Ty's Weblog

Kate and I got back from our anniversary trip yesterday afternoon. It was great to have an extented period of time to ourselves, but it’s also good to be back with the kids. We only went as far as Reston. We stayed at the Hyatt in Reston Town Center. The hotel was only okay. Certainly [...]

Today Kate and I celebrate our 10th Anniversary. Kate’s mom is here and is going to watch the kids, and we are going to go away for the weekend. It’ll be the first extended time we’ve had together alone in years. We’ve both be looking forward to it quite a bit. It’s been a wonderful [...]

As our 10th Anniversary quickly approaches, I can’t help but wonder how my life would be different if I’d not met Kate and gotten married. I don’t think my life would be as good as it is now. Kate has helped give me the courage to take many risks in my life that have gotten [...]

Spring is here! It was a fun winter, but I’m about tired of the cold. I’m looking forward to some warmer weather.

Today I got promoted to Senior Systems Programmer. As you can imagine, I’m very exicted about it. I’ve been working toward it for a long time now, and it really feels great to finally get there.

I’m home sick. I started throwing up last night a bit after 5pm. I only threw up the once and went right to bed and mostly slept till morning. We had an all hands meeting at work today, so I got up and tried to go to that. I made it thought about 1 1/2 [...]

Queen of Wands ends today. It’s a webcomic I came across at some point in the past and got addicted to. I’m sad to see it go, but it was a good run and I look forward to seeing what Aeire comes up with next.

We bought me a new car today! My Saturn has been sick for quite a while. It’s had a broken head gasket for who knows how long, so we decided it was time to just get me something new. We decided on a Honda Civic. We started out looking for used ones, but they cost [...]

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year. 2004 was a wondeful year for our family. Lots of good stuff happened to us all around. I’m sorry everyone, everywhere couldn’t have as good as year as we did. We can only hope we’ll be as blessed in 2005.

Happy Winter Solstice to everyone.

We got up early this morning to head out to vote. Polls opened here at 6am. We were there around 6:45ish and done before 7:00am. Regardless of who you support, please go out and vote today!

I had a wonderful birthday today. I took half a day off work and had lunch with Kate and Mira. Then I picked Xander up from school. Then we went home and had cake and opened presents. Then I spent some time playing games while the kids had quiet time. Near the end of quiet [...]

That’s what the doctor thinks anyway. The quick test came back negative, but he wasn’t convinced. He said the list of symptoms that I gave sounded like strep, so he’s doing the long test and has me on antibiotics at least till the test comes back. He said I should be fine for work tomorrow [...]