Two months later

It's been nearly two months since I moved down here. Holy crap, time has absolutely flown. I had great intentions of writing every week but, clearly, that has not happened. I've been completely consumed in the world that is Sendhub.  That has been a pretty easy thing to do. The team that I work with is incredibly passionate about the product that we are building. That passion is really infectious and I am happy to be regularly putting in 10 hour days, and pushing code on weekens and after hours. When you really have the opportunity to be more an integral piece in a company's direction, you want to do everything you can to move in that direction and get to the goal.

With all that excitement and how happy I am with work, my personal life has been pretty shallow for the past 6 weeks. By that I mean, I haven't done focused much on my personal life. I realized today that this is the first time in my life that I have been "on my own" (no family or pre-existing friend group). It's been a challenge. I will definitely admit that it has taken its toll. It's hard to feel shitty when you look out the window and it's 25 degrees and sunny everyday but not having my family and friends close has been exceptionally hard. Luckily I've had a couple of breaks along the way.


In early June, I headed over to Las Vegas for Collin Hollas and Robyn Paul's wedding. Five days is a long time in Vegas but it was a blast and it was also Andrina and I's first time in Vegas together. It's funny how in Vegas every night ends up the same. That is, crawling into bed at three in the morning after sitting at the 3 card poker table for the past several hours.

Leaving the bay

I can't say enough about Virgin Air. One of my best flight experiences

Flamingos at the Flamingo

The view from Mix was awesome

Vegas Baby

Fremont St 

Matt Gise and his really really big dinner

Andrina and Kelsey and Kelsey's friend Amy came down for a visit at the end of last week, starting on July 5th. It was an action packed weekend and after a month of not seeing Andrina, totally necessary. I'm sad it will be another month until we get to see each other again.

When they first arrived we went to Martins West in Redwood City. Dinner was delicious but the Bacon  Ice Cream Sandwich was a hit.

We tried to go to Alcatraz but weren't aware that you need to book weeks in advance. So, we just spent the day checking out San Fran.

A store called It's Sugar filled with every kind of candy you can think of. I wonder why there is an obesity problem in this country.

How cliche :)

We tried to check out Gordon Biersch brewery for dinner in Palo Alto. It turns out BC drivers licenses which have been good enough everywhere else in this country are not official enough to allow us to order a wine. Here is the manager explaining that it's policy and he can't exercise judgement or common sense.

Needless to say, we left Gordon Biersch and went next door. Despite the look in my eyes, that was my first wine of the day.

Saturday was filled with outlet mall shopping. The girls rewarded me for taking them shopping by suggesting we go to the Oakland A's game.

When the sun goes down, Oakland gets freaking cold!

And Sunday was all about Six Flags, Discovery Kingdom. I haven't done the amusement park thing in awhile. I have to say that I expected more of Six Flags. It was good but I wasn't blown away. The two hour line up for the Superman ride definitely was not worth it.

Two hours later and we did ride this thing.. and yes it does do a barrel roll at the top

I had to get back to work on Monday so the girls did some more shopping and checked out Santa Cruz on Monday.

Santa Cruz

We met up for dinner at Mango Caribbean Restaurant in Palo Alto. So good!

I was very sad to see the girls head home on Tuesday. I can't wait to come home next month for a few days and deliver the car keys that Andrina left behind.