after a few aborted attempts at tackling various serious and not-so-serious topics, today brings you a fine new blog post updating my life and hopefully providing me with a stepping stone for building further conversations about actually interesting things.

my last two weeks have been seventy kinds of busy, and here’s a handy rollup of maybe the last couple months of my life full of html code for your reading pleasure.

• scott and chris got their new boat and it is really fun to drive.
• andrew and susan got married and it was fantastic. i am so lucky to have such great friends.
• i’ve been biking and took 2nd at the greenlake race on friday.
• mel and sean graduated and showed off fine works at the portfolio show. i still feel like avoiding such get-togethers.
• after talking to martin at the show a bit, i’m now planning on going to greece with him and ross for two weeks sometime in mid-september or october.
• so of course i’ll need an ipod, 10gb 2nd generation so i can get the retardedly large 2100mah battery for it.
• i’ll also need a new bag to use as a european mens’ carryall
• since i was doing some shopping, i also picked up my first real printer, it can hang out in the living room hooked up to the airport express for wireless networked-from-anywhere printing.
• i needed the printer since i’m now the co-leader of a bible study with bethany community church and we needed a way to print out question sheets, etc. every week. this will be deserving a longer topic soon.
• i have a co-leader, she is neurotic but we’re cool with that. i am trying to get her to drop this south beach tomfoolery so we can have co-leader beers more often.
• i’ve also invented the ‘bod’ diet: beer-or-dessert. (as opposed to the ‘bad‘ diet). everyone who hasn’t seen me out on the boat thinks i’m skinny now.
• okay so some of that may be because i’ve started running and playing ultimate (and soon, hopefully, soccer.)
• not to have this be all about my toys, but i like my new shoes alot.
• i’m not going back to school this quarter, but i am teaching a weekly sql seminar for my colleagues here in the lab.

in addition to all that above, i’ve been having lunch with people and just trying to spend a summer intentionally hanging out with folks and making time for that, instead of one sitting around my house being mopey or dinking around on the computer. there is plenty of computer dinking to be done at work!

speaking of…