February 2005

Santa Cruz on the weekends and up to San Francisco for some footage of the Golden Gate. Making video's on the new PC and burning DVD's.

January 2005

Bought a new PC. A Pentium 4 with an LCD monitor and DVD burner.

December 2004

Visited my brother in Jacksonville for New Year's. We went to the Landing, the zoo, the beach, and I got to meet his dogs. Nice time.

Longboarding in Santa Cruz on the weekends.

November 2004

Yosemite National Park for a weekend. Hiked to the top of the falls. Bought a Sony miniDV camcorder. Took it along and shot some nice video from the top of the falls.

October 2004

San Francisco for a week-long work conference. Stayed in Chinatown, next to the TransAmerica pyramid. Rooftop pool was nice. Nice view of Coit Tower from the hotel window. Strolled through Little Italy, rode the ferry boat to Sausalito.

Also got a new longboard this month (10'). Sold my old one. Tried out the new one in Santa Cruz.

September 2004

Cancelled the trip to Wyoming.

August 2004

Planning a trip to Wyoming next month. Hope to look for a future retirment house there. Plane, hotel and car reservations have been made.

July 2004

Spent a week in Maui. Camera was stolen along with some really nice shots of the island, but Maui was beautiful.

April 2004

Spent a week in Los Angeles. Visited Santa Monica, Venice, drove down to Huntington Beach and watched some surfing. On the return trip spent the day at the Getty Museum in Malibu. Nice place. Lots of great artwork and great views of the city, too.