Vancouver

What a great trip! Dori and I travelled down to Oregon to visit her Aunt & Uncle and have a small graduation party. Then on to Grandma's for a couple days in the Oregon country. A day trip to Powell Butte to visit Dan's grave. Mixed into that was chance to meet up with my Uncle and cousin. Then back to Washington with a stop in Port Ludlow to see my grandparents and on up Anacortes to stay with my mom. Whew! There was a lot of people on this trip!

It was one of the best Christmas trips I've had. Plenty of time with lots of great people.

On the way back I had a crazy experience. Well it wasn't that crazy, more like a test. I decided to go car radio shopping for Boxing day. So I pull into Future Shop parking lot. Dori and I noticed that it was busy, but that was to be expected. What we didn't notice is that there was one exit. Just one. So it must have taken a half-hour or better to get out of a parking lot. Crazy. Plus the good Boxing day deals were gone. Oh well. Maybe we'll figure it out next year.

I realized that Pink has been invaluable to writing my thesis. She hasn't contributed any ideas, and defnitely hasn't done her fair share of house cleaning, but she's been there to let me relieve my stress.

Somedays I feel sorry for her. Putting up with me. She'll be sleeping peacefully and I decide I need a break -- and Pink is the recipient.

Had quite the stag party on Saturday. You'd think I'd write about this on Sunday or Monday, but I'm just now recovering. We toured downtown Vancouver starting in swanky Yaletown and ending up at the Cecil. All in the name of Jeff Montgomery. Congratulations man.

So a large portion of the internet users have some idea of what spyware is. Programs that are installed without (sometimes with) your permission that record information about that you may or may not care about. In particular the most common is tracking cookies. These are things that attach to your internet browser and try their best to figure out how you surf the net.

For a minute I'm going to give you the chance to see me surf the net. After all, I should be working on my thesis, but somethings are just more important.

1. Begin working on thesis by putting on music: Cake's new album, first song, "Wheels"
2. Hear the line "While the overweight Americans wear their patriotic jumpsuits"
3. Search google for patriotic jumpsuits.
4. See an interesting looking blog as the first hit.
5. Notice the interesting hook about Austria.
6. Laugh and cry about the above post and get intrigued by Election Hangover post in sidebar.
7. Laugh and cry about the above post and maybe feel a bit angry and then begin to wonder what "808" means, as in the title of the above blog "Bangin' like an 808."
8. Remeber that there is an Urban Dictionary that defines slang and discover that "808" is a Roland drum machine used in 80's music.
9. Remember that I was actually looking for the rest of the lyrics to Cake's song so I could pass it on to Brad, but now figure a blog post is just as good.
10. Decide I should finish this post and get back to my thesis.

This meant to be an interactive post. To fully enjoy spying on my surfing habits, I recommend clicking each link in order before moving on. Then get back to work!

Dang it! The album is done playing, now I have to pick more music before I continue with my thesis...