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Election 2008

tycage — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:43:41 +0000

Kate and I were elated to hear on the news just after 11pm, that Barack Obama would be our next president. and also that Virginia had gone for Obama. We are thrilled. We’re waiting to hear from our new president-elect now before heading off to bed.

Anniversary

tycage — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:13:35 +0000

Kate and I celebrated out 13th anniversary today. As is out tradition, we didn’t do all that much other than enjoy being together. She and Mira came and met me for lunch today, and all four of us went out for dinner. After the kids were in bed, we had a nice evening together watching Doctor Who and Torchwood, one of of favorite things to do. It was a fun day and we’ve had a wonderful 13 years together.

New Phones

tycage — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:28:18 +0000

Kate and I got new cell phones today. We’ve needed to get new ones for a while. We got the phones we’ve had up to now back in April of 2004. They were old and only just worked properly anymore (mine did anyway, Kate’s was actually almost completely broken).

I got myself a Palm Centro in a nice black color. They’d only had the white until recently, which I was going to get because I liked the phone. But when Kate when to pick the phones up today, they had the black in stock, so she smartly got that one for me instead.

Kate got the LG CU515 since she decided she didn’t need as much fancy stuff on her phone as I wanted on mine.

We’ve got 30 days on the phones to decide if we like them or not. If we don’t, we can take them back and try something else. I don’t suspect that’ll be a problem for me. It’s possible Kate might come across something she doesn’t like about her phone though.

We are pretty excited, since phones do a lot more now than when we last bought them.

Level Up!

tycage — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:33:35 +0000

I found out today that I’ve been promoted (or as I explained it to Xander, I leveled up). I’m now a Principle Software Engineer. It’s something I’ve been working for for a long time and it feels great to finally have all the hard work validated.

Birthday!

tycage — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:39:49 +0000

I turned 35 years old yesterday. I had a great day. I got to sleep in late. Then I came downstairs and the kids were super excited that it was my birthday. We opened presents and I got to enjoy all the stuff that they and others had picked out for me. Then I got to spend most of the day playing video games. We had Pei Wei for lunch, which I love, and Kate even went out to pick it up for me, so I got to do another of my favorite activities, not leaving the house. Kate had even picked me up a carrot cake for my birthday cake.

It was a wonderful day spent with my family, which is another of my favorite things to do. I’m another year older and I can’t think of a better way to have spent the day.

Still Working

tycage — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:06:02 +0000

I’ve still got a job. We had big layoffs today at work, but I made it through ok. It was a rough day though, lots of good people were let go. It’ll be rough for a while, getting used to things without them. I’m trying to be happy for myself, but it’s hard to see friends lose their jobs.