Kim and I took a little trip, just the two of us, to Lopez to camp, bike and hang out for the weekend. Kim did all the planning, which was wonderful. We got to the ferry 15 minutes early thinking that would be plenty of time since we had bikes. (more…)
Kim and I met up with Jessie at a bar after work. I was there with a bunch of people from work to say goodbye to Mike Flohr. It’ll be a shame to see him go. He was one of the funnest people at the company. Can’t remember the name of the bar, but it’s in Freemont next to the old Redhook brewery and they have the strangest beer list I’ve ever seen. The one that really stuck out in my mind was a 9 liter bottle of beer that cost $300. I really wish we could have ordered it and have had the company pay for it. Maybe one day…
After the bar Kim and I got ready for the weekend bike trip to the San Juans and then took off for Jacob’s. We had wine and cheese and visited with Jacob and Waleska, Jesse and Deborah, Betsy and Wes and Waleska’s friend. We sat around and caught up on what other people had been doing. I miss the rowdy parties we used to have, but everyone’s too busy to get trashed and take the whole next day to recover now. Silly working lives.
Kim and I had to take off early too since we were getting up early to catch the ferry. Weekend warrior time. Silly work, forcing all the fun to the weekend.
I finally got Tor working. I never tried very hard before, but I didn’t realize until reading some good setup instructions that you need to also download Privoxy and configure some things. Tor basically works by routing your internet web page requests through other computers so that your IP address isn’t available to remote server.
It’s cool that it works, but it really slows down web suring depending on who you end up routing through. One time I turned it on I ended up routing through a server in Germany, and web pages loaded painfully slow then. I turned it off and back on and got a server at Brown University and that was a little better, but still noticeably slower. I’m considering trying to setup a Tor server just to see if it would work, but probably not unless I find some more time.
Jason Webley’s concerts are always a blast. (more…)
I’m still trying to figure out how I want to organize my blog content. WordPress comes with built in category support, but I’m finding that I don’t like using categories. I seem to have a tendency to make too many categories when I think that I should just stick to very general categories. I’m trying a plugin called Ultimate Tag Warrior that lets me assign del.icio.us style tags to my posts. I think I like this better since I can add new tags without having to go to a tag management page, unlike categories. This folksonomy style of tagging seems promising to me, but I’ll try it out for a while to see if it works better than categories, or if it just enhances them.
My cousin Joy from Florida visited for the weekend. (more…)
Tonight I went to the Tractor Tavern in Ballard to see Erin McKeown and Kris Delmhorst, two very talented female singer-songwriters, perform.
I had never heard of Kris Delmhorst before but I’m glad that I have now. I don’t usually like female vocalists, but something about Kris’s voice sounded right to me. Her songs seemed very tender but not sappy. The crowd was great too. We got to sit on the floor and enjoy the mellow music. It’s been awhile since I’ve really enjoyed the vibe of a crowd so much.
Erin is much more rock n’ roll than last time we saw her. She has a band with drums and keyboard, and the guitar parts are louder and don’t seem as unique. I liked it, but I missed hearing some of her other solo songs. I think she’ll probably appeal to a wider audience with this new style and that’s a good thing. She’s really got a stage presence for such a little girl.
One of my servers stopped working with Microsoft Update. So I searched Microsoft’s knowledge base. I didn’t find anything helpful. So I contacted Microsoft’s tech support. They told me to register a bunch of dll’s. One of them didn’t register, mscml3.dll, so I searched Microsoft’s knowledge base again. No luck. Then I found a blog post that solved the problem for me. And he’s using the same wordpress theme as I am. Kinda creepy. I love that everyone can publish solutions to their problems and share them with others so easily now. Major props to DjLizard.
Jacob’s group at Boeing had a bunch of tickets for the Everett Aquasox game, so Kim and I got to go too. We showed up early to have some free food. I’m beginning to believe that free food isn’t worth it’s price. It’s usually of terrible quality and leaves me feeling worse after eating it. Hotdogs, hamburgers, soda and potato chips don’t cut it for me anymore. Eating little meat, organic vegetables and lots of home-cooked food makes if really difficult to be happy with standard mass produced food.
The food may have stunk, but the inflatable toys were awesome! Kim and I ran an obstacle course, slid down a big slide, and tried to see how far we could go while harnessed with a bunji cord. It was almost all little kids doing these events, but I think that’s just because most of the adults there were kinda boring.
The game itself was fun, but a little drawn out. We sat with Jacob and Waleska and a friend of hers. There was lots of action, but it seemed to take forever to happen. I think it’s just that I was tired. Kim and I left at the 7th inning stretch since the game had already been going for close to three hours. I guess that is a pretty long game, even for baseball.
Kim and I went to see Auggie Smith at the Comedy Underground. Very funny show. He rants and raves in a very amusing way, kinda spastic and shouting. At first I thought he was drunk, but I think that’s just his style. It comes off as very unrehearsed and quick-witted. There were some other comedians too. A guy from Coeur d’Alene was pretty funny, but his set was really short.