This weekend kind of started with our BV quarterly all-hands on Thursday. This time we had it at the Austin Music Hall and I took a decent amount of pics (a bunch are of people singing to win ACL tickets):

More, as usual, are on flickr.

We also got Friday off, and I spent a lot of that time playing Starcraft 2. I finally finished the campaign today. It was enjoyable, but a bit on the easy side (I was playing on normal, though so I could speed through the plot). If I’m bored and have lots of free time, maybe I’ll try playing through on a harder setting.

A few other weekend events:

• Heather’s birthday dinner at Daily Grill (I wasn’t impressed by food - probably won’t return)


• Step Up 3D!!!!!


• Went to Austin Stone and saw Oriana, who ninja hugged me in the parking lot

Let’s see… what happened this weekend? I probably need to be more prompt with these weekend updates or else I forget. Saturday, we played ultimate which was pretty fun. I got new shoes that I think were much better at keeping me from injuring myself, but I felt slower. Not sure if that was due to the shoes or not though. I don’t remember what else happened on Saturday…

On Sunday, we went to the Quarries to watch fireworks at Andrew’s suggestion. I was very pleased since it was so close to my house and we didn’t have to fight a mad rush of people getting in and out. Here are some pics from that:

Melissa grew fangs and so I had to drive a stake into her heart. =(

… she might come back to life next week though.

On Monday, we played video games, cooked meat, and made chili. I forgot to take pictures.

Here are some pics!

“HDR” Bazaarvoice team in front of our new building signage:

And here’re some pics of my room… but Sam ruined one of them.

Today, I played ultimate which was awesome, but my toes hurt and it was hot. It was still awesome though. My face was really red for a while afterwards… I should probably put sunscreen on it next time. After that, we watched the USA/Ghana game and grilled steak (I should say Mark grilled the steak and we ate it). Then, there was a lot of UT2004’ing (I took a nap during a few rounds of that though).

Now, I’m just chilling to some Jars of Clay. Oh, I also did more work on Samitic.us, including an under-construction Sam Ni soundboard (“Samboard”) (warning: profanity).

Tata!

Congrats to Julie & Dean! This is another late weekend post, but hey… as long as I don’t wait until the following weekend, I figure I’m okay. =)

On Friday, we had a lot of people play tower defense (I think it was nine) which was pretty fun and we finally beat the map we were playing really late at night (2AM?). I hear the StarCraft 2 map editor is ridiculously powerful, so I’m somewhat anxious to see what people come up with with that. Maybe I should actually preorder a copy…

Saturday, Julie & Dean got married! Melissa came along which made this her first wedding. Sam officiated with the “powers invested in him.” Here are some pics:

The rest are on flickr as usual.

On Sunday, I finished setting up a photo book in Aperture and ordered it through Apple. It was a bit pricey, but it’ll probably be worth it if the quality is pretty good as it was pretty convenient and gives me a good way to get physical copies of my photos. I’m somewhat anxiously waiting for it to arrive…

Of course, we watched the Lost finale as well. I’m a bit tired of talking about it so I won’t really. I would say the finale didn’t ruin the series for me, but I wasn’t really impressed with it either. That’s all ya get!

We got back to Austin on day four of our Key West trip, cutting it a bit close to our JetBlue flight. It was my first time flying with them and I was pretty pleased. We managed to find $10 ($21 after all the associated fees) flights back to Austin direct from Ft. Lauderdale, so we did that and cancelled our Continental flights. $21 is worth going direct and not having a long layover in Houston. We got back nearly six hours earlier than we would’ve, so that was cool.

I think these two photos are from day three, but oh well. I didn’t take any on day four.

Here are some chickens that lived around our house:

And here’s Nathan’s sunburn from wearing his cap:

Peace out, yos!

The day isn’t over, but here are some pics so far (also includes a few shots from last night). Also, I forgot to note that on day one, Andrew and I got Sam to take off his pants in the ocean and wave them above his head. Today, I got some photos of Samoonie (you can guess what that is)… but I made them private to spare the children. Let me know if you’d like a copy though, haha… ;)

We came out of the fishing trip with a dozen fishies. Yay!

We went snorkeling/diving today and bummed around for a while. That’s all you get from me! You’ll have to live with photos. =)

Here’s a really flattering photo of Sam… I found the wide lens really accentuates his “features.”

Here’s Nancy thinking again:

I’m not going to blog much, but here are a bunch of photos! I tried to make more of an effort to take photos of myself this time around as I’ve noticed I’ve had a severe lack of those… =)

I’ll post more tomorrow! I have a lot of video as well, but I’m going to wait until I get home to get through that. The rest of the photos from day 0+1 are here. I also started a Pink Stuff set! (Thanks, Melissa, for the idea =)).

Kat took this photo while we were on the beach. It’s awesome… so I’m going to use it as the thumbnail for this post.

As I’m sure many of you know, Bazaarvoice has a quarterly all-hands where we used to pile everyone into an Alamo Drafthouse, eat, drink, and listen to groups present on how they did during the quarter and what they plan to do in the next. This all-hands was special for a few reasons. One, it’s BV’s fifth anniversary and second, it was the first we had at the Salt Lick because we’ve grown too large for the Drafthouse. I thought this all-hands was particularly enjoyable with great presentations, cover songs by our tongue-in-cheek dubbed “BandVoice,” and topped off by our second Bazaarvoice Film Festival.

Here are a few pics from the today:

I got a new hat! This is good because my old Linux Tux one is a bit worn and it shrunk when I washed it (shouldn’t have machine dried it…) making it not as comfy. One good thing about BV is they don’t get skimpy on their free stuff - t-shirts and now, this cap, are of quality. =)

Tomorrow, more partying at Volente then I fly out to the Keys! Woooooo!

This following photo was from earlier this week on “crazy hat day.” Thanks to Eric for letting me borrow it!

Bazaarvoice’s end of quarter was this past Friday and it was crazy. One part of our craziness is we go absolutely insane with the color green (increasingly more so as the last day in the quarter approaches):

Our sales team rocked it this quarter and whooped their goal on the last day. I had to leave early on Friday, but I hear they got sand and beer to have a boat/beach themed party on the top of the parking garage… haha.

Friday night, I went to Orange & White with Melissa. I figured I would feel old, but that feeling wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be (probably since I had never been to O&W before). I’m kind of a lame date to a dance (especially with an ankle that limits certain movement), but Melissa put up with me. =p

Before the dance, we went to dinner at the Belmont which was okay (I wouldn’t have any urges to go again). Atmosphere was not bad, though. I think the Spazmatics were playing next door, so there was some sweet 80’s music going on. BV would be happy that we were still sporting green throughout the night (okay, that wasn’t exactly intentional).

I hear the dance was scaled down this year and there was only one ice sculture… here it is in all its glory (not sure how glorious it is, but if it has any, it’s all in this photo):

Saturday, I did a lot of nothing. The marketing department at BV gave me a $50 AMEX gift certificate for loaning them my 5DMII, so I headed to Fry’s in an attempt to spend it. I was thinking of getting Entourage, but they didn’t have it. I thought about Curb Your Enthusiasm and 30 Rock as well, but the prices were so much higher than Amazon, that I decided not to. I walked out with the $50 untouched. Fry’s fail. After that, there was dinner and dessert with Ryan, his parents, and some of the BV gang. I took a few pics, but they didn’t turn out so great, so I won’t be posting them. =p

Sunday, I got my hair cut, watched 500 Days of Summer and ate mangos.