an update of things

I realized recently that the last several updates have been restricted to “friends only”, so this is me updating the rest of you non-friends on the current state of things ;)

Firstly, I have a new girlfriend / roommate, Alison. She came up from San Diego to stay with me and look for work, etc. The short version is: things are really cool and comfortable, and I totally enjoy having her around :) Curious wanna-be onlookers should check out the austin pics for some visuals.

Among other interesting traits, she is a computer hardware fiend; I put this to the test today by allowing her to move my PC into a new case. This is something I’d been wanting to do since blackmagic hooked me up with an unused ColorCase (another in a long list of hardware items acquired from him… thanks! :), but I just knew that I’d screw it up somehow if I did it myself. Hell, I couldn’t even put this one together without help. I think that anything that runs windars (natively) hates me (and hey, I can’t blame it for returning the favor). In any case (or at least the ColorCase, heh), she got it going on the first try, which I thought was impressive :) Now ball is quieter, cooler, and generally happier. Anybody know how to make an XP machine boot directly into quake3?

The job scene is more or less the same… still doing contract work for apple, delivering their certification courses… and still delivering those courses for my company as well.

Weather has been quite nice lately… summers here are generally very pleasurable, in my somewhat short seattle experience, anyway…. I think this is my third summer here. All in all, life is good… there is a lot to be excited about, lately, and I’m doing my best to enjoy the times :)