SF & Canceled

Went to SF last Thursday. Met with Playfirst for a spur of the moment interview.
Had dinner with Neil and Dan.

Marin on Friday. Met with Nihilistic to go over some outsourcing.

Long Time No Post

I think I'm going to try getting this posting business more regular... It's been quite a while since I've kept a journal, and the last year feels like a blur now...

I guess in summary, I pretty much stopped blogging/journaling regularly once I started working at Disney, so since March 20, 2006, thoughts and memories are just bouncing around in my frazzled brain.

Highlights of the past year:

1) Hit 1K status on United from many trips to Asia. Lots of trips to Shanghai and Tokyo... also had a few side trips to Taipei, Hong Kong, Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Osaka, Kyoto.

2) Vacations - Managed to squeeze in a few mini-vacations into the mix. We had a bunch of short trips: Newport Weekend in September, Santa Fe for Xmas, and Orlando Disney Cruise and Disneyworld with Thao and Tuyen in February, Guam with Winnie in May.

3) Disney overload - Between many many trips to Disneyland and the Disney bombardment of the February trip, we had almost toxic levels of "Magic".

4) Lozars - We hung out with the Lozars quite a bit since they moved down to Carlsbad.

This is how Disney views my job:


Anyway, I'm going to try to keep this blog a little more up to date... :)

Knicks Brawl

Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. ...Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

Long Hiatus

It's been a while since posting.. Lots of craziness...

Spent a month in Asia in Sept and Oct... Then last week, spent the week in Shanghai, including my birthday, and this week, I'm in Tokyo...

PS3 vs. Wii

Alison Dinner Party

Went to Alison's LA dinner party. Alan from Blizzard, Chad and Mark from IW also came. We went to Asia De Cuba for dinner... There was quite an array of fine bodies, silicone, and botox there. Mostly, in the flavor of platinum blonde.

The food was fusion Cuban and Asian flavors as one might imagine. We got the crispy fried fish, lamb, skirt steak, and some appetizers. All of it was quite good. Also had some mojitos which were great, with real cane sugar. Pricey though... Lots of WoW talk.

Afterwards, we went to a club called LAX. Rode in Mark's 350Z convertible on the way over. The club was supposedly one of the hottest clubs in the country, and it was ok... Might have been more fun with different company than 3 other game developers and Alison, but it was interesting. The bottle service was ridiculously pricey - $375/bottle, with 2 bottle minimum. I think the total check must have been around $900... Good thing Alison has a beefy expense account.

After the club, went to Alison's hotel room listened to Alison bitch about her social life for a while. I was falling asleep... Had a late night snack at Mel's then drove all the way back to San Diego.

Stacey and Natalie

Sat in as Andy Mooney during the practice run for the Bob Iger meeting...
In the afternoon, had a McKinsey meeting... Working on the QA Studio.

Went out tonight with Stacey to Octopus... Had some dinner and good conversation until about 10 pm. She's a cool girl.

Then went out and met Natalie out in Santa Monica - she had her dudes entourage with her, but it was cool. Started at Makai (sp?) on Ocean, then ended up at Busby. Met Joey and some other dudes.

Online Day 2

Day 2 of the conference. Met Antonio and Brad.

Went out to dinner with Kat and Cyn. We went to the Thai restaurant in XTD. It was some good stuff... Radiance guys happened to be there at the next table.

Online Game Conference

Day one of online game conference.
Lunch at the conference - and I think David and I grabbed dinner together somewhere...

Met Winnie briefly... She was the conference manager... Cutie.

Arrival in Shanghai

Arrived late in Shanghai... grabbed some dinner with David.

China

Off to Shanghai today. Morning flight...

Willy dropped me off.

Comicon

Went to Comicon with Wil. We walked around and checked it out.

Met up with Frank Moran and we had some dinner at a Mexican place in the Gaslamp.

Jump In My Car

Wow. Speechless...