thinking out loud

grab bags R us
i've been neglecting you, my pretties, and for that i apologize. i especially apologize to all of you who haven't stopped updating, and promise i've read everything on the old friends list, even if i haven't always had time to reply. i've been a busy little beaver, out having fun and maybe not saving the world, but i'm sure about the having fun part. i took tonight off from my regularly scheduled fun because, quite frankly, i was on the verge of overdoing it, and while i'm all about over the top and overeating, overdoing is a bit...overdone.

so what i have arrayed below is some of the tastier morsels of the while since you read me last. enjoy, or don't--reader's choice!

first off, i think i forgot to mention that i saw the mountain goats, sound-unheard, a few weeks ago. they were really great live; highly recommended show-experience, even if you're not into them (i literally had no idea even what genre they were).

second off, i am free! i escaped nike with no more than minor cuts and bruises, and mostly, i think, i left a decent taste in their mouth. i was no overachiever in my final days, but neither did i entirely phone it in. i turned in my badge, cleaned off my computer and cleaned out my desk, and rode out of there forever. i think i'll keep at least one of the friends i made working there, and i'm just glad i left before i started to resent the people in addition to the work and the bureaucracy that made it craptastic.

third off, i found myself on a heated toilet seat that sports a bidet on monday morning. i've never experienced a heated toilet seat that wasn't warmed merely by the previous user's backside, nor have i ever actually seen a bidet (except, oddly, in an apartment building in boston wherein the units didn't have their own bathrooms...a communal bidet?). my new building is kind of fancy. i like my new job, and i had no trouble agreeing to try not to work more than 40 hours per week when the HR lady requested it of me. i think i can get along pretty well with these kids, and their technical problems don't seem too heinous.

fourth off, we are settling into the new homeplace.

kdaisy721 and i have yet to peeve eachother beyond the typical peeving we did even when not living together. we're almost a month in. we still love the place. if you're in portland, me love you long time and wanna show you the place on sunday, 6 april. we'll make sushi. save the date, expect full-blown invite soonly.

on sunday, with help from

dark_knightly, i attached bunny ears to my bike helmet and led a group of similarly (or better!) attired folks across town to a big bunny potluck. i drank some beer, made some friends, went to a hot tub and watched "who framed roger rabbit" while drinking champagne before i returned home, many moons later. it was suggested that i really tie one on so that i might set the bar low on my first day of work. my new friends are quality =)

fifth off, i'm looking for an old used squeezebox. not the accordion or the who song. the network music player. have one laying around i could buy off you? ebay is strangely lacking. i've mailed a few craigslist people in various cities, but i can't imagine that working out well "yeah. just mail it to me. it's light. i'm good for the money!"

sixthly, i made probably the most complex, and maybe most tasty meal of my cooking career, weekend before last. mole chicken. two chickens, actually. we cooked for 5 hours straight. it was epic, tasty, and made approximate a metric fuckton of food. i finally finished it tonight. i will be cooking more with this particular partner in crime who shares my opinions about cooking Right and With Love. as many of my friends do =). I'd post a recipe, but i just couldn't do it justice. it was originally a frida kahlo recipe. authentic but with some fudging and modification, despite a largely successful effort to be all authentic (lard, 4 kinds of chiles, at least 15 spices..)

seventhly: have you had a pillowfight lately? why not? i joined a flash mob in a brief fun frenzy this weekend. whee.

lastly, courtesy

mhat, the best interview question ever:

you open a terminal, running bash. you type in "telnet www.google.com" and hit enter. describe in great detail what happens. really. as much detail as you can.
i could probably write a novella. i'd only need the one question, as an interviewer or interveiwee, to see if this was really the right person for a unixy job. oh yes, my pretties.