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WEDDED BLISS The Newsletter for Michael and Rochelle's Marriage Volume III, Number 2 -- January 28, 1900 Table of Contents: Successful Y2K Transition! NYE in SF Xmas at the Alderete-McCune Love Shack Michael's New Job Cat Tales Top Quotations of the Year Trivial Website Changes   Successful Y2K Transition! We're please that all of our computer systems appear to have made the transition to the Year 2000! In spite of Rochelle's PC being from the Stone Age (and running Windows 95), and Michael's PC costing less than $800 (two years ago, before it was fashionable for a PC to be cheap), all three of our computer systems have come through into the new Millennium unscathed. (No matter what the nitpickers say, when the thousands digit changes, that is the start of the new millennium.) Anyone out there have a good Y2K story?   NYE in SF Speaking of Y2K, NYE was mellow in SF. We had some friends over, tasted champagne (some would say guzzled), hung out, ate ourselves silly and didn't get out of bed the next day. When we finally cleaned up, it looked like the 15 of us drank 22 bottles of champagne. At the same time, The Haight was more quiet than we've experienced in a long time. We were easily the noisiest folks on the block -- but only because we were shooting off illegal Roman candles...   Xmas at the Alderete-McCune Love Shack We have just passed our 6 month anniversary. We are continuing to meld our belongings, getting rid of the extra stuff (well, moving it down to the basement). Our goal is to have the house "culled" of junk by 1/1/1901. Rochelle keeps chanting "A place for everything and everything in is place." That's a lot harder than it sounds when somebody (and we're not saying who she is) is a combination crap-a-holic (recovering) and eBay addict. This is why the new bar -- half Xmas present to ourselves, half wedding present from others -- is a good thing. It's a very groovy Art Deco-style bar, and we've loaded it with booze, a ton of glassware, and Rochelle's plastic flamingo drink stirrers. This has freed up much room in the kitchen and pantry, allowing us to put more stuff in its place. Of course, eventually we'll run out of room for new furniture to stuff with crap...   Michael's New Job For those who don't know, Michael left Be Incorporated in December, and took a job with a much smaller startup company. He was employee number 12! The new company's name is (pending a trademark search) Cymerc, and you can find them on the web at their temporary URL, http://www.aaoexchange.com/. The company is a business-to-business e-commerce exchange, specializing in used networking and telecommunications equipment (a $10 billion and growing market). Michael's new title is "Product Marketing Manager" and he's working for someone he's known since high school, which is kinda cool. The location is six blocks away from Rochelle's office; anyone want to bet on how often we have lunch together? (So far, once in 5 weeks...)   Cat Tales Basta, Luigi! has decided that she is the hall monitor for the house and none of the other cats have hall passes. She patrols the hall and chases down any cat she sees. We have started shutting Basta in the front two rooms when we go to bed so we don't have to hear brawls in the middle of the night. Cecil is doing well. He seems to have adjusted to his new housemates, being friendly and playing with Billie. The biggest sign of his improved mental state is that he has not peed down the heater vent in at least three weeks. Billie is a sweetie, her life would be great if only she could get a hall pass. Well, that and some strange cat has taken up residence on The Canopeners' bed. Tex just wandered in one day, plopped down on our bed, and won't leave. Poor little thing just cried at the door if we put her out. Michael loves her 'cause she's cute, talks at him really loud, and is a little crazy (like his other favorite cat, and his wife). We took all four cats to the vet this week, all at once, in one car. Rochelle rode outside on her scooter, which was smart. There were three very unhappy cats yowling continuously, while Cecil was ominously silent. Michael will never, ever do it again...   Top Quotations of the Year 13. "It's a generational thing." (from someone 3 years younger) 12. "It's all about blame." (philosophy of marriage) 11. "I didn't think it was worth it." (trying to make it to the bathroom) 10. "I was just trying to catch up." (what caused needing to make it to the bathroom) 9. "Basta, Luigi, Basta!" 8. "We don't need to rehearse; how hard can it be?" (philosophy of wedding) 7. "You need to decide now who's going to make the money in the family...and it should be him." (advice to the recently married) 6. "Didn't we just eat?" "But, honey, its Muellers [BBQ]!" 5. "This week on eBay" (on store signs everywhere in Texas) 4. "There's plenty of time for you to go back to sleep." (famous last words) 3. "Deep fried turkey? Isn't that sorta like a bacon, donut sandwich?" 2. (cut from the list, 'cause there's a video that goes with it, and we couldn't get it together to put it on our web site; it'll still be a top quotation next year...) 1. "Why would I do it if you didn't nag me?" (home project management philosophy)   Trivial Website Changes This is the article where we were going to talk about all the changes we had done to the web site to make it sooo much better. But, we didn't do any of those things. Except one. Henceforth, the correct URL for visiting our site is: http://www.haightlife.com/michaelandrochelle/ [ Editor's Note: We've changed the URL again; visit us at http://www.haightlife.com/mars/ ] We figured that, six months after the wedding, it was either a dead wedding web site, or we needed to stop calling it a wedding web site. So, now it's just our site. If the new URL is too hard to type or remember, just use this shortcut: http://www.haightlife.com/mr/ It'll take you to the right place. And don't worry if you've bookmarked pages with the old URL; Michael loooooves hacking around with the web server configuration files, and has set it up so the old URL still works.