Finally a visit, finally a break

My Dad and Maria visited!  Hold the presses!   I think they had a great time, I took a few days off of work and gave them the “West-of-Lincoln-in-Santa-Monica” special, there were a couple of aligned events such as our club banquet, an amazing tour of a mansion-in-progress from Nathan, and my ever-brilliant cousin Mike delivering another new pilot (which not surprisingly got picked up) which gave us plenty to do and see.   Now that they know I don’t live in south central they can rest easy.

In work news, we just wrapped a huge project for the E3 conference - we did the entire EA booth for the conference.   The setup is ridiculous, the main screen is something like 25′ wide and 15′ tall or something.   Heading down there tomorrow as a guest of EA so I’ll take some photos if I can and post them up here.

With the finishing of that project comes a long awaited break for me, I’ve been working like crazy and am so happy to have some time off to finishing unboxing things at our place, run the usual neglected errands, and work on some personal projects.   Our new couch FINALLY CAME and it is AMAZING.   Most comfortable couch I’ve ever sat in, which is both a blessing and a curse :).    Got a stand for my plasma up on the mantle (can’t mount it because of the “historical protection” on the house) and setup our Roku box, so even though we’re happily without cable we can still watch the shows we love (CSI, 30-Rock) and movies to our hearts content.   I highly recommend a Roku box to everyone.

Also of course, I will be travelling!    First destination is next week, but will have to remain secret as it’s a surprise from my sister and I to our mother for her 30th birthday.  Suffice it to say we’ll need our passports.

Second trip is to Ireland with my beautiful girlfriend and her Mom and step-dad - we’re really really excited about it, and I’m stoked to finally be headed back to the motherland.

Third trip is in the works but will also be epic, more info to follow.

Last but certainly not least, everyones favorite Columbian Bobsledder celebrated his 30th birthday the other day!   This one’s dedicated to you old man.

Juuuust kidding, he’s 27.   Love ya none-the-less Lucas.

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