San Diego Pics

Before my Segway tour, I had about 20 minutes to take some pics of downtown SD from the Coronado shore. As I mentioned in a previous post, it is difficult to ride a Segway and use a camera at the same time, so I'm glad I took time beforehand to take take these.
















These last ones are testing the 10x zoom on my new camera.

Short Segway Videos

I bought a new digital camera 2 weeks ago. Here are my first short videos made on my new camera. I was trying to figure out video mode while trying to balance on a Segway. It was a challenge. I made the mistake of turning the camera sideways while shooting like I do when I take photos..oops.

San Diego by Segway

My bestest friend Janice got me a Segway tour of San Diego for Xmas. So Awesome! There were 3 other people on the tour. They were really nice. We took a hands-on 30 minute lesson on how to ride it and then started our tour. It was super easy to get the hang of and so much fun.

The tour was of a peninsula across from downtown San Diego called Coronado. It was a really cool place where apparently rich people live. All the houses are different, due to a building restriction code and they haven't been aloud to build anything over 4 stories tall in over 40 years. There are only about 4 buildings that are tall and even they are only 20 stories or less.

Here is round one of my pics. These are the ones I took while on the Segway. I will post a video I took while on it and some more pics of downtown later this week.

After my last post, you'd think I'd have the sense not to post a picture of myself on the internet. But apparently, I have no sense or shame. So here's me on my super fun segway, with a helmet nonetheless.


One thing about a tour on a segway is that it is really difficult to take picture while on it and stay balanced.


Our guide was a retired Navy guy who totally reminded me of Wilson the neighbor from Home Improvement. He was great...and he didn't have to wear a helmet.


Some of the areas we rode through we kinda crowded and people we passed stared and commented.

Go Steelers!

My coworker sent me a pic of himself to let me know who he is rooting for this Sunday.


But me and my friend Photoshop airbrushed some sense into him :)

Sweet Revenge

As the famous saying goes, Revenge is a dish best served as cold brownies with black and yellow icing....at least I think that's how the saying goes ;)


Yes, I did the icing myself ;)


My coworkers were greeted with this display by the front door.

Revenge while recycling








Since I won all my anti-Charger bets I didn't feel like I should be spending too much money to exact my revenge, so I took the liberty of recycling the items that were placed in my cubicle Friday such as streamers, balloons, and signs. Sharpies are so fun sometimes.





Since the Steelers won, our receptionist is now sporting a Hines Ward desktop wallpaper for the week and our sales guy has my nice terrible towel to stare at in his cubicle all week. I have a Ravens fan in the office for new bets this Sunday. Go Steelers!

Harassment at the Workplace

As many of you know, I may have moved to San Diego, but I am still a Steelers fan. One of my first adventures after moving here was watching a Steeler game at a Steeler Bar in San Diego. This Sunday, the Steelers play the San Diego Chargers in the play-offs.

Friday, I arrived at work to find that my entire cubicle had been decorated with Charger crap. Just my cubicle, no one else's. They even came in early and there was a group effort to pull this prank on me. Streamers, Signs, and Balloons everywhere. I have made various bets with my coworkers over this game, so next week is going to either be really fun for me, or really sad. One guy has to display my Terrible Towel in his cubicle all next week, or I have to display his LT jersey if they win. But the Chargers will lose....Go Steelers!

San Francisco

Here are some more pics from my New Year's trip to San Francisco. DJ, Steve, and I met up with my friends Dave and Judy for lunch at a Tapas place in the Mission section of the city. I was a bit lazy about taking photos though because I looked like a tourist while hanging with my friends who actually live there.








a picture of a restaurant that we didn't eat at. It looked cool though.

Later that night we all went to the shopping district in the city and ended up at the second Apple store of my trip.














inside a cool mall in the city.

On Sunday, DJ and Steve made me an awesome birthday brunch with homemade crepes and bread pudding with candles. Thanks, yinz are pretty awesome!