That meant so much to me. Today my friend Jesse, who got me into web programming and mobile devices (look where that went) and inspires me, wrote me this:

... im writing because i want to say that you have been a big
influence on my life, and that you are a really important part of my
thinking. so thats it.
later.

I only wish that person didn't live so far away in China ;(

I took today off in order to rest but I couldn't just rest, I had to work on the new estrip a bit, which involved moving and sorting 28,000 media files.

Then I had to write some rules so that when people requested the old files in links and stuff, that they would be redirected to the new ones. I also read all the news form the mobile phone convention which was exciting but not like buy it now exciting. Everything, was about some distant other phone in the semi distant future ;( That is not why I saved up for this!!

When is the first android phone coming out after all. And when is the freakin' iphone SDK coming out - and flash for the iphone. I am ready now.

I am so ready for something exciting and new in the mobile world. What I really want is the not phone to have its own 3G. Ok maybe to get my sms accepting me into the skyfire beta program.I have been waiting two weeks!!

We went to Black And Blue Seafood 5493 Sheridan Drive, Amherst (839-2525)


It was one of the most amazing meals I ever ate. The service and food was unbelievable. We had a server and two server helpers that attended to everything. I had never had that level of service anywhere.

I had Jonah crab, my mother had a 2 1/4 lb lobster. (e:mike) had scallops, my father had lamb chops and (e:terry) had ny strip steak with blue crab meat. Poor (e:matthew) was sick ;( The lobster was the biggest lobster I ever saw. It doesn't look as big in the pic as it did in real life.





The interior was really nice. I especially liked the suede high back booth we were in.




Here you can see part of the menu. You can see the full menu on their website


Their fireplace was awesome. I kind of want one like this.

::Download Flash Video::

Afterwards we went home for cake and gift opening.


(e:miek) trying to listen to something


Mom and me at the table


WE tried to take a family photo but for some reason, my brother (e:mike) cannot smile in a picture. My mom has trouble too. WE all had trouble with it basically. Maybe its genetic. We had so many retakes, this is just a small sample.











By the end I was laughing so hard. poor (e:terry) had to take the pics.

I reconfigured my work area. Fianlly, a desk with enough space to actually work.


What is this car part? I found it in my Grandfather's stuff when I was trying to decide what to keep and what to get rid of. It seems like someone with this car would really want the part but I can't seem to idenitfy it. It is is perfect condition and made out of really heavy solid metal/steal/chrome.

It looks so retro futuristic







I set up the old server with the graphic card that used to be in it. Before it was the estrip server for two years, it was my 3D rendering station. I remember buying this FireGL X1 256MB graphic card for $1000 with my student loan money. It was so freakin' awesome at the time in 2003. Now laptops have that much graphic memory ;( It's probably worth nothing now. Luckily, it is worth something to (e:terry) who can use it to play warcraft on the machine.

I am getting ready to go out tonight with estrip gang (e:fellyconnelly,43239). I can't go to the pre-party because of the cats ;( That is my life.

I decided to wear a tie.




We were cleaning up our den today in order to move a much bigger desk for me into it when someone found this old CD of data from my old blueberry ibook abck in 1999. On it were a lot of pictures I cannot post but these ones, I can post.



Here is one of (e:terry) from our bedroom in Germany. He looks crazy. The photo was named crazy man, in german.


Oh, I miss the endless skies and warmth of arizona ;(


How super apple fanboy gay is this. I am almost embarassed. We took this with our webcam back in 2000.



One time we needed a place to live because we had just moved to Germany and didn't know anyone, so we put up these signs everywhere with our name/email. Notice the lack of much information. It led to us finding somewhere though.


Here are some picture of (e:terry) and Ronnie Deleski - she was one of our really good friends from Arizona who then also went to school in Germany and visited us there.







Okay, this one is insane - I don't really remember the details but I am pretty sure Ronnie and (e:terry) were very drunk and silly youths at the time.



(e:terry) and I in our room


(e:terry) looking young and cute back in 1999 when our apartment was 15x9 with three of us living there. We had to roll up our futon bed in order to use the oven. It did have a walk in tiled shower though.


(e:terry) looking strong