Got into my first major accident last night. Totaled my poor car. Thankfully, the accident (a 4 car pile up on the freeway during rush hour) was deemed another car's fault. Being stopped on the freeway and having a guy slam into the back of your car at 50 mph is not fun. Anyway, while I am pretty sore all over and my left arm is badly bruised and ( Read more... )

We started off by going to The Animal Kingdom, which as the name implies is Disney's animal park. However, the park has more than just animals. While it has a pretty neat safari ride and plenty of animal exhibits, there are some pretty amazing shows and rides. For example, the park's new rollercoster, Expedition Everest, is way cool. Its an undated ( Read more... )

We took the red eye Friday night and arrived at our hotel in Orlando at roughly 9am EST. We're staying at Old Key West in a two-bedroom apartment. The hotel is part of the Disney chain of hotels and it has buses and water taxis to all the major parks ( Read more... )

I have my first mediation today and lucky me, its solo. My boss kind of dropped it into my lap yesterday afternoon. He simply smiled and said "you'll do fine, just wing it." That's not what you want to hear from your boss. I guess my boss subscribes to the sink or swim method of teaching. Oh well, I imagine it will be very similar to the pre-trial ( Read more... )

Life is good. I enjoy my job. How can you hate a job that allows you to make your own hours, wear T-shirts, jeans, and flip flops, and your boss is extremely cool? You can't! Besides, its money and its experience! It looks like I'm going to an arbitration hearing next week in Tucson. In fact, we have several lined up for December (all of which I'm ( Read more... )

I just ordered the new Dell mini laptop. Its so small and cute! It will take 2 weeks to be delivered, but I'm so excited! It fits into my purse. It has windows XP and is able to run the basic computer games that I'm addicted to (Civ IV and Hoyle cards/boardgames). I also wanted a small (2.2 pounds) laptop that I could run word, excel, and internet ( Read more... )

I just wanted to thank everyone who took care of us this weekend in Seattle. You guys rock. Also, I wanted to thank everyone who came to our BBQ! We had a great time and it was awesome seeing so many of our friends in one place. I can't wait to see some of you at SWRE.

After much debate, we've decided to have a 80's theme movie/game night next month. So now, the new task at hand.... give me movies from the 80's. I need about 10. I would like to stay clear of horror movies (or at most, have one) since we always do horror movies ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of putting together a board game and movie night event in the next few weeks for a domain event. Any suggestions on themes or amazing movies that we should consider? I know a bunch of you are in Seattle or whatnot, but if you have suggestions, please let me know! Although, I will warn you (especially Jon and Miguel), if I get a ( Read more... )

This is the first of several 'friendly' reminders about the Fourth of July party at Geoff's parents house in Arlington, Washington. This will be the LAST party for them since they are moving to Arizona at the end of the year. This also means we probably won't be going to Seattle quite so often (if you call once every two years often). So come see ( Read more... )