but a great experience none-the-less.  I’ve been really enjoying working with everyone now that everyone has been back after Christmas break (yeah I know it was like 3 months ago but still).  I’m glad I’m working here even though I can’t check my gmail account

I had Jury Duty Monday, this being the second time I’ve been called upon however with the first them never calling my number and not having to actually go to the court house.  This time, of course I was selected, and not prepared at all for a wasteful day.  These are 10 things I recommend anyone bring or do when they go to jury duty.

1. Bring a laptop, if you’re going to the Orange County Court House they have free WiFi. 
2. Bring a book, if you’re in one of the groups that have to be a selected juror then you can read while you wait.
3. Bring an mp3 player. 
4. Bring a portable DVD Player with at least 2-3 movies.
5. Bring a suit case or bag you can lock.  From what I understand if you have to actually serve as a juror, you’re not allowed  to bring in electronics or books or anything into the court room. 
6. If you have forgotten anything from above, be prepared to use their ‘Cyber Cafe’ and have something you’re currently interested in to search for.
7. There is a tv room, where they play whatever is on ABC that day, so you may want to catch up on your soaps before hand.
8. There are plenty of magazines and books to read, make it a goal to finish a book or a magazine before you get called.
9. Find a hot girl or guy and get to know them, try to make it so you go out to lunch together. 
10. Stretch the truth?

Those are the 10 things I learned and recommend about jury duty.  Good luck and remember hang ‘em high! b0ng!

It’s been super nice to be home on the weekends, and this will be our third weekend to ourselves coming up.  Rewinding some, this past weekend was wonderful too because Friday we went to the wine bar in waterford and then Mandy wanted to go to Bed Bath and Beyond to pick up some King Pillows for our King bed.  Tangent; Our bed is super wonderful, huge, comfortable, and relaxing.  You sleep like a log on it.  We picked up some more sheets, and some other misceleanous stuff Mandy or I wanted to pick up.  We went home, relaxed some more and passed out.  Saturday we went to the Mall at Mellenia, and spent most of the day there.  It’s been a while since I’ve been to the mall, and Mandy had some gift cards she wanted to use.  We returned home to see a movie with Ian and Marj, but plans feel through and we stayed home and rented a movie.  Sunday, Mandy went back to the mall to pick up somethings she thought about after a good nights sleep and picked me up a little toy.  My first Mac, a MAC MINI!!!!!  I’m super excited and it’s a fun different computer to play with and learn.  It’s very hard to get acustomed to, but I’m forcing myself to use it as my full time PC.  Good bye Windows XP, well until I install BootCamp or Parallels. I’m proud that my first mac was given to me by my Fiancee!!  Ugh and Monday I had jury duty, I’ll post about that soon!

to work for a company that buys you food!  Today it was Pizza, Monday it was doughnuts, Tuesday Bagels.  I’m loving life and getting fat.

I really love to play raquetball with good players.  I like playing people better than me because it makes you better and I enjoy showing off my quick reflexes.  I played James (aka Mr. Kawas) last night, and we had a good close game.  The second game was most intense with a couple long (diving, spinning, jumping) volleys).  It was a blast, because some of the dives I had were incredible, especially cause James was able to return them, and I was able to get up quick enough to return his shot.  I lost last night’s 3 games, but I’m blaming the raquet, I didn’t have mine with me.

I’ve added a sub page that pin points the locations of the hotels in the area. I’m sure I’ll be adding more things like dinning, the airport, etc as they come. You can view that super informative page right here. I happened upon Wedding Mapper just a few days ago, and let’s just say Thank God for freakin Google Maps and their API (I know that only means something to a few of you, it’s a geek thing). Enjoy!