Jeff

long time, no write

So it has been some time since I have last overcome my negligence in writing in this. I definitely slacked on writing about the trip to Japan, one entry that left out over 50% of the trip is bad. I am just going to use this entry to kind of summarize what I slacked on entering for the past two months (god that really is a long time :O!). I also have a TON of pictures to post, I took a lot in Japan and then brought my camera to two ultimate tournaments. So here goes the timeline:

  • In Japan, I visited Shibuya, Shinjuku, Yokohama, Ikebukuro, Tokyo University, Shinagawa, Odaiba, Ginza, Asakusa, Ueno, and probably a number I am forgetting. I got to see a Japanese baseball game (pictures to be posted), tried a lot of delicious food, and got to see a lot of the city. I already can’t wait to go back.
  • After returning, Kim stayed with me for two weeks and it was nice having company whenever I got home. It is also very nice to make food for people. My mom and dad even came over for dinner one night (I made steak and mashed potatoes).
  • I turned 24, it is not much of a milestone. I just felt the same. I did want to get myself something as a gift, but couldn’t think of anything. I figure I will treat myself to something later…
  • I went to CHC (Chicago Heavyweights Championships), which is a large midwest tournament for ultimate in Naperville. We went 1-5, but contended very well in most games. It was a nice weekend of ultimate.
  • I attended a wedding in Vincennes for one of my second cousins. It was nice seeing that side of the family (for the first time in four years >_>). I went with my mom and sister and it was nice to just see Vincennes as more of a tourist than just sitting around a house.
  • I attended the mixed sectionals tournament for ultimate. It was in Rockford, IL. We didn’t win any, but we played well in a number of games. It was a sad end to a season, but we definitely were playing a lot better than when we started.

I have a TON of pictures to post from Japan and two tournaments. I need to go through since these are all at a higher res than I think my old web server can handle. I also need to clean up and pick the pictures to put on here. I need to also make an effort to try and caption all of them, since it kind of sucks not knowing what you are seeing. I also want to try and use goodreads to track the books I am reading/have read/want to read. So that may get added to the site at some point. Hopefully, it won’t be another two months until I post again.

new design 2.0

So I have slacked hardcore at writing on this for about 6 months… But you can see (if anyone still reads this) that I have redesigned it. This design is a lot cleaner and more “professional”. I have used some subtle javascript bits to make it more pleasing (like try hovering over the image on the top for a bit). Some of it is still in need of some fixing, which may happen eventually, but not until I return from Japan.

Ha! I haven’t written on this for so long that I have not discussed my trip to Japan. This Saturday (as in 5 days from today) I will be flying from here to Tokyo to spend 2 weeks in Japan with 2 of my friends and my girlfriend. I have been planning this trip for a while and almost all of that planning is coming to fruition. I will be staying in Shinjuku and exploring the city and surrounding area each day. We plan on at least climbing Fuji (again for me) for sunrise, going to see a game between the Hanshien Tigers and Yomiuri Giants (Japanese Baseball), visiting the Studio Ghibli museum, and seeing the Sumida River fireworks show. I have purchased a nice Nikon D3000 DSLR camera for pictures (since my ancient P&S Canon died on me) and plan to add plenty of shots from the trip. I also hope to write in this often during the trip, so people can keep up with my trip as it goes on. I will get to spend 2 weeks without work and with my friends. After the trip, I will be dealing with two weeks of questions at work, but my girlfriend will be staying with me until she returns to school at some point. So check back on here to see what is going on during my trip. Hopefully the server this is hosted on doesn’t take a shit while I am gone. I turned on the auto-on on power loss, but during this discovered that most of the case fans are not running and the CPU is running over 100 degrees while idle. But that will hopefully be for another day… post Japan :)

2 years

So two days ago at midnight (2/1 @ 0:00) my girlfriend and I reached our 2 year milestone. It has been a short 2 years and I really don’t see an end coming. It is almost weird that 2 years can feel so short and I almost feel like I am taking it for granted, because I just feel like there are a lot more years to come. I feel weird dwelling on it, I just like thinking about all that lies ahead for us. I love you sweetheart.

In other news… I have recently begun a possible redesign of this site. I will hopefully get a good chunk of it worked on through this week and toss it up sometime. I am still in the midst of mocking it up, but I am hopeful to have something together in the next week and have it usable by the time I go to New York with my girlfriend in March. I am also in the midst of planning a trip to Japan with my friend Devin. I am now able to save money primarily from my paychecks as I am all caught up on necessities for my apartment (or most of, I still need to get bedding). I also just finally updated my Windows 7 from RC to RTM, so it isn’t going to die in a month or whatever it is. I will probably spend a few hours now trying to polish off a mockup, but I doubt I will get it to a point where I am happy tonight, but hopefully sometime this week.