Washington DC
I arrived in DC today for “Drupalcon”… kind of scary coming into Reagan National Airport… feels like you’re gonna land in the Potomac river!
So the neighborhood I’m in… isn’t really the safest. I’d take photos of it, just cuz it’d make nice grungy looking photos, but I’m afraid to take my camera out of my bag and afraid to stop walking. So for the next 3 days I’m going to just go to and from the convention center during daylight hours and pick up dinner on the walk back to the hotel each evening. Can’t wait till Tracey, Christine and Chrissy get here! (and we switch hotels then to Dupont Circle area)
She chose a dress!
I’m back from Buffalo and Lori Beth found a wedding dress! She found several in fact. There were probably 3 top dresses she liked after we visited 3 places. She went back to the first place we visited and ended up getting a beautiful dress! Tracey, Nicole and I found bridesmaid dresses as well. I’m excited! It’s gonna be a lot of fun.
Unfortunately it was FREEZING in Buffalo the whole time I was there… felt like 0, but apparantly it was 11-14 degrees the whole time with wind and on Sunday it snowed just for me! (or that’s what my Aunt said). I got to see some family when I was there, which was a great treat. I really miss everyone because I don’t see them at the holidays! Photos from my visit on the right side in my Picasa album.
Buffalo
I’m going to Buffalo tomorrow on maid of honor and sister duty 
We (my twin sister, mom and her friend nicole) are going wedding dress/bridesmaid dress shopping this weekend. Excited to see everyone but bummed that it’s sooo cold out there. I especially won’t be prepared for it with the heat wave we’ve been having for the past 2 weeks. From 75-80 degrees down to 15 will be a tough adjustment. I’ll try to remember to take photos.. if my hands aren’t numb and can operate a camera!
A Busy November!
I just got back from San Francisco. Was stuck in that airport for almost 6 hours because our flight was delayed. Shortest flight I’ve ever taken only 50 minutes and longest delay I’ve ever had. The only people that probably had it worse are the people in the plane that was circling over the SFO airport for over an hour.
Beside the craziness of the flight. Adobe MAX, the purpose of my trip was fantastic.. I’d like to highlight some parts but not sure where to even start. My favorite in the sneak peaks was probably the video searching software. You can select a face in a video and hit search to find the same person in other parts of the video. Your search results are clips of the video starting at the point in the playhead where that same person is. Of course like any search the results aren’t all what you want, you’ll get faces similar to the face you chose.. which could also be good. Another cool feature is it takes the speech and converts it to text, so you can search for a word that was said in the video.. by a person in the video or a narrator anything and it will find other spots in the video where that word was said. I’ve never seen anything like this and never thought about it.. so it was probably the most impressive to me.
My second favorite was an application for testing webpages. It will show how your webpage will be displayed in all browsers, Safari, Firefox for mac, Firefox 2 or 3 for PC, IE 6, 7 or 8. I saw this as a huge time saver because I develop on a mac a lot at home and I have to run Parallels sometimes just to test for PC browsers. There’s even onion skinning to view different versions on top of each other to see the differences.
So yea after 3 days of at least 10 hours of Adobe lecture I was burnt out.. but cool stuff. I gotta go to San Francisco again. I didn’t have time to see everything in daylight, but Paul and Kim were gracious enough to be my tour guides for a few days It’s such a beautiful city! I didn’t expect it to be so East coast, old world architecture. Maybe because I’m used to LA and Vegas on the West coast. Josh and I will definitely be back within a year!
Ojai
On Sunday Josh and I went for a drive up to Ojai with Keith and Lauren. Keith bought a new Harley Davidson motorcycle and rode that up there on that with Lauren on the back. We had a nice lunch up there and then headed back home… only about 45 minutes away from us. It’s a cute little area.
Chrissys wedding was fuN
A capital N is appropriate! Had a lot of fun at Chrissy’s wedding and my visit to Buffalo in general as always. It rained just about everyday and was overcast when it wasn’t raining. Thursday was the only exception when it was partly cloudy. It didn’t matter though! I was only visiting for a few days and there were lots of friends in town that I haven’t seen since 2003!! (Chrissy, Joe, Brandon, Lesia, Nick) It was so good to see them all. We’ve kept in touch relatively well to know what’s up in a general sense, but it never compares to chatting and interacting in person. I love my friends from Buffalo, I wish I got to see them more. It’ll be good to visit Philly in November where I can see Tracey, Adam, Maggie, Christine and Jay in one shot. That’s a 5x dose of Buffalo outside of Buffalo
Here are some wedding photos and then a pic from Pasquale’s (for Buffalo style pizza!) for dinner our last night in town.
Chrissy’s getting married…
to Jim on Friday! I’m going to Buffalo on Wednesday afternoon. Tracey’s gonna be there and Chrissy and Joe! I’m excited to see them all. I haven’t seen Chrissy since November 2003 and I haven’t seen Joe since May 2003! It’ll be good times even though Josh isn’t goin. I’ve been instructed to bring back more sponge candy because Josh is still rationing the last bunch he has.
I’ll try to take lots of photos and not get too distracted with all the reunions!
Buffalo visit!
I went home last weekend for Josh’s sister, Rachel’s wedding. It was a short but fun trip! Rachel’s wedding was beautiful. Josh doesn’t fly and he was super busy with work and we have 2 sick dogs at home so the 6 day round trip train ride was out of the question. Josh did the next best thing to being there, he sent a cardboard cut out of himself! See below… you’ll notice fingerprints on him in the photo of him with Rachel… that was the end of the night. He got a lot of action! He was all over the dance floor and the girls were all over him, even his cousin Jeff danced with him.
It was a lot of fun! The rest of the trip I visited with family and friends. It was so nice to see Nicole and Lisa again. We have so much fun doing absolutely nothing but hanging out at the house. We had plans to go to this new fondue place but it had an almost 2 hour wait! So we grabbed take out cheesecake from the cheesecake factory and did dessert night at their new house (which is also way cool with vintage-y urban outfitters style decor!). They have 2 black cats… the male- Batman had a thing for me. Apparantly he doesn’t really like people usually but he posing for my camera.
I posted the rest of the pics in the gallery… see link on the right
San Francisco plans!
Josh and I are planning a short trip to San Francisco for Memorial Day weekend. We were gonna go Spy Hunter style and take the toy hauler with my Mini Cooper in the back but my Mini was 3 inches too long!! We’re still taking the toy hauler and the dogs and we booked reservations at the San Francisco RV Resort. It looks pretty cool for an RV resort for 3 main reasons… they allow dogs, have free wifi and a store with RV parts… which could come in handy since we tend to always have something go wrong with the trailer 
Oh and it’s right on the ocean which could be nice or could be miserable because ocean usually = fog, clouds, wind & cold! when it’s on the West coast anyway… I like the Great Lakes sort of “ocean” I always thought the ocean would be just like Lake Erie or Lake Ontario…
We don’t have much planned yet.. want to see the Golden Gate Bridge and definitely stopping in Cupertino on the way up to see Apple Campus and the Campus store. It’d be fun to ride a cable car too. I hope Mandy and Damien will be up for the trip… Damien still hasn’t been walking well and has a compromised immune system (ear infection eye infection, you name it!). He has more tests later this week and next week for his intestines… his liver tested fine last week… after that is kidneys. His protein, glucose and cholesterol levels are low which is contributing to a weak immune system. We just want them with us in the trailer for the most part, we’re not planning on dragging them all over and they love the camper and are used to it… so we figure we’ll keep them comfortable for the trip
oops! i broke nucleus…
I broke my nucleus CMS install when trying to upgrade to 3.24 and then move it over to word press… Just the upgrade broke it for a while and I finally had time to play with it and figure it out.
I’m working on getting all my posts over to Word press AND properly tagged.. maybe another week and it will be all set… I’ll post the new RSS link in the last post from this system so if you only look via RSS you can update that feed link…
New Years I did the mini skirts annual rally from Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank through Mulholland drive and PCH and ended up in Santa Monica and the group did some bowling down there. Really fun! 9 minis… which is a LOT more than it sounds like… I’ll post pics in the photo gallery and in the word press post when I move it over
