Life

So I got an email from U.S. Airways this afternoon letting me know that my 16,000 frequent flyer miles were about to expire since I haven’t flown them in 18 months. I still need another 9,000 miles to get a free flight and my only other option was magazine subscriptions. I am now the proud…

Work has been less hectic lately with our new NetBackup release shipped. So on Friday I ducked out a little early to play golf with Jim. Jim had a friend who works at a course nearby so we got to play 9 holes for free. I was playing particularly well (and consistently, which is even…

Last night I played softball for the first time ever. It’s been years since I’ve swung a bat or fielded a ball and when I did it was a baseball, not softball. Our MBA program put together a team across the different cohorts so I met a bunch of people that were farther along in…

I got home earlier than usual today (Wednesday) from work.  I’ve been skipping 35W lately since the traffic has been slow with all the construction they’ve been doing so I’ve found a nice quick way across the 3rd avenue bridge that gets me to work in about 20 minutes opposed to a 10 minute run…

Last weekend was about Paal. This weekend was about my car which has been a theme for most of my recent trips back to Wisconsin lately. There are less of my friends around each time I’m back but I did get to go to Summerfest with Erin and Paal followed by a late night at…

Washed, waxed and detailed the car this weekend so I decided to drive up to this rural area outside the city that Kris uses for car photo shoots sometimes.

Today was a fantastic day. Paal flew in to Minneapolis yesterday afternoon so I ducked out of work early to meet him at home. I recently bought a HD-DVD player so we geeked out watching the movie Serenity. The night was also full of lots of Guitar Hero, eating, drinking and concluded with us falling…

I joined the 24 Hours of Flickr group a few weeks back and this Saturday I took pictures of what I did through out the day along with a bunch of other photographers. It was fun to do and I thought I’d post the pictures here with the story behind each of them. So the…

I’m wrapping up my vacation to the Pacific Northwest today which has been very relaxing. I flew to Spokane last Friday which was a bit of an endeavor with all the snow but I’ve had all week to stay up late and sleep in. The weekend and first half of this week was spent with…

I just found out about this project called Noah K Everyday. This photographer, Noah, has taken a self portrait style picture of himself every day for the last 6 years. He plans to keep doing this until he dies. A few months ago he took all the pictures he had so far and made a…

After living in Minnesota for over 5 years I had never been to a Gopher Hockey game until Saturday night. My friend Jim had an extra season ticket that was free so I got to see the Denver vs Minnesota game. I’ve gone to lots of Gopher games – we had season tickets to football…

I stumbled across threadless.com earlier in the week while reading a web design blog. They were talking about how well the site was designed for community participation. I started looking through it and it’s kind of genius. They have a community of people that submit designs for T-shirts. Theses designs are then critiqued by the…

Rex bought a new car for Bri this past weekend. He got it through this dealer auction in Milwaukee after we spent most of the summer looking for the right one. It’s a 2000 BMW Z3 2.5L, the same one that James Bond drives in Goldeneye 😎. She had looked at Mini’s, BMW 3-series, Audi…

A rare weekend post. Thursday night was spent in all bachelorhood as I ate way to much pizza and vegged out with video games and TV. Friday we had a half-day data center lab cleanup at work which was a nice change of pace. Afterwards I met up with Mark and Brigitte at Qdoba for…

My parents visited this weekend and helped me install a new tile backsplash above the sink. I finished grouting it on Sunday night and it looks fantastic. I’m still waiting to get some stainless steel to complete the backsplash, which should make it look uber-modern. It’s been almost a year since I’ve moved in and…

This morning we woke up to the more typical Seattle weather: cloudy, foggy, and dreary. Leah had a flight to catch at 1pm so we decided to head down to Pike’s market again so she could check it out. There were a lot more people this morning than yesterday and the guys were tossing the…

This morning (Thursday), I met my step-sister Leah at the Minneapolis airport and we flew out to Seattle for a vacation. My parents went out yesterday (Wednesday) since Rex has a trade show next week. We got in to Seattle around 11am after watching Layer Cake, which was pretty good, on the plane. I have…