| Sunday, June 28 2009 12:17 AM PDT |
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We were fortunate to find a flight out Sunday. Should set down around 1030 local time. The funeral is scheduled for 3pm Monday. I'm glad we'll be able to make it in time. |
| RIP (06/26/09 1:16 AM PDT) |
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My grandpa was removed from life support and passed away around 6pm. I am unable to express my loss in words. He will be sorely missed, but I'm greatful that he's no longer suffering. Most of the family is there, or on the way. A few people need to head home Tuesday morning, but it looks like the soonest flight out I can get will be Monday. It's up in the air whether we'll make it in time for the funeral, but at least we can provide some comfort to my grandma and the rest of the family. |
| It sucks to have to be the strong one, when all you want to do is grieve. (06/25/09 12:59 AM PDT) |
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My younger sister texted me around 7:30pm that my grandpa was passing away. He had passed out at home and been rushed to the hospital. They were unable to diagnose him, so he was being transported by ambulance to another larger hospital about an hour away. He died 2 times en-route and was revived and kept alive by CPR. He ended his day with about 3 hours of CPR and was placed on life support. My older sister called around 10:30 to let me know he slipped into a state of constant siezure and was being declared brain dead. My grandpa was an honest, noble man. He was a father figure to me in many ways since my own father left when I was 3. He was a Fire fighter, a police dispatcher, a pastor and finally a renowned engineer. It was his support that placed me in a position to hold the career I have today. Despite 4 children of his own, he adopted my uncle Ed and never treated him any different than his blood children. He was a strong moral and emotional leader for a very large extended family. It is a tragic loss to all of us. I'm going to head out to Oklahoma to help support my mom, grandma, sisters and all of my extended family. I hope to post more in his remembrance soon. |
| Munich Christmas Mart 2008 (12/25/08 4:24 PM PST) |
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Took some photos at the Christmas Market in Munich, Germany the last couple days. I'll probably upload more later, but we're enjoying our time, so maybe when we get home. ;-) I hope everyone is having a great Christmas day. Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/33673426@N07/sets/72157611591738163/ |
| Blizzcon 2008 (10/12/08 12:48 AM PDT) |
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Juat finished up Blizzcon 2008 tonight. I'll post pics once I get home so I can size them down. We drove down to Anaheim on Thursday. Took the 405/22 to avoid downtown LA on the 101. Traffic was flowing despite being rush hour, so that was nice. Friday we caught the Diablo 3 panel. I was blown away. World of Warcraft was my first MMO and first Blizzard game, so I really had no interest in Diablo before Friday. They've got like 100 death animations for the misc. mobs based on how they're killed. For instance, dissinegrate will cause them to melt into a pool of slime on the floor. Certain mobs will still have unique deaths, like bursting into a pile of worms or whatever. Also, they are putting in some cool player deaths. Like a certain boss will bite a player in half. After that, caught the WoW classes panel. They had a good wealth of info about what they were planning for each class and detailed some of the thought process behind the design decisions. The Q&A was great. lol Saturday we caught the Dungeon and Raid panel and the WoW General Q&A. Both excellent. Also got to meet up with a couple other Skywallers. Overall a great time. We also caught the Closing/Concert, but I took off after the comedians because I had a headache. Everyone else said the concert was awesome though. Despite the overcrowding, everyone really seemed to have a great time. I'm excited about D3 and expect the 3.0 WOW:WotLK patch to go live Tuesday. |
| WoW WotLK Beta Invitation #1 (07/24/08 12:33 AM PDT) |
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Well, got the first World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King beta invite last night. I had only registered one Blizzcon card. I was holding onto the other code to make sure it was for WotLK and not SC3 or something else I wasn't interested in playing. I rolled a Tauren Death Knight and played through the intro quests from level 55 to 57. I have to say that I am really impressed at the quality of the content. It's still a bit buggy and laggy, but the entire line of quests leading you from 'rebirth' to joining the horde/alliance is really fun. A ton of death and destruction. lol A few things I really liked were: -Any race can be a DK -You start at level 55 -You get your 100% ground mount (a summon) on like the 3rd quest... the quest rocks. -You get to slaughter masses using siege weapons and flying mounts (user-controlled) -They start most of your skills (weapons, first aid, etc) to 270 to reduce grinding -You start with most all Azeroth flight paths -The DK combat system is unique and fun -You get a buff in the starting area that sends a Valkyrie to rez you free, can only happen once every 10 mins -You start out in nice greens and end up with a full set of VERY nice blues -The last battle is E P I C We also ran Utgarde Keep, the first Northrend instance. It wasn't too difficult really, but since none of us had any clue what to expect, we wiped on one boss and once on trash. Only one quest we found for it, to kill the last boss. The ring reward was weak, but paid 10g too. -1st boss: Tank-n-spank with summoned non-elite adds. We easily AoEd them down while DPSing the boss -2nd boss: Most fun, caused our wipe. lol 2 NPCs, 1 caster/1 melee. When they die, they continue to fight as ghosts (that are immune to attacks) until they are both dead. Best strategy was to kill the caster, then the melee. -3rd boss: Phase 1: Massive local WW-type attack you have to avoid, stacks +shadowDmg debuff and has unavoidable aoe stun/shadow damage -3rd boss: Phase 2: Valkyrie flies down and rezzes him, then he does a bunch of aoe spell damage. Really not a tough boss tbh. |
| My iPhone 3G Story.... (07/11/08 1:22 PM PDT) |
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Wow. So, the 3G iPhone was released today. My wife and I decided to upgrade her 3-4 yr-old RAZR and my first generation iPhone. Yesterday morning the fun began when a colleague saw a link on MacRumors.com to the new iPhone 2.0 sofware upgrade. There were instructions on how to download it and enable applications in iTunes 7.6. We both had iPhones and decided to do the upgrade and check out the applications. No exaggeration. It took over 2 full hours to upgrade the phone. lol I can't possibly imagine wtf would take that long. The entire contents of the memory and firmware combined were under 8 gigs. Who knows? Anyway, despite the time needed to perform the upgrade, it went flawlessy. I was able to reactivate my phone and buy applications with ease. Let me tell you too, it was worth the wait for the app store. There are tons of helpful and entertaining programs to download. Many of them are even free. That brings me to this morning... My original plan was to get up and head to the AT&T store around 6 for the 8 am launch. As usual, I thought better of getting up so early and decided to head over about 930. When I got there, I was pleased to find only about 30 people in line. They were in good spirits and, based on my experience at the initial launch, it seemed as though my strategy had played out perfectly. But then... ;-) After about 30 minutes, we began to realize the line hadn't moved in quite a while. I called a friend at work who told me AT&T's authentication servers were down. The line didn't move for almost 90 minutes, except for the few people who threw in the towel and left. The whole time, no one from AT&T provided any updates at all. Once the line started moving again, they came out and said there were no more phones, but if we stayed in line they would take our information and call as soon as a new shipment arrived. However, about that time a FedEx truck pulled up and it turned out to be another shipment. WOOT! It ended up taking over 3 hours to get into the store... And by the time I did, they were out of the 16gb model that I wanted for myself. But I did manage to score the VERY LAST iPhone (an 8gb black) for Staci. She is very happy, but has to wait until she gets home from work to play with it. Anyway, that was my adventure. lol I'll have to post again when I manage to get the 16gb black for myself. P.S. I added a new poll |
| OMG WTF BBQ (05/14/08 1:53 AM PDT) |
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The new desk was delivered this morning via freight. The Yellow guy was pretty cool actually. He had a dolly and brought the cases inside despite the delivery details warning of "curb-side only" delivery. It actually took Staci and me like 9 hours to assemble the new desk and get the computers (etc) set up again. It took so long we weren't able to dump the old one at the land fill since it closed at 4pm. It's in my truck, so I guess I will have to dump it tomorrow. That gives me time to load the old A/C unit and some other crap that has been haunting the garage and get rid of it all at once at least. Every muscle in my body is sore. lol Old setup No Desk New setup Sorry for the quality of the pics, they were taken on the iPhone with no consideration for the lighting/environment. You get the idea though. <3 |
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