My Pal Leo

What a weekend. Sorry about the lack of updates since Thursday but it's been a busy few days.

Friday was yet another crazy day at work since I was the lone Mac guy. Tommy was out both Thursday and Friday moving into his new house. Even though I'm pretty sure he doesn't visit here, congrats to him.

Olivia and I stayed up super late (4am) Friday night into Sat. morning. She was working on her halloween costume for a party that we were to attend Sat night and I was working vigorously on CustomTacos. I spent no less than 5 hours trying to solve a programming problem that affects 5 or so pages of the site. There goes the 80/20 rule that Steve Hanes always trues to teach us.

We were supposed to leave Saturday at around 11am to head up to Northern VA to stay the weekned with Brian. We didn't end up leaving until 2pm. The main purpose in heading up there this weekend was to go to the CompUSA to meet TechTV's Leo Laporte on Sunday. He has originally been scheduled to come and meet fans the weekend after Sept. 11, but canceled.

So, Sat. night we went and got some food and swizle sticks at Friday's and then went and saw Monster, Inc. at a nearby theater. AWESOME movie. I really enjoyed it. It never ceases to amaze me what the people at Pixar come up with. Just as with Toy Story (I and II), there was an "intro" cartoon before the real movie. This had us all rolling in the aisles and received a round of applause from the entire audience when it was over. Amazing. The movie just plain rocked. Go see it. Trust me.

Sunday morning, we woke up at around 11 to head over to the Fairfax CompUSA. There was already a line almost out the door when we got there at 12:30. Leo arrived at 1:00 and took his place signing autographs and taking photos with fans. I brought my Airport Base Station for Leo to sign. When he saw that's what I wanted him to do, his eyes lit up and he said, "Those things rock, don't they!" He signed my Airport, "Jeff- Airport Rocks! Jeo Laporte". He also signed a post card and one for Olivia that read: "For Olivia- Sorry about Jeff Leo Laporte" He was just as friendly in person as I expected, if not more. I really can't put it into words, but it was just so neat to finally have met him.

We spent the rest of Sunday at a local park on the Potomac and at Brian's watching "Swordfish".

I decided to take today off from work, so if you don't see me on my webcam, that's why. I'll be spending the entire day concentrating on making leaps and bounds on CustomTacos. My goal is to have the site up and rolling on Saturday. Should be interesting.

Posted by Jeff at November 5, 2001 12:32 AM