Ripple

Things continue rolling along. Business as usual. I suppose that's why I forget to add the latest and greatest information. But a few items of note have popped up recently.

After six months of exhausted hydraulics and a sore back I finally got a new office chair! Actually it's more of a throne. I'm ready to become a workaholic in all it's faux leathery goodness. Although I'm really trying to find ways to be more involved with work that takes place outside the office. That's where I can be a storyteller.

Speaking of stories, the our first issue of The Flame, our conference magazine is out. Finally. It's been quite a hit already. I just got off the phone with the editor of 3ABN's magazine. They're planning to pick up one of the stories I did. The fact that my story made 3ABN look great may have influenced him, but it sure feels good to have your work praised under any circumstance!


I'm continuing to pound the treadmill. When I started running regularly this year I decided to try and run 200 miles in 2010. At the rate I'm going it looks like I might get there by my birthday.

I thought there was something else I was going to share, but it escapes me now. Plus, it's quitting time and the start of my weekend. As Fred Flintstone so brilliantly put it, "Yabba Dabba Dooo!"

Summertime

As long as your a/c doesn't go out on a Friday evening the nights down here are pretty fantastic in the summer. Luckily, if your apartment maintenance man can get things taken care of the next day, you can survive a single night where your apartment is 85.

But anyways. If you can train your body not to sweat buckets the evening light is wonderful down here. I've always heard that about New Mexico, but I'm finding it similar here.

Coasting

So I had a very eventful weekend. Somewhat on a whim (if you can call four days advance a whim) I decided to get outta town in honor of my 4-day 4th of July weekend. I was definitely ready for a change of scenery from Dallas. I was feeling the urge to finally see the gulf coast. Plus, since I moved down here I've had a standing appointment to meet up with an online friend and quite possibly destroy the universe with our common initials/nicknames and outstanding like-mindedness. What a great way to kill two birds with one stone!

Rather than overwhelm you with many huge images I'll just paste a slideshow of images from the trip. If you want to see them in a larger size and/or download some to print out poster size for me to autograph when I come to visit YOU just go to my Flickr stream and knock yourself out. :P





I have so many stories/thoughts from the trip, but the 10 hour drive on Monday and an 18 hour workday on Tuesday have left me a bit fried. I'll try to get to it when I can.