Off To Charlotte

I’m off to Charlotte Monday morning for two days of reseller product training. It will be the first overnight visit I’ve made to Charlotte in, oh, 15 years or more. Lucky for me the hotel I’ll be staying in is not too far from my old neighborhood. I fully intend to sneak out and take pictures of the old ‘hood and take stock of where Charlotte has gone since I left it way back when.

Fun Weekend

Its the end of an incredibly fun weekend.

Friday, we went over to our friends’ house for dinner. Saturday we went to my parents’ house to swim and have lunch. My Aunt Nancy and Aunt Linda were visiting so we got to spend some good time with them. After our swim and lunch, Kelly took Hallie next door to our neighbor’s birthday party. Hallie had a ball on the Slip-‘N-Slide. We topped the day off with nicely grilled steaks, wine, and Movie Night.

Today we slept past eight o’clock (!!!) and enjoyed a good breakfast before piling on the bicycles and going for a 4 mile family bike ride. It felt good to be pedaling, but then again it always feels good to be pedaling. I’ve ridden at least twice a week since the end of April and LOVE it.

Anyhow, the kids napped before Aunts Linda and Nancy came for a nice visit. We showed them the house and caught up until Hallie awoke and came down to play. It was nice to see my aunts and the kids really enjoyed seeing them.

We went for another family exercise after dinner, picking up our neighbors Frank and Brea and their kids along the way. After handfulls of rocks were thrown into our local creek, we happily made our way back to the house. Smooth kiddie bedtimes followed.

Then I got to focus on my geek task for this weekend: upgrading the hard drive in Kelly’s laptop. I could have just put a new drive in and reinstalled Windows XP, but I decided to put the “recovery” partition back on the system, since I’d messed it up last time I switched drives. Its now, uh, recovering itself and I’m ready to head to bed.

Pretty good weekend, all things considered.