awake and alive

Cause of death: unknown

His name is Milton.  I found him at the church, and I think he is a vole.  I suppose we haven’t decided to keep him yet, but I didn’t name him, so…

This is from a while ago, but I just got the pictures so…

Here’s the rest from our trip to Scoopy Do’s in D-town.

I’m definitely getting excited about the possibility of having a real job (and money).

I knew that ice cream trucks couldn’t be a totally legit way to make money.

In other news, I will be sending my resume to TechSmith Corporation on Monday, so I may be stepping into the world of regular people and regular jobs (and probably health insurance!).

Brad and Sandy came over last night.  We had a great time with dinner, and then we rented Stranger than Fiction.  I seriously love that movie.  I’m not exactly sure what it is about it that I love.  I’ve seen it like 4 times since it came out on video, and every time I’ve enjoyed it.  Watch it if you haven’t yet.

Kristie told me about this article in the Lansing State Journal, so I looked it up on their site.  So sad.

So, last night I awoke from a dream where I was trying to help Kristie avoid hurting herself. Apparently in real life I was doing the opposite. I karate chopped her in the chest. So I guess it’s official, I’m a wife beater.

On an unrelated note, I finally finished my FireFox extension to log my interwebs browsing in real-time.  I also made the page that displays said history.  You can check out my browsing by visiting my blog and clicking ‘Web History’, or just click the lazy link I made (EDIT: the extension still works, I just stopped using it).  If you want to use this extension for yourself, let me know and I’ll make the necessary changes to allow you to use it.

So I decided it would be fun/transparent and stuff to put my web history up for all to see!

I “hacked” into my Google web history, and the page “Web History” at the right shows a decently live feed of my browsing madness.

I sure wish I had cool stuff to blog about. I’m busy enough, I’ve got lots of things to do, and I don’t have a lot of time. I have time to blog, but what about? It feels like my life is boring on paper right now. I’m enjoying it, but there’s not much to write about. Does that make me boring? Probably.

I’m working on the site redesign for LCS right now, and it seems like it has quite a bit left to go, but not a lot of time left to do it in.

My basement was previously filled with a “fun” amount of water, and I need to wet vac the rest of the puddles left in the uneven floor.

The cruiser needs a new belt (flat rubber rope, as I called it, not remembering the word “belt”) for the alternator.

Lots to do…..

Kristie’s old roommate Mara came to visit this weekend.  We hadn’t seen her since around Christmas time, so we were very excited to see her again.  She first flew in and was picked up by her friend Diane that lives in Ann Arbor.  So Saturday afternoon Kristie and I went to pick Mara up from Ann Arbor.  We decided beforehand that we would eat lunch with her and Diane.  It was kinda weird because they wouldn’t give us concrete directions to get anywhere in the city until we were close by.

Anyway, we ended up going to a sushi place there and ate some great sushi.  I ordered this one roll called “yum yum”, and the name definitely fit.  It had like crab, tuna, salmon, egg, and was done tempura style.  I’m so glad that my sister introduced me to the world of good sushi.  I never thought I would like raw fish….

Anyway, we brought Mara back home and went to the Saturday nite at Riverview.  Mara stayed the night and we took her back the next afternoon/evening.  When we got in Ann Arbor again, we went to this Indian restaurant called Raja Rani.  The food was so good.  I don’t think that I’ve ever eaten real Indian food before, and I must say that it was a very pleasant experience.  Then to add to the India experience, we went and saw The Namesake.  I’m not going to ruin the plot or anything, but I thought it was a good film.  Afterwards we went and got ice cream from a shop right across from the theater.

Interestingly enough, all of our outings were in downtown Ann Arbor (sadly I didn’t visit Ashley’s), which turns out is a pretty sweet town.  All in all, put together the meals and the movie, and it was a super great time.  The company of Mara and Diane (not to mention my beautiful wife) brought everything up a notch (thank you Emeril for polluting that phrase).