Not dead. Busy. And I sort of fell out of the habit. So, here’s what I’ve been up to since April:

• Lots of work on BigHugeLabs.com
• Bought a pet rat ($7) and accoutrements ($92) for the kids.
• Ripped up the weed jungle that my backyard had become and planted Dutch Clover instead of grass. Coming in beautifully. Should control weeds and be virtually maintenance free.
• Two birthday parties. Kids are now 9 and 7.
• Commuting to the library a few days a week to work. This is working out nicely now that the kids are on break. Turns out I'm not allergic to the sun. It is showing up a weakness in my netbook though---the keyboard is fine for browsing the internet but not as good for programming. Probably a new laptop in my future. Probably a MacBook.
• Created another website: ideas.bighugelabs.com
• Restaurant City
• Bought a 13 foot trampoline.
• Cleaned the carburetors on my bike (a 2000 CBR 600 F4, the last model before fuel injection was introduced). It's the first carb cleaning I've ever done but it went really well. I think I could do it again in a under 3 hours. Saved about $350 doing it myself, which is nice.
• Talked to a bunch of sixth graders about my profession. They did not believe I was "the BigHugeLabs guy."
• Bought a 1 terabyte hard drive for $94. Holy moly.
• Finished two bottles of Scotch.
• Tried doing hundredpushups.com but my shoulder failed me in week 4. Taking it easy until it heals.
• Survived 3 earthquakes.
• Survived taxes.

How’s your summer going?

I update Twitter more frequently than here. Not because I think blogging is dead and Twitter is going to take over. Just because it’s faster to peck out a hundred characters than to write an entire post. So, if you really want to stalk me, for now, that’s the place to do it. ;-)

Comments

1. blufindr on 2009-06-26 14:32:31 wrote: Holy moly… I think I need a new hard-drive. I like how things to go with pets tend to be way more expensive than the pet(s) themselves. My fish, on initial start-up of my second tank, totalled around $100. The tank, heater, food, etc… ran closer to $1000.

2. Mike Hedge on 2009-07-22 02:24:42 wrote: neat update! love your ideas page!

3. Bryan Villarin on 2009-07-25 12:50:40 wrote: Nice summer so far! I should do a similar post. It’s basically just work and school, at the moment. Oh, and that ideas page - off the chain!