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I’ve accepted a job at 21st Century Music in Kirkland, doing Ruby on Rails work! Taking some time off has paid off, now its back to work.

I’ll be working with Ben Curtis and a few others.

Start date is April 3, so I have 3 more weeks of vacation to fritter away on sleeping late and visiting coffee shops…

Varekai is in the Seattle area for the month of May.

Cirque du Soleil is always fun, and their VIP package is one of the few ‘VIP’ type things that is actually a really good upgrade. Last time we went the VIP route, we had pre-show food and drinks, intermission desert, a nice gift, and our own merchandise shop. Also, the VIP area had performers doing things while we were there.

Dinarte has volunteered to get a bunch of us together for a show for my birthday. Very cool.

I got Lisa a pink RAZR phone for Valentines day. She seems to like it a lot.

Lisa got me some cookies (yum!), a speaker pillow.

In addition, she made me a frog at Build-a-Bear – with a Seahawks shirt and cargo pants. She got a frog since I was speaking like a frog over the weekend. Its very cute.

I’ve decided I need to go back to work. I’ve been working on a project since the summer, but I don’t think I want to take it forward as a business. I don’t really want to do all the business things that need to go along with the rest of the work.

I’m putting my resume together and searching for a job, preferably using my new Ruby on Rails knowledge, and close to home in Redmond (I really hate commuting)

I haven’t done a resume since 2002, so there’s a lot of new stuff to put in.

Rich Eisen published an extract from an email I sent him for the second time.

Check it out

I’ve been really sick the last week or so. I think I picked up something bad in Detroit. I seem to have some sort of sinus infection with a cold. My throat hasn’t stopped hurting since the Super Bowl!

I’m getting better now, at least I’m not sleeping 18 hours a day anymore.

The Onion has an article about where the NFL disposes of the losers winning clothing.

African Child Loves His ‘World Champion Seahawks’ T-Shirt

Dave Krieg was at the pre-game party hosted by Prime Sport. Jeff and Doug have some pictures and got his autograph on their hats. Not many of the Seahawks fans recognized him, so he had a fairly quiet time at the party.

We were at a party on Saturday in the NFL HQ in downtown Detroit. We were 4 floors above the media center. KJR was broadcasting while we were there.

Due to the large number of people in the building, and the cold outside, there was condensation on the inside of th atrium roof that was dripping on them during the show. I’m sure they thought we were dropping beer on them.

I’ve heard Matt and other Seahawk players and staff say that the Seahawk fans are the best in the NFL. After seeing the Steeler fans on Sunday, they may be right.

The Steelers weren’t nasty or anything, in fact the ones I met were pretty good. As a group, they just didn’t seem to be football fans. They are Steeler fans, and the Steelers just happen to play football.

During the game, two things stood out:

• There were a lot of Steeler fans in the stadium
• They were very quiet until their team was up by 11 points.

When the Seahawks play at home, the fans cheer from the opening whistle, and on every defensive down (sometimes louder than others, but there’s always some noise). The Steelers weren’t even in the game on the first snap of the game!

They did get into the game toward the end, but even then, despite a huge numerical advantage, you could still talk to the people next to you. That would not be possible at Quest Field, and we were trying our best to make that happen in Ford Field.

In addition, they would cheer loudly when their offense was on the field. This didn’t matter too much, since they weren’t that loud.

We put so much effort into cheering our team on, we were exhausted at the end of the game. This was a first for us. The Steeler fans were well rested.

“It was like an away game for us, there’s no question about that,” quarterback Matt Hasselbeck said. “But if there were 90 percent Steelers fans and 10 percent Seahawks fans, I thought the Seahawks fans were just as loud, if not louder at times.”

All of this was a surprise, because the same Steeler fans were far from quiet on the street before the game.

I saw a news report that described the Steeler fans as ‘thunderous’. I don’t think he was in the same building as me – perhaps he was in a nearby bar?