Striking a pose

Thought it was hilarious that at the exact moment I was taking this picture, one of the birds looked right at me and tilted it's head. It's funny how you can capture just the right moment, because I sure as hell would be freaked out if he looked because he wondered what the hell I was doing.

Aria Resort and Casino visit

I took a trip to Las Vegas this last week and was finally able to visit Aria Resort and Casino after watching City Center being built for the better part of the last two years. I must say I think they opened prematurely at the inconvinience of the patrons. There was still lots of construction going on so it seemed some entrances into the casino/hotel were not open. From the same side of the street you have to walk up to a bridge two flights up. Once on the bridge you walk into their mall area were you are presented with a gorgeous floating restaraunt show in the picture here:





The casino area is to the right of this restaraunt but you can't go right, instead you have to walk all the way around to the left and back right. After you've made your way through the mall you go through the hotel lobby and then finally into the casino floor.


Once on the floor the first thing I noticed was it was incredibly dark. The picture here may not look like it was all that dark but it was to the point I actually walked by the craps tables twice until I asked where they were.

The service and friendlyness from the casino staff was awesome though and good service and friendly staff makes up for a lot.

Gotta open up those entrances and make it more convenient to get to the casino folks.

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Redeeming

The awesome thing about a train ride down the Southern California Coast is the view




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Location:Oceanside,United States

Sunrise in the desert

You can find the best and most beautiful things if you take the time to look and enjoy. 

Cali Creatures

I've lived in So Cal for years now and first time I've seen lizard or anything like that. Now all of a sudden they're all over the place! I guess encounters with snakes are next LOL. Last time I saw one of those I was on a strawberry farm in upstate NY and I was like 6.

Playing war

Do you remember playing with the green army guys?I had what seemed like thousands of them. Hmm where did they go? Reminds me of George Carlin talking about getting all the lost stuff back when you go to heaven 

I've come a long way

Found out today that I failed my CCDE exam (that's Cisco Certified Design Expert). I'm reminded that I've come a long way in remaining calm and not totally letting my extremely competitive nature get to me, or at least balance it out. Ordinarily I'd go through all the stages of loss and rethink where I went wrong like playing every detail in my head. Having gone through the CCIE I know better since it is also an extremely difficult exam to pass and yet I passed that.

I think the first time pass rate for CCDE is less than 1 percent. Who knows, it's low that's all I know. It's also a very new exam and currently out of 100s or 1000s of candidates there are 18? Don't quote me, it's not many I know that.

Anyways I'm over it, going to wait for changes to come through and attempt again probably end of year.


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A gift

A gift can be many things to many people. For many people anything that resembles the time you took to think that you want to give something to show appreciation makes the gift you bought not nearly as important.

Some of the best gifts in the world can't be bought and are also the hardest to give because when giving of your self you also leave your self open to that person. The gift of some part of yourself is more than any gift you could ever buy.

An old saying still holds true today, its the thought that counts.

After a few attempts of blogging, or starting I figured out why I failed in previous attempts. Because I felt (wrongly I guess) that I had to write these long stories that took lots of time from me. Seeing other blogs I realize this isn't true and can be a few sentences with a picture.

So, we'll see how long this lasts or how often I post, well see.