Official Bluesfear Worm: fantastic collaborative art project in which a large number of artists have created a long piece, each contributing and building off the previous artists edges. A nifty project - it would be cool to see a wiki-like server created for this kind of project, as well as matching up both horizontal and vertical lines. This would create a collaborative online quilting like experience.
The funeral made for a very strange day. My grandmothers funeral was surprisingly beautiful and it finally really broke through to me and I cried a bit. I was really pleased to see all the people come out of the woodwork that my grandma has touched over the years with her boundless enthusiasm.
That evening I went out for a few rounds of drinks with Janet and my cousins. It was really good to talk about grandma and just be together. It’s been years since I’ve hung out with my cousins and it was really great to go be adults together.
The trip home was relatively easy, although the whole family was a bit on edge. It had been a stressful couple of days and I think we were all glad to be home and be able to relax. I’ve spent the last couple of days laying around recuperating and I feel much better for it.
I feel very numb inside: shortly after getting in to work my mom called me to let me know that my grandma has passed away. She had been very sick in the hospital with pneumonia but we had all been hoping she would pull through.
It still happened to recently to really sort out my emotions but I must say this is bittersweet. My grandma has been fighting with crippling and painful arthritis for most of her life, and in recent years her health has gone significantly down hill. I must say that her passing must have been a welcome relief from her pain, although hard on the rest of us.
Rest in peace Grandma - we all love you and will miss you deeply.
It’s been a relaxing and fun weekend. I’ve watched a lot of television, and continued my conquest of re-encoding all of my videos into h.264. I’ve put in a few more hours on touching up all the photo’s of Janet’s wedding and hope to have all the post production work within another couple of weeks.
On Saturday I decided that I needed a smaller phone and a second line of service so that I could always have an optimal device with a good trade off between form factor and functionality. I ended up settling on the Cingular 2125, which has Windows Mobile 5.0 just like my Qtek 9100, and makes email/sms decently easy (aside from it’s lack of a QWERTY keyboard). Even though both devices share most of the same specifications (processor, screen resolution, network support, RAM) the smartphone based 2125 seems much more responsive, and with it’s antenna sled it has far superior reception for both voice and data.
Today made for a Costco run with Brien. We both got lots of frozen foodstuffs, and went in on some ready to cook food for tonight. Now I’m sitting here in a food coma, blogging before I let sleep take me.
On that note…
Last night was fun - Brien, Skype, and myself all went down to Jake and Tres’ new place in Shiv Alley (Pioneer Square) for some arts, crafts, and pizza.
After a viewing of some of the best moments of Logans Run we made worry dolls out of threat and some cat5 cable. Talk about gayness!
I have to admit - I’m a little jealous about their new place. I don’t really like the location, but the loft is amazing. It’s roomy, and has great textures to photograph. Skype of course loved having all of the extra room to romp about in.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
It’s a big day for me because I’m back in the office for my first full day after 2.5 weeks out relaxing. It’s nice to be back and un-burying myself from the deluge of email that arrived while I was gone. We have some big goals for my company in 2006 and I’m excited to be a part of them!
It’s a big day for the rest of the world because the Macbooks were just announced by Apple (Intel Powerbooks that are 4x faster) and Google has released Google Earth for the Mac.
Whoot! Now I just need to figure out how to get my hands on a spare $3.5k so that I can get myself a Macbook. I’m half tempted to wait for the next revision though so that I can get more than 2Gb of RAM in the thing - come on Apple, you know we need our 4Gb fix!
Saturday, January 7, 2006
Today Janet Toews and David Cowan joined hands in marriage. It was a beautiful ceremony and I couldn’t be more happy for the two of them. Dave is a great guy and I’m sure he and Janet will enjoy a long and prosperous life together. I took a ton of pictures at the wedding - you can check out the Flickr wedding photoset if you want to see more of them. This is another shot I considered putting up on the blog, but ended up settling on the laughing one because I thought it conveyed more joy.
Now I’m laying in bed in my hotel after trimming 700 photos down to the 91 in the site. I have a lot of processing work to do, but I wanted to get the images up quickly so that Janet could send them to her friends.
I’ve got a flight to catch in the morning and have to wake up in less than 4 hours. Insomnia sucks yo!