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Downtime

The website was down for about a month due to some technical difficulties. The server hasn’t found it’s new permanent home yet, but I’m working on it. Also, I took a trip to Seattle a few weeks ago and Seattle ROCKS. What an awesome place. I can’t wait to go there again.

Denver

I went to Denver, CO a few weeks ago, and like Las Vegas, i tried keeping a log/journal thing but didn’t have the time/discipline to maintain it. We also took an incredible amount of pictures, but they’re mostly boring and I haven’t had the energy to sort through them and pick out some favorites. On some random boring weekend I will do that. But for now you’ll just have to use your imagination.

Vegas

I got back from Vegas on Tuesday. I tried keeping a journal but I ended up to busy/lazy to do so. Instead we (specifically, Vlad) took a whole lot of pictures. I’m waiting for him to put up the collection and then I’ll just link to his. My camera broke, which is bad, but as a result, Vlad took all the pictures, which meant that I actually happen to be in some of them (for a change).

Touring

Yep, it’s still summer. Fortunately, not all of the traveling has been done by local people traveling away. I’ve had a few friends come to visit me. A few weeks ago my brother came up and spent a week with me, and this past weekend Bryan came up and hung out with me for a weekend. Both occasions were fun. With Roger I got to do Bureau of Engraving and Printing, FBI, and Pentagon tours. With Bryan we didn’t do any organized tours because it was the weekend, so we just aimlessly wandered around the Mall. In exactly 2 weeks, I’m going to be in Las Vegas for a few days, and I might do some traveling in September, although I’m not sure to where. I’m open to ideas :).

Summer

You can tell it’s summer when you can’t find a single person you know in town on the weekends. Everyone seems to just vanish on weekends, like a bizarre tribe of aliens comes down and abducts everyone for a few days, only to return them on Monday a little tanner and wasted.

I redesigned the site this weekend, trying to make it a little cleaner. Let me know if you have any feedback.

Catch-up

I haven’t given an update in way too long. So I’ll just summarize what I’ve been up to the last few months.

February – Nothing particularly special that I can recall. Maybe my mom visited me, but I’m not sure.

March – Katie and Dana came to visit in DC and stayed a few days. I had a lot of fun, and either they had fun too, or they pretended pretty well.

April – I went to a wedding in Guatemala. Here is the journal with pictures. Here are my favorite pictures. I also went to Bradenton to visit my old friend Jennifer, and then went to Disney with Vlad. All in the span of 2 weeks.

May – I just got back from Katie’s graduation. I hung out with Vlad, and Katie, and Katie’s family, and Katie’s friends for most of the weekend. Now I’m in Boston for a conference. It’s fairly cold. A little more warmth wouldn’t hurt.

There you go. My last 4 months in 10 sentences or less. Oh yeah. I also purchased a bunch of crap. I got my laptop/apartment wirelessly networked (802.11b), I got a guitar stand (which I’ve been practicing regularly — the guitar, not the stand), and a vacuum (exciting I know). I also bought a Sparc5 to replace one of my servers in Florida. I also bought that Vaio Superslim Pro I’ve been wanting for a long time. Yeah, I blew a lot of money, but I *REALLY* needed it… really!

DC Tour

It’s been a very long while since I’ve added an entry. I’m still up in DC. Recently, I took a tour of the capital by foot. It was a wonderful experience and if I get some time, I’ll put all the pictures I took up. I saw pretty much everything: Library of Congress, Supreme Court, Union station, Whitehouse, the Capitol building, Air and Space Museum, lots of other museums, Lincoln Memorial, Korean Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, and FDR Memorial. I also so plenty of building from the outside. Overall it was an excellent tour and a fabulous couple of days.

I’ve also been working a lot, and that consumes the majority of my time. What else has happened since the last entry? I went home for Thanksgiving, then headed directly out west for an IM conference in Santa Clara, CA. Then came Christmas; I went home for a few days but was by myself for the most part except for New Years, when we had a nice big BBQ and had about 14 people over including Vlad, Katie and lots of my family. Then I headed back up to DC. I don’t think I’ve been home since. I meant to go to Argentina this month, but it’s not going to happen. However, I will almost definitely end up going in early April. I have a friend getting married in Guatemala on March 31st, so I will go to his wedding and swing down by Argentina for a week or two. I think that’s it for now.

I also rearranged the main page so it’s less cluttered. Here are links to the 1999 and 2000 articles. This should keep things a little tidier.

Anniversary

Nearly a year has come and gone since I started keeping this page. Guess not much has changed since I started. Hard to believe it’s only been a year, so much has happened. Hard to believe I’ve already been up in DC for almost 3 months. Seems like I’ve been here for a year. I’d say it’s been a great year. Spent alot of time with my friend Vlad. Visited the family in Argentina. Took a couple of vacations. Took up a new job
in a new place. Got lots of new hardware and toys, and of course, Elian Gonzales was sent home. And yet somehow Vlad hasn’t been deported. It’s been a good year indeed. So what’s in store for the year ahead? Hopefully some weight loss, some good experiences, and just as much boredom.

Moving

It seems odd that I haven’t written in so long comsidering that so much has happened in a relatively short period of time. First I’ll address the easy stuff. I went on a Disney Cruise at the beginning of june which ROCKED. Fun times to be had by all. The best part of the cruise is Disney’s island in the Bahamas called (Castaway Cay) which is absolutely gorgeous. Nothing short of heaven on earth.

Now the complicated stuff. I’m effectively in Washington, D.C. for at least the next 3 months. I’ve taken a job up here with a REALLY cool company called btask.com and the place is very beautiful. It’s a fairly small town called Alexandria which is very historic looking. I rented a 2 bedroom apartment on the Potomac River and a few blocks from work so I look forward to biking/walking to work regularly. Aside from that there isn’t much more I can say. I haven’t had a chance to go sightseeing. I’ve mostly been locked in an office the whole time banging out code. At any rate, I’ll keep the world (or the insignificant subset thereof) up to date on happenings around here as the chance appears. Thanks for reading.

Interview

It’s 6:15am. I haven’t slept all night. I have an interview in 7 hours and before then I have to go to the bank and the DMV, and afterwards I have to drive 5 hours to Gainesville. This is going to be a rough day. I can’t see how I will get any sleep before I get to Vlad‘s place tonight.

At any rate, I’m totally thrilled with my hair. There is one spot that is being very non-compliant with my wishes for it to not stick up, but i think once it grows a tad longer it’ll be fine. It has been so long since my hair would dry before I leave the bathroom. It’s also wonderful not having my hair fall into my food, or whip around in the wind into my eyes. I haven’t gone swimming yet but very much look forward to doing so once I get back.

Also, I was on the phone with Vlad today when he needed my car tag so he could get permission from the parking nazis for me to park it at his place when he inquired about my personalized plate. I wasn’t counting on receiving it until July so I sent him my temporary one. Low and behold less than 5 minutes later as I walked out to get the mail, what should I find in my mailbox but a postcard from DMV saying they had received my tag! Thus tomorrow I have to drop by and pick up my tag.

On an unrelated note, I’ve added a new page to the boredom section regarding my favorite channels on TV. Extremely boring but I couldn’t think of much else to do at this hour. Signing off.