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July 2008

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Ernie and Bert getting their groove on..

Posted by Thomas on 30 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: General Ramblings

..gotta love it.

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Happy Birthday..

Posted by Thomas on 28 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: General Ramblings

…to me.

Well, it was actually last week, but it was a good time. I took Thursday off, and the wife and I had a fun day together.

We did get to see the new Batman in IMAX, so that was great. She picked me up a new watch, wallet, and a new Xbox game, Sid Meier’s Civilization, an excellent strategy game.

Other than that, this weekend was mostly sleeping and hanging out with the wife.

The next few weekend’s I’m heading to Nevada. Twice. Once this weekend to visit my Dad in Reno, who I haven’t seen since 2003, and the weekend after that, it’s DEFCON in Las Vegas. Good times.

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Back..

Posted by Thomas on 20 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: General Ramblings

..and feeling better.

So, it turns out that I didn’t have a cold.

It was some stomach virus.

Of course, it also laid me up in the hotel room for almost two days. I’ll tell you what’s worse than being sick at home: It’s being sick in a strange hotel room mere thousands of feet from the Happiest Place on Earth. But what are you going to do I say?

On the second day of being sick, I summoned my energy to get into the park to renew our annual passes. It was tough, and I thought I wasn’t going to make it (requiring a visit from the Disney nurse, who was very nice.), but I did.

Then, when we got back into town, the wife started getting the exact same symptoms, so I knew it was me and my wussy body. After taking her to urgent care, they said yeah, it’s a stomach virus, no, there is nothing we can do, and here’s a shot to stop the vomiting. Lucky her.

So now we’re back, and just resting, enjoying the tasty BRAT diet, and getting ready to go back to work tomorrow.

In the meantime, enjoy the pictures from the trip, including the beach, on my Flickr page, here.

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So Close I Can Almost Smell It.. {Almost}

Posted by Thomas on 16 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: General Ramblings

As I write this, I’m sitting on the totally comfortable, probably patented, Candy Cane Inn’s bed.

In the dark. Just the glow of my trusy laptop lighting the room.

Why do you ask it like this? When I’m so close to what many proclaim to be “The Happiest Place on Earth?”

I have a cold.

Why? Why does it seem like a get a cold when we’re getting ready to do something fun and exciting? The last cold I had I can document back to December. Not a bad run, actually.

Is it because I work from home, and when my delicate bodily immune systems are placed mono y mono against other people, my body turns over and gives up?

Is it because I’m placed outside my element? Staying up late, probably not getting the patented Straley 12 hour sleep program?

Or is it that the health diet of hamburgers and delicious fries (a patented icedlatte.com diet) just isn’t giving me what I need?

Well, it’s probably a little of all the above, I’m thinking. Of course, as I write this, I”m hopped up on Tylenol Cold nighttime edition. Which, I have to admit, just doesn’t seem to be doing it’s job.

In other words, I should be sleeping right now. For in a few hours, I too will be entering “The Happiest Place on Earth”; either with a stuffy nose, or whatever other ailment the Allmighty throws my way.

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