Today in the adventures of aIan and Alan, we got really, really bad haircuts. Whee!
At least mine looks a little better after the shower and subsequent restyling.
Lesson learned. Supercuts is acceptable but pricier. Great Clips is cheap cheap cheap but terrible.
Also, Pittsburgh is awesome and yet, even with a week, I’m still worried that I won’t have time to do everything and see everyone that I want to.
My flight from SFO to LAS today was fun. When we were starting to take off, the flight crew asked for aisle seat people’s help with the “Southwest express snack service” and put packets of peanuts on the ground such that they slid back in the plane as it tilted upward during takeoff. They also made a lot of random jokes and puns during the safety announcements (“In the event of a water evacuation, there is a life jacket under your seat… [insert usual stuff]… Feel free to start paddling towards shore. We’ll follow behind with all the beer and spirits we can carry.”).
Now I have a 3 hour layover here in Vegas, and I will be in Pittsburgh around 11:30 local time tonight.
I leave next Sunday 4/19. There should be lots of adventures and photos and halfprice and ITG over the next week.
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.
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!
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.