Maryann and I went to my company's holiday party on Saturday. There was a raffle. Our prize was a free round at this place:

http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?AttrID=16971

Now all we need is to improve our golf skills!

As promised, here are the pictures I took in Mexico two weeks ago ( Read more... )

So, on Sunday we came back from Mexico! Our vacation was fabulous. Some highlights ( Read more... )

Some of you know that I take the famous Dale Carnegie "Effective Communications and Human Relations" class. Well, yesterday night I got an Outstanding Performance award there for giving a one-minute impromptu speech. The topic of the speech was "Reward." Guess what I talked about? I talked about how I met Maryann back in March 2004. I couldn't ( Read more... )

I am still at the Evergreen State, enjoying my business trip immensely. Every day there are expense account dinners with my co-workers. Today, we went to Daniel's Broiler and had some steaks. Yummy. But I feel so full I am barely able to move ( Read more... )

Looks like another beach vacation is coming up. The week before Thanksgiving, Maryann and I plan to go to Playa del Carmen, a little beach town in Riviera Maya (just south of Cancun.) We got a good deal on an all-inclusive package; also, we'll stay at in a very nice hotel, Riu Playacar. I might need to brush up on my Spanish (although I am sure ( Read more... )

It is September 1st, and it is a little silver anniversary for me. Exactly twenty five years ago, I started first grade. I think I learned a few things here and there between then and now ( Read more... )

I was sitting at the IT office of the NAACP convention. Since I sit close to the door, I am forced to act as a doorman, answering questions asked by whoever drops by, no matter how irrelevant these questions are to my assignment. 99% of those questions are answered by a single sentence: "Sorry, I am just a contractor, you need to talk to the IT ( Read more... )

Alas, this weekend I had to work. For the second time, my company sent me to the NAACP convention to support the convention application that someone else from my company had developed years before. Last year, I went to Milwaukee (and actually it was fun), but this year the convention is in D.C., which means I have to drive there daily. This is not ( Read more... )

Finally, my tedious work of picture publishing is over -- you can see our vacation pictures on http://kiwiboris.fotki.com. Enjoy!