sup, dawgs?

If I had to choose a few reasons for my recent blogging shortcomings, I would have to select the following:

• traveling to the Bahamas
• the commencement of summer and, therefore, outdoor patios & poolside lounging
• Jumbo symposium in Vegas
• realizing that I can actually complete a full day's work by bringing it home in a laptop case
• acquiring a mild gambling addiction...
• portioning out the rest of my scant vacation days
• planning new adventures
  

In time, I will most certainly post pictures from my latest adventures, but I just haven't gotten around to it.

In a nutshell, the Bahamas were great! The weather was less than cooperative, but it really could have been worse. A and I spent our time scuba diving, jet skiing, eating conch in its many Bahamian forms, and lounging under a straw hut. True, the humidity was about 100% the entire time, the motorbike adventure never quite "took off," their ATMs had $5 surcharges and our hotel room smelled like mildew, but overall it was a relaxing and fun vacation.

My trip to Vegas was, ahem, all expenses paid, a point that I did attempt to take full advantage of. The purpose of the trip was, unfortunately, not to emulate a Swingers way of life - I was there on very important Jumbo alumni business. Of course, when I wasn't discussing active citizenship or making PB&J sandwiches for Las Vegas veterans, I was taking a dip in our hotel's lazy river; riding the rollercoaster at New York, New York; attending "O" at the Bellagio; winning at blackjack; losing at blackjack... and, in general, spreading the Jumbo love throughout Sin City. You know, just doing my part for society.

Fast forward to present-tense. Inspired by my time in the Bahamas, I am now looking into getting scuba-certified. Just today I made a non-refundable deposit on a skydive in July. After I submit this post, I plan on researching an August trip to Alaska, as well as Chinese language classes in the DFW metroplex. I have started to take golf more seriously, going so far as to invest in a set of irons & woods. When it comes to horse betting, my interest in such stats as the "trainer jockey combo" and "good breeding" is no longer fleeting. At this point, there is pretty much nothing that I won't spend my hard-earned $$ on, and I think I like it!

Have I hit my quarter-life crisis?