So it’s been a while. Yeah.
A much too short update: I’m officially moved into my new place, and it’s beginning to actually look like a house. I have all my kitchen furniture, and I’m expecting my bedroom furniture any day now. I set my keyboard up, so I’ve been playing a lot recently, which is refreshing. For some reason, I got the Portal song stuck in my head, so I’m currently learning that. Maybe I’ll get around to recording it and posting it here.
Work has been good – I feel like I’m at a point where I have enough of a basic understanding of how our code base works to actually be effective in learning things, which is nice. I’m taking on bigger things everyday. Pretty exciting times. I joined the Microsoft flag football league. It’s basically like IM but for Microsoft people. Anyway, we had our first practice and oh my god, I am horrendously out of shape. I pretty much couldn’t move the day after. Definitely need to work out more.
So random story, about a month ago, I was at Costco and needed beer. I didn’t want to buy any of the standard boring stuff, so I picked up something called Redhook. It was really good, so I looked up where it was bottled and it turns out the brewery was only 15 minutes away from Redmond. On Sunday we went to visit, and went on their amazing tour for $1. You get a free 5oz glass and 6 beer samples. It was awesome. Other exciting things I’ve done… uh… I went to the Boeing factory, which was pretty cool. I also have been spending a lot of time playing cards and watching movies at Microsoft. Yup.
I’ve been spending a lot of time playing Starcraft II. I’ve beaten the campaign though, so I’m trying to ween myself off of multiplayer so I can do more productive things (like beat God of War 3, Super Mario Galaxy 2, etc). I also bought the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but I haven’t started on that yet. I’m also behind on netflix… I’ve had my current movie for like 3 weeks. Fail. I’ve been watching a lot of Futurama on streaming though. Hurray for Zoidberg!
I’m going home this weekend. Should be nice to see everyone again. It’s the Livermore wine festival this weekend! I never realized how good California wine is until I moved to Washington. Although Washington is also supposed to have good wine… maybe I just haven’t found it yet. Oh, and I am super excited for football season to be starting.
That’s probably good for now. I leave you with a semi-updated gallery of the stuff I’ve filled my apartment with.
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