My life and times
I gave a presentation this morning in Tommy’s 1st period Journalism class, in addition to the students in 2nd period Journalism as well. The school paper was published today, so it was a pretty good day for it. It went much better than my first experience at Lake Mary High, last [...]
I headed up to Gainesville yesterday to talk to Computer Science students that might want to get into the game industry or come to FIEA. I had a lot of fun, and the more I go there, the more I like Gainesville. This was the first time I’d been there while school was [...]
Every morning in my UCF mailbox, I get a mail with the with the subject line “Good Morning UCF!”. While I think that’s weird, one of those emails led to me looking at something called the DMAC (Downtown Media Arts Center, basically an artsy-fartsy movie house). When I went to their site, I [...]
I got a Mac today. It rules. Sign me up, it makes me want to go work for a Mac software company. Tiger is so great, I can’t believe it. My Dad really needs to get a new Mac - maybe he could hand down his current one to a grandchild [...]
Had a good time over the weekend. Worked all night Friday, until early Saturday morning, on some animation stuff for the big review this week, so I could have the weekend off. The irony is you kill yourself so you can have your Saturday, but then your Saturday is kind of shot because [...]
Well, as you no doubt have heard, I hurt my back Wednesday night - so that sucks. I used my time laid up wisely and put together new sites for Tina and Tommy. I’m pretty proud of both of them, although I’ll be making Tommy’s better in the future with some finishing [...]
Sounds like the “procedure” went well, and no mussel shell was found. Scrapes were apparent in the stomach, but none in the esophagus, so I guess that was good. They found 3 ulcers in his stomach and they took samples from them, but they suspect it’s from all the pain medication he’s taken [...]
We’ve been wanting to try the new Chinese Buffet in Lake Mary, so we took last night as our opportunity to give it a whirl. It was good - expensive chinese buffets normally are - with lots of seafood options as well as the traditional favorites. Unfortunately for Tommy, they had mussels in [...]
Olivia did great at her cheer competition at Sea World yesterday, and was pretty pumped up about it all day long. Her team bounced back from their subpar performance at Jacksonville to take home the top prize.
We’ve buckled down in our house in hopes of getting 3 A’s in Math this term. If [...]
I have to say, I definitely love this part of American Idol. It goes from the tryouts (now) to Hollywood, where they narrow the field to 24. Once they narrow it down, it gets less interesting to me.
Contrast that to the part of the project I’m currently working on at work. [...]
I try to take days off when I notice the kids have off school, and Friday was one of those days. Tommy and I were going to go golfing, but got rained out, so we decided to head down to Universal to check out a movie with our free passes and grab something to [...]
There’s no doubt that this has been a Christmas break stuffed to the breaking point with stuff going on. Although we have no plans of leaving Florida anytime soon, we acted like a family crazed to get as much “Florida” stuff done as we possibly could the last week or two.
From reading our main [...]
For all of you who say I never spend any time with my boys, this post is for you.
I started out by taking Tommy over to one of Tina’s friend’s house to get their xbox live working. I guess they had asked several neighbors to come over to help, and nobody in [...]
It’s been a while, but absence made the heart grow fonder, so I was excited to get back to work today. I had a couple of really great meetings with senior managers at the company, so that’s always nice. I’ll be changing gears in about a month, once the project I’m currently leading [...]
Tina’s Dad, Brother and I went golfing down to North Shore Golf Club this morning, and let me tell you, we had a great old time. Clearly, we had a better time than the guy they have on their website, because we were all smiles throughout the day. It was a beautiful day [...]
My arm hurt tonight for some reason, I think maybe it was the throwing I did in last week’s game. We got beat 17-10, and I only went 1-3, but that didn’t tell the whole story. My first two times up, I had men on and 2 outs, and I got out both [...]
Some of you may remember I got Simon tickets to the Detroit Lions v. Jacksonville Jaguars for his birthday. Turns out the game is today, so we’re heading up there, and since it takes about 2 hours to get there, we’ll be heading out about 9:30 or so. Another nice thing is that [...]