The house guests who came during the early part of the month for the Northwest Garden Show decided to make my house a miniature gardening and interior decoration project. As indirect and direct results of their visit, I’ve learned how to make thin crust pizzas, install insulation, prune fruit trees, and how to coordinate area rugs with walls. My slacker bachelor existence is in jeopardy, I think. We also discovered that Ikea makes their most promising furniture from repurposed kitchen cabinets and custom sawn counter tops. Think the one nice looking floor model that isn’t made of particle board is representative of a standard boxed take-and-assemble kit? Think again.

The birthday came and went. I’m 26 now, which means it’s a slow steady slide until I’m 30 and I lose all my hair. Susan came up during that weekend to make the birthday much more bearable. After Susan’s travel nightmare with Alaska Airlines, we still made it in time to an early Valentine’s dinner at Le Gourmand, and finished with a ride home from Cab Elvis, which was memorable. It’s too bad we both somehow forgot about the holiday that was President’s day.

Work continues in its current vein: busy. I’m proud though that we did just win the best animated film Oscar. Yeah, I have credit on an Oscar winning film! Woo! Too bad our short “Boundin’” didn’t make it. Yes, it’s a Pixar short, and no, you’ll have to wait til November to see it when it’ll be attached to the Incredibles. Although I still haven’t seen Boundin’ myself (drawback of working up here), I believe it was the first bit of footage by us that showed off our kickass PRMan raytracing technology.

There, that’s my entry for February - didn’t let the leap day go to waste. March should be a more happenin’ month.