Category Archives: Trips

Hiking

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We went to Big Basin today and it was a lot of fun.
jgrafton drove (lots and lots of twisty roads, many without lanes) and we (Brian, brewer) hiked an easy trail and took photos. Then we went for tasty burgers for dinner.

I’ll post photos at some point.

Threw in a last minute fix on Friday (logging, to help debug an issue) that it turns out I had forgotten to check for null in one case. Result: shittons of NPEs in the log files, which really, really wasn’t pretty. The only thing that saved me was that someone had had the awesome foresight to wrap the piece of vital code that I was logging in try{}catch(Exception e){}. This meant that, instead of killing the entire request, it only logged an error message and continued on happily. Still not good, but not completely fatal either. Meh.

Fun fun fun fun.

Carnival

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Well that was a crappy way to end an awesome few days.
Carnival was awesome, but more due to people than the actual Carnival proceedings. Watched lots of Buggy and Mobot (new records in both, an amazing 2:04:35 and 0:00:51 respectively), played ITG until my legs hurt and I had trouble walking up and down stairs, saw lots of people, dyed Zach’s hair, explored booths, had some funnel cake, played lots of board games, went to halfprice, shot portraits, had our (belated) first anniversary dinner, took almost 9 GB of photos, and generally had an amazing time.
Then last night the weather was crap. I was already feeling pretty unhappy to be leaving the next morning and then we had to walk back with two rather large bags in the pouring rain. Also, someone stole Greg’s umbrella from in the hallway, which is terrible. I also managed to break my glasses (not unfixably, but still…) and I didn’t get to see everyone I wanted to (had to bail on Owen because I was feeling so shitty… apologies; also didn’t see Ben at all). Meh. Now I’m sitting in the airport not wanting to leave.

Photos will be posted in Photos and Portraits later tonight once I get back.

Edit: Photos posted. Also, Zeke, it was 9 GB of JPEGs :) Yay photography!

Pittsburgh

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The weekend summarized in snapshots.
(Lots of photos!)


























After all that was halfprice tastiness at Fuel (they have awesome mixed drinks there!). Today was flight home. My plane arrived 50 minutes early into Las Vegas, turning a 2 hour layover into a 3 hour layover… but besides that, the trip was uneventful. Final tally of of airline abuse to the ceramics and glass I packed to bring back here: two of eight glasses broken and one of six small ceramic plates broken. Everything else survived, amazingly (including the giant Costco bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and soap as well as all the dinner plates, all the bowls, and all the silverware and knives). Huzzah.

Best weekend in a long time. Thanks again to teh Ben and Jon for picking me up at the airport.

I might eventually sort through the photos again and post some of the more portrait-like ones in portraits and/or a reselection of photos from the weekend in photos2. Would anyone be potentially intested in this? I think I’m just feeling photo deprived (besides the beach trip with brewer and dkb, this is the first serious use my camera has gotten since leaving CMU).

Tomorrow is work. Blah.

Happy Belated Thanksgiving

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Went to Greg’s house for Thanksgiving this year, and generally had a lot of fun. There was turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, and two (later three) kinds of pie. Tasty.
I guess when it rains it pours, because this was the first year I actually had somewhere to go for Thanksgiving, and Mark also invited all the seniors to his house for Thanksgiving (because he’s just that awesome).

We also went and did some Black Friday shopping because there was some stuff we wanted… I got a 500 GB hard drive (to use for backing up my existing drive) for $85 and a copy of 300, which I had been wanting to see. Great movie, and the visuals (once you get over the blood and gore) are amazing.

Tomorrow OS P4 comes out and I am busy with work again. Busy busy busy. Also, the deadlines for deciding on jobs is coming up soon. I’ve eliminated two of the five for sure, so I should probably send out rejection letters tomorrow. I still have Endeca to go (cancelled the Yahoo interview), so we’ll see how that turns out before I make a decision on the other 3.

I should work on Student Wars v2 and stuff.


Delays

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So I’ve had delayed flights before… but I think this is the first time I’ve had a flight that didn’t take off until after its scheduled arrival time.

Thank you US Airways.

Now I sleep because I haven’t slept in almost 2 days and I have an interview tomorrow morning.

Also, <3 the bed has 5 huge fluffy pillows!