A Few Things

I wanted to make a post to update you with what's going on in my life right now. Seeing as the only person I regular see and converse with is Joe. I see Chris in l4d, which Joe and Adam need to play more, but we don't really talk too much about what's going on in our lives.

So a little bit about what has happened with me recently:

My life is pretty much just work. Joe and I hang out once or twice a week. The rest of the time I spend at home. Work is going well. things are winding down a little but should accelerate significantly in the next month or two if we get the grant we applied for. We're submitting a paper this week, if it hasn't yet been submitted, that I will be author on. Then there will be another paper we're submitting next month which I will also be an author on. So that's exciting. I'm still unsatisfied with my pay and am constantly trying to convinvce myself that the experience is making up for it, especially when Joe tells me there's an opening for a position like his at Illumina that pays twice what I'm getting now. Taking that position would mean putting off finishing school for a while.

Without a computer I started watching a lot of things on Netflix. I got really into scifi series which I shared with Chris when he was down last. Mainly just Firefly and Battlestar Galactica (BSG). This explains the BSG cake picture that Chris included in <a href="http://onwebtape.com/blog/1382">this post</a>. BSG was a really long series so after that I kinda got burnt out. Also, having watched the best rated series of the genre I didn't know what else to watch.

My new computer arrived on Friday morning. It was a great surprise because the last estimate I had seen on FedEx was that it was to arrive on Monday. I've become so accustomed to not having a computer that now I feel somewhat lost when it comes to using this. I can't remember how I used to spend so much time on it. I guess I need to start programming again. Over the past couple days I've gotten everything installed that I need (that I can think of). Next on the list is to buy a case/bag for it and a mouse so I can play games. I'm going to be happy to have something to do at coffee shops again, even if that thing is pretending to be doing something with a computer in front of me. It's less convincing when you don't have a computer or something in front of you.

Tawny died a couple weeks ago. For those of you who never met her, she was our yellow lab that we've had for the past 13 years. As she got older she had tumors sprouting up all over her body, a common problem with labs, and eventually they bested her. I'll attach a picture of her on here later to preserve a memory of her.

My cats are doing well and their personalities have really developed over the past few months. Mew loves to be around people and be pet, while Muse likes to do his own thing and roll around on the ground. Mew responds to her name and comes when I call her. I think Muse ignores me when I call him.

I started working on some paintings again. I picked back up on some that I had started a long time ago but never finised. They are still a ways off just because it requires a lot of masking in many layers. So I sit around watching tv at night just taping away at the canvas for hours. Then there's 5 minutes of painting, removing the tape, and doing it all over again.

It was strange not having everyone around for my birthday this year. I miss you guys, it just isn't the same. Joe and I went out and were able to get into Noble Experiment after a short wait. The drinks there were amazing and amazingly expensive. It was well worth it though and Joe and I said we'll be back at least once a month from now on. We're looking forward to exploring more speakeasies.

There's probably more I could talk about but I'll save it for another time; This post is already long enough.

I'm looking forward to heading up to SF for Outside Lands. I just wish it were going to happen sooner.

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Anon • May 20th 2012