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Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004 - 11:17 a.m. Viva Las Vegas!
WHOO! HOO!! And we are going to Vegas! I just got off the phone
with Tarik and we are going to be spending our wedding anniversary weekend in Law Vegas, staying at the posh and beautiful Venetian Hotel on
The Strip. And since we are not big gamblers, we will be squandering our money on some shows like "O", which is sexy Cirque du Soleil and like the uber geeks that we are, The Star Trek Experience. I would also like to see Blue Man Group if we get a chance. Ahh Blue Man Group. I remember them when they were just an off Broadway performance art troope. I've heard that there is good celebrity watching at
Caesar's after 3:00 am. If only I could stay awake that late. OK, here is something completely off topic, well
sort of. My father was an airline pilot and in his 30 years of commercial
aviation, he had one accident. I happened to find a report about it online
last night: http://aviation-safety.net/database/1980/800317-0.htm Now, this is not something to necessarily be proud
of, but its interesting. No one was seriously hurt and in the opinion of
many, it could have been much worse than it was. Oh, and I did mention it
once in a previous entry. In any event, we always knew he was not totally
at fault for this and it was a terrible blow to him to be demoted for 6 months
from captain to co-pilot. In the 35 or so years that Texas International
was in operation, there were only 11 fatalities, all from a flight in 1973 that
crashed into the side of a mountain. Obviously not my dad. And to segue on from that... There is an
interesting story about the day my parents got me (I'm adopted). They had
applied to adopt, and finally they got the call one day. Well, my
dad was supposed to go flying that day with three of his friends but had to call
and cancel when they received the call from the adoption agency. Later, my
parents found out that the plane had crashed and all 3 of my dad's friends had
been killed. Its a very humbling thing to know that in a roundabout way, I
saved my father's life. I haven't been able to determine for certain from
looking at the NTSB's online database which flight it was because I don't
actually know the date that my parents got me (that sounds so weird to
say). But I think its this one: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=9190&key=0 Charlie Brown is going swimmingly and we have our
third performance tonight. But, before that we are having auditions at my
house this afternoon for the latest film project of my friend Stephen
Dornbos. We did a small film a few years ago that was a parody of
"Interveiw with the Vampire," the premise being, "What if
Lestat Chose, Wrong?" Its called "Interview With the Scottish
Vampire" and is a marriage of "Interview with the Vampire" meets
"Braveheart" meets "Pygmalion." Go figure. www.scottishvampire.com Thus ends another missive. I must get this
place cleaned up for this afternoon and what not. Song virus du jour: "Viva Las
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More updates on another blog home. - Wednesday, Feb. 06, 2008 Where are my zzzzzz's? - Thursday, Nov. 08, 2007 Halloween '07 - Friday, Nov. 02, 2007 Hallween is All Good! - Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007 |
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