Saturday with the Sounders

Last Saturday, Carrie and I went to a Sounders game with some folks from her company, Turner Construction.  The company has a box at Qwest Field, so we got to watch the game in the comfort of the shade with our own buffet and bathroom.

The game was pretty interesting. There was a definite enregy at the field, one that we missed due to us being in the "high and migthty" seats. The folks directly behind the south-end goal were constantly on their feet chanting and waving their arms. Carrie and I would have like to been a part of that, and perhaps we'll be back one day so that we'll get that chance.

The Houston Dynamo drew first blood, but the Sounders quickly followed up with a response in the first half, and an unanswered goal in the second to win the game 2-0. This weekend, they play Chelsea, and even though I'll be in Frederick at the time, I may have to keep an eye on this game, which is sure to pack the stadium fuller than it usually gets for any football (International or American) game.

Later on that day, as things cooled down, we hosted a dinner party with Carrie's ex and two of her friends. More grill time!

My kingdom for a blank CD-ROM!!!

I'm just sayin'...

Here I am, trying to install X-Ubuntu onto an underpowered laptop, I've downloaded the ISO from the site (which, if you've ever tried to dowload anything -buntu from the .org site or its mirrors, you'll know is a minor miracle), and have it sitting prettily on my desktop - and no blank CD-ROM to burn the thing onto. Arrggh!

Gotta wait until tomorrow...!

En entre nosotros

Too great a space in between us, we drift apart;

Too little space in between us, we collide;

The right space in between us, we grow towards each other.

Game.Traffic.Sucks.

Trying to get on the bus. Taking an hour to get from Downtown to Beacon Hill. Busses stopped at lights because jerks keep running red lights. No police manually directing traffic, even though we've been through this dance before. Def not cool, yo.

Goodbye crappy #27

Now that we live in Beacon Hill, we take the #36 from downtown (although I might have to try the #32, since it's an express bus). It takes about half an hour to get into work in the mornings, and about forty minutes to get home. A far cry from the twenty minutes that it took us in either direction when taking the #27 - but at least this bus is way more frequent (and reliable)! I'll not miss the #27 a bit!!!

Macpherson's Fruit & Produce

This place is great!!
Carrie and I went there the other day for some ffnv - we got a whole bag fulla stuff for only ten dollars. Granted, we'll have to use it all within the next couple of days, but it's worth it. As Carrie quipped after our first visit, "Ever feel like you've just mugged someone?"


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Where talents lie

My very first home project was making a worm composting bin. My father in law and I went to Lowes to get the lumber cut (most of it was gut 1/2 inch short) and tools, and I put it together last night.

Some people's talents lay in carpentry and woodworking - mine does not. Mine lies in putting together bits of ones and zeroes, and tossing them into the ether. Mine also lies in making sure that other peoples bundles of ones and zeroes do what they are supposed to do before they get tossed into the ether.

*sigh*