Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
3rd Hand Support System - Duluth Trading Company
Can anyone tell the difference between this 3rd Hand Support System and a tractor-trailer load-lock?
boy, i have not worked in a long time...
...or posted for that matter. hello everyone!
so, after a nice trip to san antonio to see the sights and the fam, diana and (with a lot of help from taggart and killy) moved our meager possesions from the slacker town of austin to the hipster town of houston. we have (in comparison to our previous place) a ginormous new apartment. we still get 'empty apartment' echo even though all our stuff is here. i would post a few pictures but our camera is broken.
diana is feeling a little puny after a whirlwind trip to seattle and back for a huge new year's salsa party. but she made it back safe and sound and is all hyped up to start her residency at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
amberF; i think adolph's suggestion of a survey of some sort is an excellent suggestion. i think it is vitally important to figure out how you got the clients you have and hear their input on how they would look for services such as yours.
and i will end this post with a question : did JP go shopping at the kroger on west gray on tuesday, january 3, 2006?
It was warm today.
I, for one, do not like to be cold. But I also don't like it to be hot in Texas in January. What's going on? ABC news says that 2005 was the hottest year on record. link Should I have purchased a year-long pass to Barton Springs?
Geocaching
One of the fun things I did over the holidays was geocaching.Geocaching is an outdoor activity that most often involves the use of a Global Positioning System ("GPS") receiver or traditional navigational techniques to find a "geocache" (or "cache") placed anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small, waterproof container containing a logbook and "treasure", usually trinkets of little value. Participants are called geocachers; those not familiar with geocaching are called geo-muggles or just muggles, a term borrowed from the Harry Potter series.
I went with my sister's husband Aaron, who has been into geocaching for a while. He got a new GPS unit for Christmas, and we tried it out by looking up 5 or 6 caches that were within a 10-15 mile radius of the house. The GPS unit gets you within a meter or so the cache, and then it is a matter of just looking around for the hidden container type cache-thing.
A couple of the caches that we looked for were really well hidden; the toughest to find was hidden inside the pole at the end of chain-link fence- you had to unscrew the top of the pole and the cache was rolled up inside.
Typically the caches include a log-book that you sign to verify that you found the cache; they often contain found-items as well, little trinkets that geocachers have left behind.
It was good times. I think it would be fun to get a GPS device (do you have one Adolph?) and search out a few of the zillions of caches that are hidden around Austin. It would be a great bicycle-riding type trip to do on a lovely 70 degree winter day...
Monday, January 2, 2006
The Golden Compass
I had been meaning to read the Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series for a while, but something always held me back. But after reading an article in ¿The New Yorker? the other day I decided to give the series a shot.I have been well rewarded for my effort. I bought The Golden Compass on Saturday and finished it last night. I loved it (armored bears!!!!). I recommend it. I cannot wait to read the next book...
... think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it
Happy New Year!!!!!
Anybody want to volunteer their resolutions/goals??? I'm still trying to figure mine out...I know that I definitely hope to:
- Figure out how to use punctuation, especially commas and semicolons.
- Learn some basic geometry and trigonometry
- Learn some basic statistics
- keep in touch better
- write more love-letters
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