Jamacian Me Crazy Mon – Part I

Seriously, I wish I would have had this week first then vacation next week.

Here’s a quick rundown of my week:

I get to work on Monday ready, to do the Active Directory migration. We hit that hard until late Tuesday. Because it was taking longer to prep the domain, machines, and users, we decided to extend the migration from wrapping up on Wednesday to Friday. All this on top of the fact that I’ve got two BASF reps onsite Wednesday to check out IT operations and I’ve got to prepare for that. Wednesday, I get to work and spend about five hours with the reps. I get out of the meeting to find out that Corp has pulled the plug on the Migration. So I spent the rest of Wednesday undoing all the changes we made. Talk about a lot of work and late nights for nothing. Finally, last night I finished a paper that’s due today.

[insert sigh of relief here]

Anyways, on to the vacation round-up (Part 1). Kari and I left for Orlando Tuesday morning (July 4th). Thankfully we had an uneventful drive down (i.e. no broken bones). We checked into the hotel and then left for downtown Orlando to see the fireworks show. We got there about three hours before the fireworks were supposed to start, so we got some food and settled down on a grassy knoll by a lake. Out of all thousands of people by the lake, I had to pick the spot next to the redneck clan. They weren’t there when we sat down, but the Aerosmith towel should have given it away.

It turned out to be King of ‘Neck dude, his “woman” (because I’m not a 100% sure what her status was), a kid (a trailer queen in training), and I believe the King’s mom (missing teeth). Yeah, it was special…dad’gum special. At one point the kid wanted to see over the crowd of people. So the King handed his trucker hat and cigarette to his woman and put the kid on his shoulders. Let me just say that his “woman” was a little jealous. So jealous in fact that she wanted him to hoist her up a well. He took the kid down, lifted her up so that she was butt level with his eyes, she locked her legs around him, and blotted out the sun. I’m not lying…I though they were going to fall over and crush us. I deemed the sight, “The Leaning Tower of Neck”. I should also mention that the King was serious chain smoker. I’m talking every 8-10 minutes he’s lighting up a new cigarette. I figure its only a matter of time before Darwin claims another.

Here…hold my beer and watch this.

I also saw a group of kids with various lightsabers having a mock battle and a group of pirates walking around. Sadly…they did not battle. Despite all the special things we witnessed, the fireworks show was awesome. The next day we flew down to Miami and then to Jamaica. I’ll talk more about Jamaica in my next post…hopefully with pictures.

Have a great weekend everyone!

If emo ruled the world (a photoshop contest).

The Hasselhoff arcade.

Katrina’s latest price: Mr. T’s gold chains.

“This web site is dedicated to Booger, a guy in one of my computer science courses.”

Iconien.

Woman has quadruplets without fertility drugs after having triplets with fertility drugs.