Clowning around during Christmas break 2006
(cell phone pictures)

Home to Tulsa for Christmas break. Spent 5 days and 5 nights -- just long enough, but not too long.
High lights: Seeing family, opening presents, cooking roast for Christmas. Mother's holiday party and seeing cousin Kim and Debbie. Dad's birdies.
Low lights: Plane ride, traffic snarls, sun light hurt my bat-eyes, dad's downstairs neighbors' smoke coming in through the vents, missing Opus.

Marie, Gaylynn and I took a day-trip to Olympic Peninsula via car and ferry. Stopped at the Lucky Deer trading post and the S'Klallam tribal complex to buy art. Drove out to Port Angeles where we took a drive through the Olympic National Forest. Next we tracked back to Port Townsend where we had dinner at the Bayside Restaurant. Very nummy pot roast.

From the ferry. You can see the Olympics

Discovery Bay view from S'Klallam tribal museum

Totem poles

Driving through Olympic Natl. Park
Starting to see snow.

Scenic look-out

L-R: My blazer, Gaylynn, Marie

Heading back.

Visit his tribute here

Meet the new kitty, Allie

Updating my Amazon wish list.

Birdies:

All the birds I've logged from my apartment thus far:
Mallard, Glaucous-winged Gull, Glaucous Gull, Anna's Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Steller's Jay, Northwestern Crow, Common Raven, Black-capped Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Bushtit, Red-breasted Nuthatch, American Robin, European Starling, Spotted Towhee, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch, American Goldfinch, House Sparrow
New! Cooper's Hawk and Pileated Woodpecker, both way cool. Also Black-headed Grosbeak.

A couple of other awesome bird sightings: In June in Santa Fe, NM I saw a Black-billed Magpie. Gorgeous bird. And in August, I saw an adult Bald Eagle sitting on the grass. I watched him for several minutes before he flew off to the water. That was so incredible.

Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Maybe one of the coolest gadgets around the web!
Do you ever reminisce about the old days when the web first got started? Believe it or not, its been over 10 years since I began exploring the damn thing.

Here are some of my favorite archives of the good old days:

Old Web Haunts
Star Trek Continuum - 10/22/1996

A Call To Duty (ACTD) - 2/11/2003
From vTrek and beyond...where I started on the web
An old game transcript on google. I'm LTCAndo

The Hale Bop cult - 9/22/1999 They shedded their containers in March 1997

From my past
Oklahoma City Philharmonic (end of my last season) - 4/23/1999
Link to the people page - home page didn't archive well.
This is the oldest roster I can find - 5/7/1997
Page for OKC bombing CD - 12/31/1996 Did you know we played for the President at the service? He walked in right in front of me.

Real!
Real.com - 10/01/1999 Before site split in 2.
RealNetworks.com - 3/1/2000 After split. Enterprise portal
RN (5 days before I was laid off) - 8/2/2002

The Regular Joes (my old band) | more

OUHSC's Information Design Group (my first web team...awwww) - 11/18/1999

My Old-As-Dirt web page:
COMFORTABLY INSANE™.
Version 1, 1996, is now just a print-out in a folder, but here's the picture I featured on my very first website:

It was one page, no theme (although my old-as-dirt guestbook, circa 1996 or 1997, was and is still named "moonwind".
This picture above was at the top of the page, followed by a horizontal rule and a couple of links to the philharmonic and the OU Health Sciences Center where I worked.
I probably also had my email address and a web counter. That was it!
Eventually I created a couple of link pages, which wound up on Comfortably Insane™ but were never designed to match:
A sci fi links page | And a fun links page

Still live on server, version 2 - created 7/10/1997 This was the birth of the Comfortably Insane™ concept.
Yes, people, I thought of that phrase first 9 years ago, so you posers out there stealing the phrase are just copy-cats! (I'll eat my words if you can prove that you came up with it before July 1997)
My proof is in the site itself, which has time-sensitive content that could easily be validated.
The design was a slight improvement. Southwestern graphics and an obvious insanity theme. The name was an homage to my favorite Pink Floyd song, "Comfortably Numb."
Email at that time: LTCAndo@msn.com (that's Leutentant Commander Ando)

This is roughly version 3 - 06/04/2001 Tables.

Comfortably Insane today...you're here!

What I'd like to find:

Mahir - that first guy that whose site got propogated around the world with his personal ad of himself.

Strindberg and Helium - really odd, but fun to watch

My Gay Boyfriend - just goofball and fun to watch.

New York Social Diary - this site will make you appreciate being a normal person. And its kinda funny laughing at the rich socialites too.

Working my ever-expanding butt off at Real.
Without annoying details, suffice to say that working 2 full-time jobs at the same time wears the hell out of me.