Some random pictures from the past couple weeks....
Picture #1 - The recent missile launch as seen by folks in San Diego. We were in the grocery store when this happened and all the 16-year old baggers and checkers thought it was Armegeddon. One of them came back into the store and said "It's the end of the world..", only half kidding. I turned to the lady in line in front of me and indicated our groceries and said "You know, these will all be free once the looting starts..." By the time we got outside, this is what it looked like. I spent the rest of the night certain that aliens were coming to probe me....
Picture #2 - a hotel fire from my recent business trip to San Francisco. The first night we were there, my colleague Greg and I took a walk. Despite our hotel being right in the middle of Union Square, we managed to go in the one direction that took us to a seedy neighborhood. We happened upon a hotel fire (well, we didn't really HAPPEN... there were a lot of sirens coming our way, so we knew something was up). Fortunately, it was just a little one, and I don't think anyone was hurt...
Picture #3 and Picture #4 - the view down from my room on the 11th floor of our hotel, and the view up from the lobby. Both, thankfully, not on fire. My co-worker on the same floor enjoyed the fact that my fear of heights caused me to slink along the hallway to my room, hugging the wall as if the hall was only a foot wide rather than several, and I might topple over the edge... (I also have an irrational fear of this one window in our office that I am always afraid I am going to trip and fall out of...)
Picture #5 - my co-workers and I at our tradeshow booth, round about the time we got bored enough to start taking pictures of ourselves. I look (as I usually do) like one of the librarians from The Far Side cartoon, Beth looks hungover, and Greg looks insane. Kinda like Howdy Doody on crack.
Pictures #6, and #7 - Ranger and Gwen in their super-fancy "Finding Nemo" wading pool. Doesn't the first picture look like it should have the caption "Earth's dogs were the first ones to know that the aliens had arrived..."? Ranger loved the whole wading pool experience. Gwen was kinda "meh" about the whole thing. Please notice the $50 piece of Astroturf that we had to purchase so that the dogs would not slip on the wet patio and kill themselves, thereby negating the whole "cheapness" of the $6 wading pool...
