Travels

This past weekend my wife and I drove up to San Francisco to attend a friend’s wedding, which ended up being a lot of fun.  We always like visiting The City because of the many friends we have in the area, though being there reinforces the fact that it is not a place where we’d want to live (no offense to anybody who lives there, it’s just not our style).

While up there we were fortunate enough to have dinner with Mr. Coding Horror Jeff Atwood and his wonderful wife.

They gave us a tour of their new place and I was most impressed with his “boom boom” room (it’s his term and it’s not what you think).  They have a separated room tricked out with surround sound THX speakers, an LCD Projector, a Play Station 2, Dance Dance Revolution game pads, and of course, Guitar Hero.  Jeff gave us a quick demo of Guitar Hero and I was quite impressed, both by the fact that Jeff has some rhythm as well as the graphics and sound of the game.

In some ways, the boom boom room reminded me of Ricky Shroder’s room from Silver Spoons.

Meanwhile, my brother is moving from Alaska to Minnesota, but he’s doing it the hard way, driving.  He drove down to Los Angeles from Anchorage, Alaska at a relatively leisurely pace visiting with friends along the way.

He will stay with us for a couple of days and then he and I will set out to drive to Minnesota.  My parents are such worriers so it made them feel better that I was driving with him for this leg of the trip since he won’t be stopping much.

Hopefully we’ll get there with enough time to visit some relative we have in the area.  In any case, if I am less than responsive to emails and Subtext mailing list/forums, you’ll know why.