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  • A roller coaster of a week

    This has been a week of ups and downs. The week started off in a downhill slide.  As many of you know, Microsoft laid off around 3,000 of my coworkers this week.  Fortunately, I wasn’t one of them, but I have a great deal of good friends who were affected by this second round of…

  • New Toys at Work!

    I won a Call of Duty: World at War tournament yesterday at work that was sponsored by the Microsoft Hardware folks. Yes, we had a CoD tournament at work.  They were demoing all their new Sidewinder products and how they actually played, and I took home a large black box.  Here’s the unboxing video: Pretty…

  • San Francisco for a Day

    Had to run to San Francisco for a one-day work trip this week.  Luckily, my work wrapped up a bit early and I was able to go act like a tourist for a bit.  Took a drive up to the Golden Gate Bridge, drove and hiked around the Marin Headlands, and had dinner with some…

  • The Last 3 Months

    Here’s what the last 3 months of my air travel looked like: (Seattle – Copenhagen – Oslo – Aalesund; Seattle – London – Munich; Seattle – Houston – San Antonio; Seattle – Amsterdam – Dublin)

  • Amsterdam

    The last three days (including today) I’ve been in Amsterdam on business.  Very cool city – I wasn’t looking forward to this leg of my trip, but I’m glad I got the opportunity to come here.  More pictures from the trip can be found here. While in town, I visited the Van Gogh Museum (neat),…

  • AAL75, Seat 30F, 34,000 feet and bumpy

    Well, I’m finally giving in to writing an offline blog post.  From a plane.  At the time of this writing, I’m somewhere over the eastern seaboard. I’ve spent the last few days in the DC area on business, and got to meet up with a few good friends for food/drinks.  Karl sent me an IM…

  • Random – the competition of free stuff giveaways

    Taken at my office today.  Guess some guy had some old free stuff to give away, and someone else decided to trump that with a new free stuff sign.  (For the record, the new stuff sign is pointing at our shelf of office supplies: notepads, pens, pencils, post-it® notes, staples…)

  • The morning at work…

    Yep, that’s a fire truck.  Bunch of co-workers standing to the left milling around aimlessly due to a (false) fire alarm that meant for evacuations. Pretty impressive response: City of Redmond rolled what I counted as 4 units, and the City of Kirkland rolled 1 as well.  This isn’t normally what people mean when they…

  • Losing good ideas

    I was driving home yesterday, and had a brilliant idea about a project I’m doing at work. It was so good, I knew I’d remember it later. Problem is, I remember having a great idea – but don’t recall what the idea was.  *sigh* I should start e-mailing myself ideas from my phone.  Or recording…

  • Am I nuts?

    I guess the answer to that is, “it depends”.  And, it depends a lot on who you ask. If you ask my new office-mate, the answer is likely yes.  You see, a new person joined our group at work about 3 weeks ago, and due to an office space crunch, I’m sharing an office with…