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Mother's Day
cuddlyeconomist and I headed down to Houston over Mother's Day weekend. She had planned a "Mother's Day with Rhys" event with just her and him at a resort hotel in San Antonio. It was picked for having an excellent pool, being within a reasonable distance of Houston where she was going to pick Rhys up, and it happened to be near Seaworld and not too far from my ( Read more... ) -
Norwescon
cuddlyeconomist and I went to Norwescon over the weekend. We had not expected to have the Rhyser for Easter Weekend (it's one of those alternating holidays in the Parenting Agreement with dmbergman), but for various schedule reasons we agreed to swap it for 4th of July this year. We had listed Rhys on Margo's prereg cuz he's young enough to be free, and it turned out to ( Read more... ) -
5 months
Tomorrow we'll be at 24 weeks. Things are going pretty well, and we've been mostly spending our past few weekends alternating between relaxing (cuddlyeconomist had her spring break between quarters recently), and working on various projects for the house. Between the wedding, Rhys coming for the summer, and Project Xerxes we'll be running out of weekends damn ( Read more... ) -
Sucker Punch
It's a weird film, but I liked it. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Inception meets Girl, Interrupted chock full of Steampunk Burlesque Special-Forces Anime Fetish action with just a dash of Goth Naughty Nurse. -
Home
We made it home safely, and the Rhyser had a good B-day week and Spring Break. cuddlyeconomist has, unfortunately, come down with a stomach virus of some kind the day after we got back. -
GDC Week
It was a bit strange not going to the Game Developer's Conference this year after having gone for the past 7 years in a row. I've been doing the 'Windows Gaming Fundamental' talks for the past 6 years, but my primary job is no longer the public speaking gig so someone else got the speaker assignment. There's lots of interesting stuff going on at ( Read more... ) -
Weekend
Todd is in town this weekend, so we've been busy with hosting. Yesterday we threw a dinner party with friends over for pork chops and Dominion, and today we went to the Seattle Home Show. We are considering some major house renovations, so we are starting the architectural planning process with Todd while he is here as well as some of the ( Read more... ) -
Project Xerxes Enters Alpha Stage!
So the story starts with The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act1... When the news refers to "Cadillac health care plans" they in fact mean my Microsoft health benefits. There was a big presentation last year put on by our HR department explaining that Microsoft was going to change the health plan in significant ways come 2012 to avoid being ( Read more... ) -
2003
Another year, another round of records into the shredder...
Professionally 2003 was not a great year for me. Beep Industries had to shutdown after Voodoo Vince shipped thanks to our publisher, I had a few weeks of unemployment, and then I was working at Sierra Entertainment which turned out not to be a great fit for my skills and interests ( Read more... ) -
Xmas Week
cuddlyeconomist and I hosted Christmas in Seattle this year with Rhys, my folks, and Margo's mom all in town--unfortunately, my brother Todd wasn't able to make it due to too little vacation remaining. The house has been pretty crowded with parties and company, but with my folks staying at a hotel it hasn't been too crazy.
Margo watches Miracle on 34th Street ( Read more... )