Chicks Dig Nerds, Right?

Thanks for the reminders, Twitterers.

Well, it’s been a pretty busy month.  I turned 25 last week, and had a totally awesome week doing it.  I am now in posession of a Nerf Vulcan. It’s a remarkably satisfying toy to play with, too. Discovered a pretty cool new bar in the process of celebrations, as well. If you’re ever looking for a decent drink and a place to hang out in the Bel-Red area, check out Celtic Bayou over on Leary just off of 520. I rediscovered my love for irish car bombs there last Friday night.

In non-brithday news, I’m studying for my MCSE. I know it’s a little bit old what witih MCITP/MCITS out there, but we’ve got a study group going, and I’m really only using the MCSE to get my foot in somewhere. I’m more interested in working with Sharepoint, and eventually network security consulting. That’s going fairly well so far, but I’m not expecting it to get into anything even a little bit complicated until the planning and maintaining server infrastructure stuff comes along.

I’m also working in a camera shop when I’m not out shooting or kicking around some code. That’s been kind of interesting. Mostly because I loathe retail. I get to spend my days playing with cameras, though, and that’s always nice. Spent a fair chunk of time yesterday playing with a D300 and the 105mm f/2.8 VR lens and the 70-200 f/2.8 VR lens. I don’t even remember what paychecks look like anymore. I’m going to have to convert to Canon, or convince Lisa to convert to Nikon. Neither of these things seems particularly likely, but I really don’t enjoy the thought of buying two separate sets of lenses.

Studying fun and retail woes aside, I had a photo shoot Saturday night, and it was easily the hardest thing I’ve ever shot. Swing dancing in a dance studio up in Woodinville. I’ll be putting together a writeup of my experiences with that soon. Some pictures, what I did wrong, what I did right and what I learned overall. It’s something a lot like shooting a track and field event in bar lighting. More on that later, though.

Last thing in this very newsblurb-style post: You’ll start seeing the occasional entry by someone that isn’t me. My good friend Phil will be weighing in on occasion with posts of his own. I expect comedy and insight will come of this. I make no promises, though. Except on the comedy part. Dude is funny as hell.