I haven't decided whether PhotoStack will make me a good photo poster or not, but honeymoon photos are finally up. Four months after the wedding we went, and four months after that I post the photos. It's all part of my master plan, really.
Ross and I went to The Art Institute of Chicago yesterday. Possibly more amazing than that is the fact that I have uploaded pictures of that excursion already.
Instead of using my handrolled photo software, I'm now trying Photostack. It's a little bit simpler, not relying on a mySQL database. We'll see if I do better with someone else's software instead of my own. I make no guarantees.
Wow. Lisa told me today that the Harlem Globetrotters are playing at the United Center this weekend. How good do you have to be to do that?
So we have tickets. Ross, Lisa, and I will be going to the stadium for the first time ever. It should be something of an adventure, but I can't wait to see the Globetrotters. Growing up, I always loved watching them on TV when I got the chance. I've never been to a pro basketball game, so this will be fun for a lot of reasons. Yay!
I know, we're already a week into two thousand four, and it's only now that I'm writing. Well.
December was a very busy month, between working (although I still haven't updated the friggin site), playing music, working on Lis Harvey's record, traveling for the holidays, and everything else.
We had a largely wonderful time in New Hampshire for Christmas this year. Flip-flopping between our respective home states is getting a little old, but we always love it while we're there. The most interesting part of visiting these days is seeing how the littlest of little brothers continues to grow.
The big news last month was my brother getting a job. He's a wildlife biologist, so jobs are not as plentiful as they are in other industries, especially in the current economic (and possibly political) climate. He is going to be working on Guam, and is moving some time in the next couple of weeks.
Yes, that's right. Guam. Yes, this one, many thousands of miles away. About 12 of them.
He's going to be studying the biology of the brown tree snake. This is a snake that has pretty much wiped out everything native on Guam. It was accidentally introduced earlier in the twentieth century, and has wreaked havoc ever since. So Isaac will be there studying the little buggers to try to devise some plan to get their numbers back down. Apparently there are something like 13,000 of them in every square mile of that little island. Holy shit!
You can learn more about the snakes from the USGS.
Meantime, I'll be starting another blog for Isaac so he can keep us all posted on life in the South Pacific. I still can't believe he's going.