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1328 days ago
I turned older on the 5th. I got some very nice music, cards, movies, shirts, an onboard temp gauge, and enough tacos to choke a burrow. We had a pretty good party. More people than ever hosted. It was a weeknight, which worked out perfectly - everyone left before I was sleepy, which is almost never the case! I managed to cook 10lbs of ground beef for tacos, all of which was consumed. Fun! Mebbe now that I'm nearing ancient, I should stop feeling that way through diet and exercise. I'll keep pondering this and most likely, continue to take very little action. Just typing this calls for a nap. //bikerscum
1343 days ago
Yay! Kelli and I headed to the airport ~10:30pm Friday night for our red eye flight to Houston. We'd land, get our car (which turned out to be absent of color), and make the ~110 mile drive to Orange, TX - home of grandma and grandpa. Along the way we saw numerous humorous things. Of course we did. We were in TX. We got our stop in to a Sonic for breakfast. Anything served on Texas toast is a good thing. On the way we got some good pics of things like the vomit train, a sign for a sushi farm, and much to our surprise, China isn't that far outside of Beaumont. Click here for the series of pics. Grandma's house was awesome. Cozy, quiet, totally relaxing. That is of course aside from the refrigerator I was recruited to move and the wireless network I set up with the supervision and assistance of brother Ian. Grandma had chicken gumbo on the stove in a pot big enough to boil babies. We all pretty much ate a lot of gumbo, which is never a bad thing. Never without an offer ...
1364 days ago
I've been tagged! The pressure to post is huge. Four Jobs You've Had In Your Life: - Young Assembler at Issaquah Trophy & Awards - Screen Printer at Tiger Mountain Designs - Busser / Pizza Builder at Godfather's Pizza - Software Test Engineer at Microsoft, Calypso Medical, Nordstrom, Ramp Technology Group Four Movies You Could Watch Over And Over: - FASTER - Dust to Glory - Office Space - Ice Age Four Places You've Lived: - Snohomish, WA - Bellevue, WA - Kirkland, WA - Redmond, WA Four TV Shows You Love To Watch: - The Office - Boston Legal - Grey's Anatomy - Motorcycle Racing (MotoGP, WSBK, AMA, SuperMoto, MX/SX) Four Places You've Been On Vacation: - Leavenworth, WA - Ocean Shores, WA - East Coast Power Tour (Boston to Baltimore) - Houston & Dallas, TX Four Blogs [or 3 blogs and 1 site] You Visit Daily: - Brain Dump - Malletrivia - Ramp Technology Group ...
1365 days ago
It's official! Today marks my first day as a Ramp Technology Group employee. Somewhere in a previous, long winded approach to updating you all with details of my life, I mentioned I was sitting on a number of offers. Ramp has interesting work, the right people, and the right culture; we're also located in Bellevue, a swift 9 minute commute. Sign me up! And that they did. I was pleased to receive an invite to the company's quarterly meeting, with the option of sitting in on a Scrum development methodology overview that occurred beforehand. Even though I didn't start until the following Monday, I got the invite - so this is what it's like to not be a contractor! Scrum is very interesting, and I think using such a process (in conjunction with pieces of Agile and Extreme Programming techniques) will not only benefit Ramp, but the customer as well. I can start testing software and designing automation when the product is being thought of instead of after it's done. Yay! ...
