Job Updates

Can't remember who knows what about our jobs but we have em!

Danielle has been working at Star Bucks for a week and a half now. There are a lot of good things about it. It's only 3 blocks away so she can walk, we get 30% in store merchandise, drinks, and a free pound of coffee per week. awesome. She'll be working around 32 hours a week, and this will give her time to find more of a career oriented position instead of taking the first thing that comes along to her.

This week I just started working for a place called C a s e y family programs. We do programs and support for foster families and foster kids. It is a really good work environment and every one is very friendly. I'm doing a combined job, where I do applications support and development. Meaning... if you can't accomplish a task within a computer program you would email me your question and then I answer it. It also means if there's a problem with the software, web page, etc. Then I would fix that as well. Currently I'm training which doesn't mean much, so I don't have a lot to say about it. But I do have a lot to say about my cubical which is set up against a window. It looks out onto the Puget Sound (boats, bi-planes), and on clear days I can see the mountains. This is definitely a step up from working in a pole barn and being surrounded by pastel colors.

So thats the update, I've been watching Seattle temps compared to Winona Lake/Warsaw. While it wasn't 80 degrees here monday, it's been generally warmer here than home. so ha ha.

~Travis

Domo arigato Mr. Roboto

This has taken awhile but we've been taking pictures of the places were visiting on the weekends and I finally have them loaded on my computer!

Our first free weekend we went to ROBOCON.
This is a group from TheyShallWalk.org They've created an exoskeleton that will use hydraulics to walk for a person. This is for someone who has lost movement in their legs and need to train them how to walk. The exoskeleton carry's all of the persons weight and does all the work for them. One of the inventers (the man in the suit) was paralyzed in the army when his parachute iddn't deploy. He came up with the idea when he was reading Battlefield Earth during his hospital stay.

Instead of being on GameBoy this Tetris game is made up of LED Buttons.
Thats Danielle playing it, the guy in the orange bandanna is Bubbah, to the left of him is Elyse, Julie, and then half of Amanda.

And this is what we came for. ROBO-COMBAT!!!

Heres a video of a fight:


The next day we went to Octoberfest where they had their annual Texas Chainsaw Carving Competition.


And then yesterday we went to several farms for Pumpkin Day of Fun.

Our Info

hello everyone. Just a quick post on our info, if I make this easier to read then it's easier for spammers to pick it up so i put it into an image... Enjoy!

EDIT:
Just to let everyone know, this is actually SKYPE. We're trying this out instead of going through shady Comcast or Embarq. So currently we just have the computers running it in our room. If you call and we're upstairs or something we probably won't hear it. But leave a message and we will call back. We are also working on getting a running computer upstairs so hopefully it won't be a problem in the near future.

any ways, if you have high-speed internet, you can download SKYPE here

and can talk to us on your computer (you need speakers/headset and a microphone) for free! Our Skype username (so you know who to call) is SpanglesInSeattle