But, here’s something that is fun.  We had our first ‘backyard’ outting at work (we have a backyard now! It’s mostly just a parking lot with trash in it, but that’s besides the point).  For context, HTDig is a type of ‘in-site’ search that kills our servers each night. There is a collective hate among the techies. We just finished transferring all of our clients away from it, and here’s what we did to celebrate:

Friends – If you haven’t yet met my kitties, you’re missing out on one of the most cute-er-ific experiences ever. Case in point

Costco, now offering kitties in bulk: (that’s funny, ’cause it’s a Costco box)

See more fantastic failures at : the fail blog

haha.

Everyone mark the date, Angie Doerr concedes that Chance Lunning was RIGHT.  It must be a leap year or something.

That gross space between the counter and the stove = clean
Dusting the bathroom = yes
Seeing all floor space in bedroom for more than 1 day = true
Things in the cupboards that you don’t remember buying (or expired before the last time you moved) = gone

Thats right folks.  Even with just one arm, things are getting clean.  Now if only I could put away my coats when I get home, it might actually look like I was neat or something.

The end.

Seriously though, it was quite relaxing and enjoyable, spending our days drinking and eating and wandering.  Lovely.

In other highlights from my weekend, on Friday I enjoyed a fantastic Angie-date which was totally hi-jacked by Joel (in a good way).  Juno is WAY better than he or I expected it to be.  Beer drinking at Azia in good company is also fantastic.  On Saturday, we went out to The Cabooze to see Trampled By Turtles and rockout at the hoe-down.  Quite possibly the most fun I’ve had at a concert in quite some time, even considering the unpleasantry of my wrist in a crowd and the -45 windchill.  The tickets sold out right in front of me, but the rest of the gang was already through, so I sweet-talked my way in, it was awesome.  Sunday was the scholastic awards ceremony, and as much as it sucks to work all day on a Sunday, I’m really glad to have that over, so it was a nice end to the weekend!

Off to London on Wednesday for a week!  I hear that I have an admirer there, so that’ll be interesting.  Next post = foreign.  For-reals!

Push Institute -  pushthefuture.org  I made this website! (sorta) – admire for its crazy programing tools that I continue to fix, update and add (try to sign-up for the mailing list on the home page, just try it!!). Still working on making it more attractive.  I am officially the Operations Manager now, I handle all of the systems integration, tech and interns for the office, jeez, its cool!  I also learned how to connect to our office mac-mini from outside of our network.  that was cool too.

MCAD – Scholastics is almost over here, you can see all of the student work up in the concourse gallery.  While we’ve been dealing with our region, I have been doing a lot of testing and help for the national office, which may result in a week trip to NYC in March to work, and possibly more after that, to re-make the system that runs the website (neato!)

Also starting a project here to design a CRM (contact relationship management) system, which will be huge/fantastic/exciting & I will learn a lot!

SES is picking up, have the first few meetings this week.  Haley Bonar will be our Artist for the media section.

So, the last exciting thing is that I’ll be going to London in about 10 days for a little vacation/grad gift/friend visit.  Going to be an adventure with the wrist, but well, I don’t really care, it’s going to rock!

be my friend in this time of whiny pain?

PS BEN: Every time I look at shambot, I want to eat delicious breakfast items.

in Mary-Kate Olsen’s Apartment?!