I just got all the latest stuff uploaded for http://www.showtimemaps.com/.  If you live in LA or Austin, the times are accurate and up-to-date, and many of the times link to where you can buy tix.

Here's my related post on the other blog: http://www.showtimemaps.com/updates/PermaLink,guid,53274b80-fa8e-483d-b15a-40e4cb11bf21.aspx

Be sure to check out http://www.showtimemaps.com/SpreadTheWord.aspx

http://www.showtimemaps.com/ has really been coming along.  If you haven't checked it out yet, go for it.  You'll notice that there's a link just below the header that says "Latest Updates/Submit Comment".  That will take you to a blog I set up just for comments this project.  Please go there and provide feedback.  Also, now's the time to start showing the site to friends and colleagues that might think it's cool.  I'm hoping to have live movie data with links to actually purchasing tickets real soon!

Mark, I always knew you would manage to beat me to 30.  Have a fantastic day!

I ordered a new car today.  It's a Mini Cooper, and I bought it in Dallas.  Yes, that means that I'll have to fly out there and drive it back, but the California dealerships add thousands of dollars in dealer markup to their cars.  I'm attaching the PDF file of the configuration.  I won't get the car until December, but we've made it for more than 2 years without a second car, so what's a couple more months?

Today I am officially starting my pre-training for a half-marathon.  Actually, I'm following the training for a full marathon (from this book), but my plan is to run the half-marathon in Carlsbad on January 15th with recently engaged Jeff Webdell.  Depending on how the whole process works out, I may then search out a marathon in which to attempt to murder myself.  I say pre-training, because the prerequisite for the book training program is that I be comfortable running for 2 weeks, 4 times a week for 30 minutes.  Now, I have been in pre-pre-training, during which time I have been running 3 times a week for 30 minutes or more.  I'm posting my training schedule here, and then I hope to report back on my progress as things move along.

Pre-training
9/12 - Run 30 minutes
9/14 - Run 30 minutes
9/15 - Run 30 minutes
9/17 - Run 30 minutes
9/19 - Run 30 minutes
9/21 - Run 30 minutes
9/22 - Run 30 minutes
9/24 - Run 30 minutes

Training
9/26 - 3 miles
9/28 - 4 miles
9/29 - 3 miles
10/1 - 5 miles
10/3 - 3 miles
10/5 - 4 miles
10/6 - 3 miles
10/8 - 6 miles
10/10 - 3 miles
10/12 - 4 miles
10/13 - 3 miles
10/15 - 7 miles
10/17 - 3 miles
10/19 - 5 miles
10/20 - 3 miles
10/22 - 8 miles
10/24 - 3 miles
10/26 - 5 miles
10/27 - 3 miles
10/29 - 10 miles
10/31 - 4 miles
11/2 - 5 miles
11/3 - 4 miles
11/5 - 11 miles
11/7 - 4 miles
11/9 - 6 miles
11/10 - 4 miles
11/12 - 12 miles
11/14 - 4 miles
11/16 - 6 miles
11/17 - 4 miles
11/19 - 14 miles
11/21 - 4 miles
11/23 - 7 miles (in Vegas)
11/24 - 4 miles
11/26 - 16 miles
11/28 - 5 miles
11/30 - 8 miles
12/1 - 5 miles
12/3 - 16 miles
12/5 - 5 miles
12/7 - 8 miles
12/8 - 5 miles
12/10 - 16 miles
12/12 - 5 miles
12/14 - 8 miles
12/15 - 5 miles
12/17 - 18 miles
12/19 - 5 miles
12/21 - 8 miles
12/22 - 5 miles
12/24 - 18 miles (Merry Christmas?)
12/26 - 5 miles
12/28 - 8 miles
12/29 - 5 miles
12/31 - 9 miles
1/2 - 3 miles
1/4 - 5 miles
1/5 - 3 miles
1/7 - 8 miles
1/9 - 3 miles
1/11 - 3 miles
1/13 - Walk 3 miles
1/15 - Run 13.1 miles at the San Diego Half Marathon

Big news today!  I got the HD-DVR and component video switcher installed today.  I ended up having to do a fair amount of prep work.  I went ahead and drilled several more holes in the back of the entertainment center.  It made it easier as far as wires coming out the back, but I did it mostly to provide more opportunity for airflow.  Then, when I went to plug in my second power strip, I couldn't get the third prong into the outlet.  Something about it is jacked, so I had to switch it out with another one in the same room, just so I wouldn't have to wait to do all the setup.  Everything is hooked up and works except for the PS2.  I need to get the component cords for that, but that will just take a sec to add to the switcher.  The switcher is nice, too.  I was a little worried about how smoothly the auto-sensing would work, but it works exactly as I would want it to.

I got an unexpected bonus, as well.  As I mentioned before, I had put myself on a waiting list for the dual tuner HD-DVR.  When I picked up the HD-DVR today, I asked the lady behind the counter if she knew when they might be available.  She told me not to hold my breath.  Then she muttered something about Motorola and how she thought they were discontinued because demand was too high.  I pointed out that it would be really odd to discontinue something when more and more people were wanting it, but I let it go.  When I got home and started prepping, I was waiting for the drill to charge, so I read through the guide for the HD-DVR.  It said that the DVR had dual tuners!  And sure enough, when I got everything hooked up, both tuners work!  For once, I'm glad the people at the cable company don't know anything!

Sometimes, having a great idea for a blog entry can really kill your blog.  See, several weeks ago, Jamie and I went with her folks to a shooting range named Iron Sights to try our hand shooting handguns.  We shot Beretta and Sig Sauer 9MM pistols.  We each kept a shell casing as a souvenir, and I thought that a picture of the casing would really make an entry about the experience really hit the spot.  So, I kept putting it off until I took the picture.  Notice something missing?  I decided not to wait until I wasn't too lazy to take that picture.

So, what's new around here?  I finally completed my major involvement of these sites: http://redlion.wchc.com/ and http://ticketswest.wchc.com/ for what's now known as MRM Partners.  I'm still helping them troubleshoot and tweak, but I can actually focus on some other things now, including some more work with MRM Partners.

Mark and I have begun to pursue a project together, which promises to be both fun and educational.  Hopefully, it will also prove to be profitable as well.  We've managed to complete our first milestone on time!

Jamie and I celebrated our 4th anniversary this past week.  We celebrated by spending a night at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey, which is about a mile and a half from our place.  We could actually see our condo from our hotel room balcony.  Here's the flickr photo set.  We also celebrated our anniversary with dinner at The Prado restaurant, where we were married, with Jamie's parents.  Here's yet another flickr photo set for that.

In Segues-related news, Jason was here for almost a week two weeks ago and I'm sure is now convinced that California is the place for him upon his December graduation from Duke seminary.  While Jason was here, we all went down to Street Scene in San Diego to hang with Jeff and Lindsay, where we witnessed Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas unknowingly wet her pants on stage.  Cooper and Tawny will be out here for a couple of days later on in August.  Clinton will be hosting After Dark at Baylor next month, and I will be hosting Pigskin during Baylor Homecoming at the end of October.  So, Jamie and I will be in Texas for a week in October!  For anyone who didn't hear, Craig got married on June 18th, and you can check out their website here.

There's probably some stuff I left out, but I'm kind of caught up now, which should free me to post some other stuff as it happens, instead of waiting on that dang picture!

Jamie and I have been blessed with a ton of work of late.  When last I blogged, we were just finishing up Jamie's Irvine gig.  That next week, she started on another project that is with the same people and the same client that she did her first project for.  She's almost been doing this for a year!  This time, she's hired buddies Clinton and Scott Coones to work on it, too.  I also started last week on a new on-site contract with a company called Zentropy Partners.  It's a pretty cool company that offices out of a great building on Wilshire.  I'll be going in there until the end of April.  Hopefully, by then, I will have won another contract that Mark and I are going to work together on.  It's hard to tell what the chances are of getting the contract, though.

On the home front, I called Chatelaine a couple days ago, and the rain has not pushed back our move-in date yet.  Fourteen more days until the first people close and then we'll know for sure.  We bought ourselves a washing machine on Sunday.  (It won't be delivered until after we move in.)  We found a great Maytag machine on clearance at Best Buy, so we snapped it up.  I've designed a desk for my office, and the aforementioned Scott Coones is going to build it for me.  We've priced the wood materials, but I've still got to price the glass top I want.  It's going to be LOADS cheaper than the one that inspired it at Alan Desk ($3,400).  Jamie and I were picked to be in our builder's magazine.  Jamie was interviewed on the phone the other day, and they are going to take pictures of us out there next week.  On another home-related issue, though not our home, my brother Paul and his wife Christen finally sold their old home, just in time to avoid the sinister two-house-payment scenario.

I would like to announce for Clinton's sake, since there's something wrong with his blog, that he will be doing stand-up Thursday night at 424 again in Beverly Hills.  Let me know if you need info on how to get there.

Since I'm up late, I'm the first to get to wish Mark a Happy Birthday!  Too late to crop this picture, though.

This one's dedicated to Don Kersting!