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He’s back…

5/22/2006 – 2:57 pm

It’s good to feel (mostly) normal again. That was one heck of an ordeal… but 2 ER visits, 3 doctor’s visits, 3 prescriptions, and 2 weeks later I’m back on my feet. Unfortunately, I still don’t have all my energy back and can’t play any contact sports for another month and a half (for me any sport involving other people… or the ground, is a contact sport).

I’ve actually been working at home the past week, but I went into the office for the first time in nearly 3 weeks today. It’s funny how quickly things change… last week when I just started working again I found out that my technical lead (Sami Shalabi) was leaving IBM. Bummer. Major bummer. Sami is a great guy, amazing programmer, and was a blast to work with and learn from. I certainly wish the best for Sami and I can’t thank him enough for all the experience I gained working side by side with him for the past nine months.

Thanks to everyone that talked, called, IMed, sent me a card, or visited. I definitely appreciate it.

Here’s a picture of what I missed at the baseball game I was supposed to go to on my birthday. Thanks Cindy, sorry I had to miss it.


Red Sox Birthday

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I probably have mono..

5/4/2006 – 2:27 pm

Crap.
If anyone one wants to know how bad I feel, I’m going to log it on gCal. (my angel for mother asked me to keep track, so now she can look easily herself).

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/6e5bqedamh0v6mohmage9labk0@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic

I’m going to rest hardcore to try and get the strength for the Red Sox game I was supposed to go on for my birthday (Saturday vs the O’s).

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Windows open and sun flooding in…

4/20/2006 – 8:41 am

Its so nice to be able to work from home every once and a while :)

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Opening day with the Reds…

4/5/2006 – 8:44 am

This past weekend I flew on over to Cincinnati (with a long layover in Detroit) to see the Red’s opening day with Cindy. Here’s the short version of the trip. (A few pictures are below, more are on flickr).
Cindy the (ultimate) Reds fan

Friday: flight, crazy thunderstorm and delay, flight, picked up by Kelly and Paul, Skyline at 2:00am, dog #1 (Bailey).

Me as a Reds fan

Saturday: Dog #2 (Cody), met Heather, Keith, Jonathan and dog #3 (Lucy), pizza (9 pieces or so) and met lots more of Cindy’s family, hanging with Kevin, Melissa, and dog #4 (Emma), out to a bar for the final 4 games (boring games!), 2nd place in Texas hold’em, lost in foosball, lost in air hockey (just barely).

Kevin with a to-go cup

Sunday:over to Cindy’s Mom’s place, met more family and dogs #5 and #6 (no idea with spelling), guitar hero, avoiding getting in any of the Banzhaf photoshoot (successful), played my first game of Cornhole (think bean-bag horseshoes), food, making a good impression/fool of myself with DDR in front of Cindy’s family (I did beat her brother though), off to the city, picked up a Red’s hat (last pic below), picked up some Graeter’s ice cream (good stuff!), visited Cindy’s grandma, visited Devou park, errands in and around Cincinnati, leftover pizza.

Cindy and Tim at the Greak American Ball Park
Monday: preperation for the game, picked up Sammy at UC, touring the Cincinnati ghetto, Skyline and beer at 10:30 (yea, 10:30am), beer poured into to-go cups for the parade (modeled by Kevin with the green finger above), off to the ballpark, peanuts outside the park (a necessity), standing room only tickets (start to get cold), president throws out the first pitch, gave up 5 runs in the first, still cold, hotdog,standing tickets turn into real seats (a little less cold), tied it back up, give up 7 runs in the 6th (and most people start to leave), check out another view of the stadium (from standing room, to 10th row seats, to first row seats), Reds lose. Out to dinner, back to Cindy’s sister’s place, catch a bit of the NCAA final (still not exciting), early bed.
Tuesday: Up quite early and off to the airport.. and the rest is boring

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Not dead yet…

3/28/2006 – 4:32 pm

This weekend I took Cindy to see Spam-a-lot (for her birthday). I was a bit worried that it would be a bit too crude-and-corny-and-not-really-a-musical, but I was wrong :). The show was incredibly funny and actually more muscial-ish than I expected (though the singing couldn’t come close to those other “real” shows). I guess it didn’t win the 2005 Tony Award for nothing.

Going into the show I was looking forward to seeing my favorite parts of the movie* - scenes with the Knights of Ni, “Bring out yer dead”, and the Black Knight. All were in the show with some sort of modification. I wasn’t quite ready for the bring out yer dead shtick to become an upbeat dance tune (though I have to admit it was catchy). The Black night was still as gruesome as ever (I’ve still got me teeth!). Though the best by far was the Knights of Ni who became “the Knights who say Icci, Icci, bootang, Zoip … Its hard out here to be a pimp.. (rhythm and rapping for a few minutes) … for shizzle”. We were rolling in our seats :). Fun times.

I’ll be flying over to Cincinatti this weekend to see the Reds opening day with my baseball-fanatic-girlfriend (her hometown). Oh, and the president will be there (he must have heard I was going) :)

* There are too many other good parts to try and limit myself to just a few good ones. The show still had the self-affacing monks, the rabbit with big claws (like this), the holy hand-grenade (five is right out!), and many others. I did miss the “What is your favorite color?” though.

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Skiing …

2/23/2006 – 4:32 pm

I’ve been busy the past few weeks either by preparing, doing, or recovering from the ski trips I went on the past two weekends. The first one was to Wisp, down in Deep Creek Maryland. But why did I go down south to ski? Well, I got an offer last minute from a friend (Karen) … and who can turn down a ski trip? We lucked out and the conditions were great. About 6 inches of fresh snow on arrival, and it snowed the entire weekend. Karen and I actually managed to make it through the weekend without killing each other (but that all fell through a few days after the trip). The only problem with the Wisp trip was my total utter failure doing 360s (which I’ve just started to get the hang of this year). Oh boy those mishaps (aka complete crash landings) left a mark — but fortunately all bones still intact. And how can I not mention the hot tub snow angels? Good times.

I came back late Monday night (in fact catching the last red line T home) to try and rush together things for v-day. Fortunately, I had at least planned a bit ahead and gotten reservations the week prior, but there were plenty of other little things to get done (clean!). Reservations were at 9:00pm at Flora in Arlington but that’s the best I could scrape up — I didn’t know how crazy the city gets on Valentines, next time I’ll know that you have to plan that wayyy ahead of time. The dinner was a bit more elegant than I’m used to, but still good. Overall, I think it went well and I even got some homemade cookies. Thanks Cindy :)

This past weekend I was in Killington with the fam. Its funny to say that the conditions in Maryland were better than Vermont (I’ve yet to have good conditions skiing in NE). At least Killington has pretty good snow making so the mornings were ok, but in the afternoon the slopes were practically solid ice. It wasn’t horrible though, and we managed to still have a good time and do all the typical family bonding (aka ragging on each other constantly). I was a bit more reserved this trip, especially after I bruised my other hip falling off a box when boarding. I told myself that was all the extreme I needed for the trip… but I couldn’t prevent myself the next day on my ski boards. I managed to stay away from the rails and any special trips and stuck to seeing how far I could fly through the air. That one gigantic jump at the bottom of bear mountain was just too tempting :). I managed to get the courage to go off of it twice and I actually cleared the table top on the second try. I wish I could have gotten a picture of that, I must have been 10-15 feet in the air and cleared 15-20 feet on the ground. Now that’s a thrill.

So now I’m again recovering. Soccer was painful last week, but tonight… owch. I definitely was diving much less on my left side than I should have. And we ended with a tie… I so shouldn’t have let a couple of those goals in :(. Hopefully I won’t still have black and blue hips next week. So worth it though!

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Update…

2/7/2006 – 2:44 pm

Its been a while, so to the point

What’s new and good…

  • Getting back into soccer with a new indoor team
  • Plans to go on ski trips the next two weekends
  • Gaining more responsibility at work
  • Spending time with a nice girl ;)

What’s new and not so good…

  • Realizing those ski trips are planned right before and after Valentine’s Day
  • Doing the work of someone much more experienced and smarter than you
  • Not being able to help a friend in difficult times

What’s mostly indifferent but good to unnecessarily complain about…

  • Having six or more goals scored on you
  • Still forgetting to setup eye/dentist appointments
  • Being winter and not snowing so much
  • Paying town car tax

What’s good to take away from the complaining… (maybe)

  • Always room for improvement (or room to blame on others :) )
  • It’s good to be frugal (or… umm.. lazy?)
  • Not driving my car into a ditch this year
  • Being fortunate enough to not have to worry about money (spoiled?)

What’s the moral of the story?

  • Work is interesting and rewarding (and not going on as much past normal hours)
  • I’m getting to know more people and spending more time in the city
  • It’s difficult to find anything serious to complain about
  • … Life is good :)

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