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September 11, 2006 - A rundown of the last ... long time

It's time to stop putting it off and just sit and write an update for my site. An awful lot has happened in the ... ahem ... month since I've posted. Without doing an exhaustive recap, a high-level summary would include items such as:

• A week (maybe two?) of tedium and general uneventfulness at work immediately after getting back from Florida. Oh, and the fun and good times that were involved in flying just two days after the "you can't carry on the Diet Coke you just bought" rules were created at the airports.
• Then came the big one: Work sent us all to Disney World for four days. Of course, two of those days were filled up with meetings -- heinously long, buzzword-filled meetings that I personally didn't get much out of -- but it was an absolute blast nonetheless. I went to four Disney parks and took no fewer than three hundred pictures, so I should be able to make a decent photo gallery out of those pretty soon.
• Oh, and while we were trying to get to Florida, one flight got cancelled and another got diverted, so we ended up in Dallas for a night, then on a super-early flight the next morning. After one day of meetings, I was running on twelve hours sleep in the past three nights. That part was maybe not so fun.
• Then as an extension of that trip, I went and visited my folks in Chicago for about four days. It was a very nice visit; very relaxed and low-key, with lots of good food and golf. We even took the train downtown for a day. All good times, except maybe for the downpour that lasted for one hole during a golf outing. Being back in Chicago was slightly awkward in that no one else is there anymore, but I didn't really have a whole lot of downtime that could have been filled anyway.
• And then lastly, I got back home and slogged through two days of work to get to this weekend, where I abused myself by playing racquetball Friday, flag football Saturday morning, and frisbee Saturday evening. To make up for that, I was super-lazy today and watched about ten hours of football. It's back to work tomorrow, and I think I'm coming down with a cold. This will be a long week.

September 24, 2006 - But wait, that's not all!

Lots of stuff to cover this time. Let's go Memento-style and work backwards...

I'm home! Which wouldn't be a big deal, except that...

At the beginning of this week, I went back to Ames for three days! It was pretty cool, but slightly weird to be back. For one thing, it was amazingly weird to see people my own age; on top of that, I kept expecting to see people I know around campus, and never saw a single person. Then, I expected to see absolutely no one I knew at the career fair, and instead I saw at least a dozen random people from random parts of my college experience. Oh yeah, I guess I should mention that I was there for the engineering career fair on behalf of Microsoft, recruiting anyone and everyone who will hand me a resume. It was a blast, with the bonus of being back in Ames for two days and change. And perhaps most astoundingly, I didn't get stuck overnight in Denver, Dallas, or anywhere else.

Immediately before I left, I put up the promised photo gallery of the Disney trip, with nearly 200 pictures of the good times. Hopefully it will convey some of the ... experience that is Disney. What an amazing place, for a variety of reasons.

I have something else in the works for the site too! And this is not idle chatter (for once...), since I have it all coded up and ready to go... I just need to get back home to be able to finish it up. Most likey, not very many of you will care at all, but that's okay, as it's something I've been meaning to do for a while now. Stay tuned.

Um, that's actually all, I think. Until I get real motivated to write up something political, not much will be going on. My traveling is done for the forseeable future, and work should get... well, real boring real soon, most likely. The short Seattle summer is wrapping up entirely too fast.