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I ended up in London for the week doing a product demo and have been trying to get out as much as possible. Sunday I took a wander around London and took a load of pictures.

A friend of mine has finally broken down and started a blog. If you get a chance I highly recommend taking a quick look.

http://www.thoughtsofmyown.com/

I met up with Don after work yesterday for a few drinks. Shortly thereafter Brent Leech and his wife showed up which destroyed all ideas of only a “few drinks”. It was a great night and my first time to the Old Ebbitt Grill.

I’m in San Francisco for the week on business and as luck would have it my sister lives about an hour to the north. I headed up for the weekend to see her, JR and Brendan during which time we ended up geocaching in a park they frequent. Had to share this, but a higher quality version should be up after I get home.

Flights out of Newark suck. Brint and I were on a 7:15am to Denver, CO which was canceled last minute. Normally that wouldn’t matter so much, but tomorrow happens to be Saint Patties Day. We have a huge bash planned in which three hotel rooms have already been booked. So what have we decided to do… thats right, impromptu road trip.

3/16/2007 7:45 am EST - 1760 miles
3/16/2007 12:08 pm EST - 1504 miles
3/16/2007 4:35 pm EST - 1243 miles
3/17/2007 2:14 am EST - 584 miles
3/17/2007 9:19 am EST - 68 miles

See ya on the other side. :)

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Well, we made it to the bar by 11:00am which isn’t too bad for what came out to a 1900 mile road trip. The day was amazing, everyone was so friendly especially after hearing about our journey. It’s going to be hard to top this next year.

It should be fairly obvious that I have not been visiting my own site much over the course of the last year or so. I used to enjoy writing here whether anyone actually read it or not, but over time I let this die off. What I’m trying to say is this is me coming back. For those I haven’t talked to in a long time I think an update is in order, but unfortunately thats not going to happen just yet. Suffice it to say I’m traveling a lot now which should provide some interesting posts and I’m happier than I have been in a long time.

Oh yeah, Brint and I finally went snowboarding a couple months ago for the first time. Yes we made it through the day and yes, we couldn’t sit down for the entire next one.

Between October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Pink for October idea, and the fact my site hasn’t had color in years I figured this might be a good idea for 30 days or so. I know this is something my sister has always been very supportive of and the least I can do is join in with the very small number of people that visit my site. Since I’m rarely good with words I’ll let Pink for October say the rest.

I want to ask you a favour. Do a little more. Read about cancer. What it does to a person’s body, to their mind, to their family. Look for the positives and the negatives. Then write about it. Podcast about it. Vidcast about it. Talk about it in that thing I am told still does exist called “real life.”

Pink for October

I feel better that now after all these years I have randomly found someone that had the same idea I did. Brint and I talked in college about doing this to our apartment, but we could not financially or legally come up with a way to do it.

Source: xkcd

For those that know me or my family you probably have heard the stories of our time overseas. It you don’t know, we spent four and a half years in Keflavik Iceland right before my father retired from the Navy. I am sad to say that tonight my father found an article in the Icelandic base paper, The White Falcon, discussing the base’s closure.

Many people at Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland, knew the base could be closed down. Rumors that the U.S. would one day pull out of the remote Cold War post has circulated for years… On March 15, however, the U.S. government announced it would close the base by this October, ending a 65-year American military presence in the country in just over six months.
Original Article | Archived Link

To all of those at NAS Keflavik I wish you well and hope you enjoyed the beautiful island and the wonderful people as much as we did.

For starters, “Happy Birthday Kevin!” Celebrating a 21st birthday (belated or not) by flying out to Colorado Springs is always a recipe of a good time. Kevin and I flew out to see Brint this weekend for some sight seeing at the Garden of the Gods, Pike’s Peak, some underground caves, and of course a bar or two. I have to say I definitely liked the area and the night out in Denver was a night to remember… or in some cases a night we would like to remember.

If you don’t take anything else away from this trip remember this: The guy walking around in the kilt knows the best bars. Just follow him and you will not be disappointed.

[Backdated for accuracy.]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

Oh so very very tired. Been up for 33 hours and counting with two shifts at FedEx and classes sprinkled in there. Had a great time last night that has put me in an incredibly good mood today and is keeping me supprisingly awake. I have a feeling tomorrow will be as good if not better. On the down side I had to break my no coffee streak. Last time I drank coffee was 7 months ago, but I don’t think I could have made it through the morning without it. Oh well, the counter is reset and lets try it again.

Since I will be on a plane all day tomorrow winging my way back to Buffalo I thought this would be an appropriate time for this post. Yesterday was a day tour of San Francisco which resulted in this picture down by the bay.

Have a Happy New Year everyone. See you all next year.