Back from Seattle

I just got back from the Seattle area, taking a Microsoft training class with one of their partner/reseller's in the Bellevue area on Windows CE. Interesting stuff. They pointed me to a lot of resources out there covering CE.

Back home and bad news

I'm sitting here in the San Diego airport catching up on various blogs and news and waiting for a flight back home. I'm heading back for a few days out of my month-long trip to take care of personal business. I'll also have the chance to see my girlfriend, my family, and her family. We just had some bad news the other day, when we heard that doctors think her mother may have a serious, debilitating disease. These past couple of days have been pretty rough and I'll be glad to get a few days out of Cali.

Update: Thu May 6 17:32:37 CDT 2004

Just touched down in Houston. If you've never been to the Bush International Airport, consider yourself lucky. It can be crowded and it is very dirty, especially the bathrooms. One more flight to go and this day will be over.

Weekend wrap up.

In case anyone is wondering what I've been up to, I'm winding down my weekend here in San Diego, sitting around the pool, drinking locally brewd beer. An Arrogant Bastard Ale to be precise. I went record shopping in Hollywood yesterday as a road trip. It took a solid 2 hours to get to LA from here, but it was worth the gas. I wandered around the area for a while and made it to Amoeba Music; I meant to go to Fat Beats too, but it was too late. I picked up a bunch of used albums at Amoeba, ate some Baja tacos, and walked around for quite a while. Hollywood is pretty interesting—it's the only place I've been besides Vegas where you can get flying trapeze lessons for beginners and see a child molester's walkway star.

I spent today by the pool reading about Microsoft's XFS standard, which is an extention for financial services to their Windows Open Services Architecture. Anything with the words Windows and open in the same acronym makes me laugh. Pretty boring stuff.

More from San Diego

It's been a very busy couple of days, but I'm having a good enough time in San Diego. There's something to be said for a place where I can go right across the street from my hotel and eat Vietnamese, Japanese, or Denny's. I wasn't able to get out much tonight, but I can't complain much.

First batch of pictures from San Diego

I just posted up some pictures from here in San Diego. All I have is my Sprint vision for data access, which is slow and spotty, so posting much has been a pain. More to come later.

Worldwide travelers in your sector.

I just posted some pictures I took back in December of 2001, when I went to Amsterdam. Check out the Amsterdam photo gallery.

Update: A whole shitload of new galleries.

Also posted up the following galleries:

• My Computers
• Family Dog
• MPI Software Technology
• Memphis Trip

I also updated the gallery of pictures of my girlfriend.

Update: Oct 11, 2003

Updated some links in this entry.

Grand Canyon Vacation

I've finally finished scanning photos and doing a write-up of my vacation to the Grand Canyon. Check out what we did and have a look at some of the photo galleries here.

Update: Oct 11, 2003

Updated some links in this entry.

Back At Ya With the Realness

Well, as you can see from my previous entry, I'm back from my vacation and it was a blast. I'm currently in the process of doing a writeup on the trip, scanning in all of the photos (nobody brought a digital camera), and getting things back in order.

(Adjusts his radar detector). All of this should hopefully be done soon. I hope to be working on it over the weekend from home. Just after I get back, I'm out the door to go home. Have a good weekend.