Not very active here

I've not been very active here... Mostly because the wife has been rather sick for a while and at work I've been working in the test department so have been away from my desk.

Tomorrow is Katie's birthday. She'll be 9... Holy Shit, where did the last 9 years go?

The weight issue:

I've decided to not even worry about my gained weight until after the holidays. I figure it this way... I just quit smoking like 80 days ago and am still not out of the woods with that. I figure in January I will address the extra weight I've gained. Besides, what's worse, Smoking a pack a day, or an extra 15 or 20 pounds.

Stuff.

Not too much going on really. Work got really busy for me. This will last until the end of the Month/Year. Then in the new Year I will probably get slow. Usually happens like that around here.

Saturday we brought the kids to see Dark Star Orchestra or DSO for short. If you like the Grateful Dead you should see this band. They will play a set that The Grateful Dead played. And when I say play a set, I mean they will pick a date that the dead played, and replay the set. Not really note for note but they will play the same songs in the same order too. And they sound spot on! They have a following too, its pretty weird. but they are really good. Anyway, Katie had a really good time. See:






And of Course Mat played Legend of Zelda on his DS through the whole concert. See:

It was good, he actually got into it for a while. He really liked the Drum Solo.

Me, Murray & Brian @ Reunion

Me, Murray & Brian @ Reunion, originally uploaded by chrismek.

Here's a picture of Me, Murray and Brian that I snagged off of Facebook. The first thing Murray said to me when He showed up was "Oh, cool, you showed up in a Purple Velvet jacket, I was worried that I was underdressed with the Corduroy jacket" It was good hanging out with Murray!

I told him I would make it out to L.A. someday soon and chill out with him. I hope I can actually do it. He's good people!

Back to work after a week off... :-(

Today is my first day back to work after having the week off. I had a tough time getting up after sleeping late the whole week, but I did make it to work. Of course I am swamped! Sometimes I feel like it's not even worth it to take time off because nobody will do my work while I'm gone and it just piles up.

Anyway, the week was good. Relaxing if nothing else. Me and wife re-arranged some furniture and my Ham Radio/Computer/Guitar/Music room is awesome now. I'm diggin it because there is som much more room in there! I need to get some pics of it now. It's almost pointless becasue I don't think that I have any before pics. If I do I will put some up here and over at Flickr.com.

I went to my 20 year high school reunion on friday night. Wife had hers too, so we went solo to our own reunions. I had a great time. I'm so glad that I went. I spent a long time talking to Murray who moved to L.A. around '92. I talked to a lot of people there and was surprised at how many people haven't really changed, except for the age. And mostly everyone looked really good. There were only a couple people that I thought " Boy, you didn't age well!" But of course I didn't sya it, only thought it. and I couldn't believe how OLD some of them looked. We're not even 40 yet and some of them looked all of 50. But mostly everyone looked really good. I just hope nobody is saying the same stuff about me! Becasue I dont' think I look that old.

I gotta say that I had great conversations with Murray V, Elaine R, Nicole S, Jenn H, Cordell J, Chris D, Andy T, Wendy H, Colleen P, Carmen B, Mike S, Traci A, Rich D and a bunch of others! I was a little disappointed that Bob wasn't there. He is way cool. I'll try to mak it to one of his shows i guess. I am really hoping they decide to do a 25 year! I'd be there!