tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216367282009-10-13T20:51:32.007-05:00Documenting the Chicago Experience For Family and FriendsTim 2http://www.blogger.com/profile/03995149151026549553noreply@blogger.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21636728.post-83918648190186376182009-02-22T21:06:00.006-06:002009-02-22T22:02:05.345-06:00

It has been so long since I posted to the blog, I quite honestly cannot recall all of the events of the past few months and in some ways this has been preventing me from updating. Mostly I have been lazy, tired, and working entirely too much...but here is an attempt to sum up the lack of updates in photos.I will start with a quick glimpse of our Christmas gathering at Mom and Dad Elek's home...

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So as part of some camaraderie at work I didn't shave for about 3 weeks while we have been driving forward tying up lots of loose ends on Wolfenstein's Single Player game.Technically I am supposed to wait another week and continue to grow the freaking beard, but I need to get photographed for a passport and quite frankly the beard was starting to drive me nuts.Since I don't normally grow facial

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My guess is that Jeremy and Charlene have returned from their honeymoon by now, so maybe they will get a kick out of these pictures. I am sorry it took so long for me to put the final batch online, you see uhh Fable 2 came out last week, and it has been consuming significant chunks of my free time. I need to do research you know. I just have to know what the current buzz is in the

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Okay, here I am cramming in some time for part 2 of Jer and Char's wedding weekend here, Marisa and I are really busy trying our best to get this house in order. Since we decided to continue to rent we realized that we have yet to actually unpack much of what we had in Cleveland and Chicago. For about 10 years now we have been saying, we'll do this when we finish school, and we'll do that when

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There are a ton of photographs from the weekend prior's wedding celebrations, and I really don't have time to do an enormous update, so I will do 3 quicker updates to get all the photos out there.So Marisa and I both took off of work the Wednesday prior to the wedding and got the house together, picked up dresses, tuxedos, and other misc. items for the weekends activities. On Thursday morning we

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Okay, so I normally try not to bring any kind of political ramblings into the blog, but I just could not resist especially following the crazy Katie Couric, Sarah Palin interview as well as the debats on this past Friday.This image pretty much sums up what I thought of McCain in the debates. Pompus, arrogant, and out of touch. He didn't even seem to look at Obama one time. I got the distinct

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If you were to speak with Marisa or myself and ask us how the last few months have been going one of us would tell you that more recently I have been working hard, pushing towards each subsequent milestone at work, Wolfenstein is coming along nicely, and Marisa has been enjoying her time at her newer job at the Hospital.Things have been rather busy with each weekend being pretty full with things

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Last weekend Josh and Rachel came into town so that Marisa and Rachel could go out and get sized and have their dresses altered for Jeremy and Charlene's wedding. They decided to make a weekend out of it and stayed Friday and Saturday night, leaving in the afternoon on Sunday.We all had a good time just hanging out and relaxing. We didn't really go out and do too much as Norah wasn't feeling

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If you are like me, and you really love to listen to old Metallica you might have been disappointed by some of the more recent releases from the band that defines Metal. Now I am not going to say I didn't like their most recent releases, because I actually did. I will even admit to liking many aspects of St.Anger even though I felt like they whipped the album together.After finding Mastodon I

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I am trying to make a concerted effort to be better about updating the blog here. It is surprising to me to see how fast this past summer went. I am beginning to think perhaps I spent far too much of it sitting at my desk working. Oh well, live and learn, I will have to make time to get out and see more of Madison.I wanted to start this post off by linking you to one of my favorite posts Josh

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I realized a while back I haven't really posted too much about our daily lives here in Wisconsin. I guess it's because our lives here are pretty similiar to what they were when we were in Cleveland. Madison is a bit different than Cleveland in that there is alot more open land around the city and suburbs. You can pretty much get on the highway near our home and be out in the dairy farm land

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I don't know how many of you who read this blog have an xbox 360, but I wanted to take a moment and mention this amazing game that came out for Xbox Live a week or two ago...I finished the game two weekends or so ago and it was just fantastic. The game is based all around the concept of time, so there are tons of really cool puzzles you need to figure out using time and the ability to jump on

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So this past month has seen a bit of Crunch time at work as we make deliverable pushes. Marisa has been keeping busy hanging out with the ladies here in Madison and taking the Bailes to one of the many awesome doggie parks around.You can see from the photos below, comprised of my friends and coworkers Matt and Todd that none of us are shaving much, and we all need to get a little more

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Sorry if you want to see more than Wolfenstein on the blog, I have some more posts in the works that I hope to get to this weekend. Until then here is another video which was shown at Quake Con in Texas yesterday. It's really greate to see mostly positive feedback on this game in the comments etc. on the gaming web pages. Especially after the reaming we got on the forums etc. when videos

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I know I might have told some of you I cannot really talk too much about the game I am working on, but thanks to the start of our marketing blitz for Wolfenstein I can post what has been released to the public so far. You can see some of my work in that video, some fire a few explosions...but I cannot say too much more. What I can say is I am having some fun working on this game, it feels

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Actually Josh and Rachel came to visit and brought Norah with them for the long fourth of July weekend. I felt really bad because they hit some significant traffic on the way in. I assured them it must have been traffic going out to the suburbs, not realizing that people from Chicago come to Wisconsin on weekends to hang out at the Casinos in the Dells.Sorry guys, I felt terrible when I found

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So I am at Raven getting some extra hours in, and while I wait for the game and tools to load I figure I will get some updates in to posts that I already uploaded photos for, while at home this morning.As you can see, the above image is one of Mom and Dad Elek...it's a bit blurry...actually it is very blurry but there is a quality about the lighting and the place we had lunch in that I really

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So today marks the third Saturday in July, I am way behind on getting posts up on this blog. I know I have been slacking, and it is funny that I feel some kind of guilt about not updating this thing.It's funny because the guilt comes more from my own personal desire to continue the blog than a feeling that I am not giving my family and friends anything to read. You see after EA Chicago shut

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The weather here in Madison is finally starting to change over to spring like conditions and it is nice to finally see some leaves on the trees and budding flowers coming out. The grass is getting tall and Bailey is always so excited to just go outside and sit in the grass out back taking in all of the smells and keeping an eye on things.Our Nephew Jack's Birthday was last week, so we decided to

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Yes I know it has been quite some time since I updated this blog. I have plenty of excuses for you, and I am more than happy to share all of them. You see since moving to Madison I have actually been pretty busy doing stuff at work and around the house.Official Excuse List1> Until yesterday we only had 1 computer connected to the internet, via the television which requires one to sit on the

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So it is freezing cold here, and all I have done so far is complain about the weather, but today was an incredibly beautiful day. I have never seen anything like it. Essentially every tree, bush, and plant outside has a solid coating of ice on it. It is so cold outside that on a bright sunny day, like today was, the ice did not melt and as I drove to work this morning I could not help but

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Finally on Wednesday the cleaning crews came and left, the painters did their thing, and many of the dumb miscellaneous broken things in the house were fixed and we had an empty house ready for all of our junk to move into.After tons of preparation and all of the past several months work, a big truck pulled up in front of our house in Middleton and movers began unloading everything. Funny thing

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LinkThis video is hard to watch, it depicts the treatment of some cattle at a ranch in California that supplies a significant amount of beef to the u.s. market. I warned you, it is disturbing and makes me feel guilty knowing that my consumption habits feed this kind of garbage.After this video was leaked the USDA recalled 143 million pounds of beef distributed by this particular ranch...Seeing

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Oh please, oh please, please, please, please, please be good....Please, please, please...not Star Wars...all over again...

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More of this garbage on the highways again this week...today it took me an hour and a half to get to work, then took me an hour to get home going between 25-40 m.p.h. the entire way. Thankfully the pain should be over by this weekend as the new house is only 5 minutes from work!We had some crazy times this past week, lots and lots of preparation and managing of many different groups of people

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