Happy Holidays - and more!
Dec 23, 07:31 PM · from the mouth of AndyHey all! Sorry to have not posted for so long, especially given the spectacular news that Lisa and I have! That’s right, we’re engaged! Not that you didn’t know that already. But obviously it’s not official until it hits goofyguys. So there ya go. The wedding will be summer 2010 (we’re aiming for August) in or around NYC, and you are all invited! And I promise I’ll post pictures of us and the ring once I actually have them.
I also wanted to wish you all the best of all possible holidays. Lisa and I will not be around CT at all really. You see, my mom decided to get our whole family a cruise for Christmas. So we’re getting on a plane to Tampa at something like 5am tomorrow. We get on the boat on xmas day, cruise down to Cozumel, then come back on the 29th, at which point we fly to Cleveland, where we’ll be staying until the the 4th. BUT keep your eyes open because I imagine we’ll be having an engagement party in CT at some point January. Regardless, I promise we’ll see as many of you as possible as soon as we can.
In the meantime, here’s a link to the fantastic New Yorker article about Dogfish Head to keep you busy. Happy Holidays!
Comment [2]Sharing my post on Re¢ently
Aug 7, 04:57 PM · from the mouth of JakeJust in case you guys don’t see this on my other weblog I thought I’d mention it here. I have to admit that this is probably more interesting to Andy but it should at least remind everyone of our classic video game days.
Reminiscing With The Final Fantasy Retrospective
Here’s the first part directly.
Comment [4]Career of Doom
May 10, 11:45 AM · from the mouth of JakeI thought I’d pull the references to my career into my own post. I’ll let someone else worry about the Japan comments. ;)
Yesterday I went to an interview with a startup in New London. It sounds like they’re planning on offering me the job. I’m hoping I can get the weekend to think about it. They’re working on the issue where small businesses have a bunch of pieces of software, like Quickbooks, and zero integration with their other software and their web sites. The “bastards” are working out of a building right on the water. It would be more code than general web development, but using PHP, what this site and most things I write are in.
I’ve also been thinking about what a couple you mentioned, as well as I’ve heard from others, about striking out on my own and doing contract and freelance work.
Last week I met a few people up in Boston, including an Irish boy (well, descended, like me) who owns a place looking for a developer.
The issue that I’ve found, and touched upon already, is that I have no idea what I want. I think I used to have some ideas, but they were all young and foolish. Nowadays all my concentration has been on things to do outside work, like traveling. I’m not certain if its my current job burning me out or what but let’s just say whenever I’ve been getting the question, “Where do you see yourself in five years, career wise?”, I have no answer.
This is just another rambling as I’ve done in other places, talking out loud so to speak.
I think I’ll try Kate’s idea of making a list this weekend. Hopefully that’ll help me get my head around this.
So to summarize, I can do one of the following; Go freelance, take general time off (Kate doesn’t seem worried I’d have no money), move to Boston and try to get a random developer position up there, take another local job (seems startups like me), unknown…
PS. Andy, if I went anywhere with you I’d only have a problem with the Frisbee Summer League Tournament being on the 11th of August.
Sound off [6]Band, Birthday, and Beer
Feb 11, 02:28 PM · from the mouth of AndyI have 3 things to share with you all. I thought about putting them in different postings, but it occurred to me that then I’d push every other posting off the top 3, and I wouldn’t want to do that to you guys. So, explanations aside, here goes.
FIRST, In a couple weeks I’m taking the Columbia Wind Ensemble on tour to Yale, for a joint concert with the Yale Concert Band. It’s our first collaboration with another major college ensemble, so I’m very excited about it. It would mean a lot to me if you local boys could make it! It’s on Friday, February 23rd at 8pm in Woolsey Hall and will feature all kinds of great music, including one from our CRHS past: Gavorkna Fanfare!
SECOND: I’ll be traveling to CT again the weekend of March 30 to April 1. Since that’s so close to my birthday, as well as Bryan’s and Jim’s and only a month after Jake’s, I thought it would be nice to plan something with you local boys for that Saturday in honor of us getting old. Who’s going to be around? Lisa has suggested that, for her amusement, we try out a drinking game called Edward 40-hands, but I’m game for regular beering as well.
FINALLY, speaking of beer, I’ve discovered a new favorite brand with a great beers and a whole lot of character. Stone Brewing has a whole selection of IPAs that are excellent, but none as good as their basic, which rivals my favorite Dogfish Head brews in its flavor, intensity, and drunk factor. They also produce Arrogant Bastard Ale, the quintessential condescending beer snob brew for the rest of us – just the text on the bottle (think “you’re not worthy” explained in two soul-crushing paragraphs) is enough to make it worth buying. The beer itself is spectacular as well, despite not being an IPA! The 7.2% alcohol content certainly helps with that…
Anyhoo, there’s 3 things that oughta get you talking.
FREE BEER! [8]Merry Christmoose!
Dec 25, 01:12 PM · from the mouth of JimHo! Ho! Ho! (and stuff)
Hope everyone enjoys this joyous day of famry, fun and RumNogs.
Merry Christmoose,
Jim
Perfection... or nearly
Oct 11, 01:34 AM · from the mouth of JimSo what is better than eating chocolate and drinking the brew of the gods… nothing really. (OK, so maybe my love for my wonderful woman person, but that’s just so sappy.)
So yeah, I just figured I would make the Tyty happy by posting and thought I would report that I am drinking some Extra Stout from a genuine Guinness glass (the ones with the real gold foil) and eating a warm cholocate muffin half. This is quite a lovely state if I may say so myself. The business taxes are something that need to get done, but since I just spent two hours cooking and cleaning, I figure a few minutes to type this up won’t hurt. Then again, I’ll be prepping some corned beef and cabbage up shortly for tomorrow’s dinner, so I’m afraid the taxes aren’t going to get finished. Wow, interesting that I’m drinking Guinness and that I’ll be prepping corned beef and cabbage, I really didn’t plan on having a late St. Paddy’s day – but that’s OK with me.
K, so how’s everyone doing? I’m quite fine myself. The old jobber isn’t anything terribly thrilling these days what with the shutting down of our company and letting go of everyone – we’re sorta just keeping everything running, which coincidentally isn’t that hard since we were such a damn good team and have always had a pretty well oiled datacenter. Outside o’ that, the photo business is humming along quite nicely. We don’t have quite the same load as last year, but that’s not a terribly bad thing since we were nutso this time a year ago. We’ll still hopefully make a decent amount of the $$ signs – and there are two new bodies budgetted in our futures (D200 and 30D), so all is well.
K, well, even I’m getting bored of this post as I’m typing it, so love you all and buhbye.
Billy
What dost thou thinketh? [2]Green Eggs and Ham
May 14, 05:05 PM · from the mouth of JimA Tale of Good Deeds (and of green eggs and ham)
Yesterday afternoon we were driving along a scenic series of back roads between Loveland and Boulder when we spotted something dark and pointy-eared walking along the centerline of the road. We pulled over and found ourselves looking at a cute, happy Aussie/Blue Heeler mix that patiently waited for us by sitting right to the side of our car. After discovering that she had no tags, we opened our doors and motioned her inside.
We looked about and discovered a sign that had a phone number on it at the end of a nearby driveway. We called this number hoping that the owner was at the other end of it. The lady that picked up was friendly, stated that the dog was not hers, but that she’d run up the driveway and check her out. When she and her son came into view, we heard “oh, that’s Smokey!” from the young boy.
After some chatting, the lady sent her son away to return Smokey to their neighbors. Just as we were about to drive off, they ran back up to the car and asked if we would like some farm fresh eggs. Being the egg snobs that I/we am/are, the lady ran off to fetch us some eggs. When she returned, they asked us if we had ever seen green eggs. A quick look inside the cover of the egg carton revealed pastel green colored eggs. They truly do exist!
There is a type of hen, the Ameraucana, that actually lays real fairy tale eggs. Check out the first variety on this link for more information. I can’t seem to find a ton of other information about these guys, but we’re not crazy! (err, well, not about this at least)
This morning we experienced a true taste of Dr. Seuss and felt that it was worthy enough to share. “say! i like green eggs and ham! i do! i like them, sam-i-am!” – ©Dr. Seuss
Comment [3]Some Nostalgia
Feb 24, 10:09 AM · from the mouth of JakeThis has been building for a couple days because I keep getting distracted at work. A while ago my mom dug up some old pictures. From our graduation. :) It’s a little weird to see how we looked almost ten years ago. I almost look like a skeleton. I guess my mom didn’t need to spend any money on me at Halloween.
And my maternal grandmother, who I’m pretty sure you’ve all met at least once, was taken by an online scam. So she’s filing for bankruptcy and we’ve been cleaning her house. Along with a progress report from Ms. Brockett my mom found this 1994 holiday concert program.
Now that Andy is famous...
Dec 9, 11:46 PM · from the mouth of Jim
Hey Andy, what instrument are you playing here? :) And yes, I am proud that my first posting in, well, forever is juvenile.
Love,
Jim
Happy Belated Birthday TyTy
Sep 30, 06:34 PM · from the mouth of JakeHappy Birthday!!!
I thought about changing the timestamp on this post and cheat. But I figured someone might notice. ;) I hope it kicked some ass!
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