Beebe4

While out in Vegas I meet up with an old friend from Sengent. We talked a little about work and he mentioned something that gave me an idea for an opportunity. So when I got back I called Gioel and it turned out to be an interesting idea all the way around… so I have agreed to moonlight for the Model Exchange project and do some community maintainance and site development. I am pretty excited about it.

We started a new project in the house. We have torn out the left upstairs bedroom’s walls and ceiling in preparation for putting up some new sheet rock and a fresh coat of paint. Pearl has hook us up with a guy from the Church she works at who is charging us $10 an hour for his labor… pretty darn good deal if you ask me, of course that is his rate if I help him. Shawn helped me this weekend and it turn into a bigger project then we had hoped for (surprise, surprise?!) so it took us much longer then expected… and we were not able to get to the Den to start the deconstruction in there.

Leigh & Ashe

My sister Leigh has setup a picture site on flickr.

The URL for her photo page is http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124305809@N01/

I have set one up also, my URL is http://www.flickr.com/photos/beebe4/, I will add a link to the right shortly.

Today, I celebrate my 2 year anniversary of being married to my wonderful wife. We have agreed to not spend any money on each other since we just dropped a couple thousand on a very nice vacation to Las Vegas, NV and Scottsdale, AZ… but I decided to get her some flowers anyway. And still trying to convince her that we can afford a decent dinner… maybe at our favorite place, Fellini’s (not that same chain as in Atlanta). They have the most amazing salads there, big enough for two man-children to share and still have left overs!

I will post pictures of the vacation soon… you can go to my yahoo pictures to see them now, I just haven’t commented on them or organized them very well.

Details as to what we did will be coming soon too. Feel free to leave us a happy anniversary comment below!!!

I will be gone for the next 7 days. Write all about it when i get back… have fun without me.

So when I was in college I worked at a company that was trying to integrate your email, faxes and voicemails all in one place and provided interfaces via any of those 3 technologies (i.e. you could have your emails forwarded to a fax machine by calling up your toll free number and enter the fax number to forward the email to, and voicemails were saved off as audio files and sent to your email, etc…).

Although it was a pretty interesting job, I think my sister Mandy‘s summer job is pretty much the coolest thing I have heard of. She has a nack for finding this obscure, really cool jobs. She is spending the next few months out in Death Valley (can you say HOT!) working in the library at Scotty’s Castle (which is not a Castle, and not Scotty’s… but who’s counting). While looking into the Castle, I found an archive of some old photos, which I thought were pretty cool. Here are the results of the search from the Online Archive of California for “Scotty’s Castle”.

I say that she has a nack because she also had lined up some sort of cataloging gig with a company that keeps track of vintage Ringling Brother and Barnum & Bailey posters, but that fell through.

See how fast you can move that mouse by trying to Slap that Ho.

So this lad recently posted a comment to offer his congrats for the recent weight loss. His blog tracks his progress of lossing 50 kg. I wish him the best in his efforts, and will check in periodically to see the progress… he needs to post some pictures… actually so do I… I have some before and after of the fat reduction, but wanted to get svelte before posting.

In honor of our 2 year anniversary coming up (hence the vacation starting on Saturday) lets take a look back at our wedding page on The Knot. Let’s also take a look at the place we stayed… since it was pretty nice and I often find myself wanting to go back there.

They have overhauled their website, so here is the new link to Las Brisis.

I had a doctors appointment this morning. It went well. The doctor was impressed with the 42 lbs weight loss, and gave me these numbers from the blood work that had been done the previous Monday.

           &nbsp               Before   After

Total Cholesterol   221       216

HDL (good)            39       46

LDL (bad)             162       149

LDL/HDL Ratio      4.3       3.3

All in all he was pretty impressed. He wants me to get down to 175 (ideal for my height) and get the LDL/HDL ratio down to 3.0, but 3.3 is pretty good, considering 3.6 is “average risk”