouver wrap up February 6, 2006
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Well getting down to Vancouver was easy, if you consider it took about 5 hours from the point of leaving the apartment to the station where my parents picked me up. The bus was 20 minutes late so our plan to meet on the bus and have dinner together before I left at Ouijimaya. By the time we got to the end of the line, we had about 10 minutes to consume our steaming bowls of Pho, which I heartily do not recommend eating in that sort of time frame, and get into the station to grab my ticket. Since I reserved my seats so late, I didn’t get to grab business class seats.
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Long time no see January 23, 2006
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Out of the blue I recieved an email from an old neighboor/friend of mine named Stu. He lived down the hall from me in my first apartment with my old roomate Shane. The fortune to have not only to meet a completely random person in your building who is really cool/lax to hang out with but that they are English too boot, is extremely rare. Anyway he wrote me to see how things were going and I wrote him back a quick email to catch him up on my life from the past 3 or years since I saw him. I thought I’d post the letter since most of my friends may also be out of that loop as well.
