ben lowery

Mike, Niru, Jack, Josh and I attended the most excellent Doughty show at Bowery Ballroom last night.  Shortly before the encore, Doughty had all of us hold up our lit cell phones…

There’s me.  :)

When did Apple’s Rendezvous become Bonjour?  Am I in an alternate
reality?  First Hero’s Quest becomes Quest for Glory and now this.

update: Turns out this was due to TIBCO suing.  So says Wikipedia.

Dance lessons continue… Mandy and I are learning the “nightclub two-step” as a possible dance for our wedding (and because it’s fun in general). It turns out we actually dance pretty well together and tend to pick up the moves fairly quickly, though we are no Fred and Ginger.

At least Mandy’s feet stopped bleeding.

So, like, hi.

Things have changed a lot recently and life has been way hectic. Here is a summary:

• I left FactSet to become an independent consultant / contractor. I’m now
  working with these guys who are working with these guys who are working on a project for these guys. It’s not as complicated as it sounds.
• I have a new cell phone number.  If you need it, give me a call.
• Mandy and I are no longer going to be on boarding in August due to fall-out from the Greece trip.
• It looks like we will be getting housing however, which is awesome.
• I still havn’t posted any pictures from Greece because of the first bullet point.
• I’m probably starting an S-Corp, as I’m now an independent consultant. I need a company name. Help?
• I’m now an independent consultant available to do your bidding at an hourly
  rate.  That’s still sinking in a bit.  More on that later.
• I’m getting married in 12 weeks. Not a change really, I was totally planning on getting married in 12 weeks, but holy crap.
• My parents are meeting her parents over Memorial Day weekend.  On tap: renting Meet the Fockers.
• HttpCompress is most likely moving into the DotNetNuke incubator so it can get the love and attention is so desires.
• I have a photo-thingy over on flickr, all taken with the crappy camera in my new Nokia 6230 cell phone. You too can follow along as I take bad pictures of random crap.

I told you I really liked bulleted lists.

Hi.

I’m still here. I’ve just been hiding for a while.

I recently upgraded the latest and greatest dasBlog, which seems
quite nice. Now I just have to make a skin for it and I’ll be quite
happy.

Things that happened recently:

• Valentine’s Day! My first and last with a fiancee! Dinner at Chiboust was excellent.
• Wedding invitation proofs arrived!  No, you can’t see them.
• Mandy and I are headed for Nashville this weekend for wedding counciling and other assorted wedding-related activities.
• We saw some bald eagles up near Bear Mountain.
• The stock at work split, 3-for-2
• Jack the cat continued to be a giant pest. His love of pens is eternal.

Yes, I made a bulleted list. I am an engineer.