The Zereps

happy valentine’s day!

(And more snow pics: here. Sorry hun, didn’t want to make a new post) 😉

jabba is waving happy valentine’s day, too

I got Gallery all set up on our new web host, so we now have a decent image gallery authoring tool to share our pics. Check out our first gallery–what else besides more blizzard pics? Enjoy!

Click here for the pics:
During the storm.
After the storm.

Apparently, this was the ‘storm of the century (or two)’–it didn’t really seem that bad though: BBC Article

Now all I need is to install a WordPress plugin to integrate our blog with it….

it’s a blizzard!

he’s a lumberjack and he’s okay…..he sleeps all night and he works all day……

what do you do when it’s snowing out? make biscotti! thanks mom for the martha stewart baking book, i LOVE it! 🙂

the illustrious backyard as the storm first started

A picture’s worth a thousand words, and this one says it all:

I just signed up with a new hosting company, Bluehost. They’ve gotten rave reviews on many sites and the price isn’t bad either, $6.95 a month for 10GB of space, 250GB/month xfer and much more. Anyway… for now, please try to use http://www.ericperez.com to get to our blog, as the other half-dozen domain names that we have pointing here (thezereps.com, etc.) may or may not work reliably in the coming weeks during the migration to the new servers. Thanks!

UPDATE: Nevermind… all the domains should be working fine.. thank goodness for iframes and tricksy DNS settings.

as i’m writting this i have a little (well, actually, he’s rather on the *large* side) puggy decimating the tail of his stuffed snake. i hope it holds out ’till i’m done here. *then* i’ll confiscate it like the elementary school teacher that i am.

oh, and thank you to eric for posting pics of his work, too. i would post pics of mine, but you can just to go the website and see me work, so it kind of defeats the purpose….

ooh, before i forget, i wanted to tell kit and jakki from thejakkit that i totally agree with their summation of ‘battlestar galactica’. i got sucked in this week with an all day marathon of season 2. boy oh boy is that good watchin’! it’s like ’24’ mixed with ‘star wars’ mixed with some other show, but i forgot…brain fart, sorry.

here’s a bunch of pictures of various domestic happenings lately. i swear…we’ll get an album soon!

(below) jabba nesting in his favorite spot in the whole house..my pillow! it would bug me, but i know he’s clean and cuddly, so i can’t refuse. i am a weak, helpless jellyfish when it comes to cuteness.

yes, that is what you think it is. chocolate fudge diet soda. i couldn’t help it. is it just me, or is the packaging verging a bit too much on the ’80s side? ::shrug::

good boy! who’s my big boy?! what a good boy…..i made sugar cookes and used jabba’s bone-shaped cookie cutter….mmmmm mmmm!

he’s a homer maniac! jabba loves my old slipper….eric likes teasing jabba with it almost as much as jabba loves chewing on it.

it’s darth zerep and jabba the pug!

Looks like we’re a little behind on the blogging… writing today about stuff that happened 2 days ago, but oh well..

Here are two pictures that I took on Friday morning –

A shot of the street on my way to work, near the subway stop:

This is a view from the inside of the office I work in:

After work on Friday, I decided to check out the Manhattan 2600 meeting. I’ve been wanting to go to one for many years, just to check it out (they have them in California too–I made it to one meeting once for like 20 minutes at the downtown mall in Sac, but that didn’t really count.) I figured the metting in Manhattan would be bigger and have a lot more stuff going on.

What I saw was an interesting hodge-podge of people—pimply-faced 16 year-olds who are hardly even noteworthy, leftovers from the good-ole days in the 70s and 80s, the ‘core’ group that included the editor-in-chief, the author of the Kismet wiresless sniffing tool, and various organizers of the upcoming HOPE conference. And then there were guys like me who are just into the latest technology, like to solve other people’s computer problems, and who don’t know evertything, but can definitely talk the talk. The meeting was a lot more informal than I expected–there wasn’t any schedule or speaker or anything, but it was good enough that I think I’ll go again next month.

Well, seeings as it’s now Friday (thank goodness!) it’s seems a little late to be writing about what we did on Wednesday, but it was so fun that I think it might just be worth it. (I had expected Candice to write something about it by now, but we’ve both been very busy lately.) Anyway, without further adieu.. Wednesday:

I ditched work at 4 o’clock on Wednesday (with permission!) I hurried over to Daily Show Studios on 11th Ave and 51st in Manhattan. I met Candice there around 4:45pm and there were already about 200+ people in line. We waited in line until about 6pm until we were finally admitted inside to be part of the studio audience for The Daily Show!! My two word summary: so funny.

Apparently, Jon Stewart had a stomach flu or something, so it took a little longer than usual to start the show, but there was a pretty funny stand-up guy keeping the audience entertained during the waiting period. The set was pretty small–only about 250 seats. It was very intimate–every seat in the house had a great view. I took 3 pictures with my camera, but unfortunately none of them turned out. 🙁 Stomach flu or not, Jon Stewart is just a genuinely funny guy–there’s no way around that. And since Bush had just given his ‘state of the union address’, there was plenty of fresh material to gleen from.

After the show was over, we walk the 3/4 of a mile or so back to the subway and stopped by an empanada restaurant called ‘Empanada Mama’ for a light dinner and a bathroom break. We made our way home around 8–our poor puppy had been alone all day, but he’s he always a very good puppy; he waited until we came home that evening and took him out to go potty (I thought he was going to explode when I took him out he had to go so bad!)