Been a While...

I kinda fell behind with my bloggin' efforts, so here's me trying to catch up.

IBM threw a formal party for all of the employee's who worked on the Squadrons line of servers (which I do!). Downtown Hilton grand ballroom, lots of yummy food, and as much craps and blackjack you could ask for. Anyway, here are the pictures from the "Squadrons Prom". (You can login with my guest ID = jerrycentanni , Password = jerry)

I then got sent to Poughkeepsie, NY for two weeks to support the manufacturing line for the project I've been working on the past 9 months - it is finally for sale and shipping to customers - YAAY! Time to get my life back, but that's a subject for another day... Though I worked myself literally into physical exhaustion (its fun supporting a manufacturing floor that has 3 shifts of people working!), I was able to break away for a couple hours to go check out the Orange County Choppers showroom (the motorcycles from the Discovery Channel show American Chopper). Pretty cool - and I got to see Paul Sr. driving down the street in his H2 - always fun spotting a celebrity in person! Anyway, here are my pics from the visit. Once my tour of duty was finished, I stayed an extra day and took the train to NYC to wander around. I went to Central Park and saw "The Gates" and took lots of pictures . At first, I was appalled, and thought the gates were just an ugly clash with nature, but the sheer number of them was amazing. Bizarre - me appreciating art.

And the requisite motorhead comments (for you Richard!) - I made some progress on fixing up the interior on the Vette - painted and installed some of the trim pieces around the windshield. Hope to have it finished soon to enjoy it a bit before trying to sell it. On the biking front - I took the Harley on my first real cruise with Victor, Jorge and Naomi a week ago. What can I say - its just a cool feeling - you, the open road, wind in your face, rumble of the motor - good times.

This past weekend was entertaining - LeeAnne (Chad's college friend) was in town visiting. She's spent the past few years as a crew member on, for lack of a better term, vintage style sailboats , 1800's design. She's got some crazy stories, on top of just being, shall we say, an interesting individual on her own ;)