I think I just saw a big boat go by

Maybe it was Noah. Well someone knows something because we've got about 10 inches of rain in the last two days. Nothing unusual for Florida I guess.

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Shark Attacks

Two shark attacks in a matter of days. I think I'm done swimming in the Gulf for a while. I like all my limbs.

Random Power Outage Thought

We just suffered a power outage here at work. Although the outage was only for a few seconds everyone in the building was unable to work because their computer was powered off. I was not so unfortunate or fortunate depending on how you view it, I own a laptop so the battery saved me from the outage. But it got me thinking, how much does it cost when the power goes out. For every engineer in this building to have to reboot their machine and get back to the spot where they were it probably takes a good 2-5 minutes. Not to mention the loss of work. So crunching the numbers I'm guessing the loss of work cost the company a good chunk of change. (I'm way to lazy to crunch numbers) I just thought I'd throw a random thought your way.

Short Weekend

This weekend flew by really fast. Jen's brother is down from MN so we hung out with him on Saturday at Clearwater Beach. Sunday we went to Busch Gardens. Both Jen and I agreed that it was just as good if not better then Animal Kingdom. We saw some gorillas wrestling. Talk about entertaining. Two 500lbs creatures hitting each other over the head was pretty funny. There's also a lot of rides there too. This trip there was just to check it out so we didn't do much but walk around.

Then it was Monday morning and I'm back to work.

I'm not funny

I was told today that my blog is not funny. I guess I'm just not a funny guy, or all my funny stories can't really be told on this blog. I thought today I'd try to be funny. But I have nothing funny to talk about. So I thought I'd use a random thought from the OLDP Joel. Here goes.

Keep your socks high and your spectacles low.

An emu may look friendly, but its intellect may overcome.

If your fist is shaking, drop kick a ventilation duct

Baby Tour

Recently we toured the hospital where Jen will give birth to our bun in the oven. The room where the baby is actually born is big but soon after the baby is born they move Jen to a small room. But the baby gets to stay with Jen in the room so that's cool. This has been a crazy time in our lives. Living in FL and getting pregnant at the same time. But it's also exciting and a new chapter is starting in our lives.

Golf woos

Golfing took a turn for the worst down here. Last year I was constantly in the 40's. This year I haven't broke 40 once until last night. I have a whooping 19 handicap for 9 holes. Maybe lessons have screwed me up, but whatever it is I'm not doing so well. Hopefully winning last night by 7 1/2 holes will help. I think I have a good idea what I was doing wrong before. We'll see next match.

It's a sad day to see Pardeep go.

I'm trying to hold back my tears as I write this. OK that's a little extreme. But Jen is really having a hard time holding back her tears. (My wife that is, we all know Somers has forgot about you by now)

Anyway, Pardeep has graduated from the OLDP and now has to move on to a real job. No more boondoggles, now it's just a 5 day a week job.

Well Pardeep, I guess this is so long old buddy. As far as this picture goes, you know this doesn't work in snow right? I'm still trying to figure out what you were thinking leaving these days sitting on Clearwater Beach for Owego, NY. Anyway, it's been a blast hanging out and you'll have to make sure you visit before I have to go back to the frigid Minnesota.

Take it easy and enjoy NY.

Pics at night around Time Square just don't do it justice. It's amazing, blocks and blocks of super large big screen TVs. Not to mention the number of people around this place. 

I know where to catch the David Letterman show now. I will be back someday.  

Me, Josh, and Mickey in Atlantic City. I only had to break up one fight between these two. We never fail to go on a trip without these two yelling at eachother at least once.  

Back from New Jersey

Our trip last week was a blast. We went site seeing in Philly, Atlantic City, and New York. We got to experience riding on the subway and riding in a taxi. Taxi drivers in New York are the craziest drivers you'll ever meet in the World, I guarantee it. We asked the driver about what kind of maintenance he did on his car and he said the brakes are changed out every two weeks. That's some seriously crazy driving. I never thought I'd say this but it's crazier than my brother when he was around the age of 16-17ish. (Sorry Al) One of the funnier moments of the night in New York was watching P-Diddy get shot down by a girl. He walked up to her like three times trying to get her to come with him in his motorcade of like 4 large SUV's. But she refused. Anyway, I've posted some pics from the trip throughout this blog. (When I post pics the site puts them in what ever order it feels like, maybe I'll fix it later)

We also had lunch with Jay and Ben while in Moorestown. That was pretty cool. This ELDP program is great, we're meeting people all over the place. Josh, the only single one on this trip got two girls phone numbers. One on the train ride into New York and one on the way back to Jersey. I think he wants to move there now.

Well enjoy the pics.

We ended our day at Time Square. This place is amazing. I couldn't believe the number of people out at 1:00am on a Thursday night.  

This is a taken a couple blocks from ground zero.  

Just some buildings next to the World Trade Center. The fence off area is where the World Trade Center used to be.  

This is ground zero in New York (this is the old basement of the World Trade Center). We took the subway to this station which used to be the basement of the World Trade Center. Now it's known as the bathtub.  

This time we're on the board walk. It was 90 degrees in Moorestown which is about an hour away and about 60 degrees here. Kind of chilli.  

Atlantic City. We're not quite on the board walk but we're close. The walk way we're on leads from the board walk to the beach.  

During our trip last week in Philly we ate at the original Philly Cheese Steak Place. Gino's. 

Weird Dream

Last night I had a dream that I got out of my Explorer to get something out of the back of it. I apparently parked on a hill and only put it in neutral, when I reached in the back I pushed it and it started going down the hill. I tried to stop it but I to much of a girly man so it rolled down the hill and hit a sign and then rolled over.

So I'm left trying to figure out what the heck that means this morning.

Systems Engineering Training

I'm in my last class of a four course Systems Engineering curriculum right now. I find it astonishing that all these courses teach the same thing but by changing the names of these courses and maybe the order of which they cover the material they can make four times as much. Then they try and make you feel special by offering a certificate upon completion. It's a great business model and I'm mad that I didn't think of it. (Ok not really) I guess I don't really mind to much cuz I get to see a bunch of different places at no expense to me. Speaking of sites, we ate the original Philly cheese steak sub. It was good, but it wasn't as good as I remembered last year. Although last year we ate there after a night out on the town so that might have had something to do with it.

Philly

We're here. The plane arrived early today but Avis sucks and they didn't have enough staff to handle a line of people so we ended up waiting for about 45 minutes to get our car. It sucked, but we got a Chevy Impala. I love the car it handles great and with all the Jug Handles here I'll get the most out of it. There may be little tread left when I return it.

Now it's off to training for the week. Hopefully training doesn't get in the way of site seeing since I brought my wife on this trip. We're planning on visiting Atlantic City, New York, and we can't miss the original Philly Cheesesteak.

More later, I need to get some sleep.

Star Wars Weekend

After seeing the Revenge of the Sith I wanted to see the following three episodes. I tried to buy the trilogy but nobody had it in stock. So I order them through my online account with Blockbuster. So far I've got A New Hope and Empire Strikes back. One left to see. I'm still waiting for the Return of the Jedi then I'll have completed the trilogy. Jen is not the most thrilled to view these movies but hey she's got one left and we're done.

I'm short fat Hulk

According to the website musclenet I could max out at 333lbs. That's interesting. Now I don't need to waste my workout trying a max. I'm not sure if this is valid or not but hey it makes me feel like a short fat Hulk. Currently I bench 3 sets of 10 with 250lbs. Then I put 275 on and I can get about 5 more. Not bad for an old fat short guy.