Here are photos from my trip home to Colorado for July 4th weekend. I got to spend a lot of time with my family as well as seeing a few of my friends for food and fun. These photos are from July 4th with my family and relatives and also from a hike w/ my parents and brothers on that Saturday.
“I am a pirate, you are a princess, we could sail the seven seas.” – PlayRadioPlay!
I’ve done much in the last Eleven Days. Written, rewritten, applied, and phone interviewed. Now applying for more.
On the side, people continue to pay me for being creative. I enjoy this. It’s nice to have positive cashflow.
On Saturday, I wrote a Python script to parse Apache log files and dump the data into a MySQL database. I worked on improving it Sunday. Monday night, I had to do some other work, but I’m looking forward to getting back to the Python. Coding is fun and I love it especially when I’m in the groove. The zone. Focused in, ignoring everything else, and just coding.
I watched the season finale for Deadlist Catch tonight. Somehow, a show about crab fishermen has become one of my favorite television shows. I’ve been pairing back the number of shows on the DVR “to record” list in an attempt to free myself from the constraints of the television. I called up the satellite co. and threatened to cancel my service, but I settled for a price drop of $12/month. I like to watch the occasional Nebraska Huskers football game in the fall and it’ll be here soon enough.
Upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.6. Whee. A few minor tweaks and improvements to the back-end as usual. On the front-end, the only difference you’ll notice is an extra smattering of Quenyan words I grabbed from some dictionaries and language guides recently as inspired by comments on a recent post.
I may be approaching another transition. I’ve updated my resume and am starting to target local tech startups in search of positions where I can reach my full potential.
I’ve had a full 24 hours. Last night, I stayed up late working on the update. Today, I drove to work rather than taking the bus. After work, I headed to a local event, did some networking, learned about a new web product, and now I’m at home. I’ve done my followup for the evening.
I’m gonna go chill and check out the new PS3 movie rental service Sony just launched.
Step 1) Find a vision.
Step 2) Go for it.
Step 3) Stop waiting and go for it.
I’ve had a long, productive, and emotionally draining day. I woke up early, had some great conversation w/ guys at church, but then found out the first friend I made after moving to Seattle will most likely be moving before the end of the year. It shook me up. There may have been tears.
Talked some more then moved on to Saturday House. Got some work done, shunned conversation for the most part, and went to a birthday party afterward.
I did two dumb things at the party.
1) I assisted in throwing the birthday man in the pool.
2) I committed a Larry David/George Castanza party foul and took some unopened food with me when I left (without the host’s explicit okay to do so). I can script out Larry David’s dialogue in my head, but it doesn’t convince me. I’ve always felt like I see through his character.
Ah, regrets. It’ll be better in the morning. One benefit of not drinking is I don’t have the added punishment of a hangover.