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On Saturday, June 2, I leave Portland for France. I’ll arrive in Paris and take the TGV (bullet train) down to Montpellier, in the very South of France. There I’ll meet my sister Betsy, who has been studying art for the past year at the university. She’s done with her year, so she and I…

I was sick this week. It happened right after I returned from Orlando. It ruined my Memorial Day weekend. While it was beautiful outside and the three day weekend beckoned, I was inside blowing and coughing and suffering miserably. I couldn’t think well enough to get anything done, so I succumbed to watching movies and…

Last week I was in Orlando, Florida to attend a conference (The 2007 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2007)). I was there to present a paper my group wrote on one of my projects. It was a cool paper on a neat subject, so I had no problem with the presentation. I…

Today I got up about 7:30. My alarm goes off at 6, but most of the time I just snooze until 7:30. It doesn’t really matter when I get to work in the morning as long as I don’t miss meetings. I showered and got ready, looked at my calendar for the day, and noticed…

I always considered myself left-handed. It was never really tough to say “I write with my left hand, so I must be left-handed.” It’s getting more and more difficult to say that now. There really isn’t anything I can’t do with both hands, except write in cursive with my right. I’ve known about this ambidexterity…

With the approach of spring comes an increase in barbecues, an increase in exposure to the outside, and an increase in the amount of exposure that the inside gets to the outside. Doors are opened and the fresh new air replaces the cramped air that endured the winter months. With that fresh new air comes…

We had our first softball practice of the season yesterday. Everyone wants me to be pitcher again. This year Nick is playing with us, which should be great. He seems to be a great hitter and he’s awesome in the outfield. Plus, he wants to practice pitching, so I can catch some relief occasionally and…

For the last week and a half I was in the Washington D.C. area for work deploying some software. Some of it still hadn’t been written yet, some of it required that I be there to work on it because it was on a different network that I couldn’t interact with unless I was there,…

Saturday was so much fun. We started off at 9am at the Richland Airport. 11 of us met there. We had three planes between us, so we split up and got in. After a little difficulty getting two of the planes started, we were in the air and away towards Wenatchee. Our plane was the…

Sunday was a good day of skiing. I went to White Pass with two friends. I felt a little bad because I said I wanted to leave at 7:30 fully expecting that both of them wouldn’t be ready that early, but if I had said later, it wouldn’t have mattered. On the other hand, I…