Stolen Car

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. As I mentioned briefly before, Amber's car was stolen a couple of weeks ago. And yes, it was a Honda. I knew that they were stolen quite often... just not that often. :-/ When we picked up the rental car we learned that 5 …

Curling ickyness

Ick. Went 0-3 at the spiel this weekend. I had one bad game, really good game, and one mediocre one. None of the games were really close (though our first one had a close score, but the game itself was really never that close). The two not so great games were …

*Sigh*

I think I may have just given the worst phone interview of my life. It's been so long, :-/ Amber overheard it, and said I was fine, but wow.... Did I ramble. There was no feedback as I was talking... just *click click click*. I don't know how well I do …

First real skip attempt.

Today I played skip for the first time. I got my butt handed to me 14-4 (though, had it really counted, it would have been 12-2). Missed two big final shots against 5 opponent stones. Honestly, though,I had fun. The other skip was one of the competative junior …

Ahh... joys of stress

Well, job search hasn't really gone particularly well so far. Not quite completely discouraged, but I'm getting there. The stress level is getting close to an all time high. It's really frustrating right now. I know it'll probably get better, but it's hard to look …

And well... the job search begins in seriousness

Well, it's time to move on from TSP. Been a good run, and may still see some weekend work, but it's really at a close. Very frustrating and sad to invest so much of your life into a project and then.. fail like that :-/

Both Amber and I are no longer employed, …

Curling!

Curled for the first time on Monday. Ankle held up pretty well, I was able to throw weight a little bit better than last year. I need some more practice, but it was a good first outing.

Going to start off with two leagues, and if that goes well, maybe add a third in …

Fall Ball starts

Well today was the first day of Fall Ball, and it went pretty well, got hammered in the first game, and squeeked out the second. Didn't hit so well (2-6 I think, with one walk),but had a pretty good game in the field. Turned 5 double plays, 4 of them with Amber :) …

Wine and Birthdays

Yesterday Fidelitas had a tasting event in Seattle, so Amber and I went as sort of a birthday event for me (wasn't my birthday yet...but who cares). Fidelitas, right now, seems to be my favorite Washington winery. Of the 10 or 12 wines of theirs I've tried there's …

And that might be a career

On Sunday morning I took a ground ball to the forehead. It's by far the scariest thing that's happened to me in a long long time. That game is now essentially one big blank. And the seriousness of it didn't sink in until much later. That's now three major sports …

On to the great white north!

Well, not so white :) Going to be traveling to Vancouver for a softball tournament tomorrow. Really looking forward to it for some reason. Been a while since I've been to Canada, and this'll be a new city for me to explore. Also gives me a chance to get to see …

Well maybe no fun for Beth...

Had a major stress out thing going on yesterday which kind of sucked, plus a whole lot of work. Didn't make it in to Seattle. Was going to go with Amber today and hang out there together, but that's fallen through. Don't really see much of a point to take the …

Fun and Fit

30 pounds... wow. Managed to put on about 30 pounds over the past 3 or so years. Saw a picture from one of our first dates, and it's pretty noticeable. So I've started working on taking it off. At least a good chunk of it. Started running again, I'm back up to …

A much needed vacation for sanity.

Amber decided to take a week off to make a final decision about office depot. She's decided to stay on through then end of back to school. This was for a couple reasons - most wine places don't seem to be willing to give her a chance to even interview. They see no …

Couple of days off

Well softball was rained out this weekend. Probably better that way :) My knees are still healing up and still hurt a little bit. Hopefully they'll be back to 100% for the make up games :)

So, in order to try and relax a little bit, Amber and I are going back to …

Food Yumminess

Took at trip to Pike's Place yesterday after Amber got done with work. Both kind of needed a destressing trip :) Weren't really planning on getting anything, just wanted to look - especially at the fruit. Never know when I'm going to get the urge to do the fruit …

Back to life

Seems like most of my days have been going like this for a bit. Work at trying to figure out where this stupid bug is, fail, then stress over the failure all night so that I don't sleep. Stress over this aspect of work, or that aspect of it. Worry about the big …

Big Ball Bowling

So I did Big Ball Bowling today for (maybe) the fifth time in my life. Okay... most of the country just calls it "Bowling" or "Ten Pin Bowling." But those of us who grew up in Eastern Mass were introduced to bowling as Candlepins. A really different game. I …

Slept about 14 hours last night. Watched a movie, had some wine (Desert Hills 2004 Viogner B+), then conked out around 8. Really needed the sleep :) Feel a little bit better today, though things could still go wrong.

Big goal for today is to try and get OS X on a …

I haven't actually slept more than 2 hours over the past three days. It's been a while since I've been this stressed out and had it affect pretty much everything in my life. Amber has been very dissatisfied about the way that Office Depot's been moving as a …