11/18/06: Sleepless in Houston
Yes, this is my On Call week for Continental Airlines. Go figure, I get it during the busiest travel week of the year which means when "it" hits the fan, it gets well distributed. Friday night/Saturday morning was hell due to a corrupt table in a database. Needless to say sleep was not something on my agenda. Oh well, by the end of this week I will be off call again and continue receiving that lovely paycheck :)
We have been keeping busy here between Christmas shopping, NBA games, work, and spending as much time as we can in the gym. We stopped by the house on our way back from lunch in Rice Village today and I was able to get this picture with my phone. It's coming together nicely, and soon all the walls will be up.
11/08/06: Contests abound
In protest of the high prices of razors these days, Myself, Rob and I believe James will be boycotting the use of them until Dec 17th. Why that day? Your guess is as good as mine... but either way I am scared to see the outcome. So far so good, Dana says the scruffy look suits me, looks "sexy" and even adds a year or 2 making me look less pre-pubescent. It has become a bit of a contest between us guys to see who can make it the longest... I already predict that I will be the first loser, so don't bet on me. Another contest going on just between Rob and James could turn out to be hilarious. Basically, the 2 of them will get pictures of themselves in Speedos, then both try to lose weight... in the end the one who loses the least has to post their picture up on myspace. Honestly, in the end, whoever falls into viewing the Speedo picture is the loser in my mind...
Otherwise, we have a meeting tomorrow with the builder the double check the electrical and structure so far at the house, then Friday we have tickets to the Rockets vs Knicks game! Both teams may suck lately, but when you put 2 terrible teams up against one another, you get a great game.
11/05/06: Progress!
So the house has been coming along quite quickly lately. It's amazing how much work they can get done when Houston isn't flooding. Here are a bunch of pictures from our visit today.
Oh, and this just in. Everyone who thought Bailey was just Wonderwoman for Halloween, guess again. I just came across these images on internet news sites:
10/30/06: Hi folks
Ahh yes halloween. A time when kids become whatever their hearts desire... limited only by imagination and moms inability to sew properly. Luckily my Mom had skills, otherwise even I would have doubted my true identity as Superman. Halloween is also a good time to sell your stock in hookers because nobody can tell which ones are real, and which ones are just underage girls expressing thier deep rooted desire/lack of attention by dressing like french maids or something similarly lacking in cloth...
In celebration, Dana and I carved our pumpkin. We decided to go a bit untraditional this year, steering away from the typical spooky face pumpking, and make it more of a spooky image. Needless to say we had a good time doing it.
Besides carving a pumpkin this past weekend, we went over to the Houston Home and Garden show on Saturday to learn a bit more about home owning. In the end it was a bunch of advertising and people trying to get you to sign up to win a free lawn gnome, but we did find some things that interested us. Dana ended up picking up a really nice necklace from a jeweler, and I bought some Chipotle hot sauce which I will proceed to put on everything including ice-cream. Overall it was a good day and it got us outside in the 85 degree weather.
Speaking of hot days, Brack and I took off to Galveston on Sunday to do some wade fishing in the bays. I have never been wade fishing but it is quite the experience when you have bait fish jumping all around you, but you cant see what it is they are running from. At times the water came up above my belly button but never over the chest waders. I only took one picture with my cell phone being that we were walking around in the middle of the ocean, but it turned out quite well if I do say so myself.
10/20/06: Sheehan Gallery
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10/18/06: 1000 pictures say 1000000 words
We are still alive for those who were wondering, I've just been too busy to do much with the website to be honest. So here we go, clean slate, TONS of pictures, and a night off from everything.
Work has been going well. I have the hang of things and have my confidence back with just about whatever it is I am doing. My fellow employees are a good group, and I can foresee a lot of good times here in Houston with them. I have created more .net/vb/sql linked aspx sites then I can even remember but it is nice to feel utilized and appreciated.
In interest of causing marked drowsiness, I'm going to get right to putting up some recent pictures in order of occurrence. The first group are from the trip back to NY 3 weekends ago where we did some apple picking like all good upstate new yorkers do.
Sorry about the format of that picture page, I wanted to try something different and it turned out all wrong.
Next up, Dana's Mom came into town two weekends ago here in Houston and I honestly don't have many pictures from her visit mostly because 90% of it was spent in a mall. We went to the Katy Mills outlets, and to the Galleria mall here and some others in between. I was shopped out but those girls have something in them that just makes them keep going.
Last but not least, this past weekend my Mom and Dad, and Jason and Sara flew into Houston to go see the Blue Man group then to see a Texas rodeo on Saturday night. The weekend flew by but it was great to see everyone again. I do have some pictures of it, but most from the rodeo didn't come out well. We will have to wait for Jason's for the good ones!
Well that's it for now. We are off for a bit so I'll wrap this up. Sorry about the downtime but hopefully it's been made up for now!
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