Snowshoeing at Gold Creek Pond with Elizabeth, Amy and Rachel. We're so hardcore it’s not even funny you guys!
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Archive for January, 2007
Playing virtual …
Posted in January 18th, 2007 11:33pm MST
Playing virtual golf at a company party. I definitely wasn't the best golfer there, but I also wasn't the worst! :)
If more of the dis…
Posted in January 16th, 2007 05:26pm MST
If more of the display items at Pottery Barn were edible I might be tempted to shop here more often…
I'm the only one a…
Posted in January 16th, 2007 08:13am MST
I'm the only one at work on this cold winter morning when snow blankets the city, unless you count the zillions of seagulls.
I should be skiing…
Posted in January 16th, 2007 07:18am MST
Stretch limo w…
Posted in January 13th, 2007 12:05pm MST
Good morning f…
Posted in January 13th, 2007 09:48am MST
Found my next phone
Posted in January 9th, 2007 12:29pm MST
Seriously, you guys, how hot is this? Rumored forever, finally announced today, Apple’s venture into the mobile phone scene:
Props to Engadget for the story and the pics.
Spoiled
Posted in January 1st, 2007 08:15pm MST
I've spent most of the day trying out new Christmas gifts, or finding homes for them in my apartment, or shopping online for accessories to accompany them. I was planning to spend the day pulling down lights and trees and tinsel and boxing them up for a somber return to their $40/month windowless prison, but I guess I'm just not done being festive yet.
 My friends and family really treated me well this year - I guess they think I've been good? Lucky for you all, several of my gifts were photography-related, and in testing them out I've taken shots of things that are at best artistic and at worst at least a little more interesting than they could have been. My DSLR camera is no longer lonely and underutilized, as a sweet Canon 75-300mm lens joined the party, along with remotes, filters (including this infrared one) and a rockin' backpack full of dividers, pockets, and pockets with dividers to contain said party. |
 Thanks I'm sure to Dad’s influence, a gorgeous new set of graphite golf drivers found its way under the tree, and a set of new hybrid steel/graphite irons are being made to custom length for me and will be shipped when they're ready. I ordered shoes on a sweet Amazon sale yesterday, so with all the new gear Dad’s been sending my way the last few months and the extra accessories under the tree, I'm set for spring. I'm especially excited about this stuff because it’s something Dad and I enjoy doing together that doesn't involve taking the engine out of my car again. ;) |
 Eric and Mya spoiled me a little early this year, with a giant grab-bag full of toys and souvenirs from their Thanksgiving spent in Japan. Besides the ultra-rare Z32 model (which I haven't opened fully yet - it still contains Japanese air!) my fav item is the positively-frameable Nismo racing team calendar. It’s bigger than my TV screen and every glorious page could hang on the wall all year. |
 Steph returned from Sweden with a basketful of holiday goodies just in time to keep me well-stocked for my parents' visit. Cups of hot glgg kept us warm and filled the void left in me every year come Christmastime by the lack of gluhwein stands in America. And if you happen to have smoked salmon, rice crackers and lingonberry jam in your kitchen and you haven't made a feast of them yet, you're seriously wasting an opportunity. |
 Even my bank got into the spirit, issuing me extra reward points for Christmas that I spent on a very choice poker set which showed up on the 28th. Ironically, a letter from them arrived the same day encouraging me to take advantage of their new online stock market integration features in 2007. I think Citibank may be encouraging me to gamble. |
 After spending two years on my wishlist, I've finally got the proper footwear to be the next Mario Andretti, or at least to stop tearing up all my other shoes because they're not designed to withstand the rigors of heel-toe downshifting. If these Piloti Spyder’s are the daily footwear of the instructors at Bondurant then they should get me thru a few saturdays at autocross with aplomb. Of course, I had to have the red ones. The laces cinch up with a toggle - if only the rest of my wardrobe were similarly engineered for speed. |
 Per my usual (and per my Amazon wishlist) cartoons, PS2 games and ski movies were the discs du jour. If you added a James Bond movie and an additional action movie featuring a good car chase, you'd pretty much have a microcosm of my entertainment bookshelf. Cause that’s the way (uh huh, uh huh) I like it. |
 Passed down to her by her grampa, my Mom bestowed upon me the knife sharpening stone that actually originally belonged to my great-grandfather’s brother Carlo (or Charlie, as he was called after emigrating to the US from Italy). My first step will be to identify and prevent the decay that seems to be overtaking the wood handle. After that, I plan to build a classy knife block to house it and my ironically non-sharpenable Chef Tony knives, which have thus far defied fitting properly into any knife block that wasn't made especially for them. |
In a spontaneous moment of gift-card-induced indulgence, i ordered one last Christmas gift which should arrive in a couple of weeks. I'll wait and save the pictures (and maybe even a video!) when for it arrives, along with a full review since I don't buy something this leading-edge very often. In the meantime, you can start thinking of cute nicknames for my new robot vacuum cleaner. The robot maid on the Jetsons was named Rosie, right?