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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

I'm Back From Florida

I'm back from Florida with a really good tan and some great memories.

We spent a week at a Family Condo (my wife's family) in Cocoa Beach Florida. Spent a lot of time by the pool reading, and at the beach trying to learn how to use a surfboard. Also spent a full day at Cape Canaveral at the space museum. What a great place for geeks like me to visit!

Saturday was my birthday and Friday morning I was sitting on the back deck sunning and reading the paper when my youngest daughter poked her head out the sliding door and said "Hi, Dad".

I looked up and replied "Oh Hi, Natalie". Only then, of course, did the thought hit me, "Hey, where did you come from?". Because Natalie was not supposed to be there. She'd flown down for the weekend to spend a few days and to help celebrate her dad's 60th birthday. Of course everyone was in on this - except me - and I was totally taken by surprise!

The next day we all drove down to Orlando, where my oldest daughter Jessica and her husband John, were staying at an amazing Mariott Vacation Villa with 3 bedrooms. Jessica and John both work for RIM and are attending the WES convention there. This is the biggest single RIM event held anywhere. They of course, brought my grandaughter Gwenyth along and we all had a grand weekend and celebrated my birthday and Mothers day in one grand bash.

I stayed Monday and came home late yesterday as did Natalie. Natalie is a television producer in Toronto and had to get back to work. I'd committed to come back and do a little bit of CHT catchup here and then get back to my consulting practice in Toronto.

Laura, my wife, stayed behind to look after Gwennie until Friday when the WES convention is over and they all come home.

It's taken me all day to get back to reality and do some work after having 11 glorious days of holidaying with friends and family.

Thanks to all of you for holding off on the hard questions while I was away.

I've got a couple of bug fixes going up for 12B1.00 by the weekend.

Cheers...

Gus Creces
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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hi Gus,

Happy birthday! Good to read some non-technical stuff on your blog.

Best Regards,

Gary.

May 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM

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