Happy Birthday Katie and Brian!

Happy Birthday Katie and Brian! My “little” brother and sister are 22 years old today.
We went out to Mely’s last night for Melanie‘s going-away dinner. She quit her job in the Ascent Group (counterpart to the Descent Group I work in) a couple weeks ago after almost a year of being very unsatisfied, and is leaving Houston entirely. Today she’s driving to El Paso, then on to San Diego, then up the west coast until she gets to Seattle, where she is interning with Jen‘s company for the summer before going back to grad school at MIT this fall. It will be a little sad not having her around, living in my apartment building and keeping me company in my office while grunting at the FADS terminal.
Today I woke up to a rare morning thunderstorm. I opened the blinds, pulled back the curtains, and just laid in back watching the rain and lightning and listening to the thunder for a while. Despite all the flashes and noise, to me there’s something very calming about a thunderstorm. It put me in a good mood…
…until I drove to work and had to wait in a line of cars halfway down Saturn to get in the front gate because the security guards had one lane open earlier, and traffic was still suffering from the residual backup. I know that they do it so, you know, we don’t have any security guards getting struck by lightning and all. But I can usually get from my garage to my desk in 10-12 minutes. Today it took half an hour. That sort of dampened my good mood.
So I am starting to get significant comment spam…”significant” meaning that I’ve had to delete probably 15-20 spam comments from this site and my photoblog within the past 24 hours. Time to figure out the MT-Blacklist plugin, I guess.
Everyone is getting their own domain names! Most recent are Christina and Chris. I love it. These days, with registration and hosting available so cheaply, there’s really no reason not to have your own little corner of the web.
I went running last night, as you can see from the previous post. It was hot.