..to update my blog!

So aside from the San Francisco trip which I will be posting about soon, I’ve also done other things lately…

Visted Longwood Gardens for the first time:

Went to some very social PLUG meetings:

Saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at a neat little one-screen theater in Anneville, PA:

I also saw Iron Man (very fun), went to the Trenton Computer Festival where I snagged myself a P3 1U for cheap as well as a motherboard and CPUs for the system I’m building (details soon), finally finished watching Torchwood S2. I forget what else I’ve been doing :) Will try to keep up better now…

I picked up my 2000 Pontiac Grand Am GT last night. It’s got 138K miles on it and the quirks to go along with something that high on mileage, but it runs great, the V6 makes her want to go fast, and the sunroof is dreamy. She’s named Blinker because of one of her quirks – the blinker noise sometimes goes off at random, and has already been replaced once to fix the problem, now it’s just one of those things I’ll have to deal with. We still need to finish the paperwork, Mike (PinkFreud) is getting a copy of the title and we’ll transfer registration to PA and ownership and insurance over to me as soon as that’s settled.

Pictures :)

Back home, getting back into work and catching up on things. More photos and stuff later.

A few months back I was asked if I wanted to be considered for the Ubuntu Regional Membership Board for the Americas. It’s one of three Membership Boards in the world whose task is to handle applications for people who apply for Ubuntu Membership.

Well, this weekend I learned that I was appointed along with 8 others the board. I know most of my fellow board members pretty well and it’s a fantastic group of folks, if I do say so myself :)

Hooray!

I’m no longer in my long time IRC Home of #13thHour.

So I have a new home:

#rainwreck
irc.psigenix.net

And I already have the domain! http://rainwreck.com/ (to be prettified soon)

Join us, won’t you?

..of course I’m insanely busy, and will be away from home most of the weekend, so drop by and lurk, meet others :)

Our My marriage is over, divorce papers are in the works.

Saying we’re both I’m devastated and in a great deal of pain over this doesn’t even begin to cover it.

I won’t be discussing this more here, or anywhere in public. There has already been too much hurt and we I just want to deal with this ourselves and move on.

Thanks to everyone who has been there for us me, your love, support and friendship continues to be invaluable.

EDIT: Michael objected to me “speaking for him” in this “meaningless internet/IRC like fashion” so I’ve edited it to exclude.

Things are a bit rough at the moment so I haven’t really been in the mood for posting anything, and haven’t been reading much either (might try and catch up today).

I have kept busy though, aside from the constant Buffy watching (Nita, the awesomest friend in the world, brought home seasons 3-7 for me to watch, borrowed from a friend, I just finished season 4!) I’ve been going out with friends. I’ve now checked off visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Mutter Museum thanks to my friend Stephen who is helping me indulge in my “I want to go to all the touristy things in PA” desire. I’ve also come to like Philadelphia more as I’ve been spending a lot more time down there lately, it really is a fantastic city.

I’ve been playing on my Nintendo DS more lately – anyone have suggestions for good online play ones? Or just wifi ones I can play with local friends?

Thursday I took a half day off of work for a trip down to the Franklin Institute to see the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit. Being the Star Wars fan that I am, it’s probably surprising that I haven’t seen a lot of the original props before, but I’ve never really gotten the opportunity until now – so this exhibit was really exciting to me, there were several *squee* moments. Perhaps the best was getting to see an original R2D2 costume, and an original Leia dress:

Michael also snapped a photo if me standing on the steps in front of the institute, which they had decorated for the exhibit – way cool!

While we were downtown we also got to go to Eulogy Belgian Tavern in Old City. The beer was great, the bartender was great, the burgers were great, the fries left a bit to be desired, but in all a nice outing. One more Philly Belgian Beer bar down, how many to go? We also wandered around Penn’s Landing a bit, which was chilly but fun.

Last week I also decided to take a trip. One of my closest friends moved out to San Francisco to work for Google about a year ago and although we’ve kept in touch online I haven’t seen him since he left. So I’m flying out there for a long weekend in mid May, flying out from Philadelphia Thursday the 15th, spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday there before flying back on Monday. Aside from the chance to check out Google (cool!) we’re planning on doing one of the Napa Valley shuttle tours, which I’ve wanted to do since a couple of beer friends described how much fun they had when they went on one. So wow, SF! Should be fun, I’ve never been to California. I won’t really have time for visiting while I’m out there, but I hope this won’t be the only time I come out there.

I’ve started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the recommendation of a couple of friends. I never gave the show I real chance (saw a couple episodes here and there, wrote it off), but based on their recommendation I borrowed Nita’s DVDs and over the past week made my way through seasons 1 and 2. I’m really enjoying it! Thanks Aidy and Wiggy. I pretty much spent this entire weekend watching Buffy and goofing off in IRC and on email, which makes me feel really really lazy, but I think I needed a weekend of staying in and vegging out. I did manage to leave the house for a bit on Saturday and take a walk on the Schuylkill River Trail that runs behind Nita’s house.