A couple weekends ago James and I headed up to the mountain town of Placerville for Wally & Jessica's wedding. Thanks to the always-hospitable Tribbeys, we had a place to stay and a car to drive. Even though the fresh air was welcome (haven't left LA in a while), I was battling a persistent cold and downing honey-filled cough drops. It wasn't all play; we had a duty to document the wedding in photo and video form, and document we did. You can see the photos here... the video will take much more time to edit (Jamie's task, for the most part). We were there and back in record time, but it was nice to see some familiar faces and college neighbors.

While I was sick, I tried to knock off a couple movies from my list. Shall We Dansu? is entertaining, uplifting and thoughtful and I highly recommend watching the 1996 Japanese version. I haven't seen the U.S. remake, but I can't imagine any internal conflict about dance lessons as in Japan where ballroom dancing can be embarassing.

I also watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly which changed my (groundless) perception of Clint Eastwood. He's pretty damn good. They all are. I don't even quite think this is just a Western... it's actually quite epic in scope. And you get to hear Sergio Leone's infamous theme every 17 seconds.

This probably will mean very to little to most, but this my first blog post from directly within TextMate... no browser. It has a blogging bundle that works with any website that supports the MetaWeblogAPI protocol, which was (sortof) easy to implement using Rails' ActionWebService. It took me a while to find all the exact parameters and formats that the API expects, but now it works. I can even use nifty markdown text instead of HTML. Neat! Nerd!

What does that mean to you? Well sometimes (a lot of the times) I don't blog because I don't feel like using the web form, or composing it all in HTML (which is what I normally use). Since I practically live in TextMate, it's much easier to just open a new document, write something up, and send it on it's merry way to my blog.