First Post

It seems you can't avoid blogs these days, so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! This is my opportunity to ramble on about life, strife, and wife, as well as link to pictures, web sites, etc, that I think are cool.

If all goes well, I should publish here a couple times a week, and might even get Jess to contribute :-)

I'll start by promoting FireFox, as I intend to do periodically. If you haven't tried it yet (instead of Internet Explorer), give it a spin.

This week has been hard on us. I've been pursuing a permanent position at Intel and had four (yes *four*) different interviews for one position this week. It's a bit stressful. In addition, Jess and I have been "exploring" different possibilities in transportation, since the single car thing is getting a little old. Portland has some of the best public transportation in the nation, and all of it seems to bypass our poor little apartment (unless you're trying to go downtown, in which case it's really easy).

On a more positive note, we've been exploring a church in SE Portland called Imago Dei, and for the first time since leaving Illinois we think we've found a church that excites us! We'll see what happens...

I've been experimenting with some more "advanced" features of The Gimp, an Open Source image editor similar to Photoshop, so I thought I'd share one of my experiments. The picture to the right is one Jess took at Washington Park in Portland, with some layer magic by The Gimp.