I added the contact form today.  I realized that I didn’t have my email up here and no way for people to contact me from the blog, so check it out on the menu at right.  Hopefully it will be sufficient for some quick emails and what not.

Today I also went to an awesome REI sale and got myself a nice parka coat.  It should be great for the rainy Seattle weather.  Tomorrow I should be at Macy’s looking at some blazers.  With all these post-Christmas sales going on it’s pretty hard to resist.

I added twitter on the right toolbar.  This way there would be pretty much daily updates.  Other than that the darkroom chemistry has been ordered and I’m waiting for it.  I also ordered some pretty sweet prosciutto from Scott Hams (www.scotthams.com).  It should be arriving in less than a week and I can’t wait to cut into it.  Prosciutto is GREAT on pizza, so you can expect more pizza parties once it’s here. I will probably make a pizza party after Rex’s dance show, I’m hopping the weekend of the 16th of January, depending on people’s availability.

Yesterday I got my Christmas present.  My parents decided to give it to me early.  Acctually I helped them buy it.  I got a 45-bottle wine cooler.  It’s sweet.  Now I finally can store all those bottles of wine I’ve been collecting and hopefully I’ll drink a few, since some of them are up to 2 years old.

I made a tiramisu today.  Somehow it felt like a perfect desert for snowy weather.

I got to do a quick trip to Florida this year.  As part of the project I was working on, we get to do various program reviews, and this was the final one.  We ended up going to Marco Island which is on the Gulf side of Florida and it’s extremely nice and relaxing.  We stayed at Marco Beach Resort, which was uber fancy, with bell boys, valets and so forth.  They even leave chocolates on your pillow when they make your bed, SWEET.  I spent most of the time in meetings, but we did get long lunches so I had some time to go out and explore.  Unfortunately I had my final for “Introduction to Plasma Physics” on Wednesday and since I was coming into Seattle on Tuesday at midnight, it meant I had to do all the studying in Florida.  I took the test today and I think it went fine.  Pics from Florida are on the photo page as well.

For now I just want to leave you with a view that greeted me as I walked into my hotel room:

With all the AC/DC excitement I forgot to write about my pizza party.  All in all I thought it went pretty well.  There were like 10 dancers there and they all seemed to like my cooking.  I made 2 big bowls of salad, 5-6 pizzas and a whole bunch of crepes.  After all the food we ended up watching bunch of pictures, not just from this show, but from years past as well.  I think I should do this type of stuff more often, since it was really fun.

p.s.
The file server is up and running and all my computers backup to it now.  Plus it allows me to have all my media streamed to any place in my house.