Honeymoon Blogs pt 1

Trip notes, evening, 9/21:

For those that don't know, our plane from austin, delayed on the ground
and in the air, instead of landing the 45 min before the dublin plane
left, like it was supposed to, landed just in time for us to run across
half the airport, and skid to a stop in front of the gate to be told by
the gate attended that we had missed it by just about 8 min.

The delta customer service was, contrary to most reports, was friendly
and as helpful as regulations allowed them to be, though a little worn
from having about 15% of the air travelers for the day yell at them.
Storm season is a bad time to work in airline customer service.

We got a discounted hotel room, and a couple of tickets for free drinks,
and were rebooked for the next flight to dublin. Unfortunately, we had
not counted on exactly how rare flights from georgia to dublin actually
are, so the earliest was a flight boards 8:25 tonight, a full 24 hours
after our previous plane left. We had lost a day in Ireland, and were
both frazzled and upset.

A little food and a good night's sleep later, we were able to consider
the upsides. Atlanta, despite the fact that we really didn't want to be
here, did have a pretty wide range of cool things to see and do, and a
comprehensive mass transit system that could get us there.

We made it out to five points, the atlanta underground, and the
coca-cola museum. We were thinking of heading to the aquarium and a
movie, but time and weather worked against us.

We made it back to the airport, checked in, and changed currency, and
are now waiting outside the gate for boarding. Looks like we'll be
waiting another half hour or so.

Surfacing once again to document.

House is good.

Got the promotion.

Wedding in less than two weeks, ireland after.

When it rains, it pours

Not good at the small posts, so just a quick recap of the last 2 months.

Home - Purchased the house, moved into house, got really stressed by moving, spent an awesome day at the Oasis drinking wonderful margaritas, far less stressed. Learning to love/hate home depot. Still setting up for house warming.

Job (as much as I can talk about without getting in trouble) Got really busy with WWDC . Stayed busy. Many projects. Training assistant. Assistant may become replacement? (in a good way, more on that later)

Website - Set up home server. Difficulty reaching webpage from out of the network. Still working on it. New whataimidoingright.com will be up soon...ish.

Wedding - On track - bought pants. Need to buy tie. Have trench and fedora, and baddass shoes. Bachelor and bachelorette parties coming up soon. Shouldn't be too much trouble.

Social - Been hooked on facebook and twitter. Use twitter for famous people. Use facebook for people I actually know. Weird that my grandmother is friends with me on facebook.


Really should be getting back to setting up the house. Wanted to write though.

Bloggery

Wow, Been almost 2 months since last update, and what pair it's been.

Rather than filling in everything in one giant post, I'll try and recap over the next few days.

Here is the warning.

Content shall follow.

Another day, another dollar

For those of you that live in austin, and like to support local businesses, and like/need to get your haircut, may I recommend Birds of Austin. The music is good, the stylists talented, and it's one of the only places where you can get your haircut by the lead singer of a metal band.

I'm waiting to get my haircut right now, third in line, and since I brought my laptop, I figured I'd post a blog.

First in line and next in line just got called, this may be shorter than I thought.

Other news, today we're having the house inspected. We've put an offer down, and are working on the 7 day option period. I'll post the results later.

I'd like to say that there is much new and exciting that happened since I last blogged. Work has been busy, waking up in the mornings sucks, school has been hectic, and the iPhone is sci-fi.

well, I'm about to be called. Already the sideburns are gone, and I'll be trading the curly frizzy shag that I've had for the last few months for a more clean cut look, hoping for something like Bogart from the Maltese falcon. Though with my trademark thick rimmed black glasses, it may be a little more like buddy holly.

We'll see.

Enjoy your weekend.

good morning sinners

Like the phoenix, I have arisen from the ashes of the blogoshpere. My face is beaten and bruised and sticky, and I have come back to judge you all, and find you all wanting.

Note to self, don't read warren ellis and blog at the same time, at least not until better at being warren ellis.

Thunder and lighting, sounds of rain coming down. Made my first tweet on twitter. Felt dirty. Dog seemed unimpressed. With the tweeting, and the rain.

Work was hectic this week. Very busy. Made a lot of people happy, job feels fairly secure, but in that omg worked lots of OT type way. Needed time among the commoners and the pleabians again. Inspired. Will head to the mountain when things slow down, and come back with my words carved into stone tablets. Or, at the very least, have come up with ideas to keep me busy through the whole summer.

Car alarm somewhat more impressed with thunder than dog was.

Class is going good so far. Public Speaking instructor unsurprisingly brilliant speaker.

Distance learning (different class) good for things like programing, where I'm refining what I already know. Already a week ahead. Go team venture.

This leaves suprisingly little time for life, the site, and blog.

Option period on house. Close on July 7th. Move in july 25th, if all is good.

The lady has purchased a snail lamp....

Sooooooo tired. To early to sleep. Living old man's hours. Will work more on web programming instead.

6 down, two to go

The only people of the nine left without blogs are chris and kai.

I don't count kahlua as people.

Had a class assignment where I had to write how I would make the world a better place. It was for web design, so I advocated absurdism.

Speech will be interesting. Want my book to hurry up and show up. The proff is a damned decent speaker, spent a year interning at the CIA studying terrorist websites.

Had a bit of crazyiness and stress with the house thing. Worked it out. Also managed to find my W2s for the last 5 years, while trying to find last years.

Atending seminars at work. Seems to mainly advocate structure, and order in the life.

Also, don't like getting up at 6:30 for work. I remember when 6:30 was a mythical time that only existed in dark legends.

On the flip side, getting off work at 5 is niiiiiiiice.

This will be a short one, more homework to do. Signed up for 11 hours of class in the fall. Only one more year of this and I'm free, free.