My Week

Hellllooooooooo out there!

I have been a very bad blogger these past few weeks. I am hanging my head in shame, but I am planning to mend my evil ways this week and get back in the habit of posting here more often.

After a couple of weeks of working like mad, I have been made enough progress at work that I think I may actually make my November 12th deadline. I have been working 10 or 12 hours a day, getting up only to get another caffeinated beverage. All of the code that has ever been written on this project is in my head. I am dreaming about this stuff every single night. Even weekends. Somehow whatever perfectly normal situation arises in my dreams, I can solve it through coding. I am becoming one with my computer. Be very afraid.

But I am actually getting out of the house and doing stuff too, for the first time in a while. Dangerguy has come up with a lot of great ideas lately of stuff to do. On Tuesday, we went to the Pixies concert. I still have their Dolittle album in my rotation, so I was thrilled to get to see them in concert, and they were really awesome (particularly since they played almost every song that I know from them).

Friday night we went to a college football game, the first I have been to in years and years. I don't really fully understand football, although I think it is fun to watch. I am even more entertained by putting on some comfy warm clothes, sitting under the stars, and watching the cheerleaders almost come to their death every time they attempt a pyramid. Dangerguy introduced me to some old friends of his that were super friendly and we talked to them through most of the 4th quarter. Our home team won, and we had a great night out of the house.

Saturday, we went to our favorite Chinese restaurant, watched "The Forgotten" (which was really good - a lot better than the reviews it received), went to see some live music at a cafe nearby, and then went to Barnes and Noble for some late-night shopping. Most of the songs we saw at the cafe were done by a random assortment of people performing kind of folk and bluegrass stuff, some of which was ok, but overall they seemed unrehearsed, like a group of friends who meet once a month in someone's basement to jam. The main act of the evening was very talented, from the 3 or 4 songs we saw her perform before we headed out. We wandered around Barnes and Noble on the way home (second on my list of Stores I Cannot Leave Without Spending Money I Don't Have, right behind Target) and I got the Jon Stewart book "America: The Book" (which if you haven't at least flipped through, you are totally missing out.)

Then today, Dangerguy and I got up early and drove down to the Kentuck Art Festival in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and spent the day looking at folk art in perfect fall weather. It was awesome. I bought my first Christmas present of the year for my Mom. Dangerguy and I made some art of our own at the Sloss Furnace exhibit. We etched a design in a sand cast and they poured hot iron ore in it to produce a small square tile of our designs. Apparently, we can go over to the furnaces at any time to pick up more casts and they will cast them for us. Now that I see what they turn out like, I may try it. I am thinking cool Christmas presents.

I will leave you with some cool pictures from the awesome art festival today: