I figured I would use this post to point people toward two awesome new media music videos.
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Remodeling, cleaning, etc.,
It seems like forever since our last post. Trevor and I have been really busy settling into the new house. I had two work-related trips right before and after our closing. My mom came up for a week to help us clean the house and later Trevor’s mom and Todd came to help us move. It has been exhausting, but the place is really starting to feel like home.
We recently had our hardwood floors installed and renovated the 1/2 bath on the main floor. As the dust settles, we’ll post some before and after shots on this blog, so stay tuned!
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Engaged
So last Friday I supprised Marjee with a trip to Baltimore and at dinner I gave her an engagement ring. We spent the weekend and had a blast. Here are some pictures.
This is the resturant I proposed at.
Here is the view from our hotel roomAnd here are some pictures from the rest of our trip
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Parallels Universe
So I started using Parallels on my mac, to better be able to test out features of Zotero and I must say it is messing with my head. I am really weirded out by the way my machine switches back and forth.
I wanted to take a screen shot, but I realized that I don’t have a print screen button. I was really perplexed at how to go about this, but then I thought, cant I just use the shift apple 4 combo I use on the mac, I mean this still is my mac right. And low and behold it worked. I find little things like this keep messing with my mind, which is to say that it is quite a bit of fun.
Watching a computer boot up in a window is truely a tripy experience.
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Pandora rocks
Yesterday one of my colleagues at work recommended this neat web archive kinda thing called Pandora. So far I am loving it. My best luck has been with my Danger Doom station and my Sufjan Stevens station. Proudest moment, when my Sufjan channel picked up some Ben Folds. Very neat. I think Marjee is having a blast with it as we speak.
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Its not quite springtime…
…but it may as well be. Trevor and I spent the past two weeks in Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison where it was unseasonably warm in the high 30’s (and not a drop of snow to be seen).We came back to our new home where it was really unseasonably warm at 70 degrees. No joke.
Saturday I went into The District to get a haircut and sign up at a gym. Both are located in the major sports center here (the Verizon center) where there was a Georgetown vs Notre Dame game. With the crazy energy of the sports fans, the beautiful sunshine, and the outrageously warm air, it honestly felt like summer. I don’t know if the Wisconsin in Trevor is fighting this outrageous weather, because the poor guy is sick again! I think this is his fourth cold in three months.Otherwise, it was great to go see everybody over the break. I must just be getting old because time seems to go by so fast and it doesn’t feel like it has been so long since we’ve seen everyone. I think we did a good job of seeing most of our friends and family (at least once) and managing to hit the Johnson Creek Outlet malls and relaxing a bit.
While I was gone, work really piled up. I think I really like being busy and I was starting to get some separation anxiety from my work. I did some work over the break, but when I am away from concrete, tangible work, I start feeling helpless.
Reason #234 why my graduate program was just not a good match for me! ;-P
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Holidays at work
I just walked by the big conference room at work and was stunned by how gorgeous the decorations are! It is very warm and beautiful with lots of beer, wine, and presumably, great food. There is going to be an office party starting there in a few minutes. It is great to work for a creative media company- people’s good taste and creative touches really show during times like these.Considering the fact that it has been 60 degrees or so for the past few weeks, I can’t quite believe that it is time for the holidays. I am really looking forward to going back to Milwaukee-Chicago to spend time with my family (and of course Trevor’s family which I now consider my own). The 5 months or so that we have been here have gone by so fast and we still have such a clumsy time driving around the city that I certainly still feel like a noob.
All in-all, with Trevor starting a new job that he loves and the awesomeness that is working for PBS, we have been extraordinarily lucky this year. 2006 got off to a rocky, crazy start. We were faced with a great deal of uncertainty. Its so nice to have things fall into place for a bit and feel like we learned a great deal from the difficulties we faced and that we came away with so much meaning from the chaos.
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Don’t go here
In case you were planning on visiting Nashville in the near future and decided that you wanted to stay in a biosphere miles away from the actual city, you may be tempted to check this place out . I will spare you the heartache….
don’t go there
First, the rooms are terribly overpriced. Rooms in TN pushing $200 a night should have Egyptian cotten towels and sky-high thread counts in their comfy beds.
That doesn’t happen here.
Second, one of my colleagues watched 2 elderly people rushed out on stretchers.
During breakfast.
That is not a time when one would want to be reminded of one’s fragile mortality. In fact, the entire experience will lead the reflective individual to wonder whether such tacky stupidity will suddenly become appealing once that particular individual hits 82. The geriatric amazement at the fake waterfalls and colored fountains (sync’d up to Hark the Herald Angels…) was downright depressing, if for no other reason than the fact that people who have made it that far in life desserve better than rampant price gouging in a resort that surly makes baby Jesus cry.
Trevor Owens 