Feeling much better

I slept well last night and didn’t wake up hungry, as I suspected I would. This hotel, the Misson Valley Residence Inn, is amazingly quiet. Nice to have that for a change, since the past few hotel stays I’ve survived were noisy affairs. The full, hot breakfast was just what I needed, too. I piled on a plateful of eggs and ate them with reckless abandon. Ya gotta get the hair of the dog that bit ya, ya know.

I’m going to be seeing my old commanding officer today at the decommissioning ceremony of my old ship. He’s now a three-star and will be speaking there (Elliot was his first command). I hope to put the bug in his ear about network security, as I know it was on his mind recently (within the last year, at least). Then I’ll be catching up with my old shipmate Matt before meeting with another shipmate, Paul to discuss business and reminence. Should be worthwhile.

I’ll be out of access for most of the day until checking in tonight at Matt’s house.

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Day Over

I thought I was on the mend, but my sandwich idea didn’t seem to take. At least I didn’t splurge on a more-expensive meal. I’m giving up on dinner tonight and hitting the sack. No doubt dreams of tomorrow’s free hot breakfast will be dancing in my head.

Losing My Mind

My first sign of food-poisoning delirium was clicking on the hotel TV and seeing Florida State playing basketball. The second sign was the fact they were actually WINNING. By the time I saw there were real, live spectators in Leon Civic Center, I was checking myself into the hospital.

The ACC is gonna be crazy this year, and I can’t wait! Add in that Dook is sucking wind and you’ve got the mix for a topsy-turvy basketball season.

I reckon someone ought to keep his weblog running well past football season…

Attack Of The Bad Ham, Part 154,230

I grabbed breakfast at the airport before boarding my flight to San Diego. Bad idea. 🙂 The “Western Wrap” I purchased at the Green Leaf restaurant near the Southwest gates gave me no shortage of grief for the seven hours I spent on a plane today. Flat out laid me low. Only now am I feeling human again.

I recommend you steer clear of that place if you’re in a bind and need food before flying. Ugh.

Now it’s off to find some peanut butter and jelly for sandwiches. That’s about all I can stomach right now. For real.

Happy Birthday, Kelly

Today is my wife Kelly’s birthday. Every day, I am reminded of how lucky I am to be her husband. In spite of the travel that’s been keeping us apart, we’ve grown closer in the past few months, laughing and working and parenting with increasing ease. Each day I respect her more.

Kelly is everything I could ever ask for in a wife, and more than I could imagine. I love you, sweetie!

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Going Back To Cali

I’m off this week to California to help with bidness. This time, I only booked hotels with free Internet access. I’ll post some entries when I get the time, but don’t be surprised if the page goes quiet for long stretches. I’ll check in when I can.

Having A Blast

I’m having a blast being around my family. Can’t remember when I had four days together when I wasn’t working. Awesome.

The weather was so nice yesterday morning (75 degrees, at one point), that the girls and I went to the park and had fun just chasing each other around. I guess we were making the most out of the last bit of warm weather we’re likely to see here for a while.

Tonight I’m taking my wonderful wife out to dinner for her birthday. Again, I can’t remember the last time we had a date like this. We’re both looking forward to it!

I hope to find some time this weekend to whittle down this huge pile of paper on my desk. Fat chance of that happening, though.

If I find the right moment, I may post some thoughts on my career which have been bubbling around my head lately. Or, I may not.

A project that almost got completed last night was the addition of a decent photo gallery to this page. I tried Drupal‘s, gallery.module and image.module, but gallery crapped out on me and image doesn’t exactly do what I want done. I am leaning now towards the perl-based IDS, as seen on my friend Tanner’s website. Ultimately, I’d like to simply drag-and-drop a folder onto my fileserver and have it appear as an album in the gallery. IDS seems to do this. Why the others don’t, I have no clue. Seems so simple.

Got to get crackin’ on the list of things to do. I’ll check in later with more thoughts.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Though my friends have called this my “ranting page,” I really have a heck of a lot to be thankful for. I have a wonderful, happy family: loving parents; happy siblings; a loving, supportive wife; and a bright, adorable daughter.

In spite of the frequent travel, I am having fun in my new job, where no two days are the same. I have lots of friends who I’m grateful for.

In a few minutes, we’ll be off to my parents’ house for a day spent celebrating family. It’ll be an absolute blast; so much fun that I’ll wonder why we don’t express this love more often.

Life is too short not to enjoy every minute of it. Take some time today to consider the ways in which you are fortunate.
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Internet Ray Tracing Contest

Yesterday, I had some fun revisiting a favorite site of mine, the Internet Ray Tracing Contest. It’s a site to which people submit their ray-traced creations for voting. There are many mind-bending submissions, all of which were created entirely via computer, and some of them breathtakingly realistic.

One of my future hobbies (always in the future, alas) is to learn how to become a ray-tracing artist. For now, I’m just a ray-tracing groupie.

Spend some time clicking through the site. You won’t be disappointed.
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