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Weekend Edition.

joe — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:43:18 +0000

Hey gang, things are going well here in Seattle. I am happy to announce that I am employed and just finished my first week of work. I have been hired on as a contractor at a early stage startup called Cloudant. I am actually the first employee/contractor (again, I was the first at my last job too). The startup is based in Boston but one of the founders is here in Seattle. It’s a good group and I am working with some really smart people. I am also excited about the company and what we are doing. We are building a distributed database system.

From wikipedia:
A distributed database is a database that is under the control of a central database management system (DBMS) in which storage devices are not all attached to a common CPU. It may be stored in multiple computers located in the same physical location, or may be dispersed over a network of interconnected computers.

As for other things going on, I have been riding more lately and getting back into shape. Erin started working out too. Also, regarding the wedding photos sorry for the wait I am waiting to hear back from Tosh on it. I’ll post ‘em as soon as I have ‘em.

Hope everyone is doing well in Belleville, Murphysboro, Chicago and the greater Columbus area. Louisville too!

While you are out playing on the internets go check out Dan Bischoff’s photos from his volunteer work in Rwanda and photo’s from Mike Lanyon and Erin Smith’s trip to Egypt and Israel (you might have met them at the wedding).

then and now

erin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:58:29 +0000

the movers finally came on monday & dumped everything into the front room (don’t use mayflower). i thought i got rid of enough junk, but it became clear it was gonna be a tight fit! joe got a drill & hung the bikes up in our storage space downstairs. i sorted through DVDs & kitchen utensils. we have more to go to goodwill, but right now we’re about 3/4 of the way unpacked & things are shaping up to be pretty convenient. unfortunately, motorboat lost his house to my baking pans, but he prefers the dirty laundry hamper now anyway. dresser will come next week & then we’ll finish up putting away clothes & stuff, just in time to start my new job. happy 2009!

Motorboat’s New House.

joe — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:25:21 +0000

With moving into the new apartment it was inevitable that Motorboat would find a new place that was his. In the past he has claimed the bathroom as his domain, the new bathroom does not seem to be of his liking although he still likes toilet water. The first few days we heard a knocking from the kitchen but wasn’t sure what it was. Soon enough we found Motorboat was the cause, entering and exiting the same cabinet before and after naps. He has officially claimed a bottom cabinet of his own. Rather than fight it I put some towels in there for him and knock before entering.

christmas

erin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:21:31 +0000

we agreed not to worry about christmas gifts for each other with everything that we had going on this month, but still we managed to find a few things to make our first xmas together special. just watched a movie & will have some christmas veggie lasagna later. yumm!

the new apartment

erin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:26:39 +0000

rolled into seattle tue afternoon & picked up the keys to our cozy new apartment in ballard. glad to be done driving. the cats too. now they are making themselves at home. motorboat sleeps in the empty kitchen cabinets. we’re not really sure when any of our stuff will show up since the streets are iced over. right now we’re camping at home- sleeping on a leaky air mattress & eating with plastic spoons. we’ve been exploring our neighborhood, which has a bunch of coffee shops & restaurants. and also orienting ourselves to seattle & working on new projects.