Anyway. I got a job about 3 weeks ago. I start tomorrow. I've relocated to Fremont, CA, which is where my job is. I just moved in this week; still unpacking.

I also just turned 29, and that was fun. so. Anyway. The end of an era, I suppose, now that I've moved out of Berkeley.

I just recently added some movies of my new place (pre-move in) on my flickr account, which you should be able to link to from the Sights page. In other news, not a huge amount else has happened. I am going to Crue-Fest 2 this week, primarily to see Godsmack and Drowning Pool... though Motley Crue might be moderately entertaining.

I should continue to post, hopefully more regularly than I have.

Hope everyone is having a good summer.

It would seem I'm predominantly looking outside the Bay Area, for at least the immediate future, so I'm coping with probably leaving my remaining good friends behind, but I'm confident the miracle of the internet will keep us connected. lolz.

In other news.... I, of all people, have *just* recently subscribed to Netflix, and have really been enjoying the new connectivity with Xbox Live. Also, we had some good times in Vegas in late January... and I went to see Disturbed with Monica, also... which was... an experience. It made me glad I didn't go to concerts like that when I was in High School, because most of the high schoolers there were totally dorking out w/ their moms. But, whatever.

Anyway. I will keep you posted on how my job prospects pan out.

Later.

I don't have much else to say at the moment. Holidays were good, I'm back now, and still looking for a job. Woo.

Check out the Sights page for links to my photos on flickr.

Um... oh.... I guess another cool thing that happened was Monica and I went to see NIN in Sacramento in December. That was really awesome. I'm sure other stuff happened since my last post, too, but... you know... whatever.

Later.

for that. The Philly trip gallery on my Flickr page also includes my trip to New Brunswick, NJ to see Jeff and Marie, as well as my short trip down to York to see Grandpa and Zee....

I also just uploaded a few pics from Thanksgiving last night, though I did a horrible job of taking pictures of anything but food.

Anyway... I'm back in Berkeley now for a few weeks; headed back to Texas on the 18^th. I've been enjoying the last few days off; just been chilling out and going to/renting movies and running errands. Anyway. At least I seem to be updating my blog regularly, albeit once a month. Thanks for reading, if you're out there still...

My on campus interview with JPL went ok, I think, I'm still waiting to hear back from them, to see if I make it to the 2nd round.

Anyway... just chilling out at the house today and trying to rest up before we get back to work next week. Well, there are pictures up on my flickr account now; there are links on the Sights page...

Later.

Well, things are going well, I suppose. The initial stress of conference season is nearly over, as I should have both of my talks done in the next 2-3 days and then it's off to Dallas and Boston, respectively, for 2 weeks.

I went to an info session tonight for NASA/JPL, which was cool; I've managed to score an inteview for Friday morning, which I'm totally stoked about. I will keep you (i.e. the internet) posted as things develop.

Pictures from Dallas and Boston will undoubtedly follow.

Otherwise, just been trying to chill out when at all possible. We went and saw Maria Bamford at the Punchline Comedy Club last night; she was quite hilarious. I also have another round of Dungeon Mastering under my belt from this past monday; I was a bit concerned that I would kill everyone in the party, but only 1 noble warrior fell (whom I then proceeded to deus ex machina back to life; thanks Rondallnysthrunxion and your potion of Wish). Rock Band 2 is pretty fun...though the recent DLC has been more of a money sink than the previous releases.

As one last non sequitur, I recently read that they're making a movie version of 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'. It is hard to overstate my satisfaction with this news.

Cheers.

Well, it's September. Not much of note has been going on. Just been working (trying to get things squared away before the fall conferences all hit in a month or 2) and chilling out whenever possible. I've been updating my Flickr page (see links in the Sights section)... Labor day weekend was fun; Monica and I went to see the Chihuly exhibit at the de Young art museum in the city and then met up with Brian for dinner at Walzwerk.

We had a fish fry (pics in the Sights section) on labor day proper; this morning, Monica and I went to hike at Mcnee Ranch State Park down on the coast south of SF.

Other than that, Ric got me hooked on Everquest II, though now that my trial is up and I actually paid for another month's subscription, I haven't had time to play in the last week.

At any rate, I'm off to chill out for the rest of the evening before we have to get back to grind at work. I'll try to not be such a stranger.

It was a good trip; my 10 year HS reunion was actually fun. I had a subdued birthday, hung out with my family, saw the fake Alamo, did some hiking in near 100 degree weather, went to Austin and had fun relaxing.

I also went to the 'Plasma Processing Science' Gordon Conference at Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts the 3rd week of July. It was pretty cool; learned some stuff, met some folks, talked about science, etc.

Anyway, it's back to work tomorrow, so I'm going to resume watching the last day of X-Games 14 and enjoy the rest of my weekend. Later.

In other news, just chilling out, enjoying the summer and trying to keep things on track at work. Got quite a few conferences coming up very soon, so we're hoping that our latest simulations do what we designed them to do.

I'll still be updating my 'Sights' page, but likely most posted galleries will be linked to my flickr account.

Hope everyone is having a pleasant June.

We just got back from Yosemite yesterday; I have a ton of things to post from that as well.... Chances are very good I'll be getting a Pro account on Flickr as I'm just too busy lately to really devote as much time to generating these photo galleries oldschool style; while the PERL scripts I wrote/use are very helpful, I still a have to do a lot of photo prep work that I think Flickr will speed up...so I will definitely keep you posted when that happens.

In other news, my laptop died tonight... apparently the motherboard is dead, or at least the phone tech thinks so after 1:15 of pointless troubleshooting... at least I agree with the assessment; It's my work machine, so we have the Dell super warranty... hopefully all will be fixed in the next day or so.

On another note, just growing older as usual. Work is fine. Re-evaluating personal life goals, etc. Tedious, boring discussions with self; realize I should probably start writing again to vent stress and anxiety.

Anyway, still tired from hiking for 4.5 days straight. Going to bed now.

My new camera should finally be here tomorrow, so I will have to post new photos soon. Plus, Jeff and Marie are getting married this weekend, so I'm sure there will be pictures from that....

...and we're planning on camping in Yosemite next week...

One highlight from yesterday is that we went down to Navy Pier and found the new Bob Newhart statue (click for larger images):

Well, I will report back later with more info.

So, what's been up?... uh.... working a lot, I guess.... Trying to publish things and such;running simulations and debugging things. Making neat research movies.

I got some sweet discounting at Circuit City on my wireless Rock Band guitar, thanks to their 'get a $24 gift card if we don't have your order ready for pickup in 24 minutes' deal and their general ineptitude.

I guess I'm about to order Grand Theft Auto IV....so that should be neat. I've been backlogged on games, though; I'm finally on the verge of finishing the expansion pack for Titan Quest. I have 2 yet-to-be-installed expansions for HOMMV sitting on my floor, and I still haven't quite hit the 'my-god-this-is-so-boring-and-repetitive' wall in Assassin's Creed on 360, so you know.... I have other stuff to play.

The difficulties here are compounded by our house's recent acquisition of a Tivo, so I also spend more time watching TV and then just going to bed during the week now than I once could in my youth. Apparently sleep is important to you know... working...in the brain...

Yeah. So...yeah... more to report later.

In other news, we're technically on spring break this week. So it's a nice week to work without any undergrads being on campus. Or at the gym. Good times.

Other things have been going well. We've gotten into full-swing mode with D&D, but we're having fun, and I think I'm beginning to be able to manage my free time more effectively as of late. Still trying to reserve time for reading and playing video games and cooking, etc.

On the TV front... we dropped Comcast digital cable. We're finally free of the shackles of their horrible, horrible DVR. We need a new DVR now, though, even though we're down to 35 channels....Fortunately, everything I want to see on cable is pretty much streamed free online right after the shows air, so all is well....the season finale of Frisky Dingo was on last night.... man, I love that show. The Season 1 DVD is on its way.

At any rate. I will keep you posted of other spring-time highlights as they arise. Later.