So I was digging around in my enormous hard drive and stumbled upon some great pictures of my adventures in Easter Europe circa 2005/2006.

I basically jumped on a plane back in '05 the weekend that bitch Katrina decided to roll into the gulf. It was totally planned.

The hurricane was not the reason I bought a plane ticket to Tegel in NE Berlin. In fact I can remember many times during my travels an intense want to be back in my home town so that I could help with the evacuation fallout.

For the next few posts, I will show some of my favorite photos and give some detailed explanations as to what was going on.

Enjoy -- The Lost Saga

-C

Here are some pictures from my latest trip.

We flew into Prague spent two nights in the city. Hopped on a train to Vienna and spent two nights and three-ish days in the city. And for the finale we trained it over to Budapest two nights and three days.

I split the pictures up by city, just click the link below to view them.

-J

Eastern Europe Trip Pictures

Well here it is, the first edition of Brothers Reed - with J this time!

To get things started, I'll give a little background information on what is the story with my "unique" education.

I am currently working on my undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering. Stateside my college is Washington University in St. Louis. But! for my last year as an undergraduate, I am studying at Trinity College in Dublin.

I've been here since late September 2008, and so far I've had an amazing time. I am going to post some pictures and a little information about what's been going on over here, I hope you enjoy them!

More to come soon!

- J

This has taken waaay too long! I will be adding descriptions when I have more time!

So this is first post I have made to the site in for some time now.

Quite a bit has happened since my last post. I am now living in North Beach at an amazing apartment on Russian Hill (lower). I am living with two great roommates one of which is an Architect for KMD and the other works at a small Marketing firm in the Marina.

For the first month of my San Francisco experience I lived in the Haight at the intersection of Clayton and Waller. The neighborhood was great, but the freak I lived with had to have been one of the absolute worst people I have ever met much less LIVED WITH. I wont post about the shit that went on in that house--that conversation would have to be prefaced with multiple stiff drinks at the very least.

Needless to say I am extremely happy with my current situation. Verticals onDemand is rocking the enterprise software industry in its life sciences vertical and I am having a lot of fun working with them.

I am working currently on a project at Genetech in South San Francisco.

I just discovered a volunteering opportunity through an old friend here in San Francisco which will hopefully take up a large part of my free time which as of late has been non-existent during the week.

I have been trying to get out of the city as often as I can on the weekends to take advantage of the Sierras which are literally a half day drive from where I am. I spent last weekend backpacking in the Emigrant Wilderness--epic trip!(and yes the pictures are going up shortly). It was about 16mi total round trip. We hiked around 8miles into a valley and then about 8miles out on Sunday before heading back into the city.

Well I'm going to end my post here and start to upload the hundred or so pictures I have from the past 6 months. There will be pictures of my apartment (mainly the spectacular views from my roof deck!), my recent trip to the Sierras and some other random photos from around town.

On a side note, I had to disable posting responses to my entries because the site has been targeted by some sort of blog-spamming entity. I'm going to install a script which should filter that crap out.

More posts to come!

I have finally made it to San Francisco to take a job with Verticals OnDemand. This company implements the force.com platform for biopharma companies all over the country.

I am eager to start and get a place to live in the bay area!

I have had the most amazing several months since my return from Peru. I have become apart of the Common Ground Community organization and have been working with kids tutoring math and science.

These are some of the most intelligent people I have ever had the pleasure of working with.

I usually spend a little over an hour Monday through Thursday at the white house (E.68th street between Southern and I-49) helping kids between the ages of 10 to 17 in math, science, and any other subject they want to work on with me!



I work with a group of VERY dedicated individuals who have been running this non-profit for years. They inspire me in my efforts to make a difference in the lives of great people.

On Wednesdays we host a soup kitchen across the street at Grace Community Church--of course ALL are welcome!

We are preparing for the annual neighborhood Christmas party this week on Wednesday night.

If there are any readers of this blog who wish to get involved please let me know! You will find it very rewarding.

I fixed the broken link to the family shots.

I also realized that I haven't posted the pictures from the trek to the glacier. I gonna start working on that.

All of the pictures from the last part of my trip are now up! It was no easy task!

The links may be found in the 'Pictures' category. The new links start with 'The Whole Family'.

Enjoy!

I am now back in Shreveport LA and looking for a job.

I want to be back in Peru!

I have to figure out what kind have content to put on this blog from now on.

The last few pictures from my trip will be up tomorrow.