Joshua and Bevin

I had this whole cool post made up about how cool permalinks were, but then it turns out that I can’t even use them that way in my blog. They’re still cool, just not all that relevant. So I guess I’ll just stick with the picture that I’d intended on posting.

As it turns out though, while Gallery2 does support permalinks, they’re permanent links to the gallery page displaying the picture, not just the picture itself. But, as it turns out, Josh is brilliant and figured out that if he copied the image location and then moved the image, the link would still work! What does this mean? It means that I can put pictures into my blog that are any size I want. Totally awesome.

To further illustrate my point (and because I just want to) I’m going to include in this entry a picture that I took at Gasworks Park last Saturday. A lot of folks were there hanging out watching the kite flyers.

I’m at Tully’s this afternoon drinking a grande iced lavender latte. Mmm.

I know that I don’t have my website up yet, but really, I’m thinking about it all the time.  Ha!  I will get it up sometime soon.  In the meantime though, I do have a photo gallery set up at my domain, which I have been adding pictures to on a regular basis.  Few people read this blog; fewer visit my photo gallery, but I think it’s worth mentioning that it’s now my gallery that Josh adds to.  Sure that sounds a little confusing, but really Josh takes a lot of nice pictures that are better added to the gallery by him than by me.  Those pictures will say, Owner: Josh when it’s something he’s uploaded.  He even has his own main album set up!

Some of you may see a photo and fall in love… some of you may take that feeling and end up in a place where you are “borrowing” that photo to use somewhere in your corner of the internet.  Whether it’s Flickr, your own blog or your own personal collection, it’s not cool to take our photos.  It’s happened before, and really, Josh and I don’t want to have to send angry take-down notices all the time.  Got it?

I wouldn’t think to mention it if it hadn’t happened before.  We’re cool if you like our photos, we’re even cool with you asking to use them… we just want you to ask.  We’ll usually say yes.

I haven’t done that little “rant” here on my blog yet (I don’t think), so I figure now is as good a time as any to do it.

I do have quite a few more photos uploaded into the gallery though… it might be worth checking out.  Especially if you like Gasworks Park.  And puppies.

Now that I seem to have this picture thing worked out, I’ll mention a bit about them.  I have my online web gallery that is publicly viewable, so of course not all of my nice pictures will go here.  I’ll try to limit it to one per post, but we’ll see.

Man, watch out in the future, because I could easily put at least one in every entry and this blog could take awhile to load.  I’ll try to keep it to a minimum.

So what does everybody think about iPhoto ’08?  Do you like it?  I have to say that the events feature is growing on me in the end, now that Josh worked some coding magic to get the event renaming working.  It does get kind of hard though to name an “event” when all of the pictures in it are just about my knitting.  But I didn’t go anywhere!

I’ve been thinking about the quality of my posts lately and slowly convincing myself that they’re, well… sucky.  I’m going to try to work on that, even if this blog is really only for myself in the end.

Oh, and to be even more random in this post, guess what we’re watching right now?  That indie-ish movie called But I’m A Cheerleader!  Good times, it’s pretty funny.

I think I’m going to change my blog layout as well… the more time that goes by, the more I end up really disliking it.  (insert shameless self promotion here)  Leave me a comment about what you think!

I think I need to start going back to using a “word of the day” as my subject for these posts… I’d almost forgotten that I did that in the past!

Either way, I think I have a nice way to put pictures in the blog. Let’s try something! Josh and I had a good time off at Bellevue Downtown Park (right by the mall) playing frisbee and generally having a good time out in the sun.

Let’s hope this worked. Yay for pictures!

I always think that I’m going to write some deep post in this blog here, but when I get around to opening the blank page I look at the subject line and I immediately start thinking of funny or amusing things.  Once that happens I seem to “forget” that I was planning on actually writing something substantial after all and all is lost.   Oh well.

This morning I’ve had two coffees.  Oops.  My mom called pretty early and wanted to meet me at 8am to go to Specialty’s at the mall here, so we came and I had two things: a grande iced vanilla latte (which was delicious) and a cranberry scone (which was slightly delicious).  I picked up some scones for my dad and his coworkers, then came to Tully’s here at the mall to hang out until Josh went on lunch.  Because I had the ride to the mall in the first place I decided that it wouldn’t be too much of an inconvenience to carry the laptop home as long as I didn’t have to do it here, heh.

Hence this post!  Woohoo!

My uncle is in trouble again… I don’t know what we’re going to do with him really.  He called me on my cellphone randomly and said that his car wasn’t working and on the side of 405.  I was asked to call my dad (he wasn’t able to contact him… probably because he tried calling his cell) and possibly my mom if I couldn’t reach him.  Some Incident Response Team arrived on the scene (Josh says they patrol the highways for this purpose) and last I heard from my mom Uncle Joe was talking to them.

I’m not really sure what the Incident Response Team is for though… I mean, usually the person isn’t in the car when they arrive (usually they’ve been abandoned), so do they have towing capability, or do they just mark the cars and call them in to be towed later in the day?  If you know leave me a comment.

I’m going to bail on this post because I just got a call from my mom asking me if my uncle can hang out with me for the rest of the day until my dad gets off of work, because she has to go pick him up in Totem Lake and go back to work herself.  -sigh-

We’ve officially got the iPod Touch!

What does it mean for you? It means that you could have an iPhone without the phone part. A full touch screen face…

I mean, really, what else could one want? Well, lots of things I suppose.

Oh, and in other news, guess what I’m using? A pair of Bose Quiet Comfort II’s. Yep, those are the noise-canceling headphones. I literally can’t hear myself typing on the laptop, nor can I hear the fan or the road noise outside. Very awesome! Of course, I’m not sure if it’s as awesome that my inaugural listen on the laptop is of a band called Brad Sucks. Haha!

I’m off to watch the rest of the event and see what the specs are. The new iPod Classics will come in 80GB and 160GB sizes at the same old price points. w00t!

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This new iPod Touch has wifi!  And a Safari button on the home screen!  -dances-

Wanna know what I’m doing now?

Reading/watching the live-blogging of the Apple event this morning.  Steve Jobs has just taken to the stage.  There might be touch screen iPods today!

I’m going to go watch… and cross my fingers.  -grin-

I just heard about this great game.  Okay, well maybe it isn’t so great, I mean, what do I know?  It hasn’t been out for long and I certainly don’t have a copy.  I haven’t played it either.

So why do I mention it you ask?

Because I want to WIN baby!  Oh yeah!

Basically, by blogging about this game called Quartile, I thereby give myself a chance to win the big prize: a marble version of the game.  Sweet, huh?  So far the game comes in a beautiful wooden box and the tiles are made of wood as well, but the creator made around 50 sets out of marble as a prototype.

As Homer would say, “Mmm… marble.”

So.  I hereby enter myself into the contest.  I definitely hope to win… it seems like a lot of fun.  Well, that and I couldn’t afford the game otherwise at the moment.

Wish me luck!

Lisa and I got together last night.  Woo!

I was going to call her on Sunday to plan for a Monday or Tuesday night get-together, but I didn’t get around to calling her.  She tends to leave her cellphone either off or at home when she’s at work, so I decided that Tuesday would be the better day.  She probably didn’t have her knitting stuff with her anyway.

So, Tuesday we got together.  She came over and since we were both hungry it was off to find food.  We decide to get the delicious grilled sandwiches at Whole Foods.  Apparently there’s a Whole Foods Market near where Lisa lives these days, which is really cool.  I get “The Ranier” (my new favorite) and Lisa gets our old standby: “The Needle”.  Hers comes with turkey, a pesto spread and brie, mine has mozzarella, tomatoes, and balsamic vinaigrette.  Yum!

We eat there, which was a lot of fun.  I splurged and also got some of their great caprese salad, along with one of those Izzie sodas (blackberry flavor).  Unfortunately though, once we were done we realized that there weren’t going to be many places open where we could go to knit, seeing as it was almost 6:30pm.  Not good.

Eventually we settled on the library.  It’s nice and big, and there’s a lot of seating.  But before that we made sure to walk over to the sushi place across the street from the library to get some bubble tea.  I had mango, Lisa had strawberry.

We didn’t stay at the library long; I soon realized that she was having such a difficult time knitting because her circular needles were entirely too long, making it difficult to knit.  At that point we browsed the books a bit and then left for the apartment.  I did end up borrowing something though… the movie 3-Iron.  They actually had the DVD!  I’ve already seen the movie, but I was hoping to be able to rip a better version off of the DVD.  It doesn’t look like I’ll have much luck seeing as after I got it home I saw all the scratches on the thing.  Argh.

We got to the apartment and I gave her some different needles that would be a bit better for her project.  She was using size 11 circulars in something like the 29″ length… way too long!  I lent her my 16″ size 11s instead.  She already seemed to be having an easier time of it.

Anyway, while she was here I got onto the computer and burned her a DVD full of stuff she’d like, including my copy of 3-Iron, Battle Royale, and Farce of the Penguins.  I also stuffed some music on there like Nickel Creek and Straight No Chaser.  We probably would have ended the night earlier were it not for the long time we had to wait for the DVD to burn.

Not much else happened… she left so I put on a movie (Deuce Bigalow… I know it’s silly) and waited for Josh to get home.  Speaking of!  Gotta go, Josh got home early.  Woo!

As you can see, I’ve changed the name of my blog.  I mostly just needed something different than what I had before.  Expect more changes in the future.

Not much is going on today… but my dad is being a little flaky.  I called him this morning to see if he wanted to go to lunch this week, and he immediately became indecisive.  He said that he was busy tomorrow so I suggested today and he couldn’t decide whether he was going to make the effort or not.  Either way, I called him back as requested and he said that his lunch buddies and him were going to walk to Taco Bell.  Not exactly my favorite place to eat lunch.

There isn’t much else planned for today, other than the fact that I’m going with Josh to pick up the swift and ball winder a woman was selling on Craigslist.  Both for only $20!  An awesome deal!

Oh, Josh arrived home from his one-day trip to Cupertino last night.  His plane was delayed leaving out of San Jose for an hour or so, which would have sucked more if not for the fact that he was getting paid for all that time that he was delayed.  Woohoo!

When he did arrive home though, I found out that he’d gotten a sore throat that day and was worried that he was getting sick.  Not good!  I talked to him earlier today and he said that he might go on lunch and just come home after that, because he’s not feeling well.  We plan on meeting what’shername in Seattle at 7pm, so Josh said that as long as he doesn’t sleep past 5pm we can make it.  -grin-

And oh boy do I love this new Apple keyboard.  I’m completely enamored.

Oh, and I made iced tea yesterday!  Sure, I make it a lot so it’s not surprising, but I made a kind of tea that I haven’t brewed in awhile.  Now that I have all my tea separated into nice little IKEA jars, I don’t want to use it because I have very little left.  Bah!  Either way I said “screw it” and made a pot of Jasmine Pear tea.  I forget where I got this one… I think I picked it up at the Home & Garden EXPO in Seattle last year or something when I went with my parents.  Good stuff though.

That’s it for this post, I’ll post another one about hanging out with Lisa last night.