Gone cruising... see you on the 9th!
GeneralThe bags are packed and we are heading to Galveston tomorrow morning at 5am to board the Carnival Conquest. We will be hitting Jamaica on Wednesday, Grand Cayman on Thursday and Cozumel on Friday, returning Sunday the 9th.
If you are thinking "didn't he just do that?", well yeah... last June with our entire family. On the last day on the ship, my wife won a raffle for another 7 night cruise for 2, so we decided to do the exact same trip, only without the kiddos this time. A couple from our neighborhood will also be joining us.
Since we aren't pushing a stroller around and have a bit more freedom at our ports of call, we booked some great excursions. In Montego Bay, we will be doing the zip line canopy tour, hauling butt through the trees while harnessed to a set of pulleys. My brother-in-law and his kids did this on our last cruise and they said it was really awesome.
In Grand Cayman, we are going to start out our day parasailing 400' in the air along the shoreline, followed by the remainder of the day at 7 Mile Beach, where I spent the day last time. This is a really beautiful spot.
In Cozumel, we are doing the Sail, Snorkle and Beach Party excursion (here after known as the booze cruise). We took this one last time and holy cow.... I do remember parts of it. In essence they take about 50 people out on a 60 foot catamaran with 50 gallons of margaritas and free beer. I ended up in drunken kayak races, a beach volleyball game and we had a hell of a time at Carlos and Charlies and Senor Frogs when we got back to the docks.
If anyone needs anything (World Wild Web/InstantSpot.com) business while I am gone, get in touch with Aaron as he will be the lone guy holding down the fort. I am supposed to have internet access for the week, so I will probably be checking email occassionally, and plan on sending back some videos for my kids here on my blog, but don't count on hearing from me about any work. :)
...talk to you soon!
Amazing video of 9 year old hockey prodigy
GeneralThe Dallas Stars saw their second loss in a row to the Senators Friday night. However, during intermission kids exhibition, the fans got to witness the best shot many have ever seen - and it came from a 9 year old Max Gerlach from Flower Mound, TX!
Check this out! How many scouts put him on their radar this week!??!
Flood pictures from Lake Texoma 4th of July 2007
GeneralI took my family up to Lake Texoma over the past couple days where both my brother and my parents have cabins right on the water in the Texins Club, which is mostly made up of current and former TI employees and Family. As of this today, the water is 22 feet above normal and my brother's cabin is actually now *in* the water, which has been rising 1" hour for the past week with no sign of relief in the near future. The full set of pictures is available here, but since you are already here, I will post a couple of notable pictures:
The baseball diamond there in the park.
Steps leading up to my brother's cabin. There is usually a nice green yard between the porch and the water.
Same porch the next morning. Notice the steps are gone.
The neighbor's porch swing.
In case there was any question...
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Back from paradise
GeneralWow.... like splashing icy water on my face, my alarm clock went off at 5:00am this morning solidifying the fact that I was back from one of the most awesome and surreal weeks of my life. After being pampered and catered to as we hopped around the Caribbean, I am back at my desk. I will probably have to make at least one more blog entry about the trip after I post my pics and video so please bear with me, but I wanted to at least post that I was back.
Bahama Bound! Back on June 10
GeneralIf anyone is trying to contact me the next week, I will be somewhere between Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel! For any World Wild Web Systems business issues or InstantSpot issue, please contact Aaron Lynch.
Until then.... look for me here!
Who really *uses* LinkedIn?
GeneralFrom time to time I get requests to be added to people's networks in LinkedIn. Each time I get one of these I go out there and approve it (well, most of the time!). I then spend about the next 4 seconds looking at the requester's immediate network and leave. I then proceed to forget that LinkedIn even exists until they happen to send me a message telling me that their are 45,000 in my extended network or something, or someone else happens to request to add me to their network.
I assume that I am missing something here, but is there anything of more value that people are doing with it? Earlier it was pointed out to me that they are one of the current nominees for the Social Networking group of the Webby Awards. This would indicate that either they have a powerful marketing force or someone actually finds it useful. What is it that I am missing about LinkedIn? I will add anyone with a good answer to my LinkedIn network... since I am assuming that is a good thing!
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