Thursday, July 29, 2010

Is This Thing On? What I've Been Up To

Hi blog, long time no see. So, I did eventually get out of the hospital. I was well enough that I could lie in bed at home for free, although it took a while for my lipase counts to come down. Funnily enough, I had a trip to Montana planned for the first week of May, so I asked my doctor if it'd be all right if I went and had gall bladder removal surgery after that. She was ok with it, so I went to Montana. I have a few pictures here, but as usual I am behind in processing. Fantastic trip with great friends! Three days after I got back, I went in for surgery, which went splendidly. Recovery went pretty well also. I think all the love and support from my wife and friends helped smooth things along.

That would bring us to the beginning of summer. I took Noelle to Vegas for a quick trip to see the Criss Angel Cirque du Soleil show (yes, that's cognitive dissonance you're feeling, yes it's normal) as an anniversary present. Went to WWDC to hang out with the Apple kids. Mostly iPhone stuff, but that's cool. Flew down to the OC to see a composition lecture by the great Art Wolfe. At the end of June we flew up to PDX to see our friend Jesse get married. We also hung out with some other friends up there while we were in town. Some pix of that here, about half done with that weekend's photos. The next week both Noelle's and my company had a mandatory shutdown for July 4th week, so we flew to Maine for a few days so we could visit with family and chill. Perfect timing, too! They had a heat wave while were there and we got to enjoy upper 80s lower 90s with lots of humidity. Still, it was nice to get home. Went boating out on China Lake, visited with relatives I haven't seen in a while, and went up to Bar Harbor for a day. Last week was the annual pilgrimage to Comic-Con San Diego, which was great fun, but completely exhausting (zillions of pictures here). We got the best hotel ever for that con, the Hilton Gaslamp, right across the street from the convention center. I am a little sad, because I don't think I will ever get a hotel that good again for SDCC. Anyway, there were lots of cool panels and cosplay and other entertainments, including w00tstock 2.4. Good times, for nerds. That brings us up to the present. It's sort of tiring to look at what's been going on the past three months, but I guess it's been sort of tiring living it too. I need a break I think. :-) The good news is I don't think I'm traveling anywhere until September, so I get some down time now, right?

Anyway, that's kind of a capsule summary of what I've been up to these past few months. I'll try and be better about posting in the future.