Hurricane Harbor

So this past week saw some of my family visiting from Florida. On Sunday, I volunteered to take my young cousins (ages 10 & 12) to Hurricane Harbor so my mom and their mom could enjoy some quality adult time without the k-i-d-s.

This marked the first time I had been to the waterpark in at least 10 years. My how the environment has changed! When I worked out there in 1993, the waterpark was known as a family destination. Well, I think at some point the focus must have shifted from family fun to "move your trailer into the parking lot and join us for trailer trash swimming!" Now I hate to sound snobbish, but I just can't help it. I must have been the only adult male with all of my teeth in my mouth and the only one without tattoos.

Speaking of tattoos, what parents are letting their MINOR children get tattoos. And I don't mean one small little tattoo on the ankle. I'm talking massive amounts of body art! Does nobody think to explain to their 16 year old son that he might not want his girlfriend at the time's name permanently tattooed across his chest?

In summary, all I can say is that after seeing all the kids/teenagers out there yesterday, I feel very reaffirmed in my belief I don't want children of my own someday.

I'm getting off the mainland!

Wow! What a weekend! Saturday evening saw me and some of my very best friends attending Stomp at the Fair Park Music Hall. While I found parts of the show exciting and interesting, parts of it really seemed to drag along. I found the scene where they made music with the plastic tubes really cool, and the scene where they suspended themselves in the air and played makeshift drum sets was absolutely awesome. I also thought the way they managed to communicate commands for the audience to react certain ways without ever uttering a single word was incredibly interesting. Someone really has mastered the study of non-verbal communication!

So afterwards, we dropped my "date" for the evening off at his loft and the 4 of us remaining headed over to Craft at the W. Our waiter at dinner (Urbano - great little Italian restaurant in uptown that everyone should try!) had recommended it to us for dessert, and we figured what the hell. I ordered the cheesecake and while I thought it was OK, I didn't think it lived up to the hype. Other dishes ordered at the table included a blueberry cobbler with Mexican Vanilla ice cream and an ice cream sampler that can only be described as Baskin Robbins 31 flavors all crammed onto one small plate! The cherry and strawberry ice creams were delicious, but the robitussin ice cream was not (it wasn't really robitussin - it just tasted like cough syrup!).

Well, the best part of the night to me was that my friends once again brought up their Hawaii trip coming up in December, and once again said I should go. Since some vacation ideas I had thought I was going to do fell through, I figured what the hell. So I'm happy to say this morning I booked a flight to Maui in December, and I will be joining my friends on this vacation! Needless to say, I am VERY VERY excited!!! I know this trip will be a great time for all of us!

So as I indicated in the title, Jeff is getting off the mainland!!! (And boy I can't wait!!!)

I'm not 24 anymore

So last night, I get a call from a couple girlfriends that want me to go to Juniors with them. I had just finished dinner with a couple of friends, so I figured "what the hell!".

Now when I was 24 and living in Austin, I went out a lot of Wednesday nights, would stay out until 1am or so, and still be functioning at work at 8am in the morning.

Last night, at my ripe age of xx (like I'm going to say!), I was back home in bed at 11pm, and struggled to make it into the office by 8am where I felt like killing someone in my mildly hungover state of mind.

Oh the memories of youth!

Storms in Dallas today

Those of you that live/work in Dallas and were in town today no doubt noticed a small little storm we had around lunchtime today. I had my camera with me in my office in uptown and snapped some pictures of the storm as it rolled in. It was really a pretty amazing storm, so I thought I'd share the pictures. They don't do it justice though - you can't feel the building swaying in the wind from just looking at the pictures!

What is this???

OK...so after somewhat using the blog feature on myspace.com and always finding it very difficult to use, and thus keeping me from wanting to use it, I have decided to start blogging here.

For those who want to see my previous posts, you can find them at http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=8584999

Other than that, welcome to my new little spot on the web. Hopefully, if nothing else, those of you that stumble on this will at least find some enjoyment out of it for your day.