Continuing on my week of productivity, today I built myself a new PC, a Core 2 Duo, two gigs of DDR2, and an nVidia 7950gt video card. After spending most of the day and evening getting all the hardware and basic software installed, I installed Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (which came with the video card) [...]
Spent the day (and evening) building a monster (and manly) shelf in my garage today. Since moving into the house a year and a half ago, we'd had piled up plastic storage bins on the floor… bothering me. One of the things I mentioned on my Christmas wish list was some tools and assistance building [...]
Reading though my list of usual news sites this morning, I came across this from BBC News: 100 things we didn't know last year. Did you know that the lion costume from Wizard of Oz was made of real lion skins? Did you know that more than 90% of plane crashses have survivors? Fascinating.
Tonight Kelly and I had dinner with our friends Miranda & Brian at the new McMenamins pub that opened near where we live. It's called the Chapel Pub, and is located in a building that was constructed for and used as a mortuary from 1939 to 2005. Again, McMenamins did what they do best, snapped [...]
Have a happy Christmas everybody! Kelly and I have come out to spend Christmas Eve and the Christmas day (most of it anyway) with my folks. Kelly loves coming out and staying here, so we've left poor Kitty all by his lonesome. That's ok, we're going to treat him with some yummy food when we [...]
Yesterday Kelly and I joined our good friends Mr. & Mrs. Ghost Dog out at another fine Mcmenamins establishment, Edgefield. For those of you who've never been there (or don't live in the area), Edgefield is a great spot to spend time, whether an evening or a weekend. It was built in the early 1900's [...]
Last night Kelly and I went to my company's holiday party, held at the Paragon Restaurant in NW Portland. They had rented out the Gallery Room, a large room for private parties, and supplied hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and dinner. Seeing the entire company (with their spouses / significant others) under one roof is impressive. Even [...]
Today I decided to retire the old (and stinky) circusgeek.com site, which hadn't been touched in over 3 years (and you thought a month between blog posts is bad, heh)… and launched a new one that serves as an index of the three more interesting (and more active) sites that I have on the server. [...]
Tonight Kelly and I (along with our friends Miranda and Brian) saw The Shins perform at the Crystal Ballroom. We all met up at McMenamins Ringlers Pub for dinner and drinks before the show. When Kelly and I first arrived, our server listed off some new beers they were serving (brewed at Ringlers, not sure [...]
Hey all. Well I've done it, I went an entire month with no new blog posts. I'm even having to post-date this because I was too busy during the week to actually post on December 12th. Urgh.
Here's a quick recap: kitty is getting big, fast… work has been keeping me very busy… I got [...]
