time to catch up!

Let’s do a quick recap and see what we’ve got.

Las Vegas: Just over a week ago I went on a company outing to Caesar’s Palace. For some reason I didn’t REALLY think about the how far Las Vegas is from NYC, but after about 4 hours on the plane I realized just how far it was… and still had an hour to go. The flight was something like 5 hours long, not to mention, in an ever cramped America West seat. Once in Vegas, I quickly took off my multiple layers needed in the 40 degree windy Manhattan streets in favor of a tshirt for the 90+ dry desert heat.

During check at Caesars I was fortunate enough to have my room upgraded to a jacuzzi suite. The suite was pretty money with two showers, a jacuzzi, a sony high def flat screen hanging on the wall, and a feather bed that I could sleep in for days. The sad part was I only had the room for 1 night, after which I moved my stuff into a normal room and bunked up with a few other guys to save on costs for the remainder of the weekend (Our company paid for the first night). The weekend was a lot of fun catching up with a few friends I hadn’t seen in some time, as well as losing money with friends I see all the time. We had a few all nighters in the casino and walked up and down the strip more than a few times. The flight back was fine, as I slept the entire flight… asleep before takeoff and awakened by touchdown.


Applestore: I don’t have a big update for this, but have been asked multiple times. Amy and I walked up to the new 5th ave store around 7pm opening day (opened at 6pm) and as we got closer we start to see groups of people standing around buildings. At first it I didn’t even think about them being there for the applestore as we were still 4 or 5 blocks away… but in fact they were in line for the grand opening. The line was so long it wrapped around multiple blocks, multiple times - before crossing the street to start again. I really couldn’t believe it!

Here are some links to the Applestore festivities.
360 degree out in front of the store
8 of the MacBook winners. I would like to call attention to Oleg and Ronald.
People swarm Steve at store.