So, I’m leaving for Germany in just a few days. My plane leaves Wednesday at 9:00pm. I’m very excited and very anxious. I’ve never been on a plane (or even inside of an airport). I’m more scared about the airport than I am about the plane. I keep picturing this scenario where I entirely blunder the process by which I get on the plane and miss it. I know it is very unlikely, but I feel like there are processes in place at the airport that I don’t understand and am likely to mess up. “You can’t say bomb on an airplane.” I’ve got to keep that in mind.

In preparation for my trip I’ve been buying all kinds of things. I bought a new pair of sneakers since my other pair have received their fair amount of trouncing. I like the new ones:

They’re also the first pair of sneakers that I’ve ever seen which have Alkaline Trio lyrics in them.

I’m giving the presentation at the next LILUG meeting. The topic is “Logical Volume Management and Software RAID”. It’s a pretty neat topic for people who are interested in managing their hard drive space in interesting ways. There will be a lot of, “Wow, I didn’t even know that problem was even solvable.” moments during the presentation. That’s what I kept saying to myself when I was first reading up on the topic. It should be fun.

I’m going to try and crash the Silent Majority show at The Downtown tonight. I don’t have tickets, and I’ll probably do anything for them. So, if you have a ticket and you need someone dead or something, get in touch with me. I pretty much need to get in. If I don’t get in, I’m going to be a fair amount of miserable for the rest of the day.

My brother got these ridiculous stress relieving balls that look like breasts. The texture isn’t too bad. I mean, it’s not going to fool anyone, but you’d be hard pressed to find more realistic feeling stress relief balls. Nak, Raghav and Steve were over the other night and we played some poker. After Nak dropped out of the game, he passed out on the couch. I couldn’t resist taking this picture, and I couldn’t resist posting it either. Sorry Nak.

Update: I got into the Silent Majority show and it was entirely awesome. I’ve never seen a crowd go off like that. I hope they were able to raise a bunch of money for James MacCauliffe (I know I just butchered his last name’s spelling). I’m really glad that I was able to be there for the show. I ran into a bunch of people from high school who I hadn’t seen in a while (Matt Tutrone, Melinda, Dave Weck, etc.) It was a good night overall.