Well the summer is over and school has started again. I'm sure I'm not the only person you will hear say that the summer flew by. A few months back I wrote a blog posted entitled, "Summer of Awesome". I predicted that this summer would be a good time for me, but in retrospect I had know idea how awesome it would really turn out to be. It was by far the best summer of my life. Not once could I say I was bored, and considering I was pretty broke for most of it I can't believe all the things that I have done.


To highlight some of the things I did:

• Biking/Hiking/Kayaking/Canoe
• Chooch Visited (and Yassine, Jib, and Zak came and hung out too)
• 45 & Jan visited (a couple times)
• Chad Visited (a couple times)
• Hung out with John Bondie (my inspiration to play guitar)
  
• My brothers graduation party (got to see a lot of family/friends I hadn't seen in a long time)
• Got to ride in a 900 horsepower car (by far the fastest car I have ever been in)
• Brazilan Jiu-Jitsu/Muay Thai Kickboxing (trained at the Warriory Way)
• Got my white armband in Muay Thai (from Matee Jedeepitak, 4 time world champion)
• Helped Bill fix up his house (new bar, tiled bathroom, painted, etc)
  
• Barcamp
• Randy's Bachelor Party (best night of the summer)
  
• 2 Tubing Trips
• Worked for Google on Open Source Software from Home
• Family Reunion
• Built my first eCommerce Website
  

I also attended tons of concerts:

• Bury Your Dead(w/ Suicide Silence, Stick to your guns)
• Skinny Puppy
• Sounds of the Underground Tour
• Gorefest (Emmure, Bloodlined Caligraphy, and lots more)
• Marilyn Manson (w/ Slayer and Bleeding Through)

I was suppose to go to Colorado as well, but then that got canceled because my cousin wanted me to move a bunch of furniture to New York for him and said he would pay for my flight back. So I decided to pass up the trip to Colorado for that, but the furniture never came in on time so I had to go back to school instead., bummer on that one.


Recently I have been blessed with some more karma as well. I wrote a proposal this summer for a Qtopia Green phone grant.  Well on my birthday I got an e-mail saying my proposal was accepted. It's basically very similar to an iPhone(but it runs linux), and it's like $700, so that was a cool birthday present to get for free. I talked to my teacher if I could do my project for the last couple of credits I needed to get my degree this semester and he said it was cool, so that definitely worked out for me. There is a quick video I made of it here. I have also recently had 2 phone interviews with Google and found out that I get to have a 3rd one next week, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed(a thanks to Andy for the heads up on this one).


Once again thanks to anyone who helped make this summer one of the best I have ever had, it was awesome to get to hang out with so many friends and family I rarely get to see. I am now back at school and living with a German foreign exchange student. It's his first time in the U.S. but he is a pretty cool guy and seems to be picking things up pretty quick. There is so many hilarious things culturally that are different but he says he's loving the U.S. So this semester should turn out interesting.