From San Diego, Los Angeles and Venice Beach.

I’m in San Diego for the 2008 UIE Web App Summit.

View of downtown San Diego from Coronado.

Plenty of room for both dogs and a few toys.

My first ski trip with a great group of friends.
(L-R, Derek, Garrett, Zack, Mike, Ryan, Roger, Pat and Jason)
February 28 through March 3, 2008

Not quite, but six days of pure hell. In 31 years of life, I haven’t experienced the joys the flu. Last Monday I went to bed at 8pm with what felt like a sinus headache. I suffered throughout the week with a high temperature, severe body aches, chills and feeling like crap.
I finally recovered on [...]

These are a bit late but I’ve included a few photos from the Ft Lauderdale trip, November 9-12, 2007.

The group at Coliseum on Saturday night.
(L to R, David, Garrett, Roger, Mike, Zack and Ryan)

Fort Lauderdale beach, nearing sunset.

My bags are packed and I’m headed to Fort Lauderdale at 8:00am tomorrow. Mike, Zack and I will meet up with our friends Roger (from Columbus), Ryan and David (from DC) for a fun-filled weekend of drinking, shopping and exploration. We’ll also spend plenty of time soaking up the sun on Fort Lauderdale’s miles of [...]

Mike and Zack went to their annual gathering at Willoughby Design Barn.
Sage and Ruby went along for the trip and are pictured in the photos below, taken by the Willoughby Design Group photographer.

Last week I completed the mid-term for my Programming Fundamentals (Java) course at Longview. This means I’m half-way there. I expected to do better, but the it was also more challenging than I expected. I ended up with an 86% and still have an A in the class. I attribute my success to the excellent [...]