I never had food poisoning before. That is until I moved to California. Then it was an all too common occurrence. I moved away for almost three years and I did not have a single case of food poisoning. I’ve been back out here for just over three months and I am just recovering from my first bout of food poisoning. Ah got to love California living. Word of advice to the food industry: just because it is 64˚F outside in the middle of July doesn’t mean that you don’t have to properly refrigerate your food!

If you’re a reader of Jason’s blog you should feel very unloved. He doesn’t even care enough about you or his blog to tell everyone that he’s at a Gamer’s Convention this week.

I would say let the nerd jokes start, but it might be too easy for everyone. Jokes are always better when it’s a challenge to make them. Things that are easy are boring. Insert a “your mom” joke here.

I totally forgot to post where we were going this weekend. I’m such a bad blogger. I guess it really doesn’t matter since most of my readers are coming from Regan’s blog now;-(

For anyone who doesn’t read Regan’s blog, we went to Austin this weekend for Jeff and Aim’s wedding. Everything was great except for the trip home. I keep saying this, but this was the absolutely last time that I fly through Dallas DFW. No really, I mean it this time. Our plane was 30 minutes late in arriving to the gate and took off 40 minutes later that it was suppose to. After landing and being delayed for 10+ minutes because of lighting strikes, 1 lighting strike within 5 miles of the airport == 10 minutes of waiting in the queue to de-board, we were left 10 minutes to make it to our next flight. Long story short we made it but our bags didn’t.

There will be pictures on Flickr soon and more of a story on Regan’s blog.

I got my mug taken at the Homebrew Phone Club last week. The serious look on my face was from me trying to put the gumstix back together after Joe took it apart and couldn’t figure out how to put it back together.

Dan has already taken note of this on flickr.

Regan and I have rebuilt our library so fast that you wouldn’t be able to tell that we lost almost every book that we owned eight months ago. It was more important to us to acquire books rather than a place to put them. This really didn’t matter in Austin since we had a two bedroom apartment with tons of closet space. When the books started to overrun the common space, we just stashed them away in a closet. Now that we live in the-kingdom-of-unreasonable-rent we had to down grade to a one bedroom apartment with less closet space. This meant that we actually had to stop buying books and break down and buy bookshelves. Today, after 245 days of being bookshelf free, we are now owners of a IKEA bookshelf.

You would have noticed that it didn’t work. It works now for both mine and Regan’s site. Hopefully I spam proofed it.

Said to me by Regan while having dinner with Lauren and Trey, “Honey, if you thought with your penis we wouldn’t fight as much.”

The other day I reread some of my old posts so I could add more tags to them. It dawned on me that I only started this blog a year ago. My life has changed so much over the past year. So here is my year in review.

Shaler moved in with Marija and I decided to become a bum again. I drove to Austin to watch a pre-screening of Serenity and bartered for Jayne Hats. Took a vacation in the Outer Bank and learned how toss a boomerang. Regan and I pissed off a band member of some jam band. As Shaler and I were packing our apartment we found some volatile booze and a letter declaring me his bitch. Decided not to become a bum and move in with Regan instead. Took a vacation to Vegas and asked Regan to marry me. Got my head shaved. I finally got a landline only to have the hurricane destroy it. Got displaced to Austin and gained two new family members. Open sourced the binder. Took a vacation to Europe. Got a new job and moved to the Bay Area.

Regan said to me that we should get together with Lauren for Easter to have dinner and watch a movie. The heathen in me suggested that we watch Army of Darkness because it had things in it that come back from the dead. Both Regan and Lauren liked this idea so much that we are now watching two undead movies tomorrow: Army of Darkness and Shaun of the Dead.

Too bad they weren’t fond of my suggestion for dinner: rabbit.

I got a new user registration email tonight. Some may not find that exciting but I rarely get new users so I was a little excited. I check to see who my new user is and I do not recognize the user name. What’s this? Some random person has stumbled onto my blog and found it interesting enough to register. I now had to know who this person was. I googled the email address of my new user and the first result is: Minutes of 2005 Business Meeting. With this I have found the name of my mystery user, Deb Rumsey of Ohio State University. I asked Regan why that name sounded familar. She had no clue but said it did sound familar. I then ask her to go get me my Statistics for Dummies. Sure enough it was written by Deborah Rumsey, PhD. Regan said that I had to make a blog post about this and that she was jealous that none of the authors that she reads registers on her site.

The only thing about Austin that I am missing so far is Texpresso’s signature drink. A Texpresso is just a cappuccino with half-and-half and extra sugar but made to perfection every time. Since I knew I was leaving Austin I started watching how they make them so I could try to reproduce them once I got to the Bay Area. What I observed.

• Make a shot of expresso
• Place two sugar cubes(three if you want it extra sweet) into the frothing cup
• Add the expresso to the frothing cup
• Add half-and-half to the frothing cup
• Froth

This seems pretty simple right? Not! I didn’t realize that there are so many variables to making a cappuccino. How much coffee grinds do you put in the grind holder? How hard should you compact the grinds? How much half-and-half do you use? How long should you froth it for?

My daily experimentation and results so far.

April 11, 2006

• 2 clicks of coffee grinds
• Double shot of expresso
• 1/3 carton of half-and-half
• Two sugar packets

Results: Less half-and-half and more sugar.

April 12, 2006

• 3 click of coffee grinds
• Double shot of expresso
• Cup filled up to the “g” with half-and-half
• Two sugar packets and 1 splenda

Results: Right amount of half-and-half but the coffee was too strong.

April 13, 2006

• 2 clicks of coffee grinds
• Double shot of expresso
• Froth cup filled to the first line with low fat milk.
• Two splenda packets

Results: Last time I try a diet Tex.

Moving to the Bay Area.

We are about to sedate the cats and head to the airport. This should be a very interesting flight.

Shaler: “Dude, your song came on.”
Regan: “What song is that?”
me: “I’m in love with a stripper.”
Regan: “Aww! That was your future song before me.”
Shaler: “No! Let me show you what song was before you.”
Shaler goes into the other room to play the song.
Regan: “What song is he going to play?”
me: “Gold Digger.”
Shaler plays Gold Digger.
Regan starts laughing.

regan: “OH SHIT! WE’RE GONNA DIE!”
regan floors it instead of stopping.
I start shaking my head.
regan(laughing): “If you weren’t so tired you would be yelling at me.”
me: “I’m too tired to care about dying.”

Regan and I are very busy this week getting ready for our move to California. We got so much to do that she’s actually broken down and created a list for herself. Here’s my list so far for the week:

04/03/2006

• Read Chapters 5, 6, 8, and 9 of Statistics for Dummies
• Perform a trial run of sedating the cats
• Call old Landlord…Make Regan call old Landlord
• Call to see if a hotel stay will be paid for our last two nights in Austin
• Finish sorting Warlord cards
• Start working on state taxes
• Start packing clothes
• Walk Lily ^1.
• Make hotel reservations
• Take out the trash

04/04/2006

• Read Chapters 10, 11, 12, and 13 of Statistics for Dummies
• Finish Taxes
• Pack more clothes

04/05/2006

• Read Chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17 of Statistics for Dummies
• Pack more stuff that isn’t going to be shipped
• Walk Lily

04/06/2006

• Read Chapters 18, 19, 20, and 21 of Statistics for Dummies
• Laundry
• Pack three weeks worth of books to read
• Pack anything I don’t want the packers to pack
• Clean out cars and prepare for them to be shipped

^1. Lily’s walk turned into her walking us. I had to carry her most of the way because she was tired after getting a rabies shot and a thermometer stuck up her butt.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of Warlord CCG. The game is moving into its second reset, Epic Edition, and it looking better than ever. If you love D&D you should check this game out.

I’ve personally been playing since the beginning of 2002 and love it! Unfortunately I haven’t been able to play in a while because my regular gaming group was disbanded when the storm spread us out across the country. Hopefully I will be able to revive Warlord in the Bay Area when we move back out there.

This is the fourth Netgear router that I’ve owned and each one has given me head aches. I gave my last one to Dan so that he could debug why I couldn’t connect to the FeedTree network. The current router model that I own does not allow me to keep ssh connections open longer than five minutes. I also found out today that when I reboot my machine that it will randomly delete port forwarding rules associated with it. *Sigh*

Today, after 4.37 years, I resigned from my position at PalmSource. I’ve accepted an offer from Google. This means that Regan will be moving back out to the Bay Area.

In no particluar order the things Regan and I did in London:

• British Library
• Harry Potter Attractions
• Changing of the Guards
• Tate Modern
• Lunch and Dinner at an Indian Restaurant
• Rick Steves’ Oxford Circus to Piccadilly walk
• Walked around trendy Islington
• Original Bus Tour
• Harrods
• London Eye
• H&M
• Apple Store
• Got lost in Knights Bridge
• British Museum
• Contributed to over seas opening week-end gross for V for Vendetta
• Walked across the Millennium Bridge
• National Portrait Gallery

I(Shaler and Jeff) went over to fabulousrides.com and got this great addition to Danny. Now I just wind and go.