Vacation and Beyond

July has been a fairly relaxing month, and unfortunately it is over and gone...taking with it the better part of August as well. I spent a majority of July on holiday, essentially working maybe 1 week out of the month. The family and I took a long overdue road trip to Southern California for 2 weeks, stopping in San Fransico and Lodi \ Sacramento. We also visited Lego Land in San Diego. The drive, as always was beautiful. Oregon and Northern California are both equally stunning, and the weather for the most part was picture perfect. There were still some remenants of the large Forest Fires in Central - Northern California so the air quality wasn't the best there, and once we were down in the Los Angeles area the weather was just fantastic.

We managed to catch a showing of The Dark Knight, and as expected...it was awesome. Once we returned from vacation we made it a point to watch the 1st one (Batman Begins) and it is clear that Christopher Nolan has his finger on the pulse of what makes Batman an interesting character. I just hope he does not fall apart when executing the 3rd movie.

I am still working the daily guitar ritual, 30 - 40 min at least per day. I am finally starting to see some dividends from that, as my playing is clearly improving. I recently ordered a pair of FX pedals for my Fender G-Dec 30, and that should keep things fun and interesting. Some of the songs I have been working on: Back in Black (AC\DC), Satisfaction (Rolling Stones), Tears in Heaven (Clapton), Goodbye Blue Sky (Pink Floyd), Smooth (Santana w/ Rob Thomas), Settle for a Slowdown (Dierks Bentley). There are probably a few more in there that I'm just forgetting about. I guess the point is that I am having a lot of fun playing, and there's even a few songs now that I can play in time w/ a band on (no small accomplishment...trust me).

Work continues on Project Origin, and there should be a number of big announcements regarding it come September. Summer is about gone, and I have been running 100 mph trying to get as much outdoor activity as possible, while still working on the website. Hopefully I will be able to find some time to finish that off soon, after all the basic construction and graphics are all done at this point...so it's just a matter of taking some screenshots from various titles I have worked on and then gathering up any personal work I feel like putting up. If only it were as easy as just typing it!

Back to it, only 5 days until the start of College Football !! - GO TROJANS!