We started off this month looking for a place to move to. We wanted something with two bedrooms but our apartment complex's two bedrooms were cringe-worthy expensive. We went and looked at several different places and we whittled it down to two options. One is a condo in Tempe which is right down the street from my work and in a central location in the event I want to change jobs. The other place is on the outskirts of Mesa which would mean I would have a much longer commute in horrific traffic, but look at this place, oh my gosh:
It was a difficult decision, but we chose the Tempe location. We're hoping to start up a business in the near future, and the fact that I will be so close to work will hopefully give me more time and allow me more of an opportunity to help out.
Have I ever told you how much I love cats? I just love them.
This cat can hardly contain its excitement.
We won a twitter contest with a board game cafe in Toronto called Snakes and Lattes. They didn't specify what game they would be sending, only that they were sending one. We opened the package to find Escape From Sunset Island. We haven't played it yet so there's nothing to report there.
It doesn't rain often, but when it rains, it frickin' rains (and destroys things).
We like animals
There's a guy that lives near us that has a bunch of Corgis. A BUNCH OF CORGIS!!!!
For some reason I've had this for many years. I finally threw it away. The joke has grown stale.
Attention: it's time for your board game report
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We were enthused to hear that Laura Stevenson and Chris Farren were going to be playing at a venue right down the street from us. Emily and I both have their songs on our spotify playlists and listen to them regularly.
It so happened that there was a networking event at a data center that night, and I got to tour a data center which was highly interesting (Emily forgot her ID and wasn't able to make it past security), but we were able to make it out in time and hurried back to attend the show. We showed up right in the middle of Chris Farren's set. There was only about 20 or 30 people there. I've been to some small shows in my day but I've never seen a crowd this small. These are some good song writers too.
After his set, Chris was just hanging around at his merch table and we went over and talked to him for a second, bought a CD and then felt awkward and walked away. Then I surreptitiously snapped a photo like a creeper!
Listen to this song by Chris Farren's band Fake Problems and tell me he's not a fantastic song writer.
Up next was a band called Crying, who I had never heard of. They were punk-ish with some crazy super nintendo-esque synthesizer noise in all their songs. It's actually pretty fun music. The singer cracked me up. Before every song she would kind of mumble what the song was about and then spent most of the duration of the song with her back to the audience.
And then finally, Laura Stevenson (formerly known as Laura Stevenson and the Cans). Laura Stevenson has some fantastic pop songs, and again it blew me away how few people were at this show. Her band members are excellent musicans, and I recognized one of the guys who plays in Andrew Jackson Jihad. He was holding down the keyboard/accordian/tamborine duties like a boss. One of the other guys played in a now defunct punk band called Latterman. Laura sounds just like she does on her records; she's got the pipes. The music was good, the band was tight, the banter between band and crowd was amusing, and it made for a special evening. After the last song, the 20 or 30 people started yelling for an encore and they promptly obliged. She made a joke about how she always comes out for an encore quickly because she's worried that the crowd will die down).
Check out some Laura Stevenson people:
I have a feeling I will be leaving my job soon (and no, I don't care that I'm publishing on the interwebs for all to see). I had two interviews with a company who built the first 3D printed car, and I just did a "code challenge" where they gave me some code, I was supposed to "do something cool". No instructions other than just add features. I kinda hope I get this job, I'm going to be honest.
We're also going to be starting to look for people who we can build websites for in the near future, so if you know anyone, let us know!
BYE BYE HOMIES!!!11
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