{"id":2881,"date":"2009-09-03T18:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generoseberry.com\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2009-09-03T18:20:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T01:20:34","slug":"pax-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/?p=2881","title":{"rendered":"PAX and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is PAX! Big times ahead. Pat&#8217;s coming down today, and tomorrow morning we&#8217;re gonna head over the mountains and enjoy the nerdfest. The show is completely sold out in all it&#8217;s forms, and they bought the whole convention center and increased hours this year, so it should be crazy. I&#8217;m probably most excited to see Jonathan Coulton and the CO-OP and TRS shows, plus all the demos of video games to come.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation I&#8217;ve already purchased many snacks while at Costco last with my parents, so I&#8217;ve gotta figure out how I&#8217;m going to carry all of that w\/o smashing\/melting it. I got PuzzleQuest Galactrix so I&#8217;ll have something to play while I wait in lines. I also want to buy ear plugs, cause I&#8217;m not into hearing loss. I&#8217;ve gotta get our sleeping arrangement figured out a bit better still, too. And possibly see if I can meet up with the folks and get the GPS and stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve written all of that down I&#8217;ll probably remember to do it. What else? Pat and I might camp after PAX w\/ his folks for a day, although I don&#8217;t know the odds of that since I haven&#8217;t talked to Pat in a bit. He&#8217;s always sleeping, or working. He apparently doesn&#8217;t get chances to chat much at work. \/shrug<\/p>\n<p>K, so in work related news, all the other interns left last week, so for this whole week I&#8217;ve had the biggest office in the building. People are circling, though, so I think others might be moving in soon. I&#8217;ve been told I&#8217;ll be moved out at the beginning of October, though. I&#8217;m getting an office with a window, and an officemate, but just one. Her name&#8217;s Cara. She seems acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>I got my picture taken to be put in the records. I&#8217;ll be up on the wall and in the memory game soon, apparently. I also have to write up goals for the next FY soon, as the current one is ending. Not sure how I like the non-coding aspects of work, but it seems like they&#8217;re unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>Last post I mentioned I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d get to see Lauren again before she left, but I did. Mother was kind enough to find and excuse to drive me over there for the weekend so I got a good couple days to say goodbye right before she left. It was all good. I think she&#8217;s got herself aligned properly and she&#8217;ll be fine over there.<\/p>\n<p>Also saw my cousin&#8217;s new baby. Mother and Aunt took many pictures with it stuck in my arms like a prop, so they might show up on the internet soon. I&#8217;ll stick in a link maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Home life stuff\u2026 Aaron mowed the lawn, which is nice. (I&#8217;ll mow the lawn if you guys keep it clear of dog feces, ffr roomies) He also bought an aerator for the faucet in the kitchen so it doesn&#8217;t spray water everywhere. Kim and Kelsey paid rent early, so that&#8217;s going well. We still haven&#8217;t gotten a utility bill, so that&#8217;s a bit concerning. I think I&#8217;ve done all I can to try and get things set up, except possibly the check-up nagging. I really don&#8217;t see how society developed to require such nonsense, though. Seems like we should try and evolve past the need to nag.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, also last post I said the aquatic ape theory discussed on that TEDTalk was probably bogus and to let me do research. Well, I didn&#8217;t have to, cause the Skeptical Rogues did it for me. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/skepticsguide\/skepticast2009-08-18.mp3\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s the episode of interest. The specific chunk is from about 29:30 to 46:10, but you should listen to the whole thing. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is PAX! Big times ahead. Pat&#8217;s coming down today, and tomorrow morning we&#8217;re gonna head over the mountains and enjoy the nerdfest. The show is completely sold out in all it&#8217;s forms, and they bought the whole convention center and increased hours this year, so it should be crazy. 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