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July 3, 2003 - Leaving again

I'm headed off to Ames today for the Fourth and associated festivities. I'll archive June and such when I get back.
Happy Fourth to everyone!

July 7, 2003 - Back again

I have returned. Sorry to disappoint.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, though certainly not beyond the control of others (though it is not clear exactly whom to blame), my site may very well be down for ... an unspecified time. Apologies.

July 10, 2003 - Maybe not...

Maybe my site won't go down after all. Who knows. Something as simple as renewing a domain name somehow turned into a giant fustercluck... So I'm taking the path of least resistance. Hopefully it'll work itself out.
Ames was great. The only thing I did that was really picture-worthy was jetskiing (massively fun, and a huge thanks to Carli!), and I'm not about to take my camera out on a jetski. So, no pictures, but still amazingly cool.
I went ahead and archived the June entries, despite being ten days behind on that.
Just a reminder, if you missed them: Photos of Chicago and Niagara Falls are worth seeing.

July 14, 2003 - Great support

The only reason that the site wasn't down for any appreciable length of time is the efforts of Dan, over at Caliber Connections. Big props to him!
And even more props to Dan for hosting a Diablo-II LAN-filled afternoon of gaming goodness. And, of course, props to Patty for the cookies!
I learned a valuable lesson this weekend. Well, not really, but I'm going to say I did. Anyhow: It really sucks when you sleep until noon, then nap from 3-5, then have to get up the next day at 5:45AM. The whole falling-asleep thing doesn't happen at night. Bad mojo.

July 22, 2003 - Miss me?

Wow, very long time, no update. I suck.
Anyhow, the last week-plus has been relatively active. A couple nights involving a pool, some frisbee, some tennis, Matt coming up for the weekend, a round of golf... And, unsurprisingly, I am still tired. Kind of cruel how things perk up just when you're going to have to leave soon.
The Motorola gig continues to dominate, it seems. For as much as I enjoy the job, and the people, I will be glad when it's over. It just takes away far too much of what should be "my" time. Yeah, yeah, welcome to the world, I know.
Nothing new of interest on the site, save the relatively new Flash-based logo. Perhaps one of these days I will do some meaningful work around here...

July 25, 2003 - Regularly scheduled programming

So it's that time again; time to lay down another update.
But aside from playing a weak 6-person ultimate frisbee game for about ten minutes, I haven't done a thing recently. Still very much engrossed in the Wheel of Time series, despite my absolute repulsion at some of the overriding themes of the book, namely predestination and the endless repetition of history. Oh, and I have another Secret Project™ in development. Some of you may know about this, as I may have told you, or I may be using you for eyes and ears. Regardless, this is certainly not in the realm of this site, but it will be my biggest project to date. I'll let everyone know how it's coming.
Props in advance to CalCon and Patty for hosting another Diablo II day and for baking brownies, respectively!

July 29, 2003 - Likely the last update of July

As promised, the CalCon D2-fest was a blast. Big thanks to Dan and Patty.
I realized that I haven't really done anything with the site of late. I should work on that, but I don't have any/many more ideas. Once I wrap up a couple things, I should have another addition to the Programs section, but no promises. I have an idea beyond the one in progress also, but I seem to have trouble bringing things to completion. Ah well.
Back to school in about three weeks; it's amazing how fast the summer went from "just started" to "almost over". We'll see if we can cram in some of the stuff we've been wanting to do.