Simeon Says

I took the weekend off.  I dont think I picked up my laptop
almost at all.  It was a very odd feeling.  My wife and I
volunteered at the Tigard Festival of Balloons this past weekend. 
Starting on Thursday and ending Sundday we got up at 4am so we be to
the park by 5:30 to launch the balloons.  Every morning the alarm
would go off and we would swear we would never do this again.  And
then we would get to the event and get to work and feel the amazing
sense of accomplishment that goes with watching a wicker basket with
people float away under the huge envelope filled with Hot air.  By
8am everyday we were done and couldnt wait for the next day to get to
do it again.

As if all that was not enough, Saturday was my 28th birthday.  And on
saturday, not only did I get to help launch the balloon, I also
flew.  I had my first hot air balloon ride, and it was
amazing.  It was so fun to look at the area I live in from that
view.  It puts a whole new perspective on things.

And as if that was not enough to make my birthday complete, my
wonderful wife got me an Ipod.  I know that her decision to do
this was largly in part of the comments to my earlier post, and so I
thank you all for your input.  And I thank my wifey for my shiny
new 60gb Ipod Photo.

To wrap up a wonderful day my dad come up and we went to the ballon
festival’s evening events.  Its called the glow and if you look at
the pictures my wife took, you wont have to guess why.  The next
day was fathers day and my dad got up with us to go and launch the
balloons.  He had a great time and it was nice to hang out with
him.

Not a technical post, but just for the faithful tech readers who made
it this far into my personal post, Spike and I had dinner last night
and did some planning for the CFEclipse project.  Look for some
new stuff coming your way very soon on that front.