I’ve been nocturnal for the last few days because of the uveitis in my eye. It has been so extremely painful that the idea of looking out at daylight kills me. Since Friday, I’ve been holed up inside the condo, shades drawn, sunglasses on. I’ve only been able to go out at night once the sun has set. I took Friday off from work and am taking today off too. I can barely look at computer screens…and my left eye is so tender that opening it is such a chore. I’m really opening that this will end soon…or get to the point where I can try to wander out during…

I’m almost done with my Pitas migration. I’ve moved over all entries except for the ones written in 2000. Man, 7 years ago. Crazy to think I’ve been keeping this blog for that long. I’ve been going down memory lane copying & pasting all these old entries…. So, my uveitis is back. This is the 3rd time I’ve had an inflammation, though from reading my past entries, it’s the first time I’ve had a flare up in 5 years with the last one being back in 2002. The first one was in 2001 — funny reading back on that as I had no idea what it was and didn’t seek…

If you look at my archive links over on the right there, you’ll see that my first 2 years of blogging (2000 and 2001) all took place on a really really old blogging service called Pitas. What an irony considering what the acronym stands for (“PITA”)–I’m now in the process of trying to consolidate all my blog entries into one, and because Pitas is so old, there’s no concept of a feed, importing tool, nada. So I’m literally copying/pasting all my entries here into Blogger. Ugh. All of this is getting done with plans to eventually move my entire website to WordPress. I really loved the page organization tools I…

We took the 2nd of our whirlwind trips to the East Coast last weekend to attend Debbie & Saevar’s NYC wedding reception (they got married in Malaysia in August). The trip was fabulous as we ended up seeing a ton of folks in the short amount of time—from hanging out with Debbie & Saevar and meeting their friends, to staying with Anna & Frank, and having dim sum with some friends from Kansas, Hester & Rod.The weather was ridiculously warm too—when we left Seattle, we were wearing sweaters and puffy jackets (or at least I was). NYC, on the otherhand, was about 86 degrees on Saturday and I was able…

Yesterday, I sold my plasma tv to a Chinese couple off of Craigslist. Why? I’m finally getting true HD. Back in 2003, over Thanksgiving at the Joes in Portland, we all woke up insanely early to jump onto any major deals. At the time, I splurged and bought myself a 42″ plasma TV—rather proud of this deal as I was an early adopter with perhaps one other friend with such a flat-panel TV. The actual HD televisions were ridiculously priced so I got an EDTV which was fine for me at the time. Fast forward 4 more years — the cost of HD televisions is perhaps 1/5 of what they…

Last weekend, Matt and I took the first of 3 whirlwind trips we have to make to the East Coast this Fall for weddings, including our own reception in Boston. This time, we went up to Ithaca, NY for Jocelyn and Ivan’s wedding in the beautiful Robert H. Treman state park in front of a quintessential Ithaca landmark: a waterfall… A little surprise for me upon arriving was a mini-reunion with some Smiffenpoofs, Laura and Barb, that I hadn’t seen in at least 9 years or so! They were performing the ceremony music: We spent some time reminiscing and badly trying to remember the words to “Manhattan”, one of the…