Managed to go to see Brokeback Mountain sometime last week — Utah, you don’t know what you’re missing — and ate at a fun Korean BBQ place over the weekend. Also, running sound at the conference means I got to be around people while I was busy, which was nice. Even chatted with some folks, got to know the people I worked with, made new friends. Nice working like that.

Still, it all adds up to exhaustion if you’re not careful — so I believe Thursday morning will be a surf day. Mid-morning is supposed to see some amount of swell in case anyone wants to meet at Ocean Park.

Anne remembered something about a penny and some sort of test… anyway, she searched and found this: Bridgestone Penny Tire Tread Test.

So turns out I really need to go buy 2 new tires. If you’re traveling over the holidays, this test could be helpful.

For ten days in November, Anne and I traveled to Sarajevo, spending Thanksgiving with Matt and Shannon. Their apartment is on what was once the front line of the siege of Sarajevo. Although the fighting is a few years in the past, the city is still full of scenes of the destruction it endured.

This building is directly across the street from them. As can be seen at the top of this post, chess-playing gangs rampage the city and continue their reign of terror.

We had a wonderful time. The people were nice, the food was wonderful, and the visuals alternately beautiful and jarring in a city that hosted both the Winter Olympics and a drawn-out and destructive modern war. I’ll write more about the trip later; just wanted to get a couple of the photos up.