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Two meetings, three job offers, got my hair cut, walked the dog twice, took a walk to the coffee shop for a break, knocked 15 emails out of my “followup” folder, watched The Italian Job & Part1 and Part2 of my Band of Brothers Marathon, misc fixes on WO, billed a few hours (hooahh) and made some pizza. I think I’ll have a glass of Black Label and take a nice break for a few. Speaking of B.O.B., this makes, I think, the seventh time I’ve watched the entire 6disc set. However only the second time in High Definition, which brings it to a whole other level of amazing.

For no real reason, I figured I’d share that with you. Tomorrow, catch up on some paid work, and then off to Mashable SummerMash LA Meetup with Jason.

So it’s officially started, my one week countdown to a two week trip through China is on. It’s a bit maddening to say the least, however the tour I’m taking is fairly americanized, which means the culture shock should be a little easierto handle, but from what I’ve heard from friends I really don’t have a whole lot to worry about.

Clothes, Camera & Computer, the three c’s for a winning trip.  I wish it could just be the first two, but I realize there’s no way I can take a 12 hour flight without being semi-productive with as much work as i have to do these days.  Hopefully on the way over if by pure luck there is a power adapter, I can re-build the whatsopen site with the new features and framework I’m pioneering for our revision.  Maybe on the way back I can start going through all my photos and hit the US with a jump start on all the shotty I’ll be taking.

There are two phrases I need to master before I go.  “Where is the bathroom” and “Can I take your picture”.  I honestly feel if I have those covered, the rest will just fall into place.  I’m also adding the data package to my iPhone this week so I should be able to moblog some photos along the way.  I wish Val could get the time off to go with me, but hey it’s not the last time I plan to travel to Asia, so at least the first time around I’ve got a base for what to expect.

I leave May 5th @ 7am, so if you need any Jimmy-lov’n before that hit me up, this week is already going faster than it should be and the work level is not going down as fast as I’d hoped.

Spammers are really smart these days, I mean if it weren’t for tips like these in my email 90 times a day, then I would have guessed my only option would be to buy a real watch.  

 

Also the cool thing about replicas is the fact that for the price of one original watch you can buy many replicas. 

 

Now I feel more confident that I can buy even more from their site.  Thanks Hasheem Smith.  I never knew that.  And yea, that’s seriously the “from” name.

Got an email from my dad today congratulating me on an anniversary.  10 years ago today I, along with an amazingly dedicated team of people, completed my Eagle Scout service project at Whitter Narrows Nature Center in Whitter, CA.  Aside from the months of planning, promoting the event, creating a business plan and coordinating everything with dad, we spent a weekend of service to the Nature Trail helping to recover from the aftermath that El Nino brought on shorty before.  With all the rain and odd conditions that came with the storm, the nature trail which was a destination for bird watchers, school filed trips, and nature lovers was almost unbearable.  Together we cleaned up the overgrowth on the trail, repaired and painted all the signs along the way, marked off areas to stay away from and help to point out the best parts for the first time visiter. It was no easy task, but man did it feel great in the end.

All the little dirt trails you see here we went through with weed-wackers, lawnmowers and machetes to dump the overgrowth with.  It was a whole lot of work and I couldn’t have done it, or even planned it as well as i did without the support of my parents.

 

To think back on how much being in scouting helps you grow as a 16/17year old making all these plans, dealing with adults three times my age and just doing good in general, it really prepares you for life and helps you appreciate that there is some good that can be done in the world. I was only 16 when I started planning this.  To think of how much I’ve accomplished since then, a large majority of it I can thank the expierences of scouting for, and I’m proud to say it.

 

One of my best friends Adam is probably the only one who helped out then that sees my blog from time to time and was my partner in crime for our whole scouting career.  Whenever you see this post man, thank you again, I seriously couldn’t have done this without your help. Your anniversary is coming up soon too, we need to get a beer.

Seriously, wtf.  I got Rickrolled three freaking times today and NONE of them had to do with the massive April Fool’s roll’age.

Time for bed.  *shakes head*

In 10 years from now, the web could be a totally different environment. Along with that I envision that we’ll be at IE 14, Safari 10, and Firefox 5.0.

Its seems that Firefox, due to it’s opensource and already rich nature for expansion by the end user will just come to a point where it will become stable and not need anymore improvements.  

IE & Safari will never be perfected, they will never get it right as long as it’s proprietary.  Users create where the web is going.  As long as the user does not have access to change what’s already out of date, they will always be one step behind, and it only hinders us more than advances us.