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Oct. 8th, 2007 @ 12:06 am dusting the blog...
Current Mood: sleepy
Tags:
Yup, its me again. Dusting off this account, and will attempt to keep some current info on here.

What have i been up to?
Work = Still with the County, doing the same stuff as before.
Side stuff = Volunteer with OES, using my ham radio skills & keeping people safe
= Attending Foothill College, going for my certificate in GIS
= Brewing Beer & Mead
= Camping / Fishing (not as much as i'd like)
= Traveling, mostly to BrewFests
= Taking photos
Personal = Still living with my schweetie in RWC. Working out very well for us.
= Location is close to 280, and good for both of our commutes


As i look at the above list, some of the side stuff are things which i've wanted to get involved with for a while, but never really took control of the reigns and did it. Things like helping out with the Sheriffs/OES, and going back to school, for the certificate. Last year was when i started out with OES, and i like it more & more. Callouts, to helping out with events.... its a nice side distraction, and everyone there are a great bunch of folks. School is a decision i made over some time. I know that i don't want to keep doing what i am doing at the county forever. There are quite a few different departments i'd love to redirect my career into, and by going back to school will help me achieve that.

A word on Brewing/Mead-ing: Is something i will never give up. I recently shared a bottle with some friends, and the sight of them going "wow!" just brings a smile to my face, and warm & fuzzies to the soul. The last batch was something a lil special... i brewed it for my b-day, and had help from my schweetie & the neighbors. It was one of my standard recipes, with some slight variation due to grain/hop availability. Soon, i foresee some other fun batches to whip up.=) For mead-making, I picked up a wine corker so i can now use my mad stash of vino bottles for meadly-meadly-meadly mead.

Anyhoots its late... time to sleep!
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May. 8th, 2006 @ 07:46 pm Music Meme...
Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Primus
Tags: ,
Rules:
Let your audio player/Ipod/Winamp/etc choose your answers for ya!

From Rebecca:
Make-up the soundtrack to your life. It's Easy!!
Open whatever audio player you use and put the SHUFFLE ON.
Type the first song that plays randomly and there ya go....

Opening credits: Dancing Cheek to Cheek/Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald
Waking up: Two Hands of a Prayer/Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Average day: I'm Yours & You're Mine/Morphine
First date: One Moment/Jon Dee Graham
Falling in love: Thank You/Led Zeppelin
Fight scene: Tweekers/Primus
Breaking up: Open Arms/Journey
Getting back together: Formed a Band/Art Brut
Secret love: (Waterfall)May this be Love/Jimi Hendrix
Life's okay: Lost Souls Forever/Kasabian
Mental breakdown: Tenessee Jed/Greatful Dead
Driving: Devil Went Down to Georgia/Charlie Daniels
Learning a lesson: A Lovely Day Tomorrow/British Sea Power
Deep thought: What makes the Monkey dance/Chuck Prophet
Flashback: Lost in the Pilot/The Dears
Partying: Mr. Oysterhead/Oysterhead
Happy dance: Sugar/Imperial Teen
Regretting: Coffee Song/Soul Coughing
Long night: 99 Ways to die/Megadeath
Death scene: Mansion on the Mountain/Canyon
(added)Current Mood: Numb/Portishead
(added)Sex Scene: Mother People/Frank Zappa
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Mar. 10th, 2006 @ 09:50 pm how weird meme...
Current Mood: dorky
Tags:
You Are 80% Weird

You're more than quirky, you're downright strange.
But you're also strangely compelling, like a cult leader.
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hop madness, hophead, beer, hops
Mar. 7th, 2006 @ 09:54 pm Okay okay....
Tags:
Its been a long time since i've been online, and lemme start off with this.... I was tagged by zee lurvly [info]mollyesther ;)

5 Guilty Pleasures meme...

#5: Chocolate... damn i really really really love this stuff!!! Hershey's, Guittard, or those bars over at Trader Joe's... yup. Hard to keep away.

#4: The Dukes of Hazzard... it might be my childhood lusting after Daisy Duke, kick ass muscle cars, or Flash which hooked me. But if i'm flipping channels (head anywhere near CMT) and catch a glimpse of the show, i gotta finish it.

#3: Saturday Morning Outdoors shows... i'm a huge fishing/camping/outdoors geek. Just like The Dukes of Hazzard, if i see it, i gotta finish it!!! I love it. ;)

#2: FoodTV... I'm a foodie at heart. I love to cook, grill, bbq, etc. There's times when i know i need to do this or that, and instead i'm in my pj's watching Alton Brown whip up something yummy.

#1: Da IntarWeb... yup, i can spend ooooooodles & oooooodles of time looking at brewing stuff, new toys to purchase, putzing on Tribe, Flickr, the forums i normally hang out on... all the while sitting around in me undies, when i should be out & about.

As per the rules of the meme, i hearby tag the following to do likewise & share their 5 guilty pleasures:
[info]kawgirl
[info]katiiis
[info]learnteach
[info]src
[info]judith_s

tiny_out!!!!!!! =)
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hop madness, hophead, beer, hops
Sep. 16th, 2005 @ 10:32 pm stuph & things...
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Portishead mix
Today was a good day...

-swore an oath of loyalty (similar to what the governor or prez says in their oath of office)
-deposited my first paycheck from the new job (total of 32 hours, a short week because of labor day)
-a year older, but none the wiser! =)
-have beer looking at me thru the carboy, ready to dryhop & bottle
-picked tomaters to make a batch o'salsa
-made a yummy dinner (pho)
-coworkers sang happy birthday =)
-feel lucky that i work with such cool & nice folks
-enjoying making pickles and other yummy goodies

=)
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Sep. 6th, 2005 @ 08:04 pm So long Maynard G. Krebs...
Current Mood: melancholy
Current Music: Zappa - Nightowl
...and thanks for all the goodtimes lil' buddy.

I must admit that i admired Bob Denver's character in Dobie Gillis... the bearded beatnik, who ran far away from work as possible, playing bongo's, and hanging out in the coffee house. There's a certain part of me which can kinda relate in some twisted way. Being able to do his own thing, shunning the 9-5, and being true to himself. I've been able to shun the 9-5 for quite some time... partially because of myself, and partially because of the industry i've been striving to reinsert myself into.

RIP Bob Denver
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Jun. 16th, 2005 @ 09:20 pm Pickle pickle pickle pickle...
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Zappa
...TV TV!!! =)

Yup! Two major things taken care of... #1. made a MONSTER batch of pickles from cukes harvested from my mom's garden, and #2. Replacement TV taken care of!

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hop madness, hophead, beer, hops
Jun. 14th, 2005 @ 04:43 pm twitch.... twitch..... quiver.... shake!!!!!!!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggg!!!!!!!
Current Mood: restless
Current Music: The sound of silence...
So far its been approximately 20 hours, 43 minutes, and 24 seconds or so since the TV went on the blink.

I feel like doing a Beavis impression right now..... (silently saying... oh no!!!, eyes buggered out, while randomly clicking on the remote!!)

Yup.... i'm addicted. FoodTV, USA, History Channel, Cartoon Network, TNT, FX, Comedy Central, and more... arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Damnit Butthead!!!!!!!! This SUCKS!!!!!!!!! =P

But all is not lost... we went out to look and price some TV's... found some nice Sony's ~$500-$600. any suggestions & recommendations from the peanut gallery????????

btw, on another note: got a call from mom to come by and grab a bunch of pickling cukes... Should have a first batch started up tmrw, and then fairly regularly afterwards. =)
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hop madness, hophead, beer, hops
May. 16th, 2005 @ 08:12 pm stuff & things...
Current Mood: full
Current Music: Kaiser Chiefs...
Summary
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-webpage goodies
-garage cleanup
-garden update
-spring fever

da goodies here! =) )
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hop madness, hophead, beer, hops
May. 11th, 2005 @ 05:02 pm hmnnnn.....
Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Ween - Waving my dick in the wind
an update...
============
-plantaloons
-cooking
-job outlook

more goodies down here!!! )

time for dindin!
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May. 9th, 2005 @ 10:27 pm Victory in Europe day coverage...
Just a lil disappointed in the lack of live broadcast feed or a lotta video coverage of the event of the victory celebration in Russia. CNN showed some coverage for 15minutes, and the 15min they showed was messed up by folks talking thru the entire feed, so that you couldn't hear what folks were saying. Even the anchorman/womans discussion wasn't related to the event at hand.

I'm bummed in a couple ways...

-I'm a historical buff, and would like to see/drool/get excitied over the ww2 uniforms, flags, weaponry, tanks, trucks, etc. This wasn't to happen =(

-Additionally, because of my Russian heritage, i'd like to watch and see the activities over there. Millions of russians were killed during the war, and every family was impacted in one way or another. They treat ww2 radically differently than over here...

Oh well... guess i'll have to settle for pics and stuff for now.
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May. 9th, 2005 @ 01:09 pm webpage redo...
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Portishead - Strangers
The latest rendition of my webpage is posted.

check it out here

its a work in progress... which i'll try to update at least once a month. =)
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May. 6th, 2005 @ 09:00 am Pizza Pizza!!!!!!!
Current Mood: accomplished
Soooooo... tested out the new oven with the pizza stone in place. HOT DAMN!!!!!!!!! what AWESOME results!!!! =)

Turns out that 500F is a lil on the hot side, but 475 is just about purrrrrrrfect! ;) Or, next time... i can try moving the pizza stone up 1 level, and leaving it at 475-500. My pizza dough recipe is perfected!!! YAY!

Nice bubbly crust, super yummy, and grubuliscious!!!!! =) =) =)

I still have 1 pizza portion of pizza dough sitting in the fridge (ran out of mozzarella cheez! :-/ )... so can use that to make some focaccia bread, or garlic something goodness ;). YAY!!!!
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May. 5th, 2005 @ 01:03 am Oven install complete...
Current Mood: accomplished
Finished replacing the oven at my dad's casa... must say it was pretty painless, but did take a while due to a few facts... #1, had to cut the formica by hand (at an screwy angle, which buggered up my wrist) & #2, the plumbers who installed the stove originally, cobbled up the fittings at the gas shutoff valve, making it a bear & a half to remove and cleanup to a nice starting point.

The new oven is very nice! It was delivered into the living room, and inspected while i inventoried what fittings & tools i needed to complete the job. Must add that years of doing SEMI work helped out with the gas install... ;) passed bubbletest first time!

For the Celebratory first meal, we whipped up the Easter ham we had planned to make for Orthodox Easter... May 1st. Tasty stuff!!

=)

And the best part... the range top EASILY fits my largest brewkettle with ease. Must test it out soon!!!!!!!
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hop madness, hophead, beer, hops
May. 1st, 2005 @ 04:06 pm Happy Easter!!! Orthodox that is!! ;)
Christos Voskrese!

Today is Russian Orthodox Easter... for those folks who thought there is only one!! ;)

Today, i'm making siberian pelmeni (lil' dumplings). Having some Oven issues, (gets replaced weds) so no Easter Ham, or Kulich (Easter cake). Pascha (a traditional cheese curd cake of yumminess) is also a traditional food goodies, but its super sweet, and since we're trying to cut back on sugars, gonna pass this year.

Happy Orthodox Easter everyone!
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Apr. 27th, 2005 @ 11:36 pm yummy dindin...
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Primus - Jerry
... and food thoughts!

=)

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hop madness, hophead, beer, hops
Apr. 26th, 2005 @ 07:37 pm goodies....
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Massive Attack
short form...
-2nd interview
-weekender seattle trip
-planting goodies
-fishing
-beer

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Apr. 16th, 2005 @ 12:28 am Sunny Sunnyvale...
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Lightnin' Hopkins - Gamblers Blues
Welp, went to my lil interview over in Sunnyvale... and it was good. Had some initial jitters, but quickly settled down, as we discussed my background, what they're looking for, and making sure that i'm a good fit.

Turns out what they're looking for is someone to take a customers product from teststand R&D, do a crapload of cleanup work, documentation, and take the bull by the horns and get it to a phase where manufacturing is happy & the customer is happy.

I've done this in the past a few times, and can do a lot of it in my sleep. I think they liked my background, and the fact that i'm a hands-on, R&D/ProdDev type. They're looking to hiring very soon, and had other interviews scheduled that day. Right now, the only bummer is the fact that its a contract position... but its not too bad of a thing, at least initially. There's a whole bunch of potentail work coming down the pipe, so the contract is a pretty sure thing assuming the guy/gal they have in there has their shit together. It has the potential to last a long time... but initially its 4-6wks.

I have a few concerns but ya know what... that's not going to matter until the 3-4 month mark, assuming that they'll give me the chance to work there.
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Apr. 13th, 2005 @ 07:34 pm One more time!!
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Morphine - Look like rain...
Welp... here's the latest on my jobsearch/hunt...

summary...
-interview coming up on Friday
-more forms
-other goodies


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=)
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Apr. 3rd, 2005 @ 10:28 pm more on the jobfront...
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Massive Attack - Karmacoma
summary:
-recv'd apps
-updated job profiles
-interesting jobs applied for...

the job details...=) )
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