newest member of the family...

...so to speak :)

For our four year anniversary, Jess got me some new ink. I love her so much! Went to Capital City Tattoo, which I highly reccomend to anyone in the Madison area, or anyone passing through with an itch to go under the gun. Very clean, very friendly, and decor that was second to none - they have old theatre seats in the waiting area, and a mirror in back that would make Narcissus jealous beyond belief. Not too complicated, but I might do some work around it later on. Oh yeah, it's on the left inner forearm, since it's kind of tough to tell from the pic.

The image - in all of my math/science geekiness - is the "golden rectangle", a way of illustrating the golden ratio, famous since Ancient Greece for it's beauty, and for how often it shows up in nature. The rectangles can be broken down to infinity, and the inscribed spiral represents patterns seen in things such as a nautilus shell.

But enough history. Read the wiki link in the last paragraph if you want more, I just think it looks great. Thank you Jess!

wheels and wishes

It's been a bit too long since I threw something up for the masses to read about my life.

Well, I bought a new bike a couple weeks back. Done a few long rides so far, todays was about 13 miles. I'm planning on starting to ride to work at least a few days a week, and I want to start tomorrow, but I think that's going to depend on how bad the weather looks, as there's a possibility of rain. But with gas steadily climbing, and wanting to get into a bit better shape, a 12 mile one way ride to work sound like a pretty good way to do both.

I can't understand why Wii's still can't be kept on the shelves. I've been trying for 6 weeks to try and get one to no avail. Why six months after console release they can't produce them is completely beyond me. I'm glad its popular, but get with it Nintendo.

In much more fun news, Jess and I are going to Greece! After we stock up on some vacation time over the summer we're heading out for 2 weeks of ancient civilization goodness. Anyone with thoughts on where to go visit, I'm all ears.

And this weekend was great. Friday night Jess and I went up to Baraboo to hang out with Val and the long lost and now found Nate Anderson, who had secured a campsite up there for a few days. Had some drinks, played some guitar, sang loudly and somewhat off key, and then played Scattergories before heading home. Saturday morning spent some time at the farmers market downtown, then met up with Chris and Tori to enact an ingenious plan: they bought salsa at the market, we went to Frida's, sat outside (while some very loud mexican musicians played to the outdoor seating) ate the free chips with the great salsa and split a couple pitchers of margaritas. Nothing like being buzzed before noon on a Saturday.