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Man, it’s been hot in LA recently! Triple digits and such! Finally starting to cool off (only in the 80′s today), but it’s supposed to spike back up again in a few days, sadly.

Work is going well. I still work at the best job I can imagine doing. I wish I could write about all the cool stuff I get to see and do on a daily basis, but just take it for now that I’m happy and it’s awesome.

Megs is done with the Bar Exam and looking for some temp work until her results come back in November. Other than that, life goes on. I’ll write more later.

Last week Megan took the California State Bar Exam, so all those years of study and months of prepping have come to a head. Now we play the waiting game; Bar Exam results won’t be posted until November 18th! Still, it’ll be nice to be able to go out on weekends again.

In other news, my current employment is still awesome. I love working on so many different projects doing different things. Last week I got to troubleshoot some audio problems with a professional-grade mic set up. It’s amazing the differences between consumer-grade and professional-grade audio gear, and I’m not just talking quality. They use a completely different signal! I had no idea. I love learning new things!

Lastly, I went to Disneyland a last weekend with Molly L., Chris W., and Kim B. Here’s a picture of us mugging for the camera in front of the castle:

I finally got the Facebook “download-your-data” thing to work, so here’s a compilation of what I’ve been up to for the past few months.

• Venture Bros was renewed! I’m pretty happy about this, as it’s one of my favorite shows on TV.
• I made a QR code for my contact information
• I saw some ducks at work.
• I went to a Marian Call house concert in Encino
• Saw Paul & Storm at the Largo Theater
• I fixed the power supply on Megs’ laptop
• Caught “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” on TV
• Got sunburned
• This girl is my hero
• Went to a sushi party at other Chris & Megan’s
• Went ballroom dancing for Anna’s birthday and totally saw Bill Nye the Science Guy cutting a rug!
• Went to Disneyland three more times over the course of six weeks
• Played and completed Portal 2
• Went to mom’s place in the mountains for Easter
• Discovered “Nyan Cat“
• Osama bin Laden was killed
• Found a new obnoxious font
• Had drinks on the roof of a building downtown
• Saw the movie “Thor”. It was all right.
• Watched some more “Doctor Who” episodes. Still not current.
• Went to a Memorial Day BBQ at Kim’s place
• Went to a couple of awesome parties in Reseda
• Went to Rachelle and Geoff’s wedding in upstate New York
• Once again, went to E3 downtown.
• Learned how to drive a fork lift.
• Megan got her degree from law school!
• Caught a cold. Still suffering from it as I write this.

Here are the pictures from last weekend’s trip to upstate New York for Geoff and Rachelle’s wedding. Everyone had a lovely time, and I told Kim I’d use the pic of her goofy face for the album cover of the rehearsal dinner, and so I have.

Rachelle & Geoff's rehearsal dinner

Geoff & Rachelle's Wedding

Tomorrow night, I’m catching the red-eye to Saratoga Springs, NY for Rachelle’s wedding. First time I’ve been to the east coast in a long time. Looking forward to it.

I would have had a longer post; I had a great idea to take all my recent Facebook posts and turn them into a blog post. However, Facebook’s download-information-thingy seems to be busted. I keep trying to download, and it keeps saying it’s being prepared, but I never get the email from FB saying it’s ready. Oh well.

I’ll see if I can manually go back through my past posts and grab stuff, but that sounds like work. Also, I got a plane to catch. Maybe they’ll have wifi on the flight.

As promised, here are the pictures from the Warrior Dash mentioned in the previous post:

Warrior Dash

Pictures taken by myself, Anna, Megan B., and Liz R. I make no apologies for my attire.

I’m going to write about work, but I’m going to self-sensor before I post it. Here goes.

So last week, I got to [REDACTED], who is actually a pretty nifty [REDACTED].

Also, we’re having [REDACTED], so hopefully [REDACTED] and messing up our carpet. The [REDACTED] didn’t look right, so they’re doing it again today. This takes our [REDACTED], but it’s only for a couple days.

OK, this is getting stupid. Enough about work, let’s talk about last weekend.

Friday was another awesome SciFi Friday at JR’s place, which is always good times and good friends. We watched Real Genius and Weird Science. Classic!

Saturday was an event called the Warrior Dash. I was a spectator, but Megs, Matt C, Anna, Megan M, Chris G, Kyle, and Mike all went for the gusto and got good and muddy. Short description is that this is a race with some obstacles in it. For a longer version, check the link there. Pictures to come.

Sunday was lazy as I got pretty good and sunburned on Saturday, which always tends to drain my energy. Even so, a bunch of us went over to Kyle & Liz’s to have a pot-luck dinner and watch “Murder by Death” (1976), which is a wonderful spoof on murder mysteries.

Later this month, Jen’s coming to the area so we’re making plans to do Disneyland. And in June, Rachelle is getting married in NY, so Matt B, Kim and I are making plans to get across the country.

Happy spring, everybody!

March is almost over, but I had to get at least one post in here before the month’s end!

Work’s been going well. Busy, but good busy. As usual, I can’t go into detail, but I’m still super psyched to be working for Imagineering.

Honestly, I’m writing this on my iPhone in bed during commercial breaks of Conan, so this isn’t much of a post. I’ll write a longer one tomorrow, I promise!

Holy crap, I’m 30 now! I can’t believe I started this silly blog thing when I was 19 and I’ve been keeping it up all this time. More than TEN YEARS for ol’ ChrisWeb here! Sheesh! You’d think I’d take better care of it then. Speaking of things that happened over 10 years ago, remember that Daytona of mine? My blue car? Yeah, so I finally got a new one:

Chris' BMW 330Ci convertible

Click for more pictures. Call it an early mid-life crisis (you wouldn’t be the first), but as I am now actually driving to work, I needed something more reliable (i.e. from this century), so I figured I may as well get something a little nicer and fun. Also, CONVERTIBLE!

For my birthday this year, I dragged all my friends out to the woods to go camping in February. Here’s the proof:

Chris' 30th Birthday (Camping)

We all had a good time (or so I’m told), and it didn’t get below freezing over night, so that’s good. We were up north of Santa Barbara in the San Padres Nation Forest at a place called Paradise Campground. It was nice and we had a respectable campfire. Thanks to Megs, Donut, Kim, Ozzzy, Anna, Matt, Gilmer, Megan, Kyle, Jacques, Hanh, and Asha for coming out! You guys are the best!

Work is still going great, but of course I can’t tell you any details. Just know that it’s challenging me in ways I haven’t been challenged in a good while. I’m certainly keeping busy!

It’s hard to describe exactly why I love my new job so much. For one, I’m contractually bound to NOT describe in too much detail what goes on here. But also, it’s hard to put into words the atmosphere around here. It’s a spirit of “can do” and “whatever it takes to get it done” that I find invigorating. That part doesn’t exist? Build one. That software doesn’t normally do that? Make it. I love that.

I can give some benign details, though. My desk is pretty basic, but I have a nice computer with two 24″ monitors. Also, I have the most advanced office telephone I’ve ever seen! It’s a “Cisco IP Phone”, which I didn’t even know existed before this week. Lots of bells and whistles. Also, everyone I work with is awesome and really good at what they do, which seems to be a theme at Disney.

This week I’ve been down to Disney’s California Adventure at Disneyland Resort twice already to help with installing some stuff at the Blue Sky Cellar. Can’t say more than that, but check it out next time you’re at the Park!

That’s all for now, but know that I am a Happy Chris at the moment! =)