May 29th, 2007
Memorial Weekend
We enjoyed a pretty relaxed Memorial weekend… Friday night I worked late, much to Carrie and Ann-Michael’s chagrin. However, after I had completed a server software upgrade (geeky, I know!), I finally succumbed to their text messages and headed over to Berryhill for a few drinks. Here’s Carrie sipping her shot, as usual (that is, she usually sips them — she doesn’t usually have them)…
Saturday was poker day (after I spend the morning fixing some server problems from the previous night’s upgrade!) and we had a pretty good turnout — JFLO, Aaron “Sincerely” Chadwick, Dangerous Dan, even Brendan! We started in the afternoon and by mid-evening had a nice juicy game going! Thanks for all that donated! 
Videos and photos later on FTLPoker. Yes, those are my two racks on the right — with green chips ($25) at the bottom — woohoo!!!
We were pretty lazy on Sunday — just hanging around the house. Well, Carrie had some things that she was actually doing that was productive — I, however, was doing nothing and it was great!
Matt and Kendall invited us to Baker’s Street that night, but Carrie didn’t feel up to it. I finally joined them around 9:30pm for a drink and to hang out. It’s so cool to be able to walk over there! Sweet!!!
I neglected to take any “happy” pictures of the Tucker’s, but here’s one of Kendall pissed because she found out that Matt owes me some money for funding his Full Tilt account! DOH!!! Matt — don’t ask me this stuff in front of your wife if you don’t want her to know! LOL
Monday we headed over to the Lyons for some lunch and to hang out with some friends and neighbors…
Here’s Irma feeding Kendall and trying to brainwash her into bleeding maroon…
And Brendan with his new camera…
…which looks suspiciously like the camera that I just bought!! Except that his is silver, obviously inferior!!!
If you are looking for a cool, very portable camera, I would highly recommend the Sony Cybershot that we both (now) have! I picked it up at Amazon (of course) along with a 4GB memory card and reader — all for under $500! Pretty sweet!!! The camera is an 8MP, which is great for photos and has a 5x optical zoom. It also does video, which is way cool!
After the party was over and we were the last stragglers still hanging around (we should have realized something was up when Julie started flashing the lights and saying, “Thanks for coming y’all!!!”) we had a special treat — first a song from Jack, then a serious Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots standoff!!!
So, first, here is Jack — he wanted to make a video and wanted to sing Blue Cadillac…
After that Brendan had to fix the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots game that she picked up at a classic game store or something. He then proceeded to trash his kids, followed by his wife!
Here’s Bren tearing up the game against Hallie and Jack…
Then Julie decided to take a turn — and make Brendan give HER the blue robot (obviously the blue robot is what was enabling Brendan to win so much, right?). Brendan proceeded to PWN her — with both the red and then the blue robot! Check out around the 50 second mark where Julie gets her head knocked off and resets it, only to have Brendan knock it off again about 0.3 seconds later! Hilarious!!!
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Sunday evening Carrie and I went to an open-house for an old friend of mine - Kristina Keller. Kristina and I worked together at Compaq and have stayed in touch over the years. It had been about four years since I saw her last - a happenstance meeting in the Greenspoint food court, of all places. She recently moved up to the Woodlands and bought a house not too far away from us, so we look forward to getting together with her more often!
