Catching Up
Some thoughts from the weeks since my last update.
Work is going well. Every day I feel like I understand the whole CIM (that's the technology I work with) thing a little better, which is nice because I no longer feel like I'm slowing everybody down. It's nice to be working with some really smart people, but the downside of that is when it takes me a little longer to get up to speed I feel pretty guilty about it. But things are going quicker now, so that's good.
We added a little one to the house recently. She's a gray-brown tiger named Peanut Butter, cuz she has these little brown smudges. Only other remarkable thing, besides the fact that she's just so adorable, is that two of her feet have black pads and the other two are pink. Zipper has been shockingly tolerant of her. The wrestle a lot, Peanut loves to pounce Zipper's tail, and Zipper is fond of cleaning Peanut, even if she has to pin her down to do it. It's also worked very well to mellow Zipper out, which everybody is very happy about. And neither of them do the hide from everybody thing (yet at least), so we get to see both of them quite a bit.
Got the living room set up pretty good. Nina moved the furniture around to make it a little more conducive to conversation, plus make better use of the floor, and I've got the electronics set up pretty nice. Got my Logitech Harmony 670 controlling everything beautifully. One touch gets me from watching TV to playing the Xbox 360 (it even turns it on), another goes to the Wii, a third gets me back to TV, or whatever. It's great. The machine has a state machine in it so it always knows what it needs to do to get everything set up perfectly.
Played a round of golf today with Chris, over at the College Hill golf course on North Clinton Street, which for people from back home is kind of like finding a golf course down by the Rockville Public Library. We had no idea it was there until Andrew told me about it. It was a brutally unimaginative course, but kept in reasonably good condition, and there is no back nine. It wasn't really cheap enough to warrant not going to McCann in the future, but it's a nice alternative every once in a while I guess. The last hole there was probably the best hole of my life. It was a par 3 with a brutal green, and I had a sweet first shot that ended up going a little off the back of the green because of the bullshit layout of the green and the ground around it, but I made a nice chip on and then two-putted. I know that's only a bogey and I've made a par on a par three before, but this was a much longer hole and I was generally just very happy with all my shots. I even used a little backspin on the chip to keep it from running off the green. That was sweet.
Fantasy football has officially started, and I'm stoked. I'm terrible at it, but much like golf I treat it as a way to have a lot of fun and try not to worry too much about how I'm doing. Obviously I still try my best and seek to improve, but if it doesn't work out I'm not too bummed, and it makes watching the games a lot more exciting. Plus Andrew is even more into it than I am and his excitement gets pretty contagious.
Watching some real football of the college variety, Notre Dame at Penn State, on ESPN HD (which is awesome). Penn State just had a crazy 72-yard punt return for a touch down, and they had this great camera angle from maybe the 20 yard line low, looking at the celebration in the endzone and up into the crowd. I almost shit my pants. There were probably 20,000 people on camera, and it looked like every single one of them was wearing all white, waving a pom-pom, and screaming their damn brains out. That would have been a pretty powerful sight on the old TV. On this one it's total goosebumps.
Mom and Dad are coming to see the apartment for the first time tomorrow, so that should be fun. It will be nice to see some family without having to drive two hours first.
Work is going well. Every day I feel like I understand the whole CIM (that's the technology I work with) thing a little better, which is nice because I no longer feel like I'm slowing everybody down. It's nice to be working with some really smart people, but the downside of that is when it takes me a little longer to get up to speed I feel pretty guilty about it. But things are going quicker now, so that's good.
We added a little one to the house recently. She's a gray-brown tiger named Peanut Butter, cuz she has these little brown smudges. Only other remarkable thing, besides the fact that she's just so adorable, is that two of her feet have black pads and the other two are pink. Zipper has been shockingly tolerant of her. The wrestle a lot, Peanut loves to pounce Zipper's tail, and Zipper is fond of cleaning Peanut, even if she has to pin her down to do it. It's also worked very well to mellow Zipper out, which everybody is very happy about. And neither of them do the hide from everybody thing (yet at least), so we get to see both of them quite a bit.
Got the living room set up pretty good. Nina moved the furniture around to make it a little more conducive to conversation, plus make better use of the floor, and I've got the electronics set up pretty nice. Got my Logitech Harmony 670 controlling everything beautifully. One touch gets me from watching TV to playing the Xbox 360 (it even turns it on), another goes to the Wii, a third gets me back to TV, or whatever. It's great. The machine has a state machine in it so it always knows what it needs to do to get everything set up perfectly.
Played a round of golf today with Chris, over at the College Hill golf course on North Clinton Street, which for people from back home is kind of like finding a golf course down by the Rockville Public Library. We had no idea it was there until Andrew told me about it. It was a brutally unimaginative course, but kept in reasonably good condition, and there is no back nine. It wasn't really cheap enough to warrant not going to McCann in the future, but it's a nice alternative every once in a while I guess. The last hole there was probably the best hole of my life. It was a par 3 with a brutal green, and I had a sweet first shot that ended up going a little off the back of the green because of the bullshit layout of the green and the ground around it, but I made a nice chip on and then two-putted. I know that's only a bogey and I've made a par on a par three before, but this was a much longer hole and I was generally just very happy with all my shots. I even used a little backspin on the chip to keep it from running off the green. That was sweet.
Fantasy football has officially started, and I'm stoked. I'm terrible at it, but much like golf I treat it as a way to have a lot of fun and try not to worry too much about how I'm doing. Obviously I still try my best and seek to improve, but if it doesn't work out I'm not too bummed, and it makes watching the games a lot more exciting. Plus Andrew is even more into it than I am and his excitement gets pretty contagious.
Watching some real football of the college variety, Notre Dame at Penn State, on ESPN HD (which is awesome). Penn State just had a crazy 72-yard punt return for a touch down, and they had this great camera angle from maybe the 20 yard line low, looking at the celebration in the endzone and up into the crowd. I almost shit my pants. There were probably 20,000 people on camera, and it looked like every single one of them was wearing all white, waving a pom-pom, and screaming their damn brains out. That would have been a pretty powerful sight on the old TV. On this one it's total goosebumps.
Mom and Dad are coming to see the apartment for the first time tomorrow, so that should be fun. It will be nice to see some family without having to drive two hours first.
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