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Post Vegas Update

Well, Jen and I just returned from Las Vegas.  We had a week long trip for me to attend the VMworld conference and for Jen to have a little vacation.  Jen was able to join some of the other wives and do things around town while all of their husbands were busy with the conference.  It worked out really well.

Jen and I were able to fit in a little time to relax at the pool on Monday and then we were able to see Blue Man Group at the Ventitian on Tuesday evening.  Jen also got to tour the Hoover Dam and go out to see the Grand Canyon and lots of Vegas sites.  Jen has started a gallery with photos online.

Peyton stayed with Papa and Gaga Sellers while we were in Las Vegas.  She got a little sick during the week and ended up having to go to the ER in Cheraw.  She had a spot of congestion on her lung and a really bad sore throat.  Antibiotics prescribed cleared everything up.  I’m taking her back to the doctor tomorrow morning just to make sure that everything looks good.  She is acting like she feels much better than she was feeling middle of last week.

Peyton has begun potty training too.  She recently moved into the 2 year old classroom at daycare and they’ve begun working with her to potty train.  We’re trying to continue that at home.  She has gone pee-pee in the potty a couple times now.  So, our world is becoming pull ups and pee-pee for the next little while…

Work is going great for both me and Jen.  Jen is settling back in after a week away.  She missed her annual teacher’s dinner last Tuesday evening.  Everything went well.  I am trying to decompress and process everything I learned at the conference last week.  There was so much, its hard to get everything together.  I’ll be briefing my co-workers sometime this week about everything that I learned…

I also started a second blog – one where I can post about my job, technology, and things in that arena that interest me.  I posted heavily about things from the conference and surprisingly, I’m seeing a lot of traffic to my blog because of that.  When you Google some of the topics I blogged about, my site is showing surprisingly high in the searches.  That translates to traffic and readers – which is very exciting for me.  I didn’t expect that – this was just something I wanted to do for myself.  You can check it out at http://tech.philipsellers.com, if you’re interested.  Its still a work in progress, but I’m working on it as I have time.  One of my post even got picked up by the vendor’s blog and they linked to my post – pretty cool in my eyes…  It was a nice birthday present – oh yeah – I turned 28 on Saturday.   My best birthday present so far was Peyton singing Happy Birthday for me…

Updated Peyton photos

I’ve added a new gallery of Peyton photos into our online gallery.  You can see her personality so well in these photos… she’s a big goof – she loves to make us laugh and she’s such a happy baby…  We love her more and more every day! Hope you enjoy these…

Dad update

Just wanted to post another quick update – actually from last weekend.  We went up and visited my dad on Friday and Saturday and he is doing fantastic.  He is up and moving around – doing almost anything that he wants.  All the problems that prompted the discovery of his herniated disc have disappeared and he’s almost fully recovered from the surgery.  He still gets a little tired at the end of the days and he has some discomfort in the muscles at the back of his neck where they worked on his spinal column.  But, the best news is that the tingling and numbness in his arms is no longer there.  Any nerve damage will take some time to heal, but the fact that those symptoms have disappeared is really awesome!

Hurricane & half-written posts

I have several posts out here that I have started and never posted – so I’m taking the time to post them this morning.

In other news, it looks like Tropical Storm Hanna is heading for our warm sandy beaches.  The last forecast I saw shows it coming ashore just north of the Grand Strand.  Yesterday, it looked to be trackingbetween Georgetown and Myrtle Beach, but its been adjusted north.  Past history kind of tells me that it will hit Wilmington or the Outer Banks of NC, but you can never be too comfortable.  Work the past two days has been hectic, making contegency plans for our datacenters and trying to be as prepared for the worst as possible.

Visiting Hard Rock Park today

Today we’re visiting Hard Rock Park again.  Brett and Trina are going with us.  It’ll be their first time in the park. Today is the last day of their extended hours and they’ll be shortening their weeks to 3 days and hours to 11am to 7pm after this weekend through end of the year.  We’re excited to get to ride the coasters again and see the shows.  Peyton really loves watching the people go by on the Eagles coaster.  And she loves to people watch.  

Update: We had a blast today.  Unfortuantely, the Maximum RPM coaster was down again, along with the Slipper when Wet water-coaster.  So, we still haven’t gotten to ride Slippery.  But we did get to plan in the nerf ball place and Peyton really enjoyed that.  We didn’t stay for fireworks, but we did see the last Ice Show of the season tonight… it was by far the best we’d seen, though still not my cup of tea…