Gaylord Palms, Orlando

Yesterday, I went to a seminar in Orlando at the Gaylord Palms. The entire middle of the hotel, something like five acres, is covered by a beautiful glass roof. I was very impressed.

This is a huge sand sculpture in the middle of the hotel. 

For scale, this humongous cookie is sitting on a plate on a legal pad. The evil bastards even dipped half of it in chocolate. That's just mean. 

The Biggest Spider in the World

Dena and I saw this spider on a walk to Safety Harbor the other day. It was at least as big as my hand and had spun a web right along the Clearwater East-West trail by our house. I thought Dena was going to jump out of her skin when she saw it.

I had a similar run-in with a big, black beastie in the garage last weekend. I'm not sure how it got into the house, after all it could have just walked up to the front door and rang the doorbell. But, I don't remember that happening - I think I would have remembered that.

A Run In With The Neighbors

Dena and I just left the house for a walk and we ran into our next-door neighbors John and Susan with their 6 month old twins Jack and Wes.

Grumpy Jack and John.

Wes.

Camera Woes

Well, I've done it now. My camera is busted! I just got a new lens for the damn thing and I went to try it out (on the eve of leaving for the weekend to go up to camp) and I discovered what has been described as the BGLOD, or Blinking Green Light of Death. Of course my camera is only three months out of warranty, so I'll have to convince Nikon to repair the problem.

Office Pics

Here's a picture of my office. I brought the fisheye to work the other day and wanted to see if I could capture what I stare at for hours and hours each day.

Here's the backside. You can't really tell from this pic, but Tampa Bay is just on the other side of those trees.

New Truck

On Friday, I bought my very first brand spanking new car. I figure if I'm going to be driving a big gas guzzling truck it should be when I have such a short commute to work. Oh, and I need the four wheel drive for all the snow... of course.