Category: Etcetera
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Holiday Party Weekend
The weekend after INFO Christmas and Nutcracker, it was company holiday party time. (I really need to work on this “recency” thing when blogging. Eh well.) It started off Friday for Ryan’s Avanade Party at the Pacific Science Center. He got out of work pretty late, so we only caught the tail end of it…
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INFO Christmas & Nutcracker Weekend
And Jamie’s holiday blogathon continues! The following weekend Ryan and I hosted our 4th Annual A Very INFO Christmas dinner party. Saturday was spent all day in preparation, i.e. setting up a table for 18(!), planning the oven sequence, stuffing dates with goat cheese, etc. It was pretty fun getting things together, though crazy as…
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Holiday Weekend in San Jose
The weekend after Thanksgiving I was in San Jose on business and decided to stay for the weekend. Ryan joined me and we spent two nights checking out San Jose and took a day trip Saturday to the coast, namely to Monterey and brief visit to Santa Cruz. Day 1 – San Jose San Jose’s…
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Thanksgiving Weekend ’07
Happy Holidays! I’ve been doing a lot of sweet holiday stuff lately and feeling like blogging it–so here goes. We’ll have to rewind a bit…like to Thanksgiving. (Let’s see how far I get.) Thanksgiving was nice and a much needed 4-day weekend. Rather than go into specifics, here were the four themes: Food My mom’s…
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The Mayonnaise Jar
I usually don’t forward along these stories, but figured this one was post-worthy. 🙂 The Mayonnaise Jar When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar… and the coffee… A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items…
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Flyback Weekend in Vegas @ Red Rock
Two weeks ago I went with Ryan and the rest of the Avanade gang to Las Vegas for their regional flyback weekend. It was a pretty awesome trip and it was the first time I stayed off the Strip. I was skeptical at first, but soon found Red Rock to be one of my new…
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Olympic Sculpture Park
Last weekend, Ryan and I finally checked out the Olympic Sculpture Park after having lunch at the Old Spaghetti factory. It was an unusually sunny day, which made for a nice walk outside. I’m already looking forward to coming back with a book in hand. Saw so many great places to read that overlooked the…
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To Myk
…the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Michael Patrick Gonzales June 17, 1983 – October 3, 2007 To my dearest friend… I wish thee not eternal rest, but eternal life. <3 Pride can stand a thousand trials the strong will never fall, But watching stars without you, My…
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Going to Texas
Currently packing for a business trip to Texas tomorrow. The sudden shift from summer to autumn here has been pretty marked. Today was particularly rainy and cold, in the miserable sort of way. It’s time to bust out warmer wear, I suppose. But not just yet. 😉
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Drinks on the Links Mini Golf
As many of you know, for the last 5 weeks we’ve been playing in a miniature golf league called Drinks on the Links through Underdog Sports. Basically you play once a week with with twenty other teams for mini golf glory. Actually, it really was just an excellent way to spend time outdoors with friends…