more good news

I just got an email from an old friend that I was worried about. It was good to hear from them and I'm doing much better knowing that they are OK.

good news

Got my lab reports back from my annual checkup and they said everything was perfect! Went out last night and watched a friend play at a local bar. They were actually pretty good. At this point in time I could have done with a slightly different song selection.

getting ready for orlando

A friend and I spent most of today getting the motorhome ready to go to Orlando. We still have a little more work to do, But we're basically ready to go. I sure hope this dog and pony show goes well down there....

Boy what a surprise

Wow what a surprise I got at dinner tonight. I went out to dinner with one of my closest and dearest friends as well as ex-roomate and found out that he had signed his divorce papers yesterday. Having been in his wedding, I never could have imagined him and his wife getting a divorce. But I guess things weren't going as well inside the marriage as they appeared from the outside.

back on the road again

well it' looks like I'll be on the road most of the rest of the summer. My contact in Hilton head called and they are finally ready to do the rest of the wireless network install so they want me down there the first or second week of July followed by 2 weeks in Orlando followed by a week camping trip driving to San Francisco.

finally getting the house under control

Since we're both bachelors, the had kind of gotten out of hand. My roommate and I spent several hours today working on it and it's finally getting back to the point where we're not too embarrassed to have people over now. It still has a way to go to be called spotless...

would have been more fun in the lake instead of in the driveway

My roommate and I picked one of the 100 degree days to work on his boat. We spent all day bent over the engine in 100 degrees. On the positive side we figure out what was wrong and got the engine to run. So, we're one solenoid away from the lake. :-)

happy birthday Janie

I have a friends mother who has adopted me. She happens to love teddy bears. As fate would have it I was buying some parts for work at Fry's and saw something that was soo darn cute I just new I had to buy it for her birthday (which was coming up soon). It's a teddy bear that is designed to hold a small mp3 player. Since she doesn't have one, and probably wouldn't want one anyway, I guess we'll figure out how to hook it up to a FM radio..... :-)

back home again...

Well,
I made it back home again. I of course got some surprises in the mail...such as a note that my car insurance company is ceasing operation in GA. It never fails. Whenever I go out of town for a few weeks something goes wrong and I find out about it in the mail when I get home. Of course by that time it's festered long enough to be a pain in the rear. There has to be a Murphy's law about traveling......

Anyway, I went down to Phoenix by small plane right before I left LV. I wanted to post some pictures. The desert looks a lot different by small plane rather than up above the clouds like in a big Jet.

The dogs seem happy now that the warm weather is here. They're spending most of their time sleeping on the deck.

wow what a night

I'm not from the southwest. I'm not really used to the windstorms that the desert generates. At home in GA, windstorms like these would be blocked by the trees, not out here in Vegas. I'm fine on a rocking boat in fact I sleep like a baby on the water. I'm good to sleep in a moving car or an airplane. However, a moving house is something I find it hard to sleep in. I was laying upstairs in a 3 story house and as the wind would gust I would actually feel the house twitch and move. I thought it was all in my mind untill I went to the bathroom and notice the water in the toilet was swaying with the movement of the house....
All in all it was a very poor night of sleep for me....

useless USB devices

Last week at interop got me looking at some of the useless usb devices that are available.
I won't give the usb light too much flak because I've actually found it useful on late night flights.
However, the usb coffee warmer and the usb personal massager are getting pretty far out there.
Now I've found devices that make these look highly useful. One that we had on the servers at interop was a "USB humping dog" yes that's right, a USB humping dog...

here is a video





I have also seen a USB Hello Kitty that waves it's magic wand and sings to you as you work, and the ever popular USB pole dancer complete with tiny disco lights in the stage!!??!!

It's late so on this note I'm going to sleep. Maybe my subconscious will dream up some crazy USB device that everybody will buy and I can just go ahead and retire. hmmm..... the USB pet rock............ :-)