what do we do we paint paint paint

feel like i should file this under “work” :o spent the last two days painting the upstairs bedroom. since all the furniture was out for hte floor from a couple months back, we figured it was a good time to paint. and we decided we’d go ahead and paint the nursery, since i’m not gonna [...]

programming, writing, geeking

been looking at ajax. thinking of a couple useless things i can do with it to practice, get my chops as ’twere keep going back to the idea of writing stuff again, too. i get the urge every 12-18 months, play around with it for a couple weeks until work/k/finances/etc drag me down too far [...]

bleh blog blues

ok. so yeah. i’m bored. you’ve never heard me say that have you? eh? ok, excepting like every few minutes the last couple dozen years, i mean i went to googleblogs and was just hitting the “random blog” link. and they all look so much better than this junker. kiir suggested i could redesign my [...]

quarantine over

last wednesday, k accidentally bit someone at camp (they were leaving, and failed the part where k has to be the first dog removed b/c he goes batshit bonkers otherwise). so this wednesday the county came by and checked him, and put him on his 10-day quarantine. starting from last wednesday (at least it wasnt [...]

interview 1a

well, had my first new interview yesterday. c/c++ linux threading. sounded interesting. smal company (like, 18 people, and half a dozen of them are contract employees), theyd been in business 28 years or so … “we’re funded by a trust, so there’s never an issue of running out of money or going under suddenly” “we’re [...]

car vs house

so went last wed to sell the car. b/c when i went in may i realized i didn’t have a copy of the title anywhere. so i got the title and went back to do it. get through the initial process (offer is 500$ lower now :/) and go to proceed … and apparently my [...]

BrikWars~~~

been reading brikwars rules all weekend. and now i wanna pull out the legos!!!! http://www.brikwars.com/rules/2005/contents.htm Basically, it’s legos meets risk. Wargaming meets 7yr olds. Minifigs (legomen) killing each other over a brik landscape :o damn i wanna play now, it just seems so … fun!

of puppies and jobs

first, of puppies: wednesday i was home (conference over, not working (a week of 13hr days, screw it !!!)) and got up ~8am. by 8:30am k had barked and whined enough to annoy me. so i dropped him at camp for the day. i wasn’t in the mood for puppy walks every couple hours (to [...]

mmm security conference

oi been at a security conference since last wednesday. 13 hour days (door to door), then having to work when i get home (somehtings been brok EVERY night!!!) conference is nice. except the course i’m in? securing internet presence LAMP? yeah, apparently i already knew 90% of it, maybe more. so it’s a very expensive [...]

ramblings

spent yesterday at my parents. 60′ tree fell, clipped the house but luckily after it had lost a lot of momentum to the ground i guess. took them all day yesterday to get someone to come out and take it off the roof so the roofing people could come find out if there was a [...]