Let's sail away with a whisper and a kiss

I'm a very good "catching up" friend. I'd say the good majority of my friendships involve hanging out, then a long absence, and then another period of hanging out to catch up. It works very well for me, and I believe this works well for my friends too. I don't need constant attention, and neither do they.

I have the same relationship with this website. Anyways.

A month ago today was my final day at my old company. I started my new job about two weeks ago, and so far it's great. In fact, I received my first paycheck today. So far, I've helped draft and correct quite a few policies and procedures for the future bank. Christina thinks this is very cool. "You're, like, writing policies that many many people will have to follow for years to come!" Indeed I am.

My birthday was a couple weeks ago. I had a pretty good party for it, with a fair number of people eating sushi and playing poker. Ryan came down from up north, and he and I got really drunk the night before, so it was an all around great weekend.

Two weeks before that I went to Seattle to visit my sister and her two new sons. My nephews are ridiculously cute. I think this is my favorite picture of them so far:

Joey is on the left sticking his tongue out and Josh is on the right with his crossed eyes looking perplexed. I don't know why, but I have a feeling that many years from now I'll look at this picture and it will encapsulate their personalities. Or maybe not. My god are they cute.

Did anyone watch the series finale of Six Feet Under? Holy shit was that great. I'm going to miss that show.

And lastly, I think my iPod has officially replaced my car radio. I've been listening to podcasts for about the last seven months on and off, but now I'm officially hooked. You see, back around sophomore and junior year of college, I used to love watching TechTV in the mid-afternoon after classes but before the proper going-out time. I especially liked a show called "The Screen Savers." But TechTV was bought by Comcast and they merged the network with their crappy videogame network G4 and they pretty much cancelled all of the shows I loved, including TSS. Anyways, most of the guys that were on those shows are now podcasting three or four shows a week, and I listen to them instead of crappy corporate rock, even crappier hip-hop/rap, or even worse, Tom Leykis. With that, I recommend This Week in Tech and Diggnation as my favorites. Until I feel like catching up again, enjoy.