My Batman keychain has finally lost both of its legs. Now he looks almost offensive… perhaps it is time to replace him with my LEGO Yoda keychain.

“In a field of yellow flowers,
underneath the sun,
bluest eyes that spark with lightning,
boy with shoes undone.
He is young, so full of hope,
reveling in tiny dreams,
filling up, his arms with flowers,
right for giving any queen.

Running to her beaming bright,
while cradling his prize.
A flickering of yellow light,
within his mother’s eyes.
She holds them to her heart,
keeping them where they’ll be safe,
clasped within her very marrow,
dandelions in a vase.” - Five Iron Frenzy

I’ve apparently been awake for the past almost two hours and I can’t go back to sleep (which is a rarity for me). I suppose I might as well blog!

Here are some pics from Sunday, when Al ran his first marathon!

Ryan had an “accident:”

Yay, London Lad!

Here’s my sign, which I don’t think Al liked that much:

I’m sure he liked Meagan’s more:

For the rest of Sunday, I cleaned up a good chunk of my house which was long overdue for vacuuming, then took a nap in my tauntaun. Went to dinner with Sam, then chilled for a while with him and Ryan before going to sleep again only to wake up two hours ago… and here I am.

I spent way too long trying to find lyrics to put here… but alas, they have been found!

“Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes - it’s a duck blur
You might solve a mystery or rewrite history

Duck Tales, Oo-oo
Tales of derring-do, bad and good luck tales, oo-oo

D-d-d-danger, watch behind you - there’s a stranger out to find you
What to do? Just grab onto some Duck Tales, oo-oo!
Not pony tails or cotton tails but Duck Tales, oo-oo!” - Mark Mueller/Disney

Did you know that Mark Mueller wrote the Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers theme song as well? That guy is awesome. Okay, time to try to sleep again…

I somehow bruised the top of one of my knuckles (see pic at end of post) while playing ultimate today, but that’s okay because it was a lot of fun to play again. I’m still getting over a cough, but I managed to play acceptably through it. =)

Tomorrow, Al runs his first marathon! Good luck! In the morning, I’ll be over at Scotty’s along with other BVers to cheer him on at the ~23 mile mark.

Yesterday, I won $223 from being in a money booth. Thanks again, BV! I think I will use the money to EAT FOOD.

“Saturday night I was downtown
Working for the FBI
Sitting in a nest of bad men
Whiskey bottles piling high

Bootlegging boozer on the west side
Full of people who are doing wrong
Just about to call up the DA man
When I heard this woman singing a song” - The Hollies

I spent the end of tonight watching 80’s music videos. Man, that was pretty awesome. Here’re a few:

I’m pretty much over the majority of my cold now, but I still have a lingering cough. I’ve found that when I’m sick, I seem to have a weird “internal smell” that’s akin to burnt electronics. It’s a bit strange and not very pleasant to say the least. I hope I don’t actually smell that way…

I was also sent this video of Sam, which I find pretty hilarious.

I believe that night, I had to drive downtown at almost 2AM to pick his drunk butt up.

“And now you’ve given me, given me
Nothing but shattered dreams, shattered dreams,
Feel like I could run away, run away
From this empty heeeaaaaart…” - Johnny Hates Jazz

… not really, that’s just the song I’m listening to. =) This weekend was pretty boring as I basically just quarantined myself at home trying to get over this stupid cold/cough.

I skipped out on going to Dallas to eat food, skipped out on ultimate, and skipped out on going to Vox. Darn you, germs. I did, however, watch the Saints win the Super Bowl. Grats to them. =)

I started doing my taxes on TurboTax, but I’m not entirely sure what the best way to handle roommate rent income is. Not entirely sure how much and how to classify my expenses/interest, etc…. time to do some investigating…

“I think I’m in love
And my life’s lookin’ up
I think I’m in love
‘Cause I can’t get enough (no, no, no)
I think I’m in love
It’s gotta be love” - Eddie Money

Having about ten years of blog history is pretty awesome. Since I’m out of commission for ultimate, I’m just sitting at home reading through past February blog posts to avoid being super bored. Here’re my summaries:

• 2009 - I closed on my house! It’s been a year!


• 2008 - Looks like I had a lull in my blogging during this time period… but roughly around this time, we completed the endless setlist in the first Rock Band


• 2007 - My first start to finish Bazaarvoice client, Toshiba, launched with Ratings & Reviews


• 2006 - I swapped out an image of Pikachu that people were hotlinking for a picture of Viraj


• 2005 - I made a post about chicken, and apparently hit level 47 in WoW


• 2004 - I was complaining about Chinese being a lot of work


• 2003 - I don’t even know what to say here… I was really nerdy. A bad joke about a girl and/or Perl? Oh my…


• 2002 - I apparently had quite a few other people than myself posting on OliverWEB… but other than that, looks like I was working on MrTechHappy.com


• 2001 - I posted the “All your base are belong to us” animated gif


• 2000 - I did nothing for a few months other than upload some pics

Whew. =p

I’ve returned from our 14th and last Bazaarvoice All-Hands at the Alamo Drafthouse (we’ll be too big to fit next time). It’s sad to leave as it’s been a great quarterly tradition thus far. On the plus side, our next one will be at Salt Lick! YESSSSSS… MEEEAAATTTT…

Speaking of which, I broke down and purchased meatcation.com. Not sure what I’m going to do with it yet, but I have it. =) Maybe I’ll just make it a documentary of our (hopefully) annual Meatcation…

Back on the topic of the All-Hands, I was awarded a Darth Vader TIE Fighter LEGO set from the product group, and a culture award (2000 stock options). I must say that I am greatly honored to have received both of these (one likely worth quite a bit more than the other in monetary terms, but one a lot more fun to play with right now). I was incredibly surprised when I stood up to receive my award and was greeted by a freakin’ standing ovation. You guys are ridiculous. I can’t express how appreciative I am in words, but since I’m not a telepath, a very deep thank you to you all. =) Seriously, I don’t know if I’ll ever have a work experience like this again and you all make it awesome.

On a down note, I’m still not fully recovered from the cold I caught going to Seattle, so I will have to skip out on going to Dallas with Heather, Ryan and Steph (need to come up with a name for that group…) and eating lots of food. =(

With that, I will end with photos from the last Bazaarvoice All-Hands at the Alamo…

The rest are here.

I’m quite disappointed that I managed to get sick on my way to Seattle, but other than that the trip was overall pleasant. My immune system has plummeted in recent years it seems… that, or I expose myself to riskier conditions… who knows.

Tomorrow (or rather, later today) is our quarterly All-Hands at the Drafthouse. This will likely be the last time it’s at the Drafthouse as we’ve grown too large for it. =(

Here’s hoping this annoying cough goes away…

I’m off to Seattle later today (Tuesday) on business, but hopefully I’ll have some amount of fun. =)

This past weekend, we had our usual ultimate in somewhat cold weather, but it was fun anyways. I don’t exactly recall what I did between ultimate and that night, but I do know Sam summoned me to pick his drunk butt up from downtown late at night. I brought along Chancy to pick him up and well, let’s just say Sam made the trip home quite interesting. ;)

I had a conversation with Nancy about dating and I had the idea of going on a date and playing a “deal breaker or not” game where you basically take turns listing aspects about yourself that you think could be deal breakers and the other person says it is or isn’t. I figure this is probably a short term lose-lose situation as the game would either be really boring or get awkward really quickly once you hit a deal breaker. On the plus side, I suppose it will help you in the long run not waste any time. ;) I’m totally just joking, by the way.

Went to Vox again on Sunday, had lunch at Jim’s with a few peeps then went up to Round Rock for a bit. That night, chilled with Ryan, Heather and Steph by playing way too much hearts and watching Enchanted, which I found amusing. That movie’s genius on Disney’s part with all the recycling they were able to do. I fell asleep in a lovesac, which I apparently humped pretty good. For the record, I’d like to say I burrowed, not humped…

For all of my cyber-stalkers out there thinking they can invade my house while I’m gone, you better watch out. Ryan’s still there and he’ll possibly bite your face off.

I will now end this post with an excerpt from an “artist” who has one of the highest ratios of ridiculous lyrics per character ever.

“He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn’t good enough for her
She had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth” - Avril Lavigne

That song’s called Sk8ter Boi. I’m not joking. Ridiculous.

For a variety of reasons, I’m pretty drained right now, so I am looking forward to passing out shortly.

I want to give a shout out to my Bazaarvoice peeps for a hard-worked EOQ. I feel like we’re set to do well in the following quarters and I look forward to growing even more (particularly in tech services). DSB, BV!

Also, this is another reason why I <3 my company:

In other news, I’m headed to Seattle next week for work. I think this’ll be my first time to Seattle, so we’ll see how it goes. I’ve heard generally good things. =)

“Oh oh it’s magic
When I’m with you (Oh-o, it’s magic)
Oh oh it’s magic, just a little magic (gotta be magic)
You know it’s true
I got a hold on you” - The Cars