Alright, so, Megan informed me of some gross mistakes in my prior news entry so I went through and fixed some things. :) Sorry honey, all better now!

Alright, just got back from our honeymoon last night. Check out the pictures section to see some of what we got to enjoy. It was a ton of fun though of course not long enough. We're happy to be back though, we missed Ryan alot while we were gone (and it was only for a week!). I'll be getting back to actually doing stuff for the various extra-curricular activities I enjoy (which means: Debian AM, Maintainer and buildd local-admin work, some contracting work I do on the side, playing soccer and having fun w/ my WIFE and son. :)).

Alright, the quick run-down on the Honeymoon, since people are asking:

Flew out of Dulles at 8:20am Sunday morning (June 6th). Chilled in New Orleans basically all day, went to Pat O'Briens and had some drinks, stopped in an Irish shop (picked up a nice Irish money-clip for myself, and some other things), and walked down Bourbon street (basically a bunch of strip joints and shops). We boarded the ship that afternoon, had dinner on the ship, etc.

We then had a few days on the ship to hang out, play in the casino, hang out at the pools, dance in the clubs, etc. We went to the 'up-scale' dinner place called 'The Point', very nice, very cool place. It wasn't crowded at all which meant we had about 5 waiters/chefs/etc taking care of us through the whole meal. It cost a little extra to eat there, but it was well worth it. We also killed a very nice bottle of wine while we were there.

Then, the night before we got to Montego Bay, Jamaica, we drank, and drank, and drank, and one of us (ahem, not me) ended up getting sick before the end of the night. The next morning, bright and early, we had to be up and on a very bouncy bus headed into the jungle on nice small and windy roads. We went on the Canopy Tour through the jungle, *very* cool stuff. Basically you zipline through the Jamaican jungle going from the mountains to platforms 50' up in the trees and then back. The longest zipline was over 1000 feet, went across the Great River and you got up to about 40 mph on it. Talk about alot of fun! There was another very cool route that went perhaps a couple hundred feet right through some jungle trees, so close that you were brushing by the leaves as you went, awesome stuff. There are pictures of all of this under the Honeymoon section.

The next day we were at Grand Cayman where we got to go play with the stringrays. This was a very cool experience, we were able to touch, pet, feed and even pick up stringrays! Basically they took us out to a sandbar in the ocean near Grand Cayman where lots of stringrays hang out and gave us some fresh squid to feed them. Watch out though, they'll give you a hickey if you don't hold the squid right! Talk about a blast. Unfortunately, we picked the later running tour and were lazy about getting up so we didn't have much time to check out the shops when we got back. The shops were very cool though, selling all kinds of interesting things (including Big Black Dick Rum, as I recall, made locally). We did go to the casino that night and Megan ended up winning about $144 there playing the Stampede! slots. This had to be one of the coolest slot machines in the place. Every once in a while you'd get a 'Stampede' and a guy would come on and say "It's a STAMPEDE!" and then you get 5 free spins where you have to round up the cows and if you get a cash cow you get an extra bonus. Lots of fun, Megan had a great time playing it. I lost a bunch on some other slot machines, lots of fun though.

The next day we were at Cozumel, very cool place even though it ended up raining basically all day. We had fun though, didn't have any planned tours and instead just went 'downtown' and checked out all the shops. At the end we went to Carlos N' Charlie's, very cool bar/restaurant, definitely recommend it to everyone! Be sure to get at least a shot or two while you're there though! And don't forget to buy a YARD margarita! Quite the drink (we each had two, it was alot of fun). They've also got a nice, though very busy, dance floor there. We shared a cab back to the dock with another very nice couple.

On the last day we didn't do too terribly much besides pack and whatnot. The one very cool thing was that we went back to the casino and had some much better luck. I managed to hit just about a jackpot on one of the slot machines and took away about $250 from it off of $10 (betting 50 cents at a time). We then went over to the roulette table for a while, my first time ever playing roulette for money. It took me a while but with the help of some other very nice players I managed to get the hang of it. Started out with $20 and was up over $120 at one point. Roulette is a great game, but you really have to take chances and go for the singles and doubles instead of the better odds because the payout is *so* much better for them. If you hit $2 on a single number it's a $64 payout or so, as I recall (32 to 1 odds). Something like that, while $2 on 'even' or 'odd' is just 'even money', so you get $4 from it or so. Anyway, I ended up walking away with about $80, so, $60 in profit, lots of fun and $300+ for the night, not too shabby!

Alright, done with the update-from-hell (actually, we didn't make it to Hell, but it was a place on Grand Cayman that sold postcards. ;)).

Alright folks, so it *might* have been a little while since I last updated. Like, sorry and stuff for that. I've updated pictures of Ryan in the past year though! Anyway, been very busy with the wedding plans to get all that much done on the network. Always lots of plans, never enough time. I really havn't had enough time to even work on one of the things I really enjoy- Debian. I'm also looking into going back for my Master's starting in the fall and doing part-time unix admin stuff for a friend who runs a small ISP (and, well, hell, has been coming to me for various random questions about issues with things since he started the damn thing, might as well get paid for it! ;) ). Oh, yeah, and alcohol is bad! Had my bachelor party this past Sat., getting married on this coming Sat. (June 5th) and then leaving for a week long cruise through the carribean, back on the 13th. Oh, yeah, and was confirmed in the Catholic church this past Sunday. Oh, and my bachelor party was the first time I'd ever gotten so drunk that I puked afterwards! Let me tell you, getting confirmed with a massive hang-over is quite the challenge. Somehow I manged to pull through though. Alright, off to play soccer, yeah, so, no, didn't update my soccer schedule, it's the last game of the Spring season anyway, maybe if you're lucky I'll update it for the Summer season when that starts. So, like, I'll try and update this more often in the future. :)