Wild, wild weekend!

Heather has just finished watching the Oscars 'round Kristi's house in Alabama. I've been left in charge of the family estate here in Washington and have really let my hair down.

On Friday night I watched two episodes of Dr Who back to back over a glass of whisky... and not modern Dr Who neither - good old Tom Baker on PBS. Nobody tutted at the dated special effects and I didn't hear a single bitchy comment about the Doctor's glamorous assistant Leela. Her outfit is made of shammy leathers and she has some great lines.

On Saturday I went to work for a few hours and played Team Fortress 2. Then I tried to go see a film at the IMAX and failed. Normally, I wouldn't even try so that's adventurous right there. Instead I went home, ate pizza and watched Dog Day Afternoon. It's a very funny movie.

Today, I just went into total off-the-leash overdrive. I watched all sorts of lads TV including an episode of Star Trek from 1967. I vacuumed and washed up. I took out the recycling and the rubbish and wired up the DVD player. Then I went grocery shopping and bought the ingredients for my first ever curry. Unfortunately, I got bored while it was cooking and started eating red chilli peppers to remind myself which bits have the hot stuff. I'll leave out the gory details. Lets just say I needed a bath to fully recover.

And still I managed to post some baby photos. This is from our wanderings around Ballard last weekend and just happen to have some obnoxiously adorable pictures.

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You'll be glad to hear that I survived my nasty cold from a few weeks ago. I've been back to work for a week. On Friday I went on a company jolly to a ski resort at a place called Snoqualmie which was nice. Look:


Also, it's rather old news now but in case you were wondering what game we've been working on at Surreal, it's official: This Is Vegas!

But who care about that.... look, baby!

Visit to the Space Needle

This is what happens when you try and take a picture of a large object at night with a puny flash and then mess with it with neato effects in Picasa. Who knew the space needle could look even more futuristic? We finally made the 46 second ride up the elevator in the needle last Sunday. It was actually kind of cool. I loved the 360 degrees of gift shopping. I had to wrench myself away from the needle shaped pepper grinder and the mini-flask key chain with needle logo etc.

I am once again blogging in place of John but instead of Radioshack keeping him from his duty it's a terrible "itis" of some sort. The doctor had a name for it but I can't remember. She prescribed Vicodin for his throat pain and wrote a note keeping him home from work for the week. Knock on wood, Owain hasn't come down with the cold I had in Arizona or the funk that John has.

Here's John and Owain inside the space needle

And one of me and the kid

Frilly Knickers/Arizona Trip

I'm not sure why diapers have a ruffle around the leg but aren't they dashing?! Owain and I were in Arizona last week visiting my Dad and Jim and Daniel. Flying with a 3 month old is scary but not as bad as I thought it would be. Owain was well behaved, better behaved than some of the airline employees and airport sercurity personnel. My biggest pleasure on the trip was watching Grandpa Jim and Owain together. They were getting along so well that Jim babysat for him while I spoiled myself with a pedicure. Mary Ellen also babysat so I could go see Juno with Jamie. It was great to see everyone and get a dose of sunshine. Here are the photos from that trip.

The Apple MacBook Air: Exclusive Pictures!

Not really. Here's another baby movie:

Three Months Today!

Owain has reached his 1/4-year birthday which is the drool anniversary. Here are some more baby pictures.


On Sunday, he flies to Arizona to be held and cooed at by lots of women. His P.A., Heather, will be accompanying him for the week. I will be spending the time working a little later than usual, playing Team Fortress 2 on company equipment and then coming home to beers, cheese on toast and more of the sort of computer-based gratification that can only truly be satisfied while the wife's away.

Speaking of which, I got a bit of a surprise this evening. Back in the 90's while I was a student of Artificial Intelligence, I did some work for a company called Intelligent Research Ltd. which was run by a long-time computer chess boffin by the name of David Levy. The work was mostly related to NLP and lasted until I finished my studies and got a job in video games. (Yes, this is going somewhere.)

Eventually, the company disappeared off the radar and I didn't hear anything more from David... until I saw this:


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Ahhhhhh Its BABYZILLA!!!!!

For maximum enjoyment play with volume up.

Sorry its so dark but I think you can still get the gist.