Almost attacked by a turkey at work.
Aug 26th, 2008 by atrommer
Camouflage fail.
Aug 25th, 2008 by atrommer
Poor mr. Stickey hiding in plain sight.
As seen at b&n
Aug 8th, 2008 by atrommer
Three Days of Birthday
Jul 6th, 2008 by atrommer
Angela really overdid it. Honestly. In the end, I’ve had a wonderful three days of being spoiled.
On Thursday night, Erin dropped by on her trek to KC. This led to some good Isis/Jabber time and also let Erin and I catch up over some tasty BBQ. She also introduced me to a fun new game called Alhambra. Good times, although I must say that I enjoy Settlers better.
On Friday, Angela treated me to baseball, beer, brats, and blowing things up, all in the same event! We went to a Fort Worth Cats minor league game. Their logo, no kidding, is FTW, and boy did they, 9-3. We even made friends with a completely wasted old man with a net loss of teeth. It’s always fun to carry on conversations with people who might as well have a mouthful of marbles. I like it because I can invent in my head whatever I want them to say and the conversation carries on just about the same.
I was really surprised on Saturday. Angela took me out to get a massage which nearly put me to sleep the rest of the afternoon. Thankfully I came to, because after that we went to Truluck for an amazing dinner. I had the sesame tuna this time and Angela tried the mahi-mahi. Both were fantastic. We finished the night watching Wall*E. I found it very cute and incredibly human, which is funny considering it’s a movie about two robots on Earth with only a couple lines of dialog between them.
Today, my actual birthday, I largely spent in bed being lazy. This evening, after some grocery shopping (and cake-buying!!) we met up with Griff and Courtney to watch Wanted at Movie Tavern. I really enjoyed the film, and it was a great end to the weekend.
Sadly we all head back to work tomorrow. Thankfully, Angela and I will be meeting up with my folks in two weeks to spend a short 3 day vacation on the coast. Time to start looking forward to that.
The past two weekends have been jam-packed with excitement.
Two weeks back, we went up to KC for Cathy’s graduation, Mom Chao’s birthday, and to catch up with the gang. Angela, of course, documented the whole occasion in a timely manner, so I’ll spare you the play-by-play. However, I had a great time with Katie, CC, Scott, and Shernuk. I love how, no matter the time that has passed, we can fall right back into old times.
Scott, Andy and I watched Iron Man and I was happily surprised at how fun it was.
Last weekend, Brandon came in town to (hopefully) get some much needed relaxation in. We ate out at BLT Steak Friday night. It was decent, but the flavors were a bit too raw for me. With that said, they had amazing gruyere popovers.
Saturday was shopping and a BBQ where we got a chance to meet Eric’s fun girlfriend, Brittany, as well as meet up with David and Anni. I made ridiculously large burgers. I believe some even referred to them as “hockey pucks”. Either way, no complaints, and no food poisoning. Angela made her mom’s potato salad (tasty!) and a fruit salad.
Sunday, we met back up with David and Anni for lunch at Central Market (note to self, we frequent CM way too much for lunches, but it’s so good!). We then split up, guys and girls, with Anni and Angela off to shop for clothes while Brandon, David, and I went to Modia for my home theatre gear.
After getting lucky on some prices, I was able to get the exact set I wanted. I ended up with the Rotel RSX-1057 paired with 2 B&W 685’s. They sound amazing, especially considering that I only had the built-in speakers in my TV to compare to! It still pains me that I spent that much on speaker cable, though.
This week will wrap up my 4 weeks of 4-day-weeks, and I’m certainly going to miss it. Angela and I don’t have any time off planned until July, and work is looking to be very hectic over the next month, so I’ll be sure to use my new speakers for some relaxing music.
This weekend, Angela and I are planning on seeing the Sunday Concert in the Garden, and I suppose I should finally mow the yard.