for Tai Autumn…
Theme song to the best show on television.
decent timing…
From Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park (about 30 miles north of Jackson, WY). Water doesn’t get much more still than this… (more…)
Water weekend…
I imagine (and hope) our weekend will be a wet one as we have grocery shopped, arrived, and settled in for a nice weekend on the lake. A special thanks to the Huston family for their generosity and willingness to allow us some relaxation time here while they are in Hawaii. I am sure an early morning wake-board run plus time spent on the jet-ski’s are in order. It ain’t Hawaii but it sure is nice.
Yes, I do have my office here with me so I will be working as well, but how could you complain about a little work with a view like the one I have?
Update: Mel received good news today in her results from the testing on Wednesday. Her arms are a little bruised from the needles but everything is in order and there doesn’t seem to be any sign of diabetes. Thanks for any/all prayers offered. We celebrated the results with some Blue Bell ice cream sandwiches this evening.
Enjoy your weekend, I plan on enjoying mine…
guys who love what they do…
I’ll start by making an educated guess that of the vast majority (read all 7 of you) of visitors/readers of my little slice of the Internet know very little about RSS. For that I apologize, and one day soon I will either write/draw up a little something for you to catch you up or swing by your house and set you up. RSS has really changed the way I use the Internet and ultimately could change your ways too.
In short, RSS brings the web to me instead of me chasing it down. With all of the different sites I like to keep an eye on, it could be easy to forget to check any number of them every now and then to see if they have been updated. RSS does the work for you, it checks regularly to see if anything new has changed on the sites it is set to watch and then notifies you easily in any number of ways. Email, feed reader, desktop widget, Google gadget, cell phone, etc…
All of that to say, one of the reads (RSS) I follow is a guy who just moved from Dallas to Boston to work for a young Myspace/Facebook replacement called Virb° (This isn’t a product placement for those concerned, I have an account to none of the aforementioned). He goes by the name Joshua Blankenship and has good taste in design. Sometimes I rip stuff off from him, so Josh, if you ever read this – my apologies in advance.
A week or two ago he posted some images of the Virb° brain-trust in their offices trying to do some work. Instead of working they decided they would play a little bit with their new handy new iPhone’s and ultimately started quite a stir on the net. From his little page to The Big Noob and then off to Digg and now it seems to have covered everywhere and been covered everywhere. Figured I’d plug it as well. I don’t have AT&T, thus no iPhone, but if I did I would probably rip this off from Josh as well. Good on ya.
Pictures below:
Josh:
Ryan:
Matt:
guys who love what they do…
blogging from the dr. office… update #2
Have I ever mentioned I love technology? Mel and I are sitting here from the Dr. office lobby and just passed the 1 hour and 15 minute mark. Two blood drawings down and two to go, and one or two more shakes. Meanwhile, I’ve answered all of the morning emails, checked the news, updated a client’s website, and in the process of working on the next.
All the while connecting to the internet on my laptop, through my phone, one end of the headphones in my right ear (mel has the left) playing the entire mp3 format of Jack’s Live Earth set from Sydney, Australia last week. Add to that a quick blog, picture taken from my phone emailed to my laptop and uploaded to flickr, and I am soon realizing that my goal of working with my rear permanently planted on a beach chair isn’t so far out of reach.
We’ll keep you posted, 2 hours to go…
Update from melanie:
We’re now two whole hours into the three hour glucose tolerance test. Has anyone else thought…wow, Christian is an awesome husband for sitting in an OB/GYN office with his pregnant wife for 3 hours? Yeah…me too. He’s a trooper and hasn’t even complained one time. I’m a very lucky lady…when it comes to my husband that is…not so much with having to get stuck with a needle 4 times in a three hour period. My left arm is very bruised, but so far my right arm seems to be holding up pretty well. We’ll see how it looks tomorrow. 3 down, 1 to go. We’ll be out of here by 11ish and then go get something to eat. I’m starving!!!
freedom:
she’s back in the needle-room for one last drawing. my dedication as a spouse ends at the blood-room door. won’t see any test results today but the last one didn’t take more than a day or two to come back.
again, technology is great. better than the hair magazine that mel subjected herself to. I was able to bill about 2.5 hours worth of work sitting in a random location in a semi-comfortable chair. time to eat.