Happy Easter

Happy Easter!



I do recognize that I have not really been doing a great job keeping up with the blog, but life has been really busy.


A couple key things going on.


Ken and his wife Jessica had lil' Kenny, born on April 5th. From the sounds of things, everyone is in good health and spirits. I know Kenny will be a great dad.


Around that same time I went to the CTIA wireless conference in Las Vegas. I am working on a project for PayPal and they were launching PayPal Mobile that Thursday. We spend time with the clients and I had the day to check out the latest and greatest in Mobile technology. There is a lot of cool stuff happening in mobile phone technology, and we are really going to benefit from it in the near future.

One of the highlights on my trip was bumping into Webster. Emmanual Lewis was gaming at the Treasure Island Casino and I took a picture of him with some random girl. That was pretty cool.

I thought I was going to bump into my buddy Eric Pisick who was in Vegas for a Bachelor Party. It did not pan out because he could not get his phone to work...sounded like too much party for me. A couple good things came from that, for one I was able to poach the pool at his hotel and two, since I was in town, I went to the MobiTV event that was being held at Tangerine. The party had an outside deck that was right in front of the big pirate show they do a million times a day at treasure Island. It was cool to have a front row seat.


That weekend I was back in SF and finally had a clear and windy day. Luke, Kevin and I all got together and went to Ocean Beach for a day of kite flying. We busted out my mbs mountain board and were able to get rolling on the beach using Luke's 3.5 meter kite. I realize this may be hard to conceptualize so click here for a picture. This is not us but it give you an idea. We were rolling down the beach on this off road skateboard powered by a kite.

Besides riding the boards, we made a new friend who had a buggy. The buggy was out of control! You are basically sitting on a grown-up version of a big wheel being pulled down the beach with a 15 foot kite. The buggy was much harder then you would think, but a good time. I managed to flip the buggy and loose the kite giving everyone around me a good laugh.


This past weekend I had my first kite surfing lesson. Luke and I went to kite wind surf in Alameda for our land lesson. You have to first have a lesson on the land to learn how to rig the kite, survey the seen for safety and understand how the kites work. Since you are harnessed in and the kites are 4x bigger then the ones we are used to, they are a lot different and need to understood. It was a good time and it got me even more excited about the sport. I have my water lesson on the 29th.


On Sunday we had an action backed Easter. We went to the early service and then to brunch with some of Paige's friends. In the evening we went over to our friend Elena's house for a Easter dinner complete with a honey baked ham and Paige's famous rice, cheese and broccoli casserole. We had a full house with 12 people. We spend the evening getting to know everyone and competing in a very serious game of charades.


We are getting ready for our trip to Baltimore. Dan and Brandi are getting married this Saturday so we both took Friday off and are flying in for the weekend. The wedding will be all day Saturday and is guaranteed to be a blast. On Sunday, my parents are having a meet Paige party for my entire family at their place. Paige should have a good time trying to remember the names of the hundred family members that will probably come by for some food and a quick introduction. I am really excited.

Still working with Swirl and things are going well. More to post when we get back from Baltimore.