Had a good weekend. Took a rather impromptu trip to Palm Springs to visit my buddy Cliff. He's from SD but just moved to PS recently for work. He's found a really nice home and he even lives next door to a celebrity! Who? Well, none other than Cheetah the monkey from the Tarzan films. Palm Springs is sorta nutty like that. We spent a lot of ( Read more... )

I'm back... Sorry about that long break there but from Thanksgiving on it's been sorta non-stop for me. I headed up North to hang with my Dad and his family for Turkey Day and followed that up with a day in Bakersfield with my Mom (we saw Bolt and enjoyed it). Then I came back to SD and went right into hard-core fun mode with visiting friends ( Read more... )

It's been a good day I gotta say. I was stressed out because I have to train a client on part of our product tomorrow morning but after sitting down with one of the developers my knowledge is now strong like bull and I'm good to go. It's a WebEx at 8am but on the plus side I'll go into work early and be able to then leave work early which will ( Read more... )

I went to see The Mars Volta last night with my buddy Sean. It was a pretty nutty concert (as illustrated by my in-concert Twitter of "The Mars Volta are Nuckin' Futs!") with lots of energy. I'm not a huge fan but I sure did enjoy the show. If you aren't familiar with them they're sort of a neo-prog second coming of Rush but more aggressive with ( Read more... )

I uploaded the rest of the videos I took to Flickr this morning. There's some good stuff in there (including a special sideways video especially for rrumm ). Anyhow, the vids along with some other snaps have been added to my finalized India 08 set on Flickr which I invite you to check out. If you're more for flashy music and fun slide-show ( Read more... )

I got home around 10:30pm or so. It feels really weird. I basically tossed all my stuff down, opened up a suitcase to grab Matt's present, and then headed to the bar to have a beer. I feel a little out of place and distant but I know that's to be expected. And yes - it's totally dramatic for me to make this out to be some epic trip when really ( Read more... )

Sorry for a lack of India updates but the weekend wore me out (in the best ways)... This time tomorrow I'll be packing up and preparing to head to the airport. If all goes well I'll be back in San Diego by 10pm on Wednesday.

In the meantime, I give the dick and ass you're hungry for...

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The training went really well last night. They had moved everyone into a different room and it's *way* better for what we're doing. After talking for a few days about different aspects of support and techniques I finally let everyone log into the tools. And wow, that was an adventure. I made the mistake of having the system ask everyone to ( Read more... )

You go to the other side of the globe and what do you find out? Well, you find out that as different as things can be they can also be just as similar. Take for example the team of folks I'm training. They are so much like the people we've brought in for gigs like Wimbledon and the Rugby World Cup that it's spooky. They're all people in their ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know it's only been a few hours - but I'm feeling better than I was earlier. I mean, even as I type this out I hope y'all know (that I know) that I haven't even been here a day yet so it's pretty darn early in the trip and that my last post was pretty mopey sounding. And I knew it did - so what did I do? I got off my ass and took a walk ( Read more... )