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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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24 June 2005 - 10:54 pm
Well, a lot has happened since I posted a couple of weeks ago about my goal of reading twenty-five books this summer. Since then I've read seven books and am already nearly halfway to my goal with more than two months left. I've been helped by working my way through some old favorites, but I've also been helped by burning up my living room, which left me without my usual location for watching hours of TV.
Yes, that's right. A burning candle somehow caught my couch on fire just a few hours after I wrote that post about my reading plans. I burned myself a bit (but not too seriously) in my failed effort to put the fire out, but the only real casualty was the couch. As you can see from the picture, not much of the couch was left. The carpet beneath the couch also needed to be replaced and the living room had to be painted. Both of those things just got done this week, mostly because my landlord was in Europe for the first week after the fire. While the rest of the apartment wasn't directly effected by the fire, soot was everywhere. My parents drove into town on Saturday and we cleaned and cleaned and cleaned for three days before we got everything except the living room sorted out.
It is especially fortuitous that fire related things have finally been sorted out and corrected, because I'm leaving for the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Sunday and won't be back in Saint Louis until after the Fourth of July holiday. I don't really know what to expect with regard to this conference. They have activities from 8:00 am until nearly midnight every night of the conference. But I'm not sure that I want to drop 16 hours a day on Java, so we'll have to see how things go.
One of the guys from work who went to JavaOne last year has requested that I bring him back a whole slew of goodies including t-shirts, pens, and software. I'm not feeling very magnanimous though. He didn't get me a thing when he was at JavaOne last year, and now he's giving me a list of things to get him? To be honest, I don't really want to deal with collecting a bunch of free crap at all -- even for myself. But perhaps my mind will change in a few days.
Yes, that's right. A burning candle somehow caught my couch on fire just a few hours after I wrote that post about my reading plans. I burned myself a bit (but not too seriously) in my failed effort to put the fire out, but the only real casualty was the couch. As you can see from the picture, not much of the couch was left. The carpet beneath the couch also needed to be replaced and the living room had to be painted. Both of those things just got done this week, mostly because my landlord was in Europe for the first week after the fire. While the rest of the apartment wasn't directly effected by the fire, soot was everywhere. My parents drove into town on Saturday and we cleaned and cleaned and cleaned for three days before we got everything except the living room sorted out.
It is especially fortuitous that fire related things have finally been sorted out and corrected, because I'm leaving for the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Sunday and won't be back in Saint Louis until after the Fourth of July holiday. I don't really know what to expect with regard to this conference. They have activities from 8:00 am until nearly midnight every night of the conference. But I'm not sure that I want to drop 16 hours a day on Java, so we'll have to see how things go.
One of the guys from work who went to JavaOne last year has requested that I bring him back a whole slew of goodies including t-shirts, pens, and software. I'm not feeling very magnanimous though. He didn't get me a thing when he was at JavaOne last year, and now he's giving me a list of things to get him? To be honest, I don't really want to deal with collecting a bunch of free crap at all -- even for myself. But perhaps my mind will change in a few days.
Posted by on 24 June 2005 at 10:54 PM
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Too bad about the couch--I rather liked it.
When are you getting into San Francisco? I'm in the south bay area for the summer.
-Joe
Posted by Joe on 26 June 2005 - 12:49 AM
I'll be in SF today (Sunday, 6/26) through early in the morning on Friday, 7/1.
Oh, and I have a new, identical couch on the way.
Posted by david on 26 June 2005 - 5:59 AM