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You ever have a dream that was so real in a good way, that you just wanted to wake up beacuse you realized you didn’t want to tease yourself with it only being a dream? That happened to me the other day. I just decided at one point in the dream that if this isn’t real, i just wanted to open my eyes and end the dream right then.

So I did.

I’ve been adding some phone pix to the that part of the gallery, some are just random, others are from my vacation to socal.

The bigger thing is I started putting up the pictures from my digi cam, as i get time to resize them and check them out. So there will be more to come to that gallery. Also i’m still waiting for my brother’s digi cam pictures to get sent to me. So that will be a large group of photos as well.

for now here’s the 4 pics i have up now.

EDIT: 22 Aug — Added the rest of my pictures to the gallery. Still awaiting my brothers pictures.

http://iammikesdomain.com/imagery/socaltrip

And so it began. I’ll begin my story on Thursday August 5th my last day of work, just for some perspective of how much I’ve needed a vacation. I smartly, against my original intentions, took off for the day of my flight (Friday the 6th), even though it wasn’t going to leave till around 7pm that evening. It became very apparent that my Thursday, my last day of work before vacation time, was shaping up to be a bear of a day. On Monday I already knew i had three meetings scheduled for that day. The day began about on time, getting in about some time around 7:30am. On with the day. Well yep it went by. I had the first two meetings of the day, quite uneventful. Then it came, the code review. The last meeting or more or less, as you can tell by the name, more of an inspection of work. Yes it is as murderous as you may be thinking. Going through a whole section of code line-by-line bringing up any errors or comments on approaches that may have been found in people’s preparation for the review. This meeting started at 2pm, or 3pm. I can’t remember anymore. Either way it lasted till about 5:30pm. Oh my god i was going to die. Its my last day of work before vacation and the last thing I’m thinking about is whether it would be better to put method descriptions at the top of each section of code or just in the definitions file. Ok so I got through it, that’s the important part. I made sure the guy who was covering my things while I was away knew everything and I bolted.

Friday comes. I get ready, I watch Hunt for Red October, just for the hell of it while i’m packing. I sleep in. Yes these events are in backwards order. I get on a plane at 7pm Eastern Time in the cattle car ABC style that southwest likes to herd its passengers into. I am, thankfully, lucky enough to be seated in between to very pretty girls on my straight through to San Diego flight. Too bad of course the one, who I was talking too has a boyfriend, and the other was asleep the whole flight. Oh well I guess that’s the best company i could ask for on a five and a half hour non-stop flight. I get into San Diego and I meet my uncle and aunt at the airport at 10pm Pacific Time. So begins the vacation. We hit old town San Diego for some Mexican food and a beer. I had some Negro Modelo. A very good Mexican darker beer, I highly recommend it.

Saturday, Pick up the rental car and kick it up to Los Angeles to hang out with Heidi and Chris for the weekend. But how bout I just leave that for my next installment.

Wow the past week or so has been a non-stop blast of vacation and fun. I was pretty much all over southern california, from San Diego to LA. Its almost too much so for now i’ll talk about just right now. I got Kill Bill Vol 2 on dvd today, it rocks.

I’m kinda down that i wasn’t able to get out and see my parents down on the maryland shores this week, since i have a class to go to all week. I may make it down for late friday afternoon and friday night, so who knows.

As far as my vacation to California goes, i think i may write a series of posts on it. Making it into one post wouldn’t do it justice, and furthermore i dont’ think I’d know where to start. So when i get my writing bug again, I’ll make sure thats what i write about.

– removed link, ask me if you really wanna hear (trust me its nothing) –
I figure the only way i’m gonna stop being sloppy with playing the guitar, of which i think i have the basics down, but am far from being good or able to do more than just simple chords. But in the effort to bare things and just in general listen back what i practice some days, i decided to record and throw it up here. Honestly this is pretty rough and way sloppy at some points .. I know i can do better. In fact i kinda wanna post it for my own motivation.