Wow, I think this is one of the longest periods of time I've not written anything here on the blog. Even on vacation, I manage to write a few posts and add some pictures. I guess it's been stressful lately.
Today I'm focused on relaxing and winding down. We're hosting family dinner tomorrow night, and we're making fajitas for Ronnie (it's his birthday dinner). They are delicious, and this time we're adding in homemade flour tortillas, it's going to be awesome!
I took a much-needed day off work today to hang out with Lorien. It was nice. We drove to Spokane, did some shopping, watched some Olympics (mostly commercials, thanks to NBC). I didn't work on any of my projects, but I am up and running on Skype (I'm hsinche) now.
We made California rolls and shrimp rolls tonight. This was our first experiment.
The wasabi was much hotter than the usual stuff I have. Perhaps it was fresher or something, but Wes (my youngest brother) and I both got a In fact, the whole experience was quite reminiscent of my first time eating wasabi. Remind me to tell that story sometime… I've modified the way my blog takes comments, Java is no longer required (only Javascript). If I get a flood of spammy comments, though, it's coming right back! I'm using my Wii to write this post. And that's not dirty at all. Last night I finished building six DVD shelves and a new TV stand. We had to rearrange the entire living room, but despite the fact we don't have enough room for both couches anymore (hint: I'm not terribly sad about this), it feels bigger to me. I really like the new layout. We're heading to Portland this afternoon to spend Thanksgiving with some family. Technically, the festivities are in Coburg, but we'll be staying in Portland (on an extremely small spare bed I might add). We're looking forward to a trip to Powell's and all the other food-related places we like to visit in Portland (Otto's Sausage Kitchen, Marinepolis Sushi Land, etc etc). Oh yeah, and we'll eat turkey too! It's been quiet time here at Scurvy Jake's Pirate Blog. Lorien was out of town for the last couple of weeks visiting her sisters in Texas, and I was buried up to my eyeballs with work. Fortunately, since Lorien was out of town it meant I could put in a lot of extra hours to get it all done. Unfortunately, that's exactly what I did. It's all over now except for the loss of sleep. Which I expect never to make up. Tomorrow I'm sequestering myself in my office. I have far too much work to do and so little time to get it done. There are no less than three projects waiting for me when I finish my current one. And everything is top priority right now, too.This always happens when we get closer to releasing a new version of our software, though. Plus, it's easier to put some more hours in when Lorien is out of town… My work machine was down this morning, I'm not sure when it happened, but my UPS and computer were both powered down. Things are coming back online now. Remember remember the fifth of November…when one man had a great vision—lots of dead politicians. Today is my wife Lorien's birthday. I love you, happy birthday! Today is my old buddy Manu's birthday (well, the 10th, but he's from New Zealand, and it's the 10th over there). Happy birthday brother. It takes between four and five limes to squeeze out one cup of fresh lime juice.bit lot more than we bargained for. When he asked if it snuck up on me, I said "No, it was more like an uphill charge ending with a grenade being thrown into a bunker."