Okay, couple of more things -

Since my last post, I got to spend a great weekend with all of my good buddies in Seattle.  I really miss my MSFT friends like crazy.  I mean, there are certain parts of my current job that are just what I needed from a career perspective, and I work with some really fun cool people, but some of my best friends in the world still work on my old team.  And I miss them.  And it's really hard not being a part of that family anymore.  I got to spend some great quality time with Jenn, Stacey, and Lindsay.  In addition, we hung out with Chris Dickens (who runs the "I Don't Watch Movies" blog - and has managed to lose so much weight that we don't even recognize him - hello, single ladies, he's hot, he's funny, & he's smart ...duh).  I'll attach a few photos.

In addition, I have to mention the really fun movies I've seen lately.  On the flights to/from HK, we saw National Treasure a few times.  I thought it would be lame, but it was totally fun.  We also saw some movie with Selma Hayak and Pierce Brosnan that was fun.  And, the biggest surprise was we both really enjoyed Spanglish.  Nice touching film.  Surprised it didn't do better.  Okay, now yesterday I finally saw "Fever Pitch" in the movie theater.  HELLO RED SOX FANS - this was the best!  I think everyone in the theater hated me because I kept calling out the players and the plays from last season :-).  Great flick if you at all like baseball and chick flicks.

I also read a few fabulous books on vacation - the first was a fun one - "Hypocrite in a White Poufy Dress" - hysterical.  Then, on the flip side, I read "Their Eyes Were Watching God".  Now, I missed the Halle Berry tv movie, but what a phenomenal book.  It also happens to take place all in the areas of Orlando where I grew up and I'm so angry with my old school system in Titusville (good ole Astronaut High) that never taught this book in school (or any real African-American literature).  I can't believe I've gone this long in life without any Zora Neale Hurston.  That is certainly changing.  I read some others, too.  "The Rule of Four" was very DaVinci Code like (quite a bit lighter) and takes place at Princeton which made it really fun.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming ... Alias still rules.