10000 Years Married
Being married on 101010 puts binary in a special perspective. And, clearly, I am that sort of nerd who takes great joy in the fact that my wedding date is the answer to the universe. (101010 is 42 in binary.)
With the binarial perspective, celebrating anniversaries in binary means that every power of two is noteworthy as it means a new digit. So, today marks 10000 years married to the love of my life. It will be 2042 that the marriage counter ticks up another digit.
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Don't mind me. Just coding some on the blog. Here are my dogs as compensation for cluttering your feed.
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The PNW is something else
I posted this on Oct. 10, but it came from September as I headed to Asia, flying out of Vancouver I snapped this out of the plane's window.
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The Mountain is just so magical
The wife and I made our way down to Tacoma this morning and this view is just so magical. It's almost better that the mountain isn't as obvious as she can be.
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SEA -> IAD -> CDG -> SEA
Last week, on my third week on the job, I headed back to the airport and flew to Houston for the first Riftbound Regional Qualifier. It was fantastic. There are definite learnings and opportunities to improve, but it exceeded expectations nearly across the board.
My role was primarily support, though I fell into a role helping drive and coordinate coverage for the show. I worked closely with our contracted social agency for the show, and we delivered some of the best social content I've seen come out of a TCG tournament.
But my work trip doesn't end there.
I'm now in Paris for another work event, the TFT Paris Open. We flew out of IAH at 4pm yesterday, and overall the flight was fine. I was warm the entire time, which I expected. I had brought a pair of basketball shorts to change into for the overnight flight in hopes of combatting the temperature - it did not work.
However, that wasn't even the worst part of the flight. The worst was just as we came in for our final approach, my nose began to bleed. I had one cocktail napkin and I did my best to staunch the flow as we landed at CDG. As soon as we touched down I hit the call crew button, knowing they weren't going to get up while we were taxiing.
As soon as we got to the gate everyone began standing up to disembark, but I waited until I could flag a flight attendant and she brought me a box of tissues. Thankfully while a few blood droplets did fall on my shirt, it could have been much worse and I was able to clean myself up and disembark the flight to meet up with some of my coworkers.
I've always been prone to nose bleeds, having had them randomly for much of my life. And I used to be much better about making sure I had extra tissues on me for just such an occasion, but I got overly confident. I haven't had an issue with a nose bleed in months, if not more than a year. And my hubris paid the price.
I have had my nostrils chemically cauterized, and I've had multiple ENTs take a look and they don't have any advice other than to just deal with them when they come up.
C'est la vie.
That said, my little incident, had a cosmic karma pay off as we went through customs here in France. As we approached the lanes, there was one marked Sky Priority, which was also on my ticket. I showed it to the guy directing people into lanes and he let me and one of my coworkers go down the lane, which was by far the shortest of them all. Once we got to the front we realized something had gone awry as we were in an EU-only passport lane.
The woman at the front was kind; rather than send us back out she had us step aside for a few minutes. Then we were directed to the end of the row of agents and were able to pass through for passport check and getting our stamp. Where as another of our group took an hour to get processed, it took us less than ten minutes.
So, I think that balances out the frustration of the nosebleed.
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Post-barbershop
I neglected to share my post-barbershop selfie even though I posted it on social networks yesterday. Here it is for posterity.
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Duke & Ozzie in the Office
The dogs are not normally super eager to come into my office while I'm working. I've had the bed in there but they haven't made use of it regularly. So, yesterday, I resorted to bribery. Working on training Duke, the big dane, to lay down on the bed and get a treat. With him in here, Ozzie also came and made himself comfortable.
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Boardgaming Monday
Yesterday, to distract, and take advantage of a friend in from out of town, four of us got together and spent the afternoon into the evening playing Feast for Odin: The Norwegians. As I posted on Bluesky, I continue to be aggressively mediocre at the game. I managed to get 3rd out of four, which is good as I am reliably one of the worst at boardgames in my playgroup.
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Deep Introspection
Duke, our big Great Dane, relaxing on the couch and looking out into the backyard.
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Captured the first time they shared the couch
To quote a friend when I showed her this photo, "WE STAN THIS SWEET LITTLE BROMANCE"
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Welcoming Duke
Earlier this year we said goodbye to Elwood. We knew we would want another big dog in our life, but the wound was fresh.
Well, time has healed our pain, and a friend of ours spotted this handsome boy in need of a forever home. And today, he found it. Ours.
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