Joe Szilagyi

Seven years of marriage, since November 6th, 2002 in Bennington, Vermont. I love you.

November 6th, 2001 is the day I married my amazing wife, my best friend in the world. Six years, darling. I love you so much. Happy anniversary.

We’re off to Portland for two evenings, for our wedding anniversary tomorrow! No laptops! No internets! No elections! Yay! Let’s see how long I last before flooding the place with a flickr cameraphone assault…

The America which Obama described in his speech–that is the America that my parents told me about when I was young, after they came here. That was and is my home.

Good night, America.

It’s out! Issue 1 of Galaxy Hunters, Andi’s comic, and the new site (the design is a work in progress, don’t hit me…!) are live.

Go look:

Five years ago, in Bennington, Vermont, I married my wife. There have been ups. There have been downs. Not one of the downs have stopped us. Each has made us stronger. I love you, Andriette Szilagyi.

It was on September 30th, 2005, at about 7:45pm Eastern time that my wife and I drove out of Connecticut. We got onto the Merritt Parkway southbound, passed through New York State, and stayed the night down a ways into north-central New Jersey at a motel. The next morning, we turned West, began our great journey and left the coast I grew up on to go back to her home.

My wonderful wife just turned a year younger today. Happy birthday, my love. Wish her a happy one here:

http://nonsequiturlass.livejournal.com

Want to hear Wil’s keynote that I mentioned he did at PAX yesterday? Go here. How did it open? Ha!

“Thank you. My name is Wil Wheaton, and Jack Thompson can suck my balls. This keynote has been rated MA by the ESRB.”

Go listen! Andi also has pics of us and Wil up…

GALAXY HUNTERS is live! Go see: http://www.galaxyhunters.net

Writer: Andi Szilagyi
Artist: Josh Crowe

Work on the web comic continues behind the scenes, but if you go right now over to Galaxy Hunters, you can sign up right now for the announcement mailing list! Low volume, and probably no mail at all for the time being. But, once the art work is done and the writing ready, and the site goes live, we’ll be sending updates out. So, sign up!

I’ve been swamped at work of late, and we’ve been out and about a fair bit when not working to decompress. That’s why the blog and Livejournal had gone dead of late, and it’s taking me ages to get back to anyone on e-mails and Instant messaging (among other things, that are done with…). We just got back from a three day weekend with family out on the Olympic Peninsula, and this week looks to be even more hectic. It’s the Bite of Seattle, Dolores O’Riordan is playing Seattle, and some crappy book is coming out on Friday (pre-delivered from Amazon, w00t!).

And, if all goes well, I may be the owner of one of these bad boys for only $350 this week, rather than the $550 retail price. Long, convoluted story. Suffice it to say, Sprint takes care of customers with accounts dating back over ten years for their cellular service when push comes to shove. For the nerds out there, yes, I know a ‘newer’ model with Windows Mobile 6 is out this very week. I don’t need nearly the firepower that model has, and I specifically need Windows Mobile 5 for my purposes. This model will easily last me 1.5 to 2.5 years, I’d imagine. It’s not the best smartphone for Sprint. That would probably be the IP-830W, but that’s a sexy international model. Which I can’t afford, and again, Windows Mobile 6. Alas.

I do love having a million things to do, though. It’s refreshing. So is the nice tan I got this weekend, and the fact that I spent time in as close the real world is going to get to the Misty Mountains. Just gorgeous, out there.

Andi and her friend from way back in the day are putting together a new webcomic: GALAXY HUNTERS! It’s coming soon, and here’s a tiny bit of preview sketch art:

Go here, to see the site (not quite ready for prime time, yet, but soon!).

Tonight, our friend Doug is part of an art show downtown, for his print work. This will certainly lead to one too many drinks, especially given that there will be obligatory wine and chatting at the art show, and obligatory hanging out afterwards. It’ll be fun. If we have time (and aren’t three sheets to the wind) we may try to see 28 Weeks Later. Maybe.

Either Saturday or Sunday morning we’re going to run down to REI to check out their selection of GPS units for geocaching, and we likely need to do a full grocery store run (which is a pain). We usually let it go until all our supplies are run down, and then go and get 2-4 weeks of stuff at once. It’s fun, except for the half-dozen trips it requires up and down the stairs and forever unloading and storing stuff. Saturday night we also have the Mariners/Yankees game, and then Sunday is Mother’s Day, so off to West Seattle. I was tempted to check out that Martime Festival down on the waterfront as well, but aside from maybe getting to ride around Elliot Bay in a tugboat, it looks pretty bland.

There’s other stuff as well, which I know I’m completely forgetting now. I think we’ll have free time while we’re asleep.

Where the wife and I bother and annoy Mojo into performing! Includes gratuitous butt shot.

So, we 100% cleaned every last inch of our apartment today. Everything. Literally. The place is immaculate. Except our actual desks, they’re a mess, but will get done tomorrow. The place just feels wonderful now. Rearranged stuff as well, so our office now has like twice the floor space. Vacuumed like mad, too. The carpets feel brand new.

Mojo is still sulking, ten hours later.

Tired, originally uploaded by rootology.

So, we went to Yelm today for ’s family reunion. There’s pictures of stuff scattered in my Flickr and more to come in hers soon if you care to look. The ride down on I5 was gorgeous, and the party was fun. Not quite as much fun as the first one I did, but that was out in Port Angeles in 2003 and was three whole days of fun with about twice as many people (only about 40-50 there today). Her family is HUGE.

Anyway, I’m so tired now… the ride back was a phenominal pain since there was five car accident south of Tacoma, and add in that for some reason everyone from that point on until we were like all the way to Sea-tac drove about 20mph. Slow, stupid morons. I hate Sunday drivers.

Also: Yelm is pretty.