Hi, I’m Bats… Remember Me?

Holy cats… I realize that I have not done a blog post in over a month… yep, last thing was my trip to New York. I just got behind, and despaired on catching up. I’ll try to keep my writeup of this past month brief—but it’s sure been busy… here’s what I’ve been up to:

My company’s big seminar series (“Summer Camp”)—three days of building geekery and eating and drinking more than prudent:


Another work trip to the Bay Area. Highlight was a potluck over at U-Boat and Christy’s where I got to meet both of the new Teplings—Bradley and Janie’s Mr. Griffin, and U-Boat and Christy’s Miss Corvidae!


Caption: “…and I managed to catch one this big!


Vacation! A week of camping and hiking in Alaska with Ouija, Drea, and one of their friends. Saw glaciers, puffins, breaching orcas, salmon swimming upstream, a bore tide in Turnagain Arm, a moose (!!), and immense amounts of incredibly beautiful scenery.


Oh… and it seems like the state pastime in Alaska is shooting at road signs. Dudes… could you just go find a junkyard or something? Please?


And I just thought this photo was fun.


Finally… Big Bird’s birthday was just last week… Jen is living in Texas nowadays, so I thought I needed to help organize a shindig to celebrate! An evening over at Judy’s, with gin and tonics, and pie! As well as bourbon from Nantucket… we just had to buy it for the novelty value (“There once was some hooch from Nantucket/T’was aged in an old oaken bucket”)—it was actually quite drinkable. Not bad for Yankee bourbon.


I wrote this on train to New York City for the weekend, meeting up with Amie and Guy to see the James Ensor exhibit at MoMA! (Belgian avant garde painter; also the subject of a They Mights Be Giants song) Which is why I actually had some time to blog. And then on a plane on Monday to Denver for work; yep, I’m planning on stopping in on Beemer over the weekend.