Spring is (almost) here
Spring was here for a few days, but the cool, wet weather is returning this week. We planted some veggies in the few spots where we get sunlight. Hopefully we'll get something out of them.
My Favorite Albums (Right Now)
These are the albums that I've been enjoying the most lately.
- Beautiful Death by Bella Morte
- Years of Refusal by Morrissey
- Walking with Strangers by The Birthday Massacre
- My Winter Storm by Tarja
- Oceanborn by Nightwish
- Banned in D.C. by Bad Brains
New Home Office
After a few weeks of shopping in and around Portland, we finally landed some nice office furniture at a reasonable price. City Liquidators turns out to be the place for furniture (and other things ranging from tampons to sofas). Next up, we'll be painting the room.
Moto Droid
I switched to Verizon and got the Droid phone this weekend. I am writing from it. So far it's great. That's all...
Rockets at Trailblazers
On December 5th, we attended the Houston Rockets @ Portland Trailblazers game. We sat way up in the 300 section, but we had mid-court aisle seats which turned out to be quite nice. Portland won the game - and they have won all 3 games we've been to (against tough opponents). I think we bring good luck... for wins. Unfortunately, we were witness to the season ending injury of Greg Oden. It was bad. The entire arena went silent. The Rockets showed class by giving him a pat on the back and some nice words before they wheeled him out on the stretcher. The city of Portland is saddened by this, as we have all come to really like Greg as a player and a person.
Birthday and Other Events
For my birthday, I went to Rogue (as I have done for the past 7 years in a row) and got a free beer and t-shirt. Bren and I took the next day off of work and had a delicious meal at Salvador Molly's and took a hike around Gabriel Park. It was a fantastic birthday. Now that I'm in my "late 30s...", I may choose to do something different next year. We'll see.
New Couch
New Couch
We got our new couch from JCPenney last weekend. We weren't expecting it until mid-December because we had custom fabric put on it. We're glad to have it for Thanksgiving because we're having company over for food and games. I think the red (berry) fabric was a good choice, as it adds some color to the room and it matches the chair we recently purchased. The rug is new as well.
cleverswine.net is new
cleverswine.net has been updated. It's something I'm messing around with, along the lines of a "lifestream". I don't like to call it that, however, because it's not my "life". It's really just a summary of my online activity.
What I’m Working On
Here's what I'm working on. Right now it's just a basic display of feeds from some of my social networks. I'd like to fancy it up a bit at some point, perhaps with some nice jQuery tooltips. I'm using the SimplePie PHP library to fetch the feeds (each one asynchronously). The design is borrowed from Popurls. I know it's not that interesting, but it's fun for me.
Welcome to blog.cleverswine.net
This will be the new home of my "blog". I have moved it here for several reasons. Mainly, the novelty of personal blogging has worn out and I'd really like to try out some cool new stuff on my base domain (www.cleverswine.net). That's not to say I'll never write anything again. I'll continue to update this blog on occasion. It's just that I'll be shifting focus to some other experimental things, like aggregating my web activity for display, showing photo albums, etc. For the next couple of weeks, my base domain will be more of a development sandbox while I create random things and throw them on there.
Meanwhile, be sure to update your bookmarks and feed readers with this address.