Home away from Home

Another trip to the big city, this time for some good clean fun. D and I were in serious need of a holiday one that called for cold brisk air, historic watering holes, old fashion wandering, and a fancy Irish wedding to top it off. A friend from high school was getting married and it couldn't have come at better time.



Throwing back with old friends, good times and inappropriate moments call to mind. Introducing D to my past was quite pleasant, seems as though I've changed depending who you ask.

The rest of the weekend was spent roaming around, looking for those intriguing yet questionable objects that could raise ones brow.

Of course, its always a pleasure watching D spend that hard earned dollar in the fashion capitol of the world.

A walk by abuala's place and through the neighborhood always does me right. I constantly come across the goodness in all its photographical glory.

No NY trip is complete though without catching a buzz at burp castle. Some of Belgium's finest ales can only be found here but apparently I'm the only one who seems to think so.



A trip to nyc, few hundred bucks. A trip to nyc with "fancy pants" by your side, absolutely priceless.

Miss me yet?

Something tells me you do so I'm back!

Where do I begin? For starters, I know I said I was switching platforms and in doing so, I got to thinking. You and I have built up such lovely dialog over the past few years here, if I were to discontinue that now, I would be doing a great dis-service to us both. That being said, the documentation of my travels, breakthroughs, and life ambitions will remain here. I do however plan on moving forward with a new site although it will solely be for my professional side of things.

As for everything else, tangled to say the least.



Work has been alright i guess. Just got back from NY, did some stuff with the KOL crew at the garden. I've gotten to know these guys over the past few years and they're all really cool people. I can't say my liver would agree with that though.





The rest of the trip went well, I took Maxxyz out, saw some programmers, saw some dealers, same old same old. I finished up early on my last day with just enough time to snap some photos. Its been a while since I've taken any photographs so I was quite anxious to hit up the park. I don't know how it is for you but, Fall in nyc is like stepping into a Woody Allen film of some sort.

Certainly beats winter, though they can keep that shit. I caught a buzz and continued to roam the town for the rest of the evening.

Fine visit indeed.

tranquility

The finest in sleeping aids.

Moving right along

Now that I've been off the ABW tour for a bit, you and I can finally catch up and chat for a while. (lucky you) The tour ended last week but I hopped off 2 weeks prior as my work was finished and I was needed elsewhere. I had a great time on it and word on the street is it was a big success. I left out of VA and was pretty stoked to be heading home. I've flown in and out of this airport before but for some reason never took in the architecture of this place. Not sure how one could overlook such a graceful building style.

So being home for awhile has been good. I've settled in nicely only to be dragged right back out again. AOL in NYC is using our control platform and called for an impromptu training session. Guess who gets the pleasure of doing that. It wasn't so bad though, they flew me out and put me up in some swanky hotel in the east village. Remember a while back I was telling you that every time I stay in the city I always get stuck with a room that has a concrete wall view, not the case this time. Apparently every room in this establishment has no such thing.

Certainly made waking up a lot easier. The training went alright, some minor hardware issues but nothing life threatening. Pretty cool place to conduct a training I'd say.



I finished up and had the rest of Fri evening to hell raise before heading home




I don't think I've mentioned it yet but somehow Martin decided to promote me to a new position. A position, might I add that was solely created for me. Something they call Product Support Coordinator, not really sure what it means but I guess I coordinate shit now. I'm pretty jazzed about it, its an opportunity to be in front of the right people as well as walk through some doors that have never been opened for me before, figuratively speaking of course. It also calls for more...



A lot more!

A perfect example as to what I'll be doing a lot of. Just the other week, the band Crowed House was in town. Their designer is using one of our latest moving heads, their actually field testing them for us. I had to go down to the venue and upload some fixture software as well as make sure the fixtures were performing to satisfaction. The guys invited me to stay, make sure all goes well and to check out the show. Figured I'd see what the Australians had to offer.



Other than that, all is going pretty well. D and I hit up Interpol at the Fillmore last night, good stuff! Ran into my good friend Ivan which is always a pleasure, can always count on him being present at a good indie rock show


Not the same without you Carlos D!

Looks like I'll be home for a bit, hopefully, that should give me some time to work on a few personal projects.

Until next time!

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