I survived Geek Retreat #1

Here I am! This weekend was awesome. Mike, Brian, and I headed to Mike's grandparents' house in Natural Bridge to "camp out" in his Uncle's cabin on their land. The plan was to get away from the rest of the world so that we could play Quake, hang out, and do nothing. As Brian quoted from somewhere else: "We did absolutely nothing and it was everything I hoped it would be." But boy did my fingers hurt after playing Quake for that long. I'm not quite sure exactly how many hours we actually played, but it was a significant chunk of the time that we were there and not sleeping. I'm sure Brian's website has a bunch more detail about what else we did, but I won't bore you all with the details. Instead, I'll bore you with other stuff.

Oh yeh, on the way home, we took a jaunt on the Blue Ridge Parkway and took some great sunset photos. Here's a panorama that I made from a few shots I took:

Work was pretty hectic today. I guess the holiday season is causing people to be a little more frantic than usual. Or it could be that we're in the middle of a bunch of new business reviews. Or it could be that one of our main servers ran out of disk space again. It's only happened 5 or 6 times before, so it wasn't anything that anybody saw coming.

We went to the museum for a dress rehersal for my big theater debut tomorrow. I think I've pretty well got my lines down. Perhaps once I get a hold of a copy of that I can post a small-ish version of it on the web somewhere for you all to enjoy. If I failed to mention who I am, I'm Clarence Oddball, the gaurdian angel of the main character, George. The skit is "It's a Blunder-Filled Life", a parody of "It's a Wonderful Life." It should be pretty good and I think the company will get a kick out of it.

And that's tomorrow bright and early at 8am...but I have to be there at 7. Goodnight!

Posted by Jeff at December 10, 2001 11:58 PM