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The maelstrom that is Chris' life
Created on 2001-04-04 10:10:15 (#91367), last updated 2009-07-16
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Basic Info| Name: | Chris |
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| Location: | Seattle, Washington, United States |
BioI'm an operations Jedi and culinary hacker. I work in technology, running data center operations for a sizeable internet company - but my passion is food. In 2000, I had a mid-career crisis in which I decided I didn't want to run a systems integration business anymore, went to culinary school, and went to work as a pastry cook at a fine dining restaurant. My original plan was to work my way up, learn the restaurant business, and open my own place. Clearly, my original plan failed.
My life is pretty wacky. Mostly I hang out with Penny (my wife), Brittany (our 16-year-old), Riley (thenewbie toddler kiddo). Dealing with a hormonal teenaged girl and a five-year-old Tasmanian devil of a boy is absolutely something I recommend you try doing sometime. We spend a bunch of time with friends whose food snobbery and pitcher-of-margaritas-and-a-big-backyard parenting style matches our own quite nicely.
Our home is a world with two poles: the kitchen and the office. Between them the lines of our lives run and twist and bend and intersect and shoot off again, weaving into a pattern that's often amusing, sometimes bizarre and always interesting. This journal is a (highly) irregular sampling of data points from those lines from which the pattern can sometimes be interpreted. In any case, there arelots of occasionally recipes.
I used to think I didn't know what I wanted out of life. Now I do. I want a life full of sumptuous food, clever conversation, diverse music, good wine, comfy furniture and the warmth and love of my family and friends. Join us in our everyday adventures if you'd like (err...when I manage to update) - we can always fit an extra chair in at the table.
My life is pretty wacky. Mostly I hang out with Penny (my wife), Brittany (our 16-year-old), Riley (the
Our home is a world with two poles: the kitchen and the office. Between them the lines of our lives run and twist and bend and intersect and shoot off again, weaving into a pattern that's often amusing, sometimes bizarre and always interesting. This journal is a (highly) irregular sampling of data points from those lines from which the pattern can sometimes be interpreted. In any case, there are
I used to think I didn't know what I wanted out of life. Now I do. I want a life full of sumptuous food, clever conversation, diverse music, good wine, comfy furniture and the warmth and love of my family and friends. Join us in our everyday adventures if you'd like (err...when I manage to update) - we can always fit an extra chair in at the table.
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3-phase power, 80's music, acadiana, alton brown, asparagus, backpacking, baking, bartending, beausoleil, biking, billy joel, black adder, caffeine, cajun food, calculus, caltech, calvin and hobbes, camping, canoeing, cartoons, cats, chaos, cheese, chinese food, cicero, classic rock, coffee with chicory, cookbooks, dark chocolate, dave brubeck, disorder, douglas adams, douglas coupland, ds9, duct tape, dusty bottles of port, ellis marsalis, empeg, engineering, entp, entropy, extremely sharp knives, fawlty towers, fishing, food tv, fume blanc, ganache, geeks, geocaching, glen phillips, good eats, gourmet food, grilling, harry potter, high speed chases, hiking, homeric greek, hot tubs, incident management, indian food, internet, iron chef, islands, italian food, itil, jason marsalis, jazz, jimmy buffett, john cusack, kitchenaid, klava, latin, le creuset, led zeppelin, linen, macintosh, maps, mardi gras, mix tapes, mountain dew, mp3s, music, naked chef, naps in hammocks, needlessly strong cocktails, new orleans, norse mythology, nypd blue, oobleck, overly complex sentences, oversized dewalt tools, oysters, parrothead, pc load letter, pete fountain, pink floyd, plato, power tools, quad espresso, rainy afternoons, reading, really good margaritas, rem, restaurants, richard lewis, road trips, robert mondavi, roman mythology, rowan atkinson, sailing, sandwiches, science, seafood, seattle, shiraz, shrimp, slack, smoking (meat), snow skiing, spaceman spiff, sugarbusters, sushi, swimming, tcp/ip, technology, terry pratchett, thai food, the matrix, the west wing, the young ones, tmbg, toontown, tps reports, transmetropolitan, trek, truffles, virgil, vlad taltos, wd-40, winamp, wired, writing, yendi, zydeco
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