It’s been a heck of a busy week, so I haven’t had a chance to blog about the wedding I went to this past weekend.

Saturday Jenn and I packed up and headed to Puyallup, WA, to see my cousin Haley get married. The ceremony was at High Cedars Golf Club. It was a nice ceremony, though the minister seemed a little frazzled like he had never performed a marriage ceremony before. Regardless, congratulations to Haley and Adam Horton.

Immediately following the wedding there was a minor incident involving Adam running over Haley’s dress with a golf cart and ripping the back on it, but a few safety pins later and Adam’s first married-life “I’m sorry,” everything was back in order.

The real excitement came when we checked into our hotel up there. We stayed at the Crossland Economy Studios up there because we knew the wedding would go reasonably late and we didn’t want to drive the three hours back that night.

When we made the reservation, they offered us our choice of a room with two double beds or a room with two queen beds. A double’s a little small, so I picked the room with two queens. When we got there, they told me the hotel was packed, so rather than getting one room with two beds, they had me in two rooms, each with one bed, where each room would only cost me half price. Not needing two beds, I told the clerk I only needed one of the rooms. The cool part - I got to keep the half price. So I stayed there for $35, including tax.

The not so cool part - the bed was a freaking double. Oh, and the mattress was firm, sort of in the sense that a sheet of plywood laying on cement is firm. But, hey, $35, right?

We had a decent drive home the next day (though the trip south on I-5 is one of the most boring drives ever) and spent most of the day Sunday lounging on the couch, exhausted.

Eli Lopian from TypeMock has blogged the case study we did with TypeMock showing how much more productive we are in testing using TypeMock.

We’ve been vastly more productive using TypeMock than we were before we adopted it. If you get a chance, check out the Case Study PDF. It pretty much says it all. And if you haven’t tried TypeMock yet, what are you waiting for? Go get it. You’ll like it, I promise.

(In the interest of shameless-self-promotion full disclosure, I’m fairly prominently quoted in the case study. I can’t lie; it makes me smile. Can’t help but love TypeMock.)

Jamie Cansdale has done it again, adding “Test With Silverlight” to TestDriven.NET.

Check it out. So hot.

I saw this over at BoingBoing. Judge Judy is my hero. I aspire to be Judge Judy. Watch as she rips this ridiculous eBay scammer a new one.

The weekend was sort of a mixed bag. For every good thing that happened, there was something bad to balance it out. Starting Friday…

Good: I finished up a huge piece of the project I’ve been working on and checked it in before leaving work. Love that closure!

Bad: Jenn’s cat, Jack, decided to fervently clean his week-old declawed paws and opened one up. Spent most of the night at DoveLewis Animal Hospital getting him fixed up.

Good: My parents came over Saturday and we caught up, played some Guitar Hero 2, and went out to a great lunch at Costa Vida.

Bad: Determined that the cats really don’t like using the litter box when it’s got that crappy pine litter in it (gotta use pellet litter while Jack’s paws heal up) and found that one of them - we don’t know which - peed on the rug in front of the litter box rather than peeing in the litter box.

Good: Went tooling around on Sunday and stopped by GameStop on a whim. Found a used Xbox 360 Guitar Hero controller. Snapped that up and busted ass home to play a little cooperative Guitar Hero with Jenn.

Bad: Found out the tilt mechanism in the controller was bad so you can’t turn on “star power” by tipping the guitar up in the air. (I think it was stuck “on” because in cooperative mode it’s supposed to require both of you to tip your guitars up to enable “star power” but I seemed to be able to do it on my own. That said, we rebooted the console with just the new guitar plugged in, fired up the game, and in solo mode, you couldn’t turn “star power” on. So… bum controller.)

Good: Got a lot of chores done on Sunday. House is vaccuumed, dusted, mopped, and generally straightened up.

Bad: Cats again decided not to pee in litter box, instead choosing to pee on a bathroom rug. And, no, the newspaper pellet litter isn’t any better. We tried it. They want actual litter, not this pellet garbage.

Anyway, you see how that works. Overall, I think the weekend was good. Jenn and I had a total blast with Guitar Hero. We played every single song that you can unlock in Easy mode (neither of us are very good, so Easy was right up our alley). I’ve since ordered a controller directly from RedOctane. A little more expensive, but at least we know it’ll work.

My aunt emailed me because my cousin is getting married this weekend (once again, I won’t be able to make it to Code Camp) and it turns out that RSVPs are a source of tension. Huh. I never would have guessed. It just amazes me how people don’t feel that responding for an event is important, let alone a big event like a wedding. It’s not just annoying, it’s disrespectful to the people inviting you. It’s even worse if you don’t respond and then you show up, or you respond saying you’ll be there and then don’t show. And the real killer is - unless you’ve had an event like this yourself in recent memory (because people seem to forget what a problem the RSVPs are if it’s not recent or documented), you won’t really understand. When it’s your money on the line and you’re paying a decent sum of money per head, suddenly you’ll realize - “Aha! That’s why it’s so important to respond!”

But I digress.

This week the theme is going to be “taking care of business.” This morning already I’ve met with a repairman named Yance from Dennis’ Seven Dees because one zone of our sprinkler was not coming on and one of the nozzles on one of the heads was broken. Got that all fixed up in about five minutes, no problem. At lunch today I’m heading over to H&R Block to see how bad the CheckFree acquisition of Corillian is going to hose me tax-wise and see if I can do anything about it.

I’m also still working (very, very slowly, but surely!) on the blog conversion to Subtext as well as my Xbox 360 media center solution. Oh, and CR_Documentor emulation of Sandcastle. I think I’m going to get the blog converted over to Subtext first, then tackle the other two.