Back in Hawaii

Its good to be back in Hawaii. This weeks has been busy at work, lots of meeting for a bunch of process management stuff. I've been assigned to the BCP Infrastructure team. We are working on the who what how of how to get the business going again after a disaster of some scale. It's interesting but its lots of meetings an a lot of work and not sure what the outcome will be. It's defiantly not programming... It's not even really IT related...

Outside of work its been fun. Chris and I are working on a bit of a programming project to keep our skills up and have some fun. I've been riding my bike around too, just enjoying Hawaii while listening to a audio book. I'm listening to The Sword of Shannara at the moment. Alisha, the granddaughter of a friend of my mother moves here recently. I wasn't on island at the time so I couldn't do a greeting at the airport but I met up with her and har new husband the other day. We said a quick hello and I gave them a little welcome gift. They both seem to be very nice people. It would be nice to meet up with them again.

San Diago

I'm in San Diago taking a class for work. Most of the stuff I know but
there are the one or two new thing I'm hoping to pick up.

While I'm here I want to try and get to the zoo while I'm here but not
sure if I'll have time. If we get out early one day I'm gonna try.

For now, I'm having my coffee and relaxing for 10 min. before class
starts. Its nice seeing different sights but I miss Hawaii!

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Fun Times

Well, things have been good with me. Not a lot going on but thats ok for the moment. I had dinner with Melissa and Keri the other night which was very nice. We has sushi and miso soup. It was nice to see them both for awhile. After dinner we went and walked around Sports Authority for a bit. When we were leaving I found I had a flat tire so they were very nice and gave me a ride home.

I fixed up my tire the next day after work and all is well. Last night I went and say Dragon Wars at the theater. It was an interesting movie. The plot was great, the special effects were awesome but the storyline sucked. They jumped around a lot in the beginning and skimmed over a lot. The end was interesting too... If you watch it, where exactly does the end of the movie take place? How does he get home? just odd... It could have been a really good movie but its lacking.

Today I'm off for a bit. Gonna grab lunch and ride my bike around. I got $100 dollars Apple store credit cause I bought my iPhone early so I'm going to stop and see what I wanna get. I picked up 3 audio book from iTunes. They were all on sale, well that or price dropped, from what I've seen them before. I got Eragon, The Restaurant At the End of the Universe and The Golden Compas. Should give me a few months of listening/reading :-)

Tomorrow I'm going in to work to help out. There is a meeting I'm going to help facilitate. Originally they thought there would be maybe 20 people attending but it turned into 80. It more Project Management stuff but sense my department has been through it already I'm helping out. I get a "float" day to take at another time, but who knows when that will be :-/

Long Day

Its been a long couple of days. I've had a head cold which has made things a little blah... Now mix that with a lot of meetings at work and  you have my life for the past 3 days. Lots of fun huh? Its not all bad, I get to have my coffee in the morning and enjoy the wonderful weather :-) I people watch and listen to one of my audiobooks on my iPhone. I'm listening to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy at the moment.

After work isn't bad either. I've been trying to organize some stuff on my computer and I'm still learning all that it can do. I'm playing with iMovie and iDVD from the iLife package. The two pieces of software let me make movies out of pictures or video clips and then organize them into a DVD that will play in a standard DVD player. I also got Skype installed recently. I knew about it, and had used it, but that was YEARS ago and boy has it gotten better. I can talk to my dad over the internet and it sounds just like on the phone, if not better. And we get live video too!