red pants are cool.

i still can't get over it. it would have taken all of 5 minutes to look through. arg. now we've created mass hysteria. this totally sucks.

the good news is we found out the thieves didn't take the hard drive, but rather RAM. the sad part is, we've already sent out all the letters informing patients that their info, including the SSN may have been compromised. all of that work, and it turns out that their info is safe. it's a little lame that we didn't find this out sooner [as in taking a much more detailed look through the tower that was violated] and it's also a downer that patients are going to freak [not all, just some] when it's all for almost nothing. technically, when anyone unauthorized enters the office and is near the important info, then it's considered "compromised." oh sigh...if only we hadn't been so flustered and had taken just a longer moment to dig around the open tower... oh well, better safe, than sorry.

it's probably never a good sign to find a big guy with an extra clip of bullets on his belt when you arrive at work in the morning. i get to work this morning and find that sometime sunday evening/monday morning, our office was broken into. we were burglarized. the thief, or thieves, wore latex gloves, leaving no fingerprints. they broke into another store and entered our office through the back hallway that connects several businesses in the building. they busted the back door and stole a laptop out of the exam room and some petty cash from the cash box up front.

the oddest discovery was when i walked into our pre-exam/testing room and found the tower open. we dug around and figured that they ripped out the hard drive. isn't that odd? they didn't steal a single pair of glasses, that we could see, and none of the other computer equipment was taken. it appears to be a very specific theft. that hard drive does happen to contain some patient information, including social security numbers, names, and birthdates - pretty much all anyone would need to create some major chaos and fraud. the detective from the issaquah police department suspects that these bad people are identity thieves. i'm still hoping that they're not smart enough to dig through and access that info, though sadly, it's a small glimmer of a hope. we think that only the last three months worth of patient information is compromised, but there's no way to confirm the amount of exposure. so basically, this sucks - especially for les and teri. bad bad identity thieves - you suck.

hellboy was indeed a good purchase. why? because it's amusing and campy, and i love amusing and campy.

today was a long, but super duper fun day. after church, i stopped by the u-district to pick up singapore fried noodles, also known in some circles as singapore street [or style] noodles. i just knew that i would be able to find a good place to get the noodles from the many asian resources at church. naturally, i was about 15 minutes late to kristie's party, because i seem to be late for everything. if people are indeed able to be defined by their punctuality, then i'm defined quite badly. sad. the food at the party was wonderful and there are lots of leftovers...yay for us at the house! and bowling was lots of fun too because i won a prize for having the most '8s' in my bowling scores. kristie's birthda is 8/8 - see the connection? i was a contender for highest single bowling score with my 139, until kristie's sister stacey demolished my dreams of victory with a 146. after bowling, we went back to the house to eat some more and to play games. we played tribond in teams and kristie's team, which included dennis and me, won! happy birthday kristie! i love games, especially trivia driven games, but not everybody seems to love these types of games as much as i do... :) pictures of the party can be seen here. it's a lot of fun having parties and people over at the house. living in a house is great.

i finally decided to make some time to post up the long promised photos from the wedding i went to a few weeks ago, along with photos of a bunch of other events in july. you can see them here.

i don't have my own place, so therefore, i must content myself with vicariously living through chris and david and their lovely new apartment. yesterday, i helped put together a chair from ikea. i felt quite accomplished.

to add to my accomplishments, i spent the afternoon today in mercer island, with christine, doug, and mia, prepping a whole lot of food for kristie's bowling birthday celebration. it was so much fun. i iced/frosted a layered cake for the first time, and i don't mind saying that i did a really good job.

current media:

jason mraz - various live recordings

dan brown - the da vinci code / alice sebold - the lovely bones

the twilight samurai - a wonderful movie playing at the varsity on the ave.

i can't believe it's already august. yesterday, i spent the afternoon babysitting and the evening at joshua chou's 1st birthday party. dan and erming, the proud parents, had food, games, and a super cute slideshow. i have pictures from the party, and all the other pictures that i've been taking this summer ready to be uploaded. i'm just too tired, so i'll get to it...later. but i did spent monday night painting away at chris and david's new apartment. the colors are super pretty and i had a blast semi-living out my trading spaces dreams.