August 18, 2008

Hail Storm - 8/17/08

Yesterday mom and I were in Albuquerque printing her boarding passes for her flight. On our way home I decided to take the scenic route through Isleta pueblo and then down Rt 47 in Los Lunas though Tome and into Belen that way. We made it to the Tome Art Gallery and it started to hail... Hard! I turned around and tried to get away from it, the hail was about an inch in diameter!!!
We ended up going home through Los Lunas on Rt 314. When we got into Belen there was hail piled on the roads/grass/roofs as if it were snow! There was a lot of water puddled up and several side streets had completely flooded. We stopped at the park near downtown Belen because all the trees there had been stripped of their leaves by the force of all the hail. The ground was littered with small branches mixed with large quarter-sized hail.
We got to where I needed to turn to get to my street and I couldn't because the runoff from the storm was washing over the end of the street so fast that had I tried my car would have been washed into the drainage ditch. We had to drive several streets up the road to higher ground before I could get into my neighborhood.
Here are some of the videos I took with my cell phone, my mom's digital camera has some more videos on it and once I get them I'll be adding them to this playlist on YouTube: Hail Storm Playlist.

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July 5, 2008

I'm melting!

I can't believe how hot it is here again today. It was so nice having a thunderstorm roll through every afternoon/evening. It cooled things off nicely. It's back up to 100°F again right now and we still have about 2 hours of sunlight left before the sun sets for the day. My swamp cooler is broken so I'm stuck with the fans I've got. I might go to Walmart and just walk around for the A/C.

music note Currently Playing: PPK - ResuRection

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Another wind scorpion in my house

Found another wind scorpion in my house last night!  He was about as big as we've seen them around here.  I've read that they can grow up to 5" across, but we've never found one over 1.5".  They have beady little eyes, and ginormous shredding mouth-parts that most certainly would be painful if it bit you.  They are non-venomous though.

music note Currently Playing: Three Days Grace - Never Too Late

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June 29, 2008

Thunderstorm 6-29-2008

While driving back from a canceled softball game I saw a full double rainbow!

I also got some pictures of it (click each one for the full-size image):
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It's harder to see the outer rainbow in the second picture, and it was much fainter than the inner one which was extremely bright.

music note Currently Playing: New Found Glory - The King Of Wishful Thinking

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June 19, 2008

Heat wave!

According to my thermometer, this was the new high temperature reached today.

music note Currently Playing: Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

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June 18, 2008

Hotter still

Well I guess I spoke too soon

music note Currently Playing: Kanye West - Stronger

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Hot, hot, hot

So the past week or so has been insanely hot. Yesterday it got up to 99.7°F, and Monday topped out at just over 101°F!!! It was all I could do to keep from melting... last night I had to move my two servers into the kitchen to try and keep them from overheating; I think that they were contributing to the heat in the living room... I did have 3 computers in there.

Don't believe me?  Check this out:

Hopefully things will start to cool off, but I'm not holding my breath.

music note Currently Playing: Dashboard Confessional - Age Six Racer

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June 1, 2008

Ey, battah, battah, sawing battah!!

Today's game against Embassy Suites was a very well-matched game. We were tied the whole way through it going back and forth until the very end. We ended up losing, but it was a great game and we're really starting to come together. We'll see if we can keep it up for our game next weekend.

Final score:
Naturals - 7
Embassy Suites - 10

music note Currently Playing: BT - Never Gonna Come Back Down

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March 2, 2008

Moving...

Erin finished her Master degree requirements and we've decided that she is going to move to Alabama and live with her parents until I can find a job in that area.  We rented a Penske truck and spent an entire day filling it up.  Erin took Zack in her car and followed me in the truck.  We set out Thursday morning and made it to Oklahoma City that night.  We set out at a reasonable time Friday morning and made it to Memphis for the night.  From Memphis the drive was only 5 hours or so; we made it to Huntsville just after lunch time.

Erin's parents were able to get us a storage unit which so we spent a couple hours unloading the truck and filling the space.  We couldn't be up too late as I had a flight the next day.

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January 11, 2008

Back Home

So we made it home ok a couple weeks ago. We had a relaxing New Years, went to bed at 10pm after celebrating with the East coast. Zack got all trimmed nice last weekend and this weekend we don't have anything planned. We'll be posting pictures/videos from our Christmas this weekend and updating this site with links so check back soon.

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December 27, 2007

In the car, yet again!

So we're mostly packed for the trip back to New Mexico. We've got almost everything in suitcases or bags and in the hall ready to go into the car. We're not planning on leaving until around 10am as Meriah doesn't get out of work until around 6pm. Hopefully the drive will be uneventful (I'm sure it will be) and we'll make good time. We're taking Sat off from driving and will just hang out with Meriah, since we didn't get that chance on our trip out to Alabama.

We should be back in New Mexico sometime Sunday night, probably around 8pm. I'm not working until 10am on Monday, so I should be able to get some sleep before having to be back at work. Tuesday is New Year's and I'm not working a full day so that will help me recover, but Wednesday is a sale changeover so I've got to be at work extra early for that (UGH!). Oh well, no rest for the weary I guess.

Ok, sleep now!

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September 17, 2007

A World of Hurt

Last night around 5am I woke up and there was something in the bed, and it was not invited... It was a Giant Centipede!!!! Needless to say I got it out of the bed as quickly as I could, but I wasn't sure if it made it to the floor and even if it did I wanted to get it out of the house. So, I got out of bed and started to check the covers to make sure it was out of the bed, when all the sudden I felt a sharp pain in my toe! Instinct took over and I just reached down with my hand, grabbed/squished whatever it was and threw it.

Then I went about trying to find the darn thing, I'll mention that it wasn't until this point that I was thinking centipede; I hadn't actually seen it yet. I went to try and ease the pain that was making my foot throb, not to mention the fact that my toe was twice its normal size!

I spent almost 20 minutes looking for the stupid thing and finally found it in the corner of the bedroom on top of a box that was there. Needless to say it was in pretty bad shape, but wasn't dead yet. I made sure of that immediately by sending it down the bathroom water slide! Bye-Bye!

UPDATED (09/18/07): here's a picture of what they look like when not dead!
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This one was about 3.5 inches long, but they apparently can reach lengths of almost/over 12 inches! This is NOT something you want to have running towards your feet, as the bite does contain venom and while not lethal unless you're allergic, it WILL HURT and can for anywhere from 2-3 hours to 2-3 DAYS!

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September 11, 2007

Turkey Day

I just found out from my mom last night that she will be able to come out here for Thanksgiving afterall, she'll be here Thurs-Sun!!! I can't wait...

Zack is doing awesome in his doggy training classes, we just finished week 4 and he knows: sit, lay down, leave it, take it, stay, come, stand, and be nice. He's the superstar of the class, none of the other dogs can come close to knowing as much; maybe it's because they're older dogs, but I think it's because we work with him at home a lot. He's got a ever-growing library of videos on youtube now as well.

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June 28, 2007

Hiatus

My dad made it to Phoenix Tuesday without issue. Erin and I are going to Gallup tomorrow night to stay the weekend at his cousin's and then he will be staying with us all next week.
On the agenda for the week:

Can we do it!? We'll find out.

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June 8, 2007

The Jonah Veil

Today The Jonah Veil were supposed to play a concert in Albuquerque and I was so excited about being able to see my brother and the band he's in play a concert. But because of a booking snafu (i.e. the concert was never really booked) they didn't get to play. The ended up hanging out at our house and having a cookout with Erin and I.

I'm really bummed that I didn't get to see them play, but it was a lot of fun hanging out and listening to them tell some of the stories about their cross-country trip so far. It's 10:30 and they just left a few minutes ago to head to their next gig in Abilene, Texas. Hopefully that concert will still be happening by the time they get there.

I've got a handful of pictures up of them at our house here: <link>


EDIT: more pictures can be found here: <link>

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April 1, 2007

Welcome Zack

Erin and I got a puppy this weekend!!! His name is Zack and he is an 11-week old miniature schnauzer. He is really cool and loads of fun, not to mention tiring. Loves to chew on everything and is full of energy. He's still working on making it outside before having an accident, but we're very close already to having him housebroken.

I've posted the first pictures here on my website, check them out when you have a chance.

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March 26, 2007

UPDATE: Back from Vacation

So we're back from our whirl-wind tour of New England. We had a great time seeing family/friends and we even got a little snow (~11")!! Glad to be back to our daily routine, and the water heater is fixed, but not replaced; our landlord was able to replace the plastic faucet on the water heater with a metal one! Now it shouldn't leak anymore! YEAH!

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March 7, 2007

Water, water everywhere... Not a drop to drink

So I came home today and after listening to the answering machine I heard a dripping sound coming from the closet with the furnace and the water heater in it. I open the door and I'm greeted by a running faucet at the bottom of the water heater and it's running down the floor and under the platform that the water heater is sitting on. I pulled the pressure/temperature relief valve and made it drip less, but it was still dripping. I put a cup under the drip and sat down to watch TV.

Erin came home and went into the closet to start getting things together to pack for our trip and discovered that the water had been seeping under the floor and into the carpet in the closet in our bedroom. We called our landlord and after conferring with his brother, the plumber, decided to replace the water heater because it's easier to do. So tomorrow our landlord, and possibly his brother, is coming to replace our water heater.

I'm hoping it doesn't explode overnight and spray water everywhere and ruin our stuff. That would suck royally. I tried to connect our hose to the faucet and run it to the kitchen sink but I can't get the hose to screw onto the faucet enough to create a seal so the water just runs down the hose onto the floor instead of into the hose and then the sink. What I've got is a pail propped under the faucet because a cup just won't cut it! AAAAHHHHH!!! I'm going on vacation on Friday for a week!!!

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December 29, 2006

More Snow!!

It's snowing again today. It's been snowing since early this morning (9am) and it hasn't really let up since then. They're forecasting another 1-3 inches in some places, with as much as 9" in the East mountains. The interstate East of ABQ is closed all the way to the Texas border, and the other interstate North to Santa Fe is supposedly closed now as well.
I'm hoping to get out of here soon; I've got a meeting around 1, and then I'm going to try and get home so I'm not on the road with all the other yahoos that don't know how to drive when there's a little bit of moisture on the road, let alone a couple of inches of snow!!!

WISH ME LUCK!

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December 25, 2006

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!

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December 19, 2006

Oh the weather outside is... AWESOME!!!!

It snowed today!!! It's still snowing outside!!! It's supposed to keep this up until tonight, possibly into tomorrow morning!!!!
Check it out:

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November 29, 2006

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

So it snowed this morning. Not much, and it was very light and melted before it even hit the ground, but it was still "snow." It was raining at home, but in Albuquerque it was snowing as I walked from my car into the store. Signs of things to come?... Let's hope so!!

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November 25, 2006

Thanksgiving 2006

Pictures of our second Thanksgiving feast are posted here: nm.computerdave.net.

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October 9, 2006

35th Annual Balloon Fiesta

Last Friday marked the beginning of the 35th Annual International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque. It is the largest balloon festival in the world with thousands of balloonists gather for a week of whatever it is they do. If you're actually interested in what they do while they're in Albuquerque go here: http://www.balloonfiesta.com/. We went with Erin's friend Jess on Saturday morning for the first Mass Ascension and it was quite spectacular. For pictures and a video go here: balloon images.

When we left Jess' apartment Saturday morning around 6 we were concerned that the events were going to be cancelled because it was raining a little bit and it was sort of windy. We still made the trek across town to the Balloon Fiesta Park. It was a good thing we did because we got there just as the balloons started filling up and lauching. It was really spectacular and the sunrise was even better with the lingering storm clouds shrouding the East mountains. Early morning sunrise was a mix of reds, pinks, and purples. Later in the morning we looked back to see a hole in the clouds creating rays of sunlight fitering down, definitely cool. Check out the pictures for more.

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September 24, 2006

We're dorks

So we're a couple of dorks, we set up our new tent in our study to see what it would look like. The tent is 17' by 9'; our study... 17' 8" by 15'!!
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June 7, 2006

Everything is Hot, Hot, Hot

Well Monday I wrote about it being really hot, and on the way home I drove by that sign near our house and it said... wait for it... 105°!!!! It was frickin' crazy man!! Yesterday was a little more cloudy and it was only 93°, but still warm. Then today it thunderstorms and we get torrential downpours for like 20 minutes. I get soaked walking out to my car to put my windows up so I'm not swimming home and now my feet are freezing because they haven't dried out completely. Oh well, these past couple of days have reminded me of New England, you never know what the weather is gonna do from one minute to the next, we had totally gotten used to it being hot every day and this was a curveball. I don't care much though, we needed the water so desperately.

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June 5, 2006

So you think it's hot where you are!?

So you think it's hot where you are huh? Well yesterday in Belen it was 101° and the high for today... yup, you guessed it 101° AGAIN!!!!! I went outside to go get something to eat at McDonald's and I decided that I'd eat there instead of getting back in my car with my hot food and sitting in the sun. Yeah, I've had to resort to using my windsheild screens to keep the car's internal temperature down so I don't slow-roast on the way home in the afternoon!! BUT... it's not soo bad becasue look at the humidity level..... YEAH BABY, only 8%!!!!

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March 31, 2006

Big time update

Many of my more recent posts have been kinda dry and short. I've got this grand idea that I'll put stuff on here every day, but that's probably a little unrealistic given my attention span sometimes. I've got a couple of projects in my head and that I'm working on and it's difficult to split my time up between them all. I'd like to spend more time re-working my website, as well as working on a model of the nuclear power plant that my dad is working on, and reading a new book, not to mention some minor improvements around the house (read installing a shelf in the kitchen). Erin and I have also gotten ourselves hooked on watching the first season of Lost; we've gotten through the 3rd DVD in the set.

I've been working every day and it's gets tedious at times, but I look at it as a stepping stone to bigger/better things down the road. I've spoken to my Store Team Leader at length and she's willing to work with me to help me get the necessary training/certifications that I need to continue on my career path. She knows that this isn't where I want to be; that I'd be much happier in a position where I got to use tech every day all the time, instead of once in a while here when someone has a question about a program. The computers don't break that often, not because they're well built/maintained (they don't have to be), but because the people using them don't know that much about computers so it's hard for them to muck 'em up. I'm hoping to get some certifications under my belt and then once Erin is done with her degree we can seriously think about where we want to go and I can start putting out feelers as to the possibility of moving up to a regional IT position within the company. I really don't like working in the store, well mainly I don't like working in a grocery store, but I'm in a much better position than I was when I was slicing deli meat and slinging chicken wings, but I'd like to get out of the retail world and into something a little more tech oriented; i.e. the regional help desk, or even a regional IT infrastructure guy.

Erin and I have been sitting down each weekend for the past 2 weeks and planning our meals for the upcoming week. It's been going really well and other than switching around the days, we've pretty much stuck to our menu. It's made the evenings much less stressful because we no longer come home from work/school and ask each other "what do you want to have for dinner?" We know and we just start making it. It's great, plus we have greatly diversified our palate by having things like fish, pork loin, and roast beef; no more just plain mac & cheese or some lame-ass chicken (we still have chicken, it's just more creative).

I still haven't figured out a good way to relax on the weekends. It seems like every chunk of time I get on the weekends ends up being used to do something. That's why I'm looking forward to the trips we have planned coming up. We'll be in Delaware the first weekend in May for Meriah's graduation, and then she's coming out here the end of May for a week. Plus we're hoping to either go to Alabama to see Erin's family this summer, or have them come out here (I still need to look again at my vacation time and see what I can afford to use to take time off - over a weekend will probably be best). August is when I'll be in Las Vegas for Dan's party for a weekend, then in September we'll be in Massachusetts for Dan and Niki's wedding. I just wish I could have a weekend where I didn't have to go anywhere unless I wanted to, and I could do whatever popped into my head. I know that's wishful thinking, but... um yeah.

Welll I've blabbed my head for a while and I can't think of anything else that's going on now that worth noting... OH, the other day the Dept of Agriculture came in to do their routine random audit for scan accuracy and we did awesome. The last time he came in to do this we had 11 discrepancies; this time we had 4 and if 3 of those things had had signs like they were supposed to we would have have only one thing wrong and that's a huge improvement. I was elated because it showed that I've been doing a pretty good job of making sure things are cool, and it gave me some confidence moving forward on my regularly scheduled audits throughout the store that I should not be finding that many errors as I go. Makes my job easier, and it makes the store look better. My goal now is for there to be 0 errors next time they come in to do this type of random 100-item audit. WOOHOO!!!

Ok, now I'm done.

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March 22, 2006

Snowing....

So, not only did it snow last night... IT WAS STILL SNOWING THIS MORNING!!!! And it continued to snow until part way through the afternoon. I took some pictures this morning, as well as a couple of movies with the digital camera, but I won't be able to get them posted online until later after I get home from work.

Check them out on nm.computerdave.net.

Yeah, so it was only a lousy couple-a inches, but I've been having serious withrawl issues since moving out here. I knew that it was psuedo-desert, but DAMN! Plus it's like people out here have never seen frozen water, it was crazy; I'm the only one going the speed-limit (75 MPH) on the highway, and people are giving me looks like I'm crazy. Get a clue dude, I'm from New England where we laugh at dustings like this and just jam the accelerator!!!! YEEEEHAAW!!!

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March 12, 2006

SNOW!!!!

It finally snowed this morning/last night!!!! Nothing much, but it's the first snow we've seen since getting out here to the American Southwest, and it's also the first precipitation of any kind since before Thanksgiving. I took some pictures after I got to work today and have posted them here: nm.computerdave.net. These pictures are of the Sandia Crest to the North of Albuquerque in the Rocky Mountain Range in North-Central New Mexico.

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February 8, 2006

Website... again

This past weekend I took a step towards re-organizing the website. Now if you go to computerdave.net you will not see what you used to, it's now a little more organized as to what's available from computerdave.net and takes you directly to it. Each sub-section of the site is being worked on right now and will evolve over time, please direct comments here.

I know many of you might wonder what was wrong with it before and truly there wasn't anything "wrong" with the site; I just didn't like it. I'm not sure I like it that much the way it is now, but it's better and cleaner. Please bear with me as I work on this a little at a time. I'll probably have some time to work on it tomorrow as I don't have to be at work until 1pm because I'm working overnight at the store with my coordinator and another guy from the helpdesk to renumber the IP addresses in the store and install another switch to allow for the handful of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs); this will allow us to keep things like the registers, PCs/printers/servers, scales, and handheld computers separate from each other. It will also allow us to convert the entire store over to wireless networks in the coming months.
Now that I think of it, that means another overnight sometime in like June or something like that! UGH!

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January 9, 2006

Finally... Pictures are up!

I finally got the pictures from my family's visit posted to my website. Check them out when you get a chance, but be gentle, there are over 700 pictures and I haven't had a chance to resize them so they're rather large at the moment and if too many people are looking at once it will make my computer choke and die!

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January 5, 2006

Christmas Pictures

So as I predicted I didn't get the pictures from my family's visit posted the other day. I will, however get them posted this weekend. Work this week has been kinda hectic and with Erin not being mobile I've had more tasks to take care of when I get home (ie making dinner, cleaning up, etc.). Without fail, I will have the pictures up this weekend.

Erin hopefully has an appointment with the doctor tomorrow morning; she's been on the phone with them all afternoon and it looks like 11:30 is when they'll be able to see her.

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January 2, 2006

2006

My family left yesterday morning and made it back to Massachusetts, safe and sound. I miss them already; it was hard to drive away from the airport.

So to recap:

Pictures should be posted later today; I'm not going to try and name them all or organize them in any way; they're all jumbled together and there's over 400 of them so don't ask me to either! :)

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December 27, 2005

Holidays 2005

Yesterday I posted pictures from Erin's and my first Christmas in New Mexico; our first married, and our first by ourselves. It was very relaxing, we didn't cook a huge feast, and we didn't have a party or go anywhere... it was nice. Pictures can be viewed here.

Oh and...

MY FAMILY GETS HERE

TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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December 26, 2005

A Good Haul

So Christmas is over now, we've opened the presents, eaten the sweets, and slept to our hearts content (well almost). But, we've still got a little bit of Christmas left... my parents and my two sisters are coming out to visit for the rest of this week on Wednesday and we'll do a little more Christmas when they get here! :)

So here's the highlights:
Erin:

Dave:

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December 21, 2005

Greenery

Last night we put up some ornaments on our tree; simple colored glass balls, but it makes a big difference in how the tree looks. We also have a growing pile of presents to put under the tree, although some of them aren't wrapped because they were sent to us by our families and we've been instructed not to open them yet. I can't believe that Christmas is only 4 days away, 4!

Also, my family is coming in just under a week: next Wednesday afternoon!!!!! We can't wait, we've been counting the days since my dad made the flight arrangments back in September!

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Messiah, Holiday Parties

This past weekend was a busy one: Erin and I went to a co-worker of mine's cocktail/holiday party, Saturday night I went to my work holiday party at Copeland's in the city, and Sunday Erin and I went to see the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra perform Handel's Messiah.

The cocktail party was interesting to say the least, the boos was flowing heavily and there was great food, not to mention some wacky tobacky (we left when that started). We had fun and met some interesting and fun people.

Saturday's dinner was fun too, nothing like getting the store leadership and the team leaders out of the store and letting them have at it. We had a great time, and I got to chat with people that I see on a daily basis but know nothing about personally. It was good all around and the food was great.

Sunday's performance was phenominal, the soloist were good (especially the bass/baritone soloist). The orchestra sounded great, not very big but a great sound. The venue where this was, the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque was amazing; it's a new venue as of last year and the theatre where this performance was is very cool: the Albuquerque Journal Theatre. It's got a traditional Southwestern feel to, but the most noticable thing about the theatre is the polished copper on the ceiling, walls, and over the stage. The acoustics were amazing for such a small space, and the show was sold out and packed. We arrived a little early and the conductor was giving a lecture about Messiah before the show and then taking questions. That was different and very interesting.

We looked at the event calendar and hope to attend some other perfomances over the next 6 months or so.

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December 13, 2005

Christmas Tree

Ok, I finally got the pictures of our Christmas tree posted. Check it out.

This weekend we have a party to go to on Friday night that a co-worker of mine is having, and then I have a holiday dinner to go to on Saturday with the Leadership from my store (sorry, no Erin at that one), and then on Sunday we're going to see the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra perform Handel's Messiah! Exciting, plus my family gets out here 2 weeks from tomorrow!!!!!!!

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Weather

Well last night it snowed in Albuquerque... apparently. I wouldn't call it snow; more like freezing rain/slush or some such mix of that. It was very wet and was already melting by the time I got to work. Some cars were covered with it so I guess it was substantial, but where Erin and I live we just got rain. It's sunny out now (4:10pm), but earlier it was really foggy and overcast.

Oh well, we got our tree up this past weekend, and we'll hopefully get our icicle lights up soon; we didn't get to it this past weekend or last night. Right now all we have on the tree are some multi-colored tree lights, we don't really have any ornaments; I hope we get some... we don't even have an angel or a star for the top of the tree!

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December 11, 2005

...and counting...

Only 14 days left until my parents and sisters get out here to celebrate Christmas and the New Year! I can't wait, it's been more than 7 months since I last saw them before we came out to New Mexico.

Erin and I got our Christmas tree set-up this weekend and we put the lights on it this morning, we don't have that many ornaments; hopefully we'll get some as presents, but we'll get some ourselves as well. We'll be shipping out our gifts to our family and friends this week so that we make sure they'll be there before the holiday.

Tomorrow we're planning on putting up our lights on the outside of the house, just some simple icicle lights on the front porch.

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November 29, 2005

Updated Pictures

Well I finally finished updating the pictures from New Mexico so that they're more easily browsed. I'll be working on the ones from the wedding/honeymoon this weekend so hopefully by the end of this next weekend they'll be ready. I re-attached the link to the wedding/honeymoon photos so that you can at least see them now instead of a page telling you they're being worked on; I'll leave it that way until I finish re-working them.

If you have any suggestions as to how you'd like them to be let me know, cause I'm kinda flying blind with the few (1) commments I've had so far about how they work.

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November 25, 2005

Thanksgiving

Yesterday was Thanksgiving... we had Stephanie and Andy over and grilled a turkey. We had mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy, crescent rolls, and sparkling cider. It was great and the food was delicious. We finished it all off with pumpking pie, cake, ice cream and coffee.

Today, I decided to join the masses of crazy people out to get the "Black Friday" sales. I actually made out pretty good, I got 7 new pairs of jeans and a few new Gamecube games that I've been wanting for a while. I've updated the list above because I did buy a couple of things that were on that list... oops, sorry. Hopefully no one had gotten any of those things for me so that they don't have to worry about duplicating something I now have, or dealing with taking something back.

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November 1, 2005

Halloween 2005

We were totally excited about decorating and handing out candy, here's some pictures/videos of the porch after we were done.

We had about 15 trick-or-treaters, and we handed out about half of the candy we had; not counting all the candy we ate before Halloween! We had a great time doing it and hopefully we'll be able to do more next year.

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September 28, 2005

Firecondor

I was able to upload the pictures from our trip to Colorado Springs this past weekend. They are posted here.

Also don't forget to check out my newly updated Movie Reviews blog.

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