Yay! 25 for $25 is back for the month of November!

I just came across this and thought it was hilarious:Two Chinese Students – I Want It That Way My officemate pointed out that this was just like another video that made the rounds a couple years ago:Chin2

After looking for about 2 weeks and taking 4 rugs home, I finally found a beautiful rug for my living room and I’m in love with it. It’s a deep, gorgeous red Turkeman rug and it’s huge–like 8′ x 11′, taking up my entire living room but really opening up the space. Next–to buy a really really big plant to put in the corner. And on Wednesday, I’ll be getting a delivery of the new daybed/couch that I’m putting up in the loft room. Hmm..what colors to paint my living room now that I’ve finalized the rug in there? While watching Grey’s Anatomy last night, I finally figured out where…

Okay, I decided to geek out on a Friday night while Matt’s home sick in his apartment. (Man, everyone’s getting sick right now–I’m praying I stay healthy and don’t revisit my Halloween cold like I did last year–that was a bitch to be sick at my party) I don’t get a chance to just sit down and geek out as much as I used to. I completely revamped the blog site so that it matches the new design I’ve created. Had to mess around with the stylesheets again to attain things like the cutesy dotted line separating each post. I’ve also moved the archive links on this page so it’s…

As you may recall, when I transferred my website over to Dreamhost, everything went whacko since Dreamhost doesn’t support Mason, and I had written the header and footer files on my website in Mason. Over the last couple days, I’ve been working on re-writing my website using PHP includes and a new CSS and I have a spankin’ new website out now. What’s next–I’ve got to update this blog template to match the new look as well as my new photo section (I decided to use Gallery to manage my photos–much better!) Apologies as I piece everything slowly back together. Meanwhile, that was fun learning some super basic PHP.

This happened just 2 blocks away from my condo at the QFC that I always shop at. An 88-year old man and his daughter drive to the Bartell’s that’s located on the upper deck of this parking area above QFC. The daughter runs in to Bartell’s, leaving the car running and her father in the passenger seat. Somehow, the parking brake disengages and the car flips into reverse, pushing the station wagon into a PT Cruiser which then falls over the railing and onto Broadway down below. Following the empty PT Cruiser is the station wagon that the 88-year old man is strapped into! Fortunately, he survived with only a…

One thing about working at Microsoft versus Amazon is its emphasis on giving and charity donations. This entire month, Microsoft has set up lots of random events to encourage employees to give money to non-profit organizations. The other day, a software developer ate 14 tacos down the hall from me to raise money for the United Way. Next Monday, my officemate is going to shave his head and wax his legs for the same cause. On Tuesday, many of us are taking the afternoon off to bowl for charity at a bowling alley in Bellevue. And on Wednesday, our organization is doing a Fear Factor event. They’ve made it super…

Got back from the trip to Vegas with Matt, Matt & Asayo to check out the Grand Sumo Tournament. We all had a spectacular time and the tournament itself was a treat to see. The wrestlers were divided up, East vs. West, into multiple matches, one after another, bodies slamming into each other. One legal rule is that wrestlers can hit their opponent with an open hand—there was one match that essentially involved a wrestler bitch slapping his opponent out of the ring. How hilarious is that? Although we saw the reigning champion Yokozuna, Asashoryu, lose in the match we attended, he apparently won Sunday night and then beat out…