Saturday day/night

Posted on 16th @ 7:06pm

Melanies cousins came over saturday to get baby sat for a few hours. They are only young and spent most of the time playing with toys or getting chased around by melanies dad.
Saturday night we went for a drive to Redmond (the city where microsoft is located). Melanie arranged to meet up with some friends. It took about 45mins to drive from Melanies place to her friend Chip’s place. Chip works at microsoft – but ill get into that in a sec.

So we got to Chips and then headed out for somthing to eat. We went to a place called “cucina cucina”, which is an italian restaurant (cucina means kitchen in italian apprently). We had to wait about 30mins for a table, but that was cool we hung out at the bar. I had a coke, melanie had a water and Chip had some weird kinda peach magurita. We finished the drinks and it was time to eat. The table we sat at was covered with butchers paper and had crayons for people to draw on while they wait – pretty neat idea.

So Melanie got Chip to draw a little heirarchy chart of where he works in Microsoft. Turns out he works in the section that handles the speak techniologies, natural langauge processing etc for WIndows 2005 (Longhorn). He is the boss of 5 other people and their job is to put all the code from their section together and build it – then put that up on the main windows section server so the other teams can link against it etc etc etc

Anyhow – we got our food. I ordered the Liguine with chicken, was too shabby either. Melanie and Chip organised the whole ‘tipping’ thing – cause ive got no idea about that. We all ate, and chatted some more and then paid and left.

We then headed round to a comedy club – cant remember the name of it dammit… Anyway, we met up with some more of Melanies friends. They all basically worked at Microsoft. The comedians where really good. The african american dude talked really fast and i had trouble understanding him, the headliner for the night was some dude i hadnt hard of but he had been on the tonight show with Jay Leno and he was really funny.

Comedy finished and most people left, Melanie and Me and Chris (one of the microsofties) hang around. Chris is a pretty cool dude. We chatteed for a while before the place started closing up so we left. Drove back to Melanies place and went to bed.

All in all it was a pretty good day. Driving to Redmond at night was neat, lots of lights and stuff. It looks cool driving along the highways with lots of cars at night, all you see is a river of back lights in front of you and a river of headlights on the left hand side.