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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006I hate blogosphere memes, but this one sounded interesting. I still refuse to “tag” people. Here are 5 things you might not know about me:
1: I grew up in Walla Walla, WA – a town of less than 40,000 residents in Eastern Washington.
2: My first computer was an Apple IIGS that my parents dutifully bought when the school district suggested that I might be good in this “new computer field”. It came with 512K of RAM (!) and was later upgraded to 4MB to accommodate multiple programs resident in memory at once.
3: While growing up I spent nearly two years at the Morning Star Boys Ranch in Spokane, WA. Not exactly the most glamourous part of my life, but it sure was important looking back at it. I doubt I would be where I am today if not for it.
4: I have a guilty habit of buying too many books that look interesting and letting them pile up around the house unread. I would estimate that I have 40 un-opened books (and at least as many movies) laying around the house. Someday I’ll get around to them all!
5: My favorite spirit is Vodka, with my drink of choice being the illustrious Greyhound. When not drinking Greyhound’s I go straight for the sugar and like Pina Colada’s. When not drinking spirits at all I always am up for a nice red wine – the richer and more cloying the better.
It’s booze time!
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
After slowly draining my house of every drop of liquor I had been reduced to drinking “Condo Gin”. I call it condo gin because it’s the remainder of the bottle of nasty gin that came with my condo. After a few weeks of being a bad booze host I decided to drop by the liquor store on my way home from work and “stock up”.
In other news today was a good day! I’ve been slammed at work, but it’s being recognized: my contract got signed for another 6 months, and I managed to get a raise out of it. I may get down from time to time because my job can be so draining, but I have to keep reminding myself that I’m on the career path I want, and it’s 100x better* than recruiting!
Drink to celebrate anyone?
“POTD 12/13/06 – It’s booze time!” by sparktography
*Better in this case means more interesting, more technical, good for the world, and for the love of god I feel like I have a soul again!
Return from Eastern Washington
Friday, November 24th, 2006Thanksgiving was good this year – 2 days with the whole family in Eastern Washington can be fun. Between Janet, Dave, Mom, Dad, Skype, and myself it was a pretty full house for the Toews family.
There were some great memories made over the holiday: dad burning the turkey, Skype getting a giant beef bone with real raw beef still stuck to it, watching Monty Python with the family. I gave my old Powerbook to my parents (an early Christmas present) and was quite pleased to see how much use my dad got out of it in even the first day – I think it’s good to see them getting more into technology.
I took the following picture while driving back with Skype today:
I’m glad to be home and have an actual weekend ahead of me. I have a little work to do, but hopefully it will be for the most part a chance to simply lay around and relax – something I have not done in far too long.
“Return from Eastern Washington” by sparktography
The Galaxy Room
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Happy Birthday Alissa! She celebrated at my favorite little restaurant: Chez Gaudy. It’s a hidden little place on Capitol Hill here in Seattle with good wine, great food, and a fun atmosphere. I love it when I get to sit in the Galaxy Room – although tonight we were not graced with that privilege.
Have I mentioned how much I love my Lensbaby 2G? It really makes taking photos a very fun process – bendy, twisty, and challenging!
The rain is back
Sunday, October 15th, 2006Hello Rain,
I had almost forgotten the downside to living with you in Seattle: eight months a year of rain, rain, rain. Upon waking up this morning I discovered the wet, gray world had arrive to wrap me up in it’s soaking embrace. Skype of course insisted upon going for a walk and getting us both drenched.
Regards,
Sparky
P.S. Luckily I’m home now, and drying out in front of a toasty iMac. I have the breakfast of champions (pictured below) and a slightly damp pit bull to keep me company until the rest of my day catches up with me and I get to work on cleaning and such.
A 360 beginning
Sunday, October 15th, 2006Today was a momentous day for my friend Ken – he got himself a shiny new (matte white) Xbox 360! I drove downtown with him to go pick it up and had a chance to snap the below photo of a used copy of Oblivion in a funny case. Somehow the anime just does not seem to go with the content and feel of the game.
After getting Ken home to tear into his new toy he got to try out some of the Xbox Live Arcade online experiences. He is in my camp that Marble Blast Ultra and Geometry Wars are two amazing games and really help round out the platform. I would have insisted Ken get a copy of Oblivion as well, but knowing the kinds of games he is into I think he would have found it difficult to get into.
Afterwards we picked up Brien and headed to Siam on Lake Union for dinner and drinks. Both Ken and Brien started in on the infamous Woodland Park Zoo’s, but Brien decided he was ‘not a fan’ and quit out early. Check out the picture of the day that resulted from our first round of drinks.
Only three days in to my picture of the day campaign and I’m already pleased with the results. I’m ‘shooting for coverage’ with my whole life to ensure that I have the right photo at the end of the day. I actually ended up with three pictures that were worthy of being posted online today, and several yesterday. If I keep this up I might start actually using my 2GB of upload a month with flickr again!
Holy chips Batman!
Saturday, October 7th, 2006
My dear friend Elliot and my mother both picked the same fine day to get born (abit many years apart). I made the unfortunate mistake of going to Elliot’s party and managing to get drunk enough to not even remember this photo or how exactly I ended up in that pose.
My evening started early as I arrived an hour early to Mama’s Kitchen in Belletown so that I could reserve a massive table for 14. After having hardly eaten I started drinking early, and as other arrived and the party being my memory fades slowly into delightful blur.
Aside from a late lunch with Brien and a showing of X-Men 3 at my place it’s been a pretty quiet day at home. Battlestar Galactica Season 3 just started and I’ve been catching up on watching all of Season 2
again before I go dig into the new season.
Starucks: the faceless mermaid
Saturday, September 30th, 2006OK – I admit it, I’m addicted to Starbucks Frappaccino’s and their little cousin the Doubleshot. This morning I picked one up at the corner store that had a crease in it’s label. I think the ‘new’ logo is neat:
Fun with friends
Saturday, September 30th, 2006Tonight was unexpectedly populous at Le Cinema Sparks! I had planned on doing a movie showing with a few friends, and it ended up being quite the showing of The Chronicles of Riddick in hi-def for a large number of people. Thank you so much to Ben, Elliot, Ian, Keenan, Rob, Shawna, and Troy for the fantastic evening and great company.
Ian, Ben, and Keenan joined me for dinner at Pho 900 on Broadway, where we all made the bzzzt mistake of bzzzzzzt drinking iced bzzt Vietnamese coffee and having Pho. The Pho was fantastic, but the sugary deliciousness of the coffee was significantly more caffeinated than planned.
After dinner we all went back to my place and were joined by the rest of the crowd for some drunken movie madness. Now it’s past two in the morning, and I’m left alone, somewhat buzzed, and very awake still from the caffeine with nothing but an exhausted puppy and my beloved TNG to keep me company.
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