family dinner
scene: monday evening; elevator in my apartment building after letting in daniel, his parents (dave and ruth), and yasmin; my neighbor robert steps into elevator as well
robert: hey, is this your family, friends?
me: ummm…. yeah (with simultaneous thoughtful expression). yeah it is. this is my seattle family

so, after living in seattle for a year and eating countless meals at the seidels and andresens, i finally invited them all over for a meal at my place; i figure i can feed them once ;-). i baked some chicken breasts (with optional and recommended sweet baby ray’s hickory and brown sugar bbq sauce) and made my granny’s fried corn; dave (yasmin’s husband) made some broccoli and tempeh.
we ate, talked, laughed, shared; after spending time with both families, it was the first time i got them all together, and it was good times. they’ve had a significant impact on my adjustment to the seattle area and culture; my experience here would be dramatically different otherwise. i thank God for them

and, speaking of family, my momma ‘nem (mom, grandmama, aunt yvette, aunt brenda) are flying up to visit at the end of august. i’m excited! they will be my first real “visitors” since i’ve moved. and, my family family will get to meet my seattle family :-)

one year anniversary!
today (tuesday) is my one year anniversary at microsoft! it’s amazing that i’ve been on the IE team and been a part of IE8 release candidate, shipping IE8, and shipping Win7. and, i work on a great team with great people; i brought cookies in to celebrate, and quite a few dropped by my office to congratulate me. good times y’all.

and… my name is published
then, one of my co-workers saw me in the hallway and was like “hey, your name is mentioned in one of the w3c specs”. and, i checked it out, and he was right: me, one of the testers, and one of the program managers from IE are listed in acknowledgments for the cssom-view spec. i don’t know about y’all, but that’s hot.

well, so far, i’m doing a better job of keeping the blog up-to-date. i’m moving this weekend to another (much cheaper) apartment, so hit me up on the cell if you don’t see me online. holla!