Sea World San Diego

Sea World was a blast -- yes, it's taken me forever to post pics, but here they are :)

I hadn't been there since I was 12 or 13, so it was a real treat to see all the new attractions as well as the old ones that I remembered fondly (like the penguin exhibit).

Sea World Album Pics

We had a wonderful day, got crazy sunburned, and wore out by dusk. All that was left was to put the top down and just drive. We drove the coasts along Sunset Cliffs Drive, and then enjoyed a nice quiet evening in the hotel watching the fireworks on TV. Sea World had fireworks but after spending about eleven hours there, we were too zonked to stay for the show.

I got into Wrath of the Lich King's beta and have been eagerly running quests in Northrend in the evenings. The landscaping is beautiful (I'll post some screenshots soon) and the quests are pretty epic. Leveling is really slow, however. In prep for WotLK, I think just amassing coin and getting my fave toons to 70 will probably be my goal. No sense in gearing up -- just like Burning Crusades, the first few quests you do can pretty much stand up in stats next to my Season 2 and Season 3 Arena gear.

LoLo's Chicken and Waffles

Move over Roscoe's, there's a LoLo's Chicken and Waffles in Phoenix! Strange sounding meal but completely delicious. Incredible fried chicken, delicious waffles, all on one big, happy plate! We ate here a few weeks ago and I forgot to empty out my camera -- found this pic tonight :)

Fourth of July Weekend

Headed off to San Diego this weekend for the 4th of July. It's about a 5 and a half hour trip, so we have our audiobooks all lined up and the yellow roadster is all ready to go! We'll be hitting up Sea World one of those days -- I haven't been since I was about 13 years old, so I'm sure it's going to be WAY different than what I remember.


Looking forward to the nice break this weekend. Everyone stay safe and have fun!

IE Stands for "Is Evil".

So I'm trying to get a very simple JQuery modal window that says "Thank You for Registering" on one of my websites. Super easy. Fill out the info, click Submit, and on successful submit the JQuery fades the background of the website and displays a small "Thanks for registering" with an OK button.

Not exactly rocket surgery. So I test it in FF2. I test it in FF3. I test it on Safari for Windows. I swear I tested this on IE7. Everything worked. Pushed it out to the live site, tested it in FF, all's happy. Then I go to try it in IE7 and it bombs on me with this "Operation aborted" dialog box and refuses to load the page it just loaded a second ago. Piece of crap IE. So some Google-Fu comes up with this site: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927917

Fail. Microsoft, IE5.5, IE6.0, IE7 all have this script bug. It happens when the DOM isn't quite loaded and it's trying to appendChild to a parent container.

Anyway, this is my rant. I'll post a solution later if I can figure it out...otherwise I just went with the uber-lame Response.Redirect for now just so the live site works.

Murder Mystery Dinner?

We're going to a "Murder Mystery Dinner" tonight somewhere in Arizona.  I'm looking forward to it!  I'm trying to stay completely oblivious and not look up anything online about it so I can be totally surprised.  I'll post the happenings later this weekend.

Speaking of "The Happening", I was disappointed to not find anywhere in Phoenix that was doing a midnight premiere.  Darn Hulk is premiering all over the Valley, and being an M. Night Shyamalan fan, I've attended the last two of his movies on the Thursday midnight premieres -- no such luck this time.  I'll have to wait until Saturday morning BATM (Breakfast at the Movies, our own designated acronym hehe) to catch it.  Until then, eyes closed and ears plugged!

In other news, I updated Picasa with pretty much all the things we've done the past few months -- here are the links to:

• 2nd Anniversary Trip - Southern Arizona
• Sky-Sol Club Scavenger Hunt (we got 3rd place!)
• Sky-Sol Club "Speed Racer" Event at the Drive-In Theater

Testing Windows Live Writer

Please stand by... :)

Road Trip!

The yellow road(mon)ster is washed, polished, shined, and ready for a road trip! For our 2nd anniversary we're headed off to southern Arizona to tour Kitt Peak Observatory, Kartchner Caverns, and some other fun Tucson and surrounding area stuff.

Now that EquiShopper has finally launched and I've postponed a vacation for months because of it, I'm excited to get out on the road, top down, enjoying the Arizona sunshine with my sweetheart. There's nothing like getting into the car after a rough day at work, putting the top down, turning the tunes WAY WAY UP (hey, it's a convertible, it's gotta be loud -- road noise and what not) and basking in the creamsicle sunset as I head west for home.

Mebbe some blogging from the road? Perhaps... although I'm keeping the BlackBerry on *silent*.

Have a great weekend everyone ;-)