I’ve been Tweeting for a while about my upcoming camping trip. It’s a yearly thing that our company does. We have the two newest employees stay back and us old timers head out to the Suwanee river for some team building fun. I’ve been here for three years and this is the first time I’ve gone. The first year, I was the new guy. The second year, I had a martial arts camping retreat that same weekend. This time, I’m finally going to go.
Unfortunately, I’m sick this year which is very unfortunate. Laura and my coworkers had it and I’m last to get it. I will be sick while on the river but I can’t miss it. I’ve been waiting three years. So the details are simple.
7 Guys
5 days (Thursday - Monday)
26 miles (in canoes)
All drinks, food, community supplies, canoes and transportation is paid for.
We’re all bringing our own personal gear and will spend about 3 hours a day canoeing and the rest will be exploring the woods, bonding and relaxing.
Another thing, we’re a networking company (computers) and there’s zero cell service out there. We’ll be in north florida and out of contact with the rest of the world for five days. It’s going to be awesome and I can’t wait!
So, we’re leaving tomorrow morning and I won’t be tweeting until Monday night. Just a heads up.
It appears that this episode has gone viral. I’m starting to get fan letters even! This appeared in my mailbox yesterday attached to a bottle of honey…
It’s 5PM. Do I know where my inspiration is? I have a lot to do today and I honestly get so much done when I go to a local coffee shop. So much, that I wanted to post a blog about what I have to get done today
- Stream on Justin.TV for an hour
- Create a simple design for dad’s new site
- blog on resolute opinion (ha! two birds with one stone)
- modify some legal documents for dad
- create the macworld 2008 advertising document
- Send some emails out to last year’s advertisers
- Try to avoid caffeine
I’m so excited that the first annual Justin.TV awards are live! I’m only excited because there’s a potential that I could be nominated and possibly win stuff
3) then fill out the form and submit your favorite clip! it may have already been nominated i’ve seen a few of the clips I’vet ried to submit have already been nominated so thanks everyone!
I left my house this morning and felt the brisk 58 degree wind hit my face. A smile went across my face, I jumped up and down and went back inside to grab my corduroy jacket and beanie hat.
I love this kind of weather. 30 degrees is too cold and 70 degrees is too hot. 50 to 65 degrees is just right and reminds me of San Francisco and Macworld! At exactly 90 days to macworld, the weather gets very brisk and my itch for expo gets stronger. Macworld is coming and I can’t effin wait!
So here’s my first and only update from Birmingham. I don’t think I’ll be doing another. Anyway, I’m here in Montgomery Alabama to be exact. I’m still 2 hours south of Bham and its 10:40 which is an hour later than I expected to arrive in Bham. So I’ll at least be three hours late to my destination.
Outside of Dothan, my mom’s Xterra check engine light came on and the thing was rattling bad. It felt like a decrease in horsepower and idling was rough and the thing would just die while at red lights.
So, I called Nissan in Montgomery and they were complete idiots. Here’s their information.
Yea, what a complete pain in my ass to call them. They just didn’t care or try. So, I rolled into a general imports mechanic shop and after an hour of diags the car had two pistons that weren’t firing. The guy was very friendly and knowledgeable and even took me under the hood. I’ve been doing my own semi-tune ups and I could see how bad it was. He offered to do a partial repair for under 200 but I wanted the whole whammy. $350 for a complete tune up and that was including only 50 for labor for the 1.5 hours.
Luckily:
there was a waffle house next door to chill in
I was able to receive wi-fi from a nearby hotel
So I’ve been keeping myself entertained, drinking OJ, feeding off wireless and doing my geek things. $350 is high but he’s replacing all four piston rings, championspark plugs, cables and some other minor hardware fixes. He took off the 85 bucks just to diagnose it cause the manager wasn’t there to enforce it.
I’m very glad that this worked out (well I haven’t driven it yet to verify) but I does suck that I’m delayed in my trip. A 3 hour delay (finding the place, diagnostics, discussion then 1 hour for repairs) equaled his much of a delay. I just hope this completely fixes the issue and I’m able to get up to Bham. If not, then I may be here through Tuesday since columbus day is Monday and most places around here don’t have parts deliveries on the weekends.
Crossing my fingers. I’ll update this if more harm comes but everything should work out.
I haven’t written, starred in, posted in, photographed anything in 4 days. People say that the computer and blogging takes a lot of my time. it really doesn’t. i didn’t get any more done these past few days by not publishing my life.
Why was i gone? That’s private. Sorry that I can’t write more about it but it’s legal, involves the FCC and the FTC and US Customs and I can’t give any more details. Don’t worry. I won’t be going to jail and all has worked itself out.
Back to the party? Hell yea! let’s party like its 1986 (when I was born) cause that was a good year from what I hear? I’m headed to Alabama tomorrow well technicall I’m leaving Friday morning at 1:30AM but it’ll be another sleepless night. I’ll be there through Sunday and don’t worry; I’ll be flickring, twittering, lifecasting, blogging and podcasting through the entire weekend.
Check these places out over the weekend and I’m sure you’ll find plenty to do. also, I’ve been on IILWY for a while now. check it out and if you need an invite, just leave a comment and I’ll hook you up.
