I just got back from a week at the beach. It was pretty damn awesome and here are some pictures.

Right now I'm unpacking from the beach and packing to head out to Indianapolis for the weekend.

Woo MotoGP.

It looks like weather is going to get both of my vacation trips. The tail end of Hannah made the beach pretty rough at the beach house (although the week was great after that), and Ike is going to make for a wet MotoGP race. Oh well.

Time for me to get my stuff together and head to the airport. More about the beach and MotoGP when I'm back on Monday.

There was a party, it was awesome. Everyone was there.

Pirates vs Ninjas

Jason came down to visit with his girl Ashley. It was the best time I've had in a while. Interesting and memorable events unfolded as always.


Since the party I bought a GPS for my motorcycle and have been thinking about that Touring NC goal. It's within reach. I am looking at buying a taller windscreen and a more comfy seat to hook my bike up for longer rides.


I also had an interesting realization about girls, or at least what I'm looking for.

I would not classify myself as a happy person. If left to my own devices by myself I would pursue interesting activities, and I would be immersed in them completely. I would have intense focus.

I would be content.

I realize I will fall for pretty much any girl who I smile around. This is my tell tale weakness. If I am involved in a conversation with a girl and there is laughing, smiling, and me being happy, I am pretty much done for. This satisfies almost all of my requirements. It is a completely different sort of contentment. The positive interaction with a person (especially of the opposite sex) fulfills something I didn't even know I needed. Now going without is painful.

It is this social interaction and sharing that moves me from a content person to a happy person. There is a line that is crossed where I go from full, to overflowing


For now I will focus on non-people activities, but watch for me to smile.. You'll be able to tell when something is up

House Party on Friday May 9th.

Ninjas Vs Pirates

Free Rum and Beer

Come dressed as a Ninja or Pirate and fight your rival faction. Get drunk doing it.

Facebook Event

Here is some inspiration for costume choices ladies

It's taken me a while to get around to posting, but the holidays around here were a pretty good time. There was some celebrating, and a lot of relaxing.

Mostly relaxing.

But I do have pictures of the celebrating part. Let me give you some of the high lights.


Wes had a party over at his place to celebrate christmas. The Cisco folks were that and we tried to have a little bit of christmas spirit. I think Peng did it best:




We had a secret santa at Matt's house. Interesting that he was into christmas given the whole jewish thing and what not. We played monopoly.. well I watched people play monopoly.




New Years was an awesome time. We had pretty much no clue what we were going to do before hand, but I came up with the idea of ice skating. It turned out to be awesome.

It had been a while since everyone was together:


A rare picture of me:



An interesting pose:



We went out to Napper Tandy's later and ran into Ray and Ashlynn. That was pretty awesome:



and everyone rejoiced... maybe a little too much for some:



And then everyone went back to work.

Up next.. CCIE attempt #2 then vacation.

Labor day weekend has been a glorious time so far.

It started out with motorcycles, moved on to drinking, and finished up with a slip and slide party.

I'm using today as a recovery day. I hurt everywhere from that damn slip and slide. Apparently the ground is hard as hell at Kaufman's house. Pretty hard everywhere so I'm told.

Saturday we went out to Rum Runners

We had a good time there after we made it through the post game traffic downtown.

Kurt and Brendan pretended to be the Captain:


We lubed up with some shots:


Took some good group photos:


Brendan and Lauren made some awesome faces:


And Kurt got molested on stage:



That sums up Rum Runners. There was some very drunk Cook Out after that... but I can't say that I really remember all of it.

Sunday was the day of the Slip and Slide Party. I had been promised a cornucopia of hot college girls ready to slip and slide all day long in the hot sun wearing barely nothing and drinking like fish.

This did not come to pass... but I got to slipe and slide with a whole bunch of dudes.. and we still had fun with it. Got pretty drunk to boot. MMMM Keg of Yuengling.

Here's Lauren's Ass just because she thought Kurt got too much camera action the night before:


And here's some wet dudes. Do with it what you will.


And Just for Fun... Rey's Balls!


And now... on with the Monday afternoon relaxing. Bring on the awesome.

One word will summarize this weekend.

Mustache


The weekend of the Mustache party was upon us. Everyone had worked as hard as they possibly could for weeks (or a few days for some) to grow the most glorious Mustache possible.

I went with a T formation


Jesse went with the very awesome southern extended mustache.


I think the general consensus was that Jesse won the mustache contest.

Heather even rocked out the stache


Amy was wearing a surprised mustache



As with any of our parties, there was drunken ridiculousness


Rey brought a whole bunch of hotties. I don't have any good pictures.. but it was awesome.

There was some flip cup, some beer pong, and some drunk sets.

All in all it was a great night. A night to be remembered.