Here are some pictures I took… some of Ally, Chancy’s new puppy!

I also brought my snowman to work and he is inhabiting Rebecca’s cube:

Last, but not least, I got my self-portrait in! He is now above my fireplace. =)

Done!

I have had plans to take a self-portrait to put above my fire place for a while now. I took the first stab at the photo for it today, which turned out better than I was expecting!

I haven’t printed anything large with these types of Photoshop effects on it, so I’m not sure how that will go. As a test, I’m printing out a large 20x30 at Costco to see how it looks. If it looks good, I’ll be printing it on canvas. Woo!

Some notes for the future:

• Having a camera assistance would be a plus (running back and forth with the camera shooting on a timer is a hassle).


• I could use a mirror (running back and forth to bathroom to practice facial expressions is a hassle).


• Use less mousse - in my inexperience with hair products, I used too much…

Brook & Frances gave me a Fujifilm Instax 200, which is like a wide-screen Polaroid. Now, witness the fruits of the first cartridge, starring Sexy Sammy!!

Oh, I will also add that we had an epic downing of XT in Ulduar where we were under-manned, under-geared, and under-experienced. It was awesome.

SNOWMAN!

And Brook gave me these:

I will consider myself blessed if I’m fortunate enough to work with a group like my BV team in future endeavors. Cheers!

Rest of the photos here.

Friday was a good day. Started the day with our quarterly Bazaarvoice All-Hands at the Alamo Drafthouse (South Lamar, which we will soon have to move from because we’ve filled it up). Congratulations to all my team members who won awards! Here are some photos!

Then, we had our holiday party early (so we could celebrate with our international teams who flew in this week) at the Driskill.

They had scallops, which I consider to be the bacon of the sea!

Then, some of us closed the evening by chilling at Jim’s for a while.

Ah… in the words of Steve Balmer…

“I have four words for you. I love this company, yes!!!”

I have a few video clips… I might get around to uploading them all eventually, but for now… here’s one:

“A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on” -Journey

Here are picks from BV on Friday. Oh, and our team hit our team goal for the quarter! Woo! Congrats, guys!

Plenty more pics here!

Okay, this post is a bit late, but the rest of the weekend (besides Brook’s wedding) was made up of Ultimate Frisbee, where I sent Andrew to fetch Nancy (made her unhappy, so I hear) and Ryan and Al decided to join us! I didn’t take any action shots (too busy playing), but here are some photos of when we went to Sonic after the game:

Nancy chewing out the Sonic person:

Nancy, very happy with herself after doing so:

Sam, sitting alone and drunk:

After that, Andrew, Mark, Ryan and I went to Ruth’s Chris where I used up $125 worth of gift cards. I thought the steak was good, but not worth full price, I think, and probably wouldn’t go back again.

Congrats, Brook and Frances!

The rest are here!

I’ve finally put up my second wall of photos:

Brook and my friendly coworkers :-) (at least some of them) will be happy to see themselves on this wall! =) The first two columns are from the food road trip Andrew, Mark, and I went on last year.