http://blog.ryandubois.net your daily dose of dubulosity Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:25:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever feel like you have way too many hobbies? Like all these interests pull you in a million different directions at once, leaving you feeling like a dyslexic schizophrenic with ADHD trying to choose a place to have dinner? Sometimes I think I need to cut a ... http://blog.ryandubois.net/2010/03/too-many-hobbies/ I'm still alive, don't worry. Trying to decide the fate of this website/blog. Things in life have been good, but quite busy. Stay tuned! http://blog.ryandubois.net/2010/03/checking-in/ Year in Review Overall, it's been a busy year. Quite a few things in my life have changed. First and foremost, you may have noticed a long lapse in writings here. That's indicative of just how busy things have been for me. There have been 4 major ... http://blog.ryandubois.net/2010/01/2009-a-year-in-review/ Now that the wedding and honeymoon are all taken care of, I have some things I'd like to focus on now:' 1. Get back in shape. This involves eating healthy, drinking less, and going to the gym more. I've already started on this one. 2. Get my guitar calluses back. ... http://blog.ryandubois.net/2009/11/todo-list/ Here's the photos from my latest trip.  We went to the summit of Mt. Conness in Tuolumne Meadows (Yosemite National Park). [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Mt. Conness and Young Lakes Trip Photos"][/caption] Click the above image for the photos gallery. http://blog.ryandubois.net/2009/08/mt-conness-trip-photos/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Downtown San Francisco"][/caption] 1/2500 f/5.6 ISO 100 http://blog.ryandubois.net/2009/07/san-francisco-2/ I had Farkas, Ryan, and Bryan over for a small pub crawl last night. The ladies went to Bootie, while we had a beer tasting, then walked down to the local pub for some fish'n'chips and darts. We played a game of Killer, a game of team Crickett, and drank ... http://blog.ryandubois.net/2009/07/pub-crawl/ I can't seem to win with my guitar strings. I put .009's on my guitar so I could bend the crap outa them. Turns out, when you do that, they like to break more often. .011's are too stiff, and .009's are just right, but they break ... http://blog.ryandubois.net/2009/07/guitar-strings/ Photos from my first trip to China: Shenzhen Includes some photos from Hong Kong. http://blog.ryandubois.net/2009/06/shenzhen/ It's been a damn long while since I've written anything, and I'm starting to feel it. Time to catch you all up. I started a new job, finally.  I was getting super bored with my old position and was looking for change, and more responsibility.  I wanted to be in a ... http://blog.ryandubois.net/2009/06/new-job/