One word to describe meeting Chuck and Audra from the GWC crew. Woot!

Last Friday, after work, I cruised down to San Diego and met up with Chuck and Audra and a few others from the GWC forum.  We had a blast.  A few beers at the poolside rooftop bar at the hotel they were staying at, then off to the Tin Fish for dinner, and to cap it all off, desert at Mary Jane’s coffee house, where we hung out until 1 AM talking SciFi and other geek topics..

So much FUN!

Here is pic taken by Barb (bkitty)..

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So I did.  Last Thursday, after work, I jumped in my car and drove to Vegas.  There is something very serene about the drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, especially when you are by yourself.

I was only in Vegas overnight, since Friday morning I flew to Sioux Falls, SD.  I was great being there though, even for just one night since I got to hang with a buddy of mine who appreciates the finer beers as much as I do.  So we spent a quiet evening drinking some brew and catching up.. Quiet and SHORT since I had to get up at 4:45 AM to catch my flight …. ugh..

<Rant>
Allegiant Air -  cheap, direct flights to Sioux Falls from Las Vegas.. Great Idea .. it really is.. but.. could you please reset the flight time to be like 9 AM or something…
</Rant>

I went back to SD to see my friend and his family [ Kevin and Crew ].  It was a lot of fun, and it was great seeing the kids again.  What did they think of their Uncle Steve coming out?

We had a good time.

While I was there I picked up a Guitar.  I know some of you are thinking:  “huh?  A guitar?!?  But you
don’t play the guitar”.

You’re right, I don’t.  However, I have a list of things that I want to accomplish, and learning to play the guitar is high on that list, so while I was there I was looking around and found a very nice Squire Standard Stratocaster ina Cherry Burst color.  It sounds very tight … especially when someone who knows what they are doing gets a hold of it.

For now, I just hack on the thing and drive my wife nuts.   I have a call into an instructor that I feel comfortable with and after I have my first lesson, I will post more about that and even a picture of the guitar.

Also on my list is learning to ride a motorcycle, and purchasing said motorcycle, which I am hoping to accomplish sometime in the next few months.

All in all, it was a very relaxing few days, and a trip that I sorely needed…

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So I am walking through a parking lot heading into an office, and I saw this ….

I was so excited that I had to go in and find out if the driver had that plate as a reference to the final five cylon, because let’s face it… that would be the coolest plate in the world to have… LOL

Unfortunately the owner had NO idea what BSG was, let alone a cylon, and likely thought that I was the biggest freak on the planet, but it was still a great sighting, and in my dream tonight the plates will be on my super cool flying car that exists only in my dreams…

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Last night we celebrated our 15 wedding anniversary … yep 15 years ago this geek moved out of his parents basement, sold off his star wars toys and got hitched…

Since then, I have been trying to reclaim all my star wars toys…

We had the party in our newly finished backyard… grilling, bonfire,  good friends and good food and drink.

Here are some pics for your enjoyment.

The beautiful cake… it was very nice, until the party degenerated into a cake fight at about 2 in the morning… we were sober…. sort of.. LOL

Us cutting the cake… apparently you have to do that at your wedding and any anniversary divisible by five.

My lovely wife , and my sister … respectively.   Behind them is the bar… see the part about the cake fight.. LOL

This is Jen… without Jen, the party would have consisted of alot of beer… and some hot dogs… Thanks to Jen, the party actually had a theme, and people actually had a good time… Of course, Jen is the one that started the cake fight… but that is why we love her.

Here is a really bad picture of the fire… but it was all I had.. and it was starting to die down…

It was a fun night…

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Last Saturday me and some friends decided to go to Rosarito Mexico, on a whim..

It was fun…

I wore my binary shirt…

Laura finally got to go Horseback riding on the beach ….

Then we went to Papa’s and Beer and had … well… Papa’s and Beer… They were tasty..

These are some new friends …. we call him England, because he is from London and has a really cool english accent.

Here is the whole group…

We stayed until the sun went down … driving back across the border at night is SO much more fun then going across during the day.. LOL

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I thought this was a funny cartoon.. I would love to give credit for it since I totally believe in credit where credit is due… but I just stumbled upon with out any author information.

The reason I think this is funny is that back in September last year when I was back in South Dakota, my friend did not have internet access..  being a geek, this was just not acceptable.  So each morning, and afternoon, and generally evening I would get in his car as we would go wardriving to find some open wireless networks that I could use..

He would be driving along and I would yell “STOP!” of course he wouldn’t stop in time and I would lose the signal.  Fortunately, in South Dakota, most of the home wifi setups were all insecure so it was relatively easy to find somewhere to start surfing…

As as side note, it was SHOCKING to find out how many where not only open, but the routers were still set to the default username and password… tsk tsk..

Towards the end of the trip I realized that all the fast food places in S.D. all provide free high speed wifi.. Very enlightened.. it impressed me greatly.

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