A slice of strife.

Strange. While I was cleaning out my car today, I stumbled upon a set of keys to an older (say 90s?) BMW, complete with CVS discount card, house keys, etc. Attached was a ticket with the last name Todd and room number 49. I'm assuming that since Mr. Todd had a CVS card (which happens to be a pharmacy located everywhere but Southern California) that one of you people didn't leave it in my car and instead it was left by the wonderful hotel staff at The Commodore, the hotel that Amanda, Aaron and I stayed over winter break. I find it quite odd that in the 6 months since the trip, I didn't once happen upon them.

Speaking of San Francisco, I have a few photos of the trip available on my gallery, but even more are available on Amanda's gallery. Aaron, Amanda and I trekked up north for a week full of fun adventures including, but not limited to, Fisherman's Warf, Ghiradelli Square, shindigs in Golden Gate Park, hiking in Muir Woods and playing in the snow in the Grapevine. It was way way fun.

Shortly afterwards, Amanda had her 21st birthday which, of course, was chock full of absolutely horrible photos, most of which could be blamed on me. Okay, who am I kidding -- all the shitty ones were my fault.

Fig 1.1. Shitty photo of Chris

Fig 1.2. My reaction after seeing some of the shitty photos I took

Fig 1.wWHAT THE FUCK??!!!!!1111oneoneone

Shortly after that, I happened upon a wonderful entry in Planet Gnome (while in class) written by a one Todd Berman. Quoth Todd:

And speaking of work. We are looking to hire an experienced gtk application developer. You would be working fulltime on creating a gtk# application. While knowledge of C# would be a plus, knowledge of gtk+ is what we are really hiring. C# shouldn't take anyone more than a week (tops) to learn. We are looking to hire something who is willing to learn new things (C#, Ruby, HL7, to name a few), is legally able to work in the US, and will be willing to relocate to Southern California (This last one is somewhat flexible).


When I read these few lines, I threw myself out of my chair (in the middle of class, mind you) and sent him an email. By the next day, he had called me in for an interview and I was meeting with Steve, the co-founder and CTO of Medsphere, and Todd Berman himself. The interview went famously and after an almost two hour interview, I was having lunch with the Bermanator and his roommate Jackson. Now, I've been working with them for over 4 weeks on ubercool gtk# magic and I must say, I'm loving it. The pay is great, the work is on the bleeding edge, and the future outlook is famazing. I feel like I'm finally in career, no longer just working at a "job".

drunken musings...

Amanda Sanchez: i said that i harte
Amanda Sanchez: appletinis
Amanda Sanchez: hehe
Amanda Sanchez: weeee
brad: haha
brad: harte?
Amanda Sanchez: dinner should make me less drunk
brad: omg, you're already drunk, arent you?
Amanda Sanchez: whoops... heart
Amanda Sanchez: i'm so not drunk
Amanda Sanchez: =P
Amanda Sanchez: hehehehe
brad: you *so* are
brad: wow... you're really, really bad
Amanda Sanchez: i cnsa barelt see my plate of ffood
Amanda Sanchez: but i'm so bot drunk
Amanda Sanchez: *not
brad: ahahahah
Amanda Sanchez: shhhh
Amanda Sanchez: my family has no ideas
Amanda Sanchez: 'cuz i'm very qutie
Amanda Sanchez: evne though i reallyjust wannt to giggle at everyghing
brad: okay, this is going on my blog.

and then later...
Amanda Sanchez: i totally justspikled my dinner on my lap
Amanda Sanchez: hottness

even later...
Amanda Sanchez: my tonfye is noyb
Amanda Sanchez: numb'
Amanda Sanchez: uhm, that shoudlbe tongue
brad: how many appletinis have you had already?
Amanda Sanchez: one with loads ofg alchomls
Amanda Sanchez: well
brad: holy shit
Amanda Sanchez: and another thant i messed up a but
brad: that must have been pure vodka
Amanda Sanchez: so i just frand k it kidan quskci
Amanda Sanchez: it's sjyy covdaka

Arent the drunk fun?