OK, so I’ve completely neglected my journal for a long time. I’m going to try to fix this starting now. Here are some updates…
All of our photos are posted now, and I tried to put reasonable descriptions of each one. If you want the abridged version, coco_b ** is working on a shorter slideshow. Our trip was totally awesome.. We flew, with adamfletcher, out to Pamplona, arriving on Friday. After a long post-travel nap at the hotel, we woke up around 5pm to venture out into the town. We ended up at a Pintxos (regional name for Tapas) bar and had some snacks and a few plates, but we eventually met up with rioma**, his bride to be, and some other friends… That was a pretty early night, so after dinner and drinks we headed back to the hotel. Saturday was the big wedding day, so after a late breakfast we took a nap to make sure we’d be able to survive the wedding festivities… The wedding started at 6pm, and we were told it might keep going until 4 or 5am, so we figured the rest would do us well! The wedding was beautiful, although I found church far more tolerable when you can’t understand anything the priest is saying. The reception was completely out-of-hand, with a cocktail and appetizer hour, 7 courses of the main meal, and then, as advertised, dancing and drinking until 4-5pm. I believe there is even some footage of me dancing like a schmuck while quite intoxicated, but I hope my friends will hold onto that footage until my presidential campaign or something…
Sunday was the beginning of our proper tourism, and we started to explore Pamplona… This continued Monday, and between these two days most of our friends who had come out for the wedding went their separate ways. While it was great seeing all these people, it was also nice break away on our own. We saw all kinds of amazing places in Pamplona, but a common retreat for us was back to the Plaza del Castillo, drinking and chilling. On Tuesday, we rented a car for the rest of our trip and drove up to San Sebastian for a day.. Then we proceeded to drive up into France overnight, and then down through the Pyrenees.. We eventually ended up back in Pamplona the day before our flight back to the states. There are obviously lots of details I’ve glossed over, but I think pictures speak louder than words in this situation.. If I talked about every town we visited, it would mostly be “X town was so damn beautiful, I can’t really express it in words”…
Corinna has gone crazy painting our place, and now all but one room is painted. I picked a pimp-ass color for my office, I’ll try and remember to take a picture of it soon.
The Boston Red Sox. I had managed to avoid the professional sports insanity in Boston for several years, but the past few years I’ve been to Fenway a few times and have been paying more and more attention to baseball.. The 46" HDTV we bought a few months ago definitely sealed the deal. But football still sucks. :)
Our new house kicks ass. It’s now fun to have people over, and people seem to actually enjoy it, unlike our old place, which was tough to get to, tough to park around, and tiny as hell.
I’m still riding the post-Spain trip wave, and can’t wait for our next trip abroad.
The weather is finally getting comfortable…
Walking two miles each way to a job I actually enjoy every day.
BookMooch - I have had an account here for a long while now, but never really bothered to do anything with it. In unpacking my books, I found a ton that, aside from nostalgia, just didn’t make any sense to keep anymore (tons of BeOS books, for instance). I had been bringing these books to the “Send these to China” bin at the supermarket, but then I remembered BookMooch.. I put up 10 books last night and 2 of them were claimed within an hour, and have already been sent out.
Halloween is approaching, which means the annual Halloween Party in Ithaca is also approaching.. This is the one chance a year I get to see some of these friends, so it’s always a special event for me…
Going to the David Byrne/Geoffrey Miller lecture at the ICA tomorrow. I mean, it’s nowhere near as awesome as it would be seeing Talking Heads, but it’s likely as close as I’ll ever get.
Dexter. It’s quickly turning into my second favorite show.
Spain was totally awesome… We had such a great time, both hanging out with old friends around the wedding and then cruising around Spain, France, and the Pyrenees in our rented Peugeot. More details to come, but I’ve started putting photos from the trip up on Flickr. That’s about half the photos right now, and the second half will come soon to that same spot.
I got a prepaid Orange SIM card from GO-SIM today, after some panic it wouldn’t come before our trip to Spain. The big question was whether or not the unlock trick I found online for my phone would work, and as far as I can tell, it has. I guess the jury will remain out until I am on Spanish soil and the phone is working.. This trick seems pretty far-out, I wonder if this is an intentional back-door placed (and leaked) by the engineers or a exploited bug… And if it’s a bug, who is the person who spent the time finding it?
I’ve been trying to be a better user of Quicksilver for quite some time now… Back in January, I downloaded a PDF of a User Guide which I had found, probably via some post on 43 Folders. I opened it up every once in awhile, reading little chunks of it here and there over the year, and have also used it as a reference. I had kinda forgotten about it, but today, I was watching the Google Tech Talk on Quicksilver and remembered the manual, and figured I’d pick it back up where I left off.. Unfortunately, Preview.app decided to forget what page I was on when I last left off, and took me back to the first page. On it I see the name of Howard Melman… After some verification, I am shocked to learn that this valuable resource was written by someone who I’ve broken bread with on several occasions.. I wonder if Howard had already started coming to the film club by the time I had started reading this Manual, or if I have a bit of an excuse for my obliviousness…
Does anyone know of any financial assistance for those needing hearing aids but who can’t afford them? I figure that someone in my RIT/NTID network of friends might have a clue, because I sure don’t.
After somewhere near 20 Stellafanes, I managed to win the second prize in the raffle; \$2500 of Televue Nagler eyepieces.. A 12, 17, 22, and 31mm… Now I have to figure out what their destiny is…
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coco_b ** is working on a shorter slideshow. Our trip was totally awesome.. We flew, with 
