Archive for August, 2008
- You may have noticed that things have changed a little bit around here. It was time for a new look. The old one was so 2006. Thanks to Ed for the theme. It’s still a work in progress, but I’m digging it so far. Nice and clean.
- I think the majority of meals I’ve eaten in the past week have consisted of tomatoes, bread, and cheese, in various forms. Not that I’m complaining.
- The San Francisco side of the family is in town visiting this week. When you get five kids under the age of five in a room together, you’re bound to have some fun.
- I’m bound by an NDA and can’t really say too much, but we have a new foster “child” this month. Her name is Vicki. If you would like to talk to her, let me know.
- Thank god these Olympics are over. I can finally get back to watching normal TV. Oh wait, there’s nothing on TV to watch. I guess I’ll watch the DNC instead. Never mind.
- Last week, smack in the middle of the Olympics, the smart people over at Verizon decided to change the entire cable lineup without telling anyone, including my Tivo. I couldn’t even find the right channels by hand they had moved so much. Stupid Verizon.
- So we’ve had our iPhones for a week now. How do I feel about it now that the honeymoon has worn off? I love it. This deserves its own post sometime soon, but it really is life-altering for me. Sure, it could do some things better, and yes, the actual phone service is sort of sucky, but everything else about it pretty much lives up to the dream I’ve always had of a cell phone. Go get one, now!
- I’m home today with a pink-eyed Lovely Tess today. So I have to go now before she throws George in the trash.
- Well, this weekend wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Momentum had been building up over the course of the week, but Saturday night, we decided to go get ourselves some iPhones. Yeah, we still had a few months left on our existing contracts, but it was tax-free weekend, our early termination fees had been pro-rated down, and we just sort of wanted them. So Saturday night, we tag-teamed our purchases with the lovely Tess asleep in bed. The Apple store was open until midnight, and I finally got mine around 11:00pm. And yes, there were still people waiting in line when I left. So, how is it? Pretty fricking awesome. We still haven’t had time to fully set them up yet, but so far, it exceeds my expectations. I’m sure you’ll be hearing plenty more about this.
- I can’t think of anything else.
- It’s full-on tomato season. Our plants are going bonkers, with big giant Mortgage Lifters and Purple Cherokees ripening every day. Some of our meals consist of tomatoes and basil and not a whole lot else. This is the only time of the year that tomatoes are going to taste like this, so we’re enjoying it while it lasts. Tomato sandwiches, tomato salads, panzanella, tomato and mozzarella, tomato ice cream, tomatoes on my cereal. OK, maybe not the last two.
- How about those olympics, huh? We’ve been watching them pretty much every night, and is it any surprise that they show women’s beach volleyball every night? Really, they maybe repeating the same match every night, and I wouldn’t know any better. The Lovely Suse tries to stay up late to watch gymnastics and inevitably falls asleep with the TV on. I watched all of the Michael Phelps gold medal races, except for the last one. I was at the Apple Store. I watched it on Tivo, but got a Twitter telling me the results before I got to watch it. Oh well. I must say, I don’t care a whole lot about Track and Field. Watching a complete marathon is not what I call exciting.
- The sweetest sound to hear on a hot Sunday afternoon is the sound of our upstairs neighbor mowing the lawn. I really wasn’t in the mood to do it.
- Here’s what I learned in my eight hours of Marketing class this weekend: our professor likes expensive suits, expensive ties, drives a Lexus, had a corner office, was the youngest manager in his company, is a Six Sigma Blackbelt, and about 20 other facts about how awesome he is. He didn’t teach us anything marketing-related, but aren’t these facts much more important?
- We made this whole roasted branzino with potatoes, tomatoes, and olives on Saturday night and it was perhaps the most delicious thing I’ve made in a while. I just realized that I forgot the pine nuts, Whoops. We ate it in about five minutes as we hatched our iPhone plan and started the first leg of the tag-team, but we’ll definitely have to make this again. Soon.
- Today marks my ten year anniversary at my company. Ten years is a long time.
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