Just another post, 11 August 2004 - what is an online journal supposed to be to me? I can't trust slashdot entirely, so no major secrets... shall I just recap the recent past?

Work has me traveling more. Soon to travel to France for 10 days on business. Going to a coworker of Erin's wedding in Salt Lake City soon - Betsy and Rob. Should be fun.

The kitchen+house remodel is finished. What an easy process that only costs ~$80,000! Financial impact to be felt for a while (~2+ years)...

Erin turned 27 the other day. She says she had a very nice day. We have been playing chess together consistently for a few days now. We played a game at Nearly Normals last night over drinks - she a watermellon margirita, me a mohito. We basically played to a draw, but she let me call it my win.

This morning (1 Feb 2003) I woke up at 5:40PST to go out in the dark of Oregon with my dog to try to see the STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia re-entry trail. It was suprisingly a clear sky - it is usually raining around here. I was supposed to be able to see the trail at 5:54am. Didn't see anything, I thought perhaps mission control had the shuttle come down on another pass, 90 minutes later. I came back inside to check the status of the landing on the web - only to eventually learn that the shuttle broke up at about 6am over Texas. Debris being found in central Texas now...

Just trying out this new(?) Slashdot feature.