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Time for some old-school “updating”.

I’m not sure when I last wrote a general-purpose update, but I’ll just include some highlights from the last month.

- Jon Howard, who was also an intern last summer, came up and visited for the week of the GDC. This was when I had first moved into the apartment, so it was good to have someone else around. I got a lot of buying done and we made it to SF one weekend, which I hadn’t done yet. Definitely a good visit! (he’s starting to update his lj now, too.. )

- Steve Rittler was in the area for a conference, so he stopped by Google for a quick tour and lunch, which was fun. He has proof he was there
- I went golfing yesterday, for something like the first time in a decade. It was our offsite trip for google book search, and it was pretty fun. We got into groups of four and played a best-ball tournament, 18 holes. Most of the people there had never played golf before. I played reasonably well, especially with some good putts. We eventually retired to a billiards hall for pool, beer, and dinner, giving me a chance to prove that my golf skills were a rough approximation of my pool skills.

- Girts and I are still in the process of assembling the apartment. He set up his Wii, which I’ve played a bit. Mattress should be arriving soon, I hope. It’s been a while since I’ve slept in a bed.

- Work’s been ok.. between the offsites this week and being sick late last week, I haven’t got as much done lately as I wanted to. Today I finally got some momentum, so I’m hoping to keep that up tomorrow.