Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Today during my lunch break (or is that breakfast on a day when I start as late as I did) I went to go get my new laptop for work. I’m an independent contractor so I have to bring my own equipment rather than have the company provide it. I ended up settling on a Toshiba Satellite Core-Duo and I have to say - I’m impressed.
It’s no secret that Windows is no longer my OS of choice, but I figure if I’m going to have to run it I might as well run it on a 1.66Gz Dual Core machine with 2Gb of RAM - the thing screams! It’s got an integrated graphics chipset so it’s not going to be anywhere near the quality you would want for gaming, but it still should be a pretty fun little laptop. I wish it was slightly smaller, but it’s at least portable enough that I can cart it around to meetings without getting a hernia.
Oh Macbook Pro - how I yearn for thee!
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Last night was quite the experience. My co-workers took me out to Chez Gaudy for my goodbye party from work. The evening started at 6pm, and involved lots of drinking and madness. At about 9:30 we got kicked out of Chez Gaudy and all ended up trooping back to my place (a convenient two blocks away).
I had a good deal to drink - at least two bottles of wine, and about a fifth of vodka all said and done. The partying at my place went late into the evening, and finally at about 2am the last of the recruiters left me to collapse into my couch and relax.
I’m going to miss the crew, but I’m still v. excited about getting started in my new career. Getting back into technology really has been too long in coming!
Jason and I yet again did the photography and such today. This afternoons shoot was all about sexulizing Jason’s furniture and making great shots like this. I love the way the harsh light interacts with the soft light to make interesting shadows.
I’m now laying around the house trying to get up the gumption to walk to Six Arms with Brien for some dinner. I’m feeling particularly lazy now that I’ve gotten so much done this morning so this evening is going to be all about movies on the couch for me.
It’s 2:00 in the morning on Easter Sunday and here I am editing photos. I got back mere hours ago from Jason’s house where we spent the majority of the afternoon playing with his new camera and setting up a mini-studio in his kitchen.
With Tres and Jason getting into photography its making me take my camera out more and more these days. I’m actually quite glad - I did not shoot much over the winter and am looking forward to getting back into my art form over the summer again.
Aside from the baby-doll crazy times I’ve had a good day. I got some sushi with Scott, and was fairly productive, reviewing even more PM materials and learning more about Agile and Scrum.
I’m also v. excited to introduce version 2 of the venerable Greyhound: The Sweet Blood Greyhound.
For those of you drunkenly following along at home:
4 ice cubes
1.5oz of Vanilla Vodka (sweeter than normal vodka)
3oz White grapefruit juice
1oz Cranberry juice (for color more than anything else)
Combine these ingredients in a rocks glass, and serve to the nearest lush. The result is simply divine! If you are in an ultra-gay mood add an umbrella for the garnish, otherwise a single maraschino cherry will do quite nicely.
The sweetness of the vanilla vodka is balanced with the tartness of the cranberry and grapefruit juice leaving you with a pink-orange concoction that barely tastes of booze, yet gives you the warm fuzzy feelings that we all so crave!
I thought I had seen everything strange and wrong in the world, then this morning Luxist turned me on to the Giant Madagascar Cockroach Broach by Jared Gold. It’s a crystal-studded live cockroach that the rich and famous are supposed to chain to themselves as a sort of living jewelry. I’m not even going to start on how cruel this is, nor am I going to finish on how disgusting this is.
God those things are tasty! Last night degenerated into quite a number of greyhounds at Charlies (and of course some Blackened Chicken goodness) followed by going home and passing the heck out. Good thing too - after 14 hours of sleep I feel great!
It’s good that I’ve finally caught back up on sleep after my week. Today I get to catch up on other things around the house (which thanks to Dom’s continued strange devotion has not fallen apart in the last month) and hang out with Scott to celebrate the new job.
Jason just got his new camera and I’m v. excited to go play with him and do some creepy babydoll photography. Not sure exactly when thats going to happen, but I’m sure it will be soon.
