I’m (almost) back! We missed our flight in Las Vegas at 10:50pm, and had to reschedule for an 11:30pm flight out, through Cincinnati, OH instead of Atlanta, GA like we came through on the way out. The first flight was only three hours instead of four, but we have a three hour layover instead of two, and we’re arriving home an hour later than we would have. Which is kind’ve annoying, but we ate a really good meal at Applebee’s (I had a great prime rib that practically melted in my mouth!) before we left, which is what made us late enough to miss our flight (we were an hour early, but checkin and security were too long to get through in time). But I’ll be home around 8:53 this morning!
Right now I’m sitting in the Cinci airport, listening to the wonderful country music [sic] playing loudly out of the Cinci Sports Pub behind me, blaring into the terminal. Fortunately, Josh hates country music and I just dislike it, so I guess I get the better deal :-) My feet keep tapping and they aren’t under my control! But I’d be happy without it. But perhaps it’s keeping me awake a bit, which is kind of good. At least I get to sleep when I get home if I want, because I didn’t sleep on the plane much (maybe dozed a bit).
“My camera”:http://butterflyphoto.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=FUJIS5100 should arrive today at my office, it arrived at the FedEx facility last night at 10:40pm and I’m hoping it will be delivered before I drive past work on my way home from the airport so I can pick it up, otherwise I have to go back to pick it up later in the day (and believe me I will, even if I have to sleep through doing so ;-)
Down to about 9.5 hours ’til I see Ruth again, and counting more slowly than I wish it would…
Looks like it’s going to be a nice day, around the same temperature I just came from in Vegas the first half of the week! Then rain through Monday. Oh well, at least I get some welcome-home sunshine…the best of which doesn’t come until around 3:30pm ;-)
Oh yeah, I got to go to “Star Trek: The Experience”:http://www.startrekexp.com/ while I was in Vegas! Very, very cool, even for a once-Trekkie who’s cooled a bit now that he has a real life (and I mean the past few years, not the past few weeks :-) Very awesome to be ON the ACTUAL SET of the bridge from the Star Trek: The Next Generation series that they actually filmed on, which was part of the show! I even got to wander around and look at stuff during the time I got my picture taken in the Captain’s Chair between shows, it was awesome, there were aboud 5 of us and the guide/photographer (named David…he was cool), and they took the pictures using a “Fuji Finepix S7000”:http://butterflyphoto.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=S7000, which I though was great since I have the next lower model (the S5100) arriving tomorrow, and the S7000 has the same sensor resolution as my point-and-shoot E550! Weird coincidence! I’d have bought the S7000 if it weren’t around $500 still (although it does have a 6x zoom vs. the 10x (both optical) zoom on the S5100. And I just checked, and it came down to $437 at ButterflyPhoto! But it’s out of stock, and I’m out of money :-)
More pictures to come at some point, I might try uploading some from the airport here. Hundreds I haven’t gotten to upload due to technical issues with the internet connection I had at the hotel! Lots of the Strip, more of the convention, and lots at Star Trek (they didn’t allow photos in the rides though :-(
I think I convinced Pastor R to do Star Trek tomorrow instead of golf in the afternoon after the seminar he stayed a day later for :-)
On to try uploading some pics! I’m trying to stay chronological so I won’t get to the Trek stuff right away!
