RIP Michael Jackson

A sad day yesterday as Michael Jackson passed away, despite all the drama he had you can't help but respect the fact he was a great performer.
I remember listening to him as a young young kid with "the dudes" back in Salt Lake. I remember Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer quickly taking him over, but really you couldn't top Jacko.
Still disappointed that I heard about him dying first from TMZ.com, and unfortunately knew that was probably true, assuming they most likely got to the house before the Ambulances themselves did.

RIP Mike.

Vegas Trip June

Mid June, about 7 of us decided to mosey a little more inland to make another visit to the city of Sin. Had a great time the past couple times at Treasure Island, but we got a great rate at MGM Grand this time so we gave it a shot.
One car left at noon, we got there about 5ish and just in time to catch the end of the Magic and Lakers game. Other car rolled in about midnight and found us just kinda hanging out by then. The nice thing we had about our room was we got 2 free buffet's each day, and since the buffet's cost $30 it was a pretty big deal so that was really nice! Anyhow, some gambling some pool, some mischief and 4 days later we all made it back out in one piece, so it was a great trip.


Hanging out in my Tube on the Lazy River at the MGM Grand, having a great time, look how happy I am to be there!














Taking a quick break from dancing at Studio 54 to pose for a picture! I feel like I started with that shirt more buttoned up at the beginning of that evening!








Here we are outside of the pool, enjoying some of the beeeautiful Las Vegas weather! From left to right, Steve, me(back), Marcus, Mark, and Jamey













Here we are VIP at Club Tabu in MGM Grand after we lucked out in Roulette and won some money decided to donate just a touch back to the MGM and spoiled ourselves with a booth and had a great time!







And here I am, just smiling it off in Vegas, had a great time with some great friends and made some new ones, and left the city of Sin with more money than we took in, what is there not to smile about??!

Trip to HiTec

So I got to go on a One Day field trip to HiTec conference with Rick my boss and Ted our Manager of IT.

Was a great great trip, learned a lot, made a lot of great contacts, will post more about it later, but just wanted to get back on pace with writing and get something on the board right now.

It was up in Anaheim at the Disney Convention Center, which is just a massive massive Convention Center up there, which was all but empty with this conference being the sole exception.
A lot of vendors there, and everyone was ocmplaining about how attendence was just so low this year which is really too bad. Just tough times for Hotels.
Had a little after show party at the Red Lion there, with our SynXis people which was nice. Finally good to put some faces with the names of people I email back and forth between, so that was great.

Will post some more of what I have been up to later, looking for places to move right now and trying to catch up on work!