holiday week!

so a new week begins.

summer has finally showed itself and i was able to commiserate with it in true lounging fashion these past several days; poolside of course.

i still need to go hiking along the greenbelt to fully appreciate the amount of rain we've been getting these past several days - hopefully this week sometime. for a good idea of what the area is like, take a look at my flickr site (sidebar right) and the most recently posted pictures of the town lake trail. i've seen flooding before during rainfall events, but not often do all the lakes fill up and then necessitate continuous floodgate openings and the mass movement of water throughout the system.

items of note: i was able to grill various fishes for the wine tasting on saturday and introduced the tastiness of wood plank grilling to friends. i'm going to take up rock climbing soon enough as i actually have a group of friends that go regularly. i was able to see ratatouille yesterday - an excellent pixar movie about cooking.

and as a new week begins things move along as always: my job search / career change leads to new contacts and opportunities (of which one will hopefully pan out). I will get paid to offer my opinion later tonight for a marketing research company (always a fun thing to do); and following that i'm going to bike over to the alamo drafthouse in my neighborhood and see a 60-foot fire breathing metal robot eat cars (a transformers the movie tie-in). it'll probably be good times.

pictures to follow for sure.