Fresh Coffee

I've been drinking fresh ground coffee of late. Melissa received a double walled French Press for her Birthday, and I have been borrowing it until we get married (23 days!!). I've resorted to grinding the coffee in a blender though. The French Press is a really cool one, it is an all glass double walled one. The plunger is obviously metal, but the bottom is only glass. Great for being able to microwave water, etc. I picked this one up in a Starbucks in Seattle, but haven't been able to find them anywhere online. Thus, I am attaching an amateur photo hour rendition of the French press...

2-16-2008 Edit:
I've found them at Crate & Barrel

New House

I am getting a new house today! I am super mega excited!

Engaged

I got engaged last Saturday.  It was a fun and wonderful experience, and here are some details for the interested.So, I wanted to create a wonderful proposal.  My first idea was to have a very romantic dinner at the nice glade upon a mountaintop near McCall.  I was hoping to have tea lights and a table and a wonderful time.  However there is a strict 'burn ban,' due to massive amounts of forest fires this year, so no one can have any sort of fire at all.  So with some spots in mind, I decided to recon some places up in the woods... read more

Aero Ace

I returned to Idaho to find my brother's remote control airplane waiting for a new pilot. Twenty minutes later, I was hooked and ended up getting a plane myself. The little planes are called the Air Hogs Aero Aces, and are definitely one of the funnest hobby planes I have ever seen. I got the green one, which really is quite a performer for not having any control surfaces!

Olympic Hot Springs

A few weeks back, Melissa and I traveled to the Olympic Peninsula here in Washington and visited Olympic Hot Springs. It was a fun drive (riding the ferry from Edmonds to Kingston) over to Port Angeles, and a nice hike up to the hot springs. Not the best hot springs, but Washington doesn't have the greatest selection.

Website Maintenance

This website was recently moved by my hosting company, Dreamhost, from one webserver to another. This, unfortunately, hosed my database driven (and fairly slow) image gallery. However, the images weren't lost, except for names and descriptions of the photos. So, it's back up and running, and has some special functionality implemented. As well, I was spurred to setup a few cron jobs to automate backing up website content, etc.

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

I've recently had a chance to play a little bit of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. I remember renting a Nintendo Gamecube back in Dec. 2002 for a weekend to play Metroid Prime non-stop for a holiday weekend. This sequel came out two years later, and I have a chance to play it now (having a Wii, which is backward compatible with the Gamecube). It's been as much fun as the original, and shows the thought and depth that go into some of Nintendo's games. Plus, it's a fun refresher as Metroid Prime 3 for the Wii is coming out soon.