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2 Years, 3 Cities

Seattle, San Diego, and now Denver. My company formally announced that they were moving my group to Denver this morning. I've known about it since January, but it's taken them forever to announce it. Now I can start working on a move date. It's looking like Memorial Day weekend at this point. At least the moving company packs everything up and moves it for me. I hate that part.

Lucky Week

I've had a lucky week.  Not "win the lottery" lucky, but at least "ooh, found a nickel!" lucky.

Lucky Event #1

Yesterday I was driving to work on my usual route, and was adjusting tunes on the iPod.  About a half mile from my house, there's a 4-way stop.  I should note that the right and left streets are just little dead-end cul-de-sacs that never have any traffic.  Now, on your typical day, I'd slow down to about 5 mph as I went through the intersection.  Today, however, I was a bit distracted by the iPod, so I came to a rare complete stop.  As I looked to the right, I noticed that there was a police motorcycle sitting there, just waiting to nail non-stoppers.  GOOD LUCK FOR ME!!!

Lucky Event #2

Drove the Ducati to work today.  I'm very happy that I've been able to get out and ride since my neck surgery in February.  I love that motorcycle.

Well, on the way home, I was stuck in some slow traffic.  As I came up to an intersection, which was being blocked in one lane by people turning left, I moved into the newly open left lane and really twisted the throttle.  As I hit the middle of the intersection, I hit a relatively large bump that always catapults me in the air in my car (not the whole car, but me as a passenger).  Since I was accelerating so rapidly at this point, the bounce made the front tire come off the ground and I did a bit of a wheelie.

This is bad.  I'm not skilled enough (or stupid enough) on the bike to intentionally do this sort of thing.  Luckily, I kept it under control and eased off the throttle to bring the front wheel back to the ground, making it home safely.  GOOD LUCK FOR ME!!!!!!!

I would imagine that the tire only came off the ground maybe 10 inches, but it felt like the picture below (which is also a Ducati Monster, like mine).

Woooooo Hoooooooo!

Hip Hop Trifecta in Vegas

The CTIA conference was in Vegas this week.  I'm in full recovery mode now, which consists of drifting in and out of sleep on my sofa all weekend while I catch up on Tivoed shows.  And, to make Robin and Ted happy, a blog post.

Now these conferences always include lots of fun parties.  Especially now that the entertainment brands are becoming interested in establishing a mobile presence.  My goal for this trip was to complete the full hip-hop trifecta of parties.  The itinerary was going to be:

Tuesday - T.I. and Sean Paul @ Body English
Wednesday - Busta Rhymes (hosted by Doug E Fresh) at Tryst
Thursday - L.L. Cool J @ Body English

The good news is I got really close to making all the shows.  Unfortunately, though,  I was too late to see LL on Thursday night.  Below are some shots from each evening.

T.I. & Sean Paul

Incredible show.  T.I. was amazing with tons of energy.  The highlight of the show was his finale of What You Know.

T.I. @ Body English

The best time of the week, though, was the BET party that had Doug E Fresh and Busta Rhymes.

Doug E Fresh @ Tryst

Busta @ Tryst

I was right up at the side of the stage, so I was about 4 feet away from the performers.  Amazing time.  The highlight was when Busta tore into "Scenario" from the Tribe Called Quest Low End Theory album.  Tremendous.

When I woke up the next morning, I had no voice for a few hours.