December 2007 Archives

I now have the coolest cufflinks in existence. Oh sure, those rich folks have their fancy precious metals and stones but me.. me, I've got clockwork baby!

Mad props to team etruria for the gift - now I just need to find an excuse to wear a fancy shirt... while snowboarding. Maybe the cufflinks will have to wait until the new year.

So this is one way to spend four days - five really I guess given the tear out started on friday night and "temporary" countertops were done this morning. Fun things along the way? Swollen sodden floor boards under the sink to replace probably takes the cake really. I'm finally coming down off of my adrenaline high though and sleep sounds so very tempting...

The transformation:

In the beginning.

oh god, this is what I have to work with?

a little sheetrock hides it all nicely.

Now if only I cooked more.

I never want to paint or spackle again.

I've had a little mural project to work on at work over the last few months during my down time. It's the end of a sprint where we're not shipping and we have a month before the next sprint so I've had a little more down time than usual. As such, behold the wall of spectacularness!

Yeah, it's from a tracing (go old school overhead projector!) so I don't get credit for freehand but I do have the baddest assed office wall around.

I skipped out on the microsoft holiday party this last weekend - turns out it was a wise decision since the music sucked beyond imagination from what I hear. Instead I went to brother's place for some BBQ and a hot tub in the middle of a wasteland. Alcohol was imbibed by most and since it was martin it was interesting alcohol - I had to try some. So I tried, and I think I've gotten his translation wrong but not by much, "Vodka Gut Tingle". Yeah, that inspired confidence. Actually it was quite nice as far as alcohol and I go. The other one didn't have a type of alcohol or list of ingredients really, it was just a yellowish liquid with a picture of two little chickens on the front of the bottle. So purree'd chicken is apparently also quite nice. Very warming. So that's me. Beer, hell no. Liqour made from minced baby ducks, probably okay.

Shortly thereafter I went to see Flogging molly where I was crushed twixt barrier and surging crowd for a few minutes then flung to the sidelines. After a few tries I made it back into - quoting here - the writhing sea of sweaty bodies. It was a freaking blast! Though I appear to have injured my shoulder somehow (there were a few mosh pits that I was on the edge of) and so now am largely unable to open doors with my right arm. Whatever, totally worth it.

And now it's back to work which would normally be considered mundane but since I don't actually have anything to do it's mostly splitting my time between experimenting with new tech and painting sharks on my wall. I love the dead zone that is december :)