office remodel: before
this is my office, where i do my work. it is getting pretty cluttered in there so i am doing an extreme home makeover, office edition! these are the before pictures. the after pictures will be next week. stay tuned!
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this is my office, where i do my work. it is getting pretty cluttered in there so i am doing an extreme home makeover, office edition! these are the before pictures. the after pictures will be next week. stay tuned!
kelly's laptop, howard, was a little slow so i ordered some more memory for him. tonight, i swapped out the ram chips with the new ones (as i have done on dozens of computers over the last decade) and turned howard on and ... nothing. howard's motherboard, always a little flaky, is more or less a goner. i got him to turn on once in fifty attempts, and he worked perfectly with his shiny new memory, but it hasn't happened again. reseating the chips or replacing them with the old ones is likewise ineffectual. after reading a half-dozen message board posts by folks with the same computer and the same problem, i called it quits so we could watch The Office--and our digital converter box wouldn't pick up the channel. right on cue, the roof leak i thought i had fixed by caulking the skylight returned in force. drip drip drip. some days it feels like the universe has got it in for me.
tonight i felt like a real repair person! our refrigerator's drawer has been broken forever, and a few days ago i ordered a SLIDE ASSEMBLY RHS (that means "right hand side" in repair person talk, you probably wouldn't understand) from a website that had an exploded view of our refrigerator with part numbers. it arrived today and here it is about to be installed! notice the old SLIDE ASSEMBLY RHS drooping nearby. i am going to pretend that it was hard to do but really it was just about as simple as unscrewing the old one and screwing the new one in.
tonight i made dinner! this is a dish that kelly discovered on 101cookbooks.com, which is one of her favorite recipe sites (and, by proxy, mine, because she keeps making delicious recipes from it). matchstick pasta is made with short pieces of whole wheat spaghetti and pomegranate seeds--which, together, look like a matchstick--with kale in a sauce made of pureed olive oil, pistachios, garlic, and salt. it is simple and delicious and you can sneak pistachios while you are shelling them.
today we had another ultrasound! this is a profile of champ's head, one of the dozens of pictures the ultrasound tech took in between trying to get a clear shot of champ, who has lately developed a knack for kicking. everything looked wonderful--steady heartbeat, all the major organs in place, and starting to look more and more like a baby. it's still a little surreal and a lot miraculous. champ, we can't wait to meet you for real in just a few months.
our refrigerator has a busted drawer, and it has been that way for as long as we've owned the home. today i decided to Do Something About It, a task which required the model number of our refrigerator so that a matching replacement part could be ordered. i searched in vain for the number and then consulted the internet. "try under the kick plate," suggested the internet. i did, and i found this incredibly disgusting piece of paper. it did not have the model number but it had a neat electrical diagram of the refrigerator's circuitry! i later found the model number near the lower right door hinge.
our journey to delancey began several months ago, when we attended a talk and book signing by a local food blogger, a red-headed woman who writes under the sobriquet "orangette". this is her restaurant. we got seats at the bar and watched the chefs make pizzas, stretching the crust and painting the sauce on in a spiral before baking them in a wood-fired oven. if you like highbrow pizza, we recommend it without reservation.
there is a trick-or-treat event every year at microsoft and it is pretty much the same every year. everyone buys a heap of candy and leaves it outside their office. at 3, the childless and/or sensitive employees can be seen furtively slipping out the exits as minivans arrive with spouses and children. at 3:30 your co-workers and their children are milling about and everyone is having a good time... but by 4, things take a turn for the worse. the people roaming the halls are no longer familiar. strange teenagers with questionable costumes and pillowsacks grab huge handfuls of candy, presumably to sell on the black market later. you are grateful for 5 when it arrives.
our church is embarking on a 3 year "vision campaign" in which we are going to "change the world by degrees"; each of us is asked to "be the degree"... it is a pretty solid and ambitious effort with goals to make a big difference locally and abroad. what you see here are members browsing an occ history of sorts during a kickoff meeting.
here are two books i am currently reading! one of them should have been a pamphlet and not an entire book. the other is full of very sobering studies about how outsiders and young people see christians and their faith. i am about to go to bed and i will probably read a bit from each one before i sleep, first from the heavy and then from the light.
hi, i'm jonathan! i am a software engineer and amateur photographer living in redmond, washington (you may, correctly, guess the large corporation that pays my mortgage).
i post one photo here every day, which documents my life, or my friends' lives, or what i ate for lunch. these photos are taken with an aging cellular telephone and completely untouched.
think of it as a stream-of-consciousness sort of thing.
