And so it starts

wow - my first blog post. You'd think after being in IT for many moons now that I'd have started a blog long ago. I didn't really think of it much until vacation in Aruba a few weeks ago when I busted up a toe and my wife said I needed a blog to post pictures of it on. Facebook is good but not quite as easy to use (I'm hoping).

In any event, for those that are 'in the know' life is finally settling down around here. The past month has been a never-ending train of to-do lists and traveling. Back in January we made an offer on a house that was accepted so we started packing. Closed on February 25, left for Aruba vacation on February 28. While in Aruba I managed to bust up a toe which has moved to the entire foot. Of course it was the second full day there so I got to deal with it the next three. On vacation. In Aruba. Like I'm really going to sit and prop it up with ice on it ... I am sorta regretting that now. Makes it very difficult to walk, shift gears on a motorcycle or keep from being called gimpy or crip. At least the weather was perfect and the pool was relaxing. The twins weren't so sure about the five hour flight from Atlanta to Aruba but did reasonably well for being not quite two.

Came back from Aruba and started moving to the new house. Starting the following Monday I had jury duty for a week. Murder trial in Myrtle Beach. Much more frequent than I'd like to think. The paper continues to rant about the biker weeks and noise and crime that happens during the month of May (even saw a sticker on an SUV on my way home today which said 'Stop the MAY-hem', I made sure to rap the pipes at him real loud a couple of times on the way past). The thing that seems to be overlooked or ignored is the common crime. Just today there were three stories on the local non-news website (www.thesunnews.com) about prostitues being arrested. There was a double shooting in Socastee and much other totally non-biker related crime. I'm supremely happy that I don't live in MB city limits and have to deal with the batch of incompetent fools that are city council.

On with the show .. at least that's what I did after jury duty. Leaving super early Saturday morning for Ameila Island FL and the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance (http://www.ameliaconcours.org/). My bro talks about it much more intelligently than I can on his blog (http://foremostcarguy.blogspot.com/). Suffice it to say that there were way to many cool cars to see with a busted up foot. We were there for 'Dawn Patrol". This requires getting out of bed at an ungodly hour to see the cars drive on the show field. All the while getting yelled at by a psycho lady on a hill, hoping to get free Hagerty hats and donuts and trying to not get run over by the many Dusenburgs, Ferraris, Rolls, Bentleys, etc.

Finally back home and back at work. Loads of fun trying to catch up on the hundreds of e-mails that I couldn't really deal with on a Blackberry. Figuring out why card conversions aren't the easiest thing to handle as well as ordering equipment for a new branch. Why can't Cisco keep numbering schemes consistent and finally ... why in the world wouldn't you check that your monitor is TURNED ON before calling IT in a really crappy mood that your computer 'just won't work and it needs to NOW!'

At least I have an amazingly awesome wife who went to buy me more guitar effects pedals today. She doesn't really understand what they do but know that I enjoy it and she's willing to support that. How cool is that?! Now I need to get enough patch cables to actually play all of them at the same time!