So we had a 4 day weekend at Sea Ranch, CA. It’s a beautiful area on the Sonoma coast, if you’re ever interested in renting a house by the beach with great hiking trails and rec. centers, check it out at:
Click here to Sea Ranch rentals
Anyway’s it was a really fun and relaxing weekend, the house was indredible and we hope to go back soon! Below is the link to the pictures.
So 2 weeks ago I found out my cousin Ed in LA had one of his music videos accepted on MTV2, CONGRATS! He’s been directing and creating a lot of latino artist’s videos and concerts. I haven’t had a chance to convert the video, but you should see it shortly. In the mean time, Ed is also a great photographer, check out these really cool aerial shots he took.
Congrats to my cousin Yoli and her whole family! Baby Nicole finally came after being a week late on Sept 4, 2005 at 4:24 pm. Looks like Tim and Yoli will have their hands full.
So I had a great week off, my mom came out and hung out until Friday, then Melanie and I went to Guerneville to visit an old friend where Melanie partied a little too much! Saturday we went to Clos du Bois with some of Melanie’s friends and had some wine, cheese, and salami.
Melanie and I joined Weight Watcher’s last week and we’re both on our way to eating healthier, we went to our first follow-up meeting and results were great, both Melanie and I lost weight on our first week, YAY!
Now that vacation is over I had my first day at my new job today. It’s really fun and exciting, not that installing Linux would be much fun for many people, but I love learning new things! I also found out we have our 1st annual company picnic this Sat. which is at Great America, very cool!
Yes, that’s right, I have another job. All my friend’s and family can’t keep up with where I work, but hopefully I’ll be at this company for a while. Why did I get another job? I can explain this with 2 words “start-up” and “commute”.
My old company Simple Star is based in San Francisco, which is about a 1 – 1 1/2 hour commute (depending on traffic) each way. It was very much a start-up company and with the long hours at work, plus commuting was really hard on me.
The sad part about me leaving is it’s a really cool company and I’m sure they will be extremely successful. If you’re looking for really easy photo software, go try PhotoShow Deluxe 4, here’s the link:
Also, here’s my old job if you’re interested:
QA Manager – Consumer photo software and web applications
Now onto info about my new job…
My new job is in Mountain View about a 15 min commute for me and I’m a QA Consultant (hopefully I’ll be permanent soon). The company is Centrify and we create software that allows computer’s with different operating systems (mac/linux/unix) to communicate with a component on Windows 2003 Servers called Active Directory. Kind of confused? Pretty much the software allows these other types of computers to use a Windows server environment.
I’m really excited about this opportunity since I get to test networking enviroments which has always interested me. Here’s some pictures of my new digs and the building:
Company Info: http://www.centrify.com
My Office View
My Cubical
The Centrify Building (We’re on the 11th floor, second from the top)
Hopefully you won’t see another post on this subject in a while.
-Paul
Trying out how to add images in our blog, do you see a picture of Tobi below?
Thanks to Robin and Ron for hosting our after work barbeque, where we said goodbye to old folks, and welcomed new folks on staff.
To view the pictures, click here.
Wow! This was a very filled weekend. My buddy Jack (Who design’s some awesome speakers at NHT) got married Sunday. We had a cool Bachelor Party at the Go-kart race track, then he had a great wedding where I saw all the old NHT gang. Congrats Jack and Erika!
The other activity we went to is our yearly 4th of July at the Bothwell’s. It was fun, like every year, but this year we got a surprise. Our buddy Jon Lewis flew out from Atlanta, GA (he’s a pilot for ATA airline, so it’s free) and surprised all of us. It was great to see him.
So if you interested in checking out the picture click on the link below. I hope you all had a happy 4th 2005…
So my neighbor who I bumped into while walking Tobi goes to the Indy 500 every year. He’s been going since 1948 and has only missed 2 races due to the military. Jed sent me some pictures of this year,s rece where Danicka Patrick was the first women to place in the top 5 (she finished 4th, but was 1st at one point). Check out the pictures.
So Melanie and I went to my cousin Mark’s wedding in Pittsburgh, PA 2 weeks ago. I finally got around to posting the pictures. Click on the link below to check them out.