Krishen Greenwell

  • Wet wet wet

    [picture: bamboo open for business sign]
    Above, that’s the front entrance to Bamboo, the place I mentioned in the last entry. Jeff asked me what the food was like.
    [picture: bamboo grilled cheese]
    Doesn’t look like much, until you consider this is what they brought me when I asked for “grilled cheese”.
    Got hit HARD by rain and thunder during Ultimate practice tonight. It was threatening to rain for the last half hour of play, and when we finally decided to call the game off, I swear all twelve of us were in our cars in under two minutes. And not a moment too soon. This stuff just dumped! It was only raining for about 15 seconds before I was in my car, but I drove home completely soaked. Even with the wipers on high, I could barely see. Note to self: apply Rain-X Windshield Wax. Watched lightning hit the Comcast tower three times in one second during the drive home. Think that’s the first time I’ve actually seen lightning hit something other than the ground. I’ve seen lots of lightning, but this was pretty shocking, actually.
    Got some more thunder for you! Just audio this time. There are two main booms in the mp3. The first runs into the second, and the second has a long, low frequency rumble.
    Have a listen.
    Did you notice that during the second boom, nearly all the sound of the rain disappeared? Weird! The rain certainly didn’t stop. Anyone know what’s going on there?

  • Happy Father’s Day!

    Alex joined us at work today to help out with testing. The problem turned out not to be as big a deal as previously imagined, but if you look for bugs, you find ’em, and that we did. Left around 2pm, hopefully Jeff and Alex didn’t stay much longer. It was a beautiful day (if a little muggy).
    So I ended up losing all three of the auctions. I’m not all that surprised. I was willing to pay $12 per CD. The final prices?
    Dune, self-titled: $12.50
    Dune, Expedicion: $18.00
    Dune, Forever: $12.50
    Add $3 shipping to each of those, and you get a number I’m not willing to pay. 🙂 One day, though, one day they will be mine!
    Played a little ulti pickup with Eric and Sonia at Lakewood Ranch today with the Hungry Hungry Humans (a team we compete against in the Bradenton Ultimate league). All nine of us were waaay too tired to run, though, so we played an hour and half of walking ultimate. Haha. Fun times to be sure. Afterward had a bite to eat at “Bamboo”, a little eatery next door to the Bonefish Grill on University. Kinda reminded me of the type of food Cafe de la Lune in Victoria sold, but in a MUCH bigger space. Waaay too big. Actually, both Bamboo and Bonefish are in a strip mall that’s under construction, so perhaps it will get busier once construction has stopped and they start to advertise. It’s a pretty neat place — they served these dehydrated veggie-chips with my grilled cheese croissant and Newcastle pale ale. Yummy stuff. And the kicker? They’re open till 2am. There’s only a few places in Sarasota open that late on a weeknight that I’d actually want to eat at, so I’m really happy Eric pointed out to me. I told them they should put up a webpage with info on other good late night places to eat. Secretly, of course, I’m hoping they end up turing into CitySearch for Sarasota. 😀
    Talked to Dad on the phone tonight, sounds like he’s doing well. 🙂 Hooray, I’m totally excited about getting to see him, and Neil and mom in two weeks! Hopefully I’ll have my visa stuff sorted out by then.

  • Lucky Trunk

    [picture: a rainbow goes right through my trunk!]
    Wow, it’s waaay too early to be up. On a Sunday. Going in for work at 9 am; got called in on an emergency. Meeting Jeff and my boss, hopefully we won’t need to be there long.

Krishen Greenwell