Back from Vegas

I was in Las Vegas earlier last week to attend the NAB show. NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) is a trade organization for the television broadcast industry. There were so many people there. Last year there were over 111,000 attendees. I was there to look at toys…uhm, I mean equipment as I am moving to Full HD format next month. What a playground…I mean tradeshow!!! It was at least four times the size of the Auto Show. It took me two days to see all that I wanted to see and my feet and legs hurt so badly at the end of each day. I got a chance to check out Ultra High Definition format at the show. One word…WOW!!!!! This format has 16 times the pixel resolution as existing HDTV. The stuff on the screen was so real I wanted to reach out to touch it. Crazy!!!

Now that the HD format battle is over between HD- DVD and Blu-Ray, I am making the transition to Full HD format (1080p). What that means is that I have to pretty much get new cameras, new editing system and start anew. I will be offering Blu-Ray option to all of my clients whose weddings are in June08 and beyond.

Take me out to the ball game...

Joanne won 4 Tigers tickets the other day not knowing that the game started at 1:05 pm when she put her name in for the drawing. She calls me up and asked me who am I going to take since the game starts at 1:05? I said "the kids". And she said "umm, they have school dear". "Oh...they can leave early." I replied. "I hate it when they miss school." she explained. "It's OK. We got smart kids, they will catchup what they miss at school." this cool dad reasoned. :-)

We had a great time at the ball park. This was Serena's first Tigers game and she was excited. Of course we had to keep up with the tradition of eating all the junk food we can handle. Between four of us we had 5 dogs, 2 killer burgers, 1 huge nachos, 1 basket of fries, hot chocolate, pops, and 2 tall Labbats for dad.

I saw something for the first time at the game...3 pitches...3 runs. Grilli came out to relieve and his first pitch was a double, his second pitch was a single, and his third was a homerun. Oh, and his fourth pitch was a single too. How sad!!!

Tigers lost but I had a great time with the kids!!!