Four bottles of wine could not keep us from turning off Gigli after 30 minutes, then after putting it back on, staying awake. But who knew Al Pacino is in that movie? Its BAD.

I managed to only work 5.5 days over the past two weeks, but I'm still trying to adjust to work again. Its hard waking up 3 hours earlier, sitting thru boring mtgs, and dealing with traffic. Not to mention having to shower EVERY day. And now eveyday I have to fight the urge to stand up in a meeting and say "who cares?". But after 5.5 days of work in two weeks, I get a whole week off, then two more days off the following week. And I just found out in the first 6 weeks of next year, I'll be in Ft Lauderdale, the south of Spain, Singapore and Vegas. Who has vacation and is going to meet me?? So I may not have to work a full week of work until Spring.

On wednesday and opening night, the computer geek queen, Cindy, who introduced me to Blogging and many strange internet sites, dragged me to the Lord of the Rings. It was good, but l-o-n-g at 3.5 hours. Definitely worth seeing for most of you in bad weather areas. This is the time you mooches should be visiting SD. On my off days, I've been running at the beach with no shirt in sunny & 70's weather. I also saw "The Last Samarui" & "Master & COmmander". Both were good, but Last Samurai was better, despite the reviews. Between the three of those epics, you waste about 9 hours.

Tonight, we're off to Cindy's for a Gigli/Glitter movie night. Can't wait to get drunk enough that they're both good. Especially after a long week's work. Because that place is GROSS too.

Work Blows

Its finally over. My 6+ months of sleeping, surfing, kayaking, running, biking, fishing, hiking, cooking, eating and drinking is now over. Tommorrow, I will officially accept an offer for Worldwide Marketing Manager for Encad, a subsidiery of Kodak here in San Diego. I'll also start tommorrow sitting thru 2.5 full days of meetings. My days of Product Management like at Phogenix are over with me returning to more Business Development like at HP. So I'll be busting out my passport again and maybe coming to a town near you very soon. Thanks to all my friends who offered great support throughout this time. Special thanks to Tony & Mona Keeler who constantly offered their house as a temporary residence. I easily had the most fun and relaxing summer ever. Hosting and visiting all my friends made this time off extremely memorable. I went to 4 weddings and visited Italy, Minneapolis, Wisconsin, Virginia, Penn, DC, Portland, Tahoe, Yosemite, Fresno, Napa, Sonoma, SF, Sacramento, Walnut Creek, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Sedona, OC, ... The blog will continue. It'll hopefully be more exciting now. Finally, don't underappreciate your job or underestimate the weakness of this job market.

Happy belated XXth birthday to Tony Baldini yesterday. He's old ..... school.

Still up in Nor Cal on my last day before heading down to SD tommorrow. Its been a great time. I realize I have much to be thankful for starting with a loving family, a fantastic girlfriend and incredible friends. I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. This past weekend was capped off with a great night out in SF with Tones "the Mad Bones" Baldini joining him later at his SF Italian Club dinner/dance. At this club, which has the strongest drinks in town and members as old as 100, I was treated to several old classic song and dance. My favorite was watching Tony & Caroline doing the chicken dance. And with any big night out with Tones & I, a subway bag recommendation from Sim is always a good idea, as it might have come in handy on Saturday night. That was not a happy cab driver.