Love the new apartment. Is a mess but can envision it with couch and kitchen table, Finn’s room painted and setup, Blik on the walls, books on the shelves. Roof deck has been used plenty already.
Near the end of the main storyline in Red Dead Redemption. Beautiful brilliant game. Still immersed after many hours of play.
Working on my comic. Have basic character sketches solid. Have first ideas ready. Now working on layout and conventions.
Idea for Sci-fi novel solid enough to start writing it. Finishing reading Cloud Atlas now and aspire to write as well as that — aim for the stars.
Kung Fu going well. Getting better at lat sau and just beginning dan sau. Need to work out a little to make sure muscles don’t give out toward the end of class as they do now.
Need to compile video of Finn in iMovie and post something to Vimeo soon. He’s so big now the first shots won’t even look like the same kid.
Project Management book coming in the mail. Will crack it open and start to absorb key concepts and figure out how to go about studying for possible PMP.
Finn is the cutest baby in the universe. Fact. Looking forward to going on a walk with him this weekend. Maybe to the park and hanging out on the grass. B wants to do ArtWalk on Atlantic. Will be fun.
I am thankful for Rebecca, George, and little Teo on the way. I am thankful that somehow I have managed to set myself up in a cool little family.
Posted November 19, 2009 | ∞ | File under: personal, thanksgiving
Going to see Where The Wild Things Are tonight with B and Raina. Excited. Some cool interviews with people who helped make Where The Wild Things Are at vbs.tv.
Posted October 16, 2009 | ∞ | File under: link, movies, personal, where the wild things are
Happy Anniversary, B. I love you. I am so lucky to have found you, etc. etc.
Posted August 19, 2009 | ∞ | File under: personal, rebecca the awesome wife
Went to the Purple Rain Sing-A-Long in Prospect Park last night for B’s birthday. Was very cool.
The movie is fun, but also intense. B rented this movie from the grocery store when she was about 11 years old. She was apologetic for the Kid’s terrible actions. The Kid punches Apollonia after she’s just given him his dream guitar: “You guys! He has a really hard home life!”
I love the Abbot-and-Costello-esque exchange between Morris and his lackey. “What’s the password?” “Ok.” I died lauging.
Posted August 7, 2009 | ∞ | File under: new york I love you, personal, prince is a god among men
Back in NYC after a week in the “suburbs” of Sacramento, Calif. Good to be home, but it’s rainy, I did not sleep last night (George, I beg you, please shut up and go to sleep), and a water pipe burst in the ceiling above all the cubicles in my office over the weekend and we’re all displaced on another floor while everything dries out (everything, I mean everything, in my cubicle got soaked).
Posted July 21, 2009 | ∞ | File under: new york I love you, personal
Awesome weekend with B in the city. Saturday: Picnic in Central Park, went to the Met, got a beer outside in the Village, went to dinner in our ‘hood. Sunday: Essex for delicious brunch with pals, a drink with work friend outside at The Gate. With plenty of reading and watching season 5 of The Wire in between.
Posted July 13, 2009 | ∞ | File under: awesome weekend in nyc, personal
My pay stub says I have 169 vacation hours banked up. My upcoming trip to see the fam in Sacramento will cut into 40 of those, and I’ll still have more than three weeks. Too bad I can’t afford to go anywhere. Maybe I will take some time off to sit in Prospect Park and read.
Posted June 25, 2009 | ∞ | File under: personal, time is money
Going to play paintball with work people and a bunch of people from an agency tonight. We’re all riding in a party bus out to queens, having a few beers on the way. Should be fun! Hopefully I can confirm that it was tomorrow. (Sucks that B leaves for L.A. for five days tomorrow and tonight is her last night in town.)
Update: Confirmed. Fun. Have a few small welts, but I think I nailed some people pretty well too. Think it would be more fun outside on a bigger course, but was still awesome. Also learned what a bear fight was at the bar afterward: take an irish car bomb (black bear), a jager bomb (brown bear), and a white russian (polar bear), and slam them back to back. I passed on that fun.
George fell out of our kitchen window today, five stories up. First off, he’s ok. Thankfully, luckily, I think there may be a God now, Becky just happened to be home, went to find him, and saw him on the ground looking up at her, meowing. She rushed him to the vet. X-rays showed no broken bones or fractures or anything else they could see. I met Becky at the 24-hour vet where he will stay overnight to be sure. Obviously we were freaking out. If anything ever happened to him we would be inconsolable. My heart is racing right now just thinking about it. We love George so much.
Posted February 11, 2009 | ∞ | File under: george, personal, we would have died
