Halloween

We spent the second half of last week in LJ at the Pop's
house. It's always fun to go home for a few days.
Kimberly and I did the annual drive to the jetties at
Surf Side beach. It was a beautiful day and I was telling
K all about my high school marine bio class and how cool the
teacher was (she surfed, let me miss class to surf, and let
me surf before/after our field trips to the beach). Then
we started seeing kids from my school and finally my teacher!
she was so cool, gave us both hugs and told us about all the
cool things the school and her have been doing. super cool.

Friday we caught our flight to the big easy. Where we
literally ran into my coworkers at the airport. did you
know it has been over 8 months since I last saw my boss?
how cool is that? technology is awesome. Of course their first
questions were directed to K...asking what she's been up to!
job in Cali, potential for Oregon...ha! they didn't even seem
shocked! Charlie was super nice and congratulatory! Although
he kept looking at me like "aaand"! HA! So now my work has
been officially warned that something big is about to happen.
I look forward to working for them from where ever we live...
Hawaii? Costa Rica? get that resume in the mail Kim.

We ate lots of good food, drank lots of good drinks and smelt
that nasty Bourbon street smell! If you've been there, you know
what I'm talkin' bout.

What the hell was the deal with those Rockies? come on, all we wanted
was at least one win.

Caimee we're thinking about you!

blog talk

blog talk is kinda like text messaging.
got something to say but don't necessarily
want to talk...Ha
don't worry suzy when we save enough money
in oregon we'll head south to cali for some defrost time.
i guess that's IF K gets the yob.
LJ kickin' it at the coffee shop.
the strangest place on earth.
IT VACATION TIME

The countdown continues

Wow time flys. Can't believe it's almost move time.
Tomorrow we head to LJ. Friday we fly to the 'big
easy' for the anual company trip. Sunday we come
back to Austin. Then next Thursday or Friday we
head somewhere. If only the answer could be found
in the stars; that would make things easier.
Tomorrow wish Kimberly luck: she has her interview
for the Oregon job. Never thought I would say this,
and I might actually have to delete it so it can't ever
be used against me, but I prefer she gets this one over
the Cali job. FYI the cali job is already in the bag.
So we could be in Cali, Oregon or Colorado in less than
two weeks....


definitely gonna miss this little bugger

E-Rock - granite gripper

Friday night we went out with Troy and Becca. I tried to

convince them to go to Arabic night at some club down town,

but they weren't havin' it. So the only alternative? bowling!

In case you didn't know Kimberly is a secret pro; winning

50% of games played or bowled or whatever.

Yesterday we drove with mom to meet the Johnson family

at Enchanted rock. they we're all competing in a rock climbing

comp called the Granite Gripper. We hiked up and down and all

around but no actual "rock climbing" so to spell.

Ret got 1st place in her division! winning all kinds of things mom

couldn't understand on the phone (we split way before the ceremonies

started)...

Kimberly got mad at me and wouldn't come down from

this rock. Bad choice of escape rocks if you ask me.

No where to go.

OK actually she climbed up there for a photo.

Like this one...

Mom keeping us on the right path...

We almost stepped on this dude

After summiting E rock we hung with the kiddos for a bit.

Then PJ took us back to the top for a little cave exploring.

This photo is actually pretty deep in the cave. I told everyone

to turn off their lights for a photo, but we ended up with a

"see no evil" cyclops pic. the spelunking crew...

I spotted this little bat hanging on one of the walls.

How the hell are you supposed to aim the camera

in the dark? I couldn't tell what the camera was focusing

on...so you get a blurry bat pic.

i wonder...

I wonder how people stumble on our blog? Or anyone's
for that matter. Clustermaps is 'da bomb'. Ever since I
put the title Saddam's Palace, we've added two new locations
on our cluster map. Pancho is that you? When one of our friends
is in another country, it's funny because you can tell that they checked
out the blog while on vacation or work (i.e. the LeRoys in Hawaii and Maggie
in Indo). Now about these two new locations...I can't tell exactly where they
are: Iran? Iraq? Dubai? Kuwait? Saudi Arabia? I can't tell which exactly.
Pretty cool shit.
Also, can you believe how much CK-all day has done in the past 8 months?
I went scrolling back through the past, and damn we've done alot. It's supper
cool to have this online photo album that you can scroll through.

Oh-yeah I get my laptop back today! No more Flintstones for me.

holy #&!%

ok ok ok stop the presses...or start em'...er maybe this is the
press. CK-some what daily press. We've had this old ass disposal
camera that's been in the car for as long as we've known each other.
I don't know why we bought it, but it was worth the cash. This camera
came through when we didn't (meaning we forgot the real cam and found
this between the seats). When we made it back to Austin, there it was
in the side door. two picks left. So now we finally got it developed...

did you know we used to live on the beach???
mermaid sighting in texas!


They travel in pairs???



This photo is from our last trip accross the Port A ferry...
or maybe not.



So do you really think I would say hold the presses for us finding
some crap old camera? damn you must think we're boring.
Kimberly just got accepted for a job in San Diego (details later)!!!
San Diego!!! Who the 'fact' can afford to live there??? Anywho
Kimberly is two for two in the job interview! Now that's impressive.
Who gets every job they interview for? Now that's smarts. They haven't
even seen how cute she is yet. AND She's still waiting to hear back from
the Oregon Job. Damn.

SOOO what's next,we gonna go? we gonna snow?




California dreaming...
Scrips Pier...La Jolla Cali

Saddam's palace

My buddy Pancho is in Iraq right now. He's a Canine handler.
Pancho & "Lucky" at one of Saddam's Palaces...

if it isn't in the blog...

...then it didn't happen...at least that's what Suzy keeps
tellin' me. We went camping with the fam at Bastrop
State Park. I think the park is on top of an underground
network of ant caves. With entrances/exits located
at every camp site.


Suz and son took refuge on top of the playground.
Is that an ALL sweat shirt?



We went with Paul and kids fishing at the lake.
I'm not sure that fish even live in that pond. Or
maybe it was our entourage of pugs, kids and Paul!


Danger caught a lolly



Ret's was so big she needed Kimberly to help real it in




awe how cute

money fow notin'

Maybe I shouldn't put this up here but I think it's funny...
(never a good start)
Anywho, I got this email from a guy the other week telling
me someone died and blah blah blah he wants to give me the money.
all I have to do is give him some info...phone #, address, my name?,
the works. Because I sit in front of a computer all day, I thought it
would be fun to email him back...my name is Charlie Brown blah
blah blah my number is 867-5309; the works. So now we're onto
email numbero dos...

deposit slip for millions of dollars...


dude that wants to give me the millions...


the dead dude...



proof of dead dude...RIP


Crazy.

Other notable notes (if your still reading)...
- I didn't get the florida keys job (however they were stoked
to tell me I did make it to the top 10% of highly qualified blah blah
blah)

-Kimberly applied for a job yesterday in San Diego. They emailed today
to setup interview numero uno!

-Still waiting to hear back on Kimberly's Oregon job...

-Rockie's won playoff semi finals game one!

-Liefen & Bjorn rock! If it wasn't for them...I wouldn't have this great
monitor and would be digging in dumpsters for some one's old screen.

-going camping tonight...

last minute deals

every day we get a little closers to the move out date...
i'm not even sure we know what that means exactly,
but i think it means crunch time. time to get in all
those last minute activities we thought we had so
much time to do. when we first got to austin we
went out to 6th street almost every night to hear live
music. but for some reason all that came to a halt.
so tonight were taking up noah on an offer to hear
free music (free because he's buying us tickets "since
we never go out and hear live music...i'll hook y'all up").
so hook it up noah. tonight is hiphop night? emo's has
djs? dj michael avery? don't look this dude up...at least
not yet...we'll tell you how it goes!

after countless hours of technical difficulties the past couple of
weeks, we had to escape from all things computer. so it was
back to pace bend for some r&r.

last time we were here we spied this spot while kayaking.
it has a 300 degree view of water and only enough room
for one tent. probably about as alone as you can get for
state park- car camping.





however, trying to avoid people and trying to get a little closer
to nature, means getting a little closer to this dude.




Not as many ants as last time but spiders everywhere.
this may be the best view on the block, but what you can't
see are the millions of spiders lurking between the all
those leaves...beautiful .

from our site you could swim across a cove to one of the rocks
everyone jumps off. kids will post up all day jumping off that
rock. too bad for these kids; they didn't get to play very long.
about 30 minutes after they showed up, so did the cops. and
then another. then two more. and finally a sheriff (five officers and
four cars total). No underage drinking in this park! I can't wait
for PJ to be one of these guys so I can hear the lowdown on
these types of showdowns...




We had such a great time I think we might have to go back
next week......that is; pending no surf ofcourse

computers suck^2

Yesterday morning I sat down at my computer,
turned it on, grabbed me a fresh cup of coffee
(by the way our families have turned us into
coffee junkies...how did we ever get out of bed
without it?), and started hammering away at
my work. 10 minutes later you could smell smoke...
I know I work hard but could my computer be over
heating? I "googled" the issue and got all kinds of
responses like "leave the room and call the fire dept!"
or "get the hose ready!"...really?

Well shortly after that my computer crashed. And shortly after
that, CompUSA called my cell. You guys are good.
Too good to be true. Those Mother f-ers didn't
call because they telepathically knew my computer had
just died; they called to tell me that they have NOT sent my laptop
off to get fixed. "you got to be fucking kidding me"
I told the geek on the other line, but nope.

Now i'm really pissed. 1) my computer won't turn on.
2) my laptop hasn't left the shelf to get fixed (so I could
have been using it the past two weeks instead of this POS)
3) I now have to call around to get some immediate attention
4) we rely on Computers way too much...no computer = no
work. what year did that start?

Luckily for us the Rockies made the playoffs and most playoff
game take place in the middle of the day. And Lucky for us
the game was on just down the street from the computer shop.

So sometimes things happen for a reason but some reasons
just don't add up. 6000X84X23/2 does not = 1.

Rocks roll on.....

I am always happy when football season rolls around. It means
Fall is here (and snow is close!) and Sportscenter becomes fun to
watch again (Top 10 Plays of the Day are a personal favorite). But
this year, baseball season is headed into extra innings! That's right,
the Colorado Rockies won 14 of their last 15 games to clinch the
NL Wildcard spot in the playoffs, and have been making late-season
baseball damn exciting for Colorado fans.
Going to a Rockies ballgame is always fun (just ask Cy about his new
Rockies socks!). Lots of homeruns, friends, family, peanuts, good beer,
and a bratwurst with grilled onions! Mmmmm....... But the Rockies' 16
year history has only once produced post-season excitement, and it was
short-lived, losing in the first round. This season, the Rox are keeping
it interesting and keeping us up late to watch some good baseball!
Oh, and yesterday they won their first play-off game against the Phillies.
Go Rockies!




No baseball pics, but this is a wonderful chocolate cake cactus that
Cheryl baked. A practice cake for a charity bake sale/competition
later this week. I got to help with the frosting and tasting!

time stops for no one

even people with cameras...

We've had so much fun the past few days,
who has time to stop for pictures? Let's see...

Friday afternoon we went to Hamilton Pool
to swim for a bit. Super chill and not
too crowded. But what's the deal with every
swimming hole in Texas...they're all freezing!
Does the water not know it's 100 degrees outside
(or almost 100 this year...I think it was the coldest
summer on the record books...so does the water
not know it's 95 outside?)

After the pool, mom cooked up some great hotwings.
I don't know how many she cooked, but I think Paul
must have eatin' more than half! That old dude can eat.

What else...Saturday we rode our bikes around LB Lake.
then we jumped in the kayaks and paddled the same loop.
I don't know how she does it, but Kimberly and I gave up
trying to keep up with mom. (when we were biking; she rode
ahead, rented a kayak, and still beat us back to the car. in the
kayaks; she went over a mile further than us, turned around,
passed us up, beat us to the dock, returned her kayak and got
her cc card back then waited at the dock to help us out).

Yesterday was football, football and poker while watching football!