I just wanted to thank everyone on here for all of the views and favorites. My featured picture passed ten thousand pageviews and four hundred faves!

So Shaun's wedding went well, and I'm getting used to the idea of a new sis in the family. I've started posting some wedding shots, and I'll get more put up once I get back to Tennessee. Unfortunately the weather wasn't the best, the sky was rather bland the entire day, but with that being the only issue it was a rather happy day. :-D

I have some pictures that I should be posting soon. One or two more from the Bahamas and a couple from the same trip to the zoo as my recent ones.
Sometime soon, I'll actually be buying me a decent camera again and start with the new pictures. Well, there will be a few more pictures taken with the crappy camera, my older brother is getting married in a couple of weeks. I'm not allowed in since they're getting married in a temple that won't permit me past the visitor center, but I'll take pictures of the reception. Hopefully, I'll also get to see a couple of friends I haven't seen in eight years while I'm back in CA for that week.

So, finally back in TN *yay* and it was great to see everything again. The trip here was an interesting one.
First, I stopped in Vegas for a little three card poker tournament (hardly anything you can call real poker). Three rounds, three thousand chips each round. They take your top two round scores and combine them for a grand total. First round, made a few thousand dollars (not enough since a couple people were in the high tens of...), second round was a complete bust, and then came the third round. Ended up with quite an audience towards the end. Most people had already been knocked out, and there was only one other person left standing at my table. My last few hands had consisted of: straight, straight, nothing, nothing, straight, flush, flush, flush. Three straights and three flushes over eight hands, it was nuts. Made myself over twenty thousand chips easily. Final hand came up, and I needed $37,000 to qualify for any prize money. Naturally, I went all in, no choice in the matter. The only thing I needed was a queen high to walk away with at least $2,500 in prize money. Not even a pair, a queen high would have brought me a 1:1 chip payout and a sixth place win. Another flush would have put me in first place and ten grand in winnings.
Closed my eyes and just listened for the yays or awwws to tell me what happened. Had an audience of about seventy or eighty people at that point, and there was this long collective groan in the group. Opened my eyes...eight, ten, jack with the eight a different suit. One card off of a straight and first place win, one card off of a queen high and a sixth place payout win, and one suit off of a first place win as well. No such thing as close enough in cards. The guy at the table with me qualified with his hand, but he had so little to bet it didn't make a difference, he still came up short to place. So, lost a bit at the tables in between rounds, made a lot of it back in roulette, spent that and then some on gas money getting here.
In Houston, went rock climbing at the gym, saw a couple of friends. Dislocated my shoulder on a dino when my chalk bag caught a hold during the jump and yanked my back to the wall, banged my neck on a hold and gave myself a bruise that looks like a hickie. But I made the route the next day, so it was worth it.
Almost died in Mississippi (I think it was Mississippi, I had been through a lot of states that day). A pickup tapped my mirror on the left, reacted by swerving and caused a spinout. He spun in front of me, forcing me to jerk to the right and slam on the breaks. This put me into a series of spins heading to the right of the freeway. There was only a few inches of grass after the road ended before a couple hundred feet or so steep drop. I went into the grass still spinning. My left front tire ended up going over the edge, and the entire car dipped down. Thankfully I still had momentum and I spun backwards until my tire hit the edge and bounced back over. I stopped sideways against the edge facing backwards from my original direction. Looking out, I couldn't even see the lip of the drop, so I climbed out the passenger side. Walked around, and there was not even two inches of grass between me and the edge. Less than two inches between me and death, it was just a little scary. Slowly pulled away from the edge (the pickup had stopped its spin in the middle of the freeway, peeled a u-turn and taken off in a hurry) and turned the car around, found the next place to pull over, and just stopped the car and let myself relax for a few minutes before I felt straight enough to drive again. With five or six spins, there was a lot of time to just hold on to the wheel and think, "Well, so this is how and when I'm going to die. Didn't even make it home and see Laura first, damn." I had actually tried guessing how many spins until my car went over the edge. Too close, and it took way too long for my car to finally stop. Thankfully I had passed the torrential rain area I had been in just a few hours prior, so the road was dry. Otherwise that would have been it for this guy.
And then, I made it home with nothing else happening. Just boring from there on out. Got in, place was empty, so I went to bed.

Hmmm, let's see, what's new? Well, first, I'm actually staying caught up on DA, which is just amazing if I do say so myself. Once I had taken a break for a while and then decided I was tired of being away from everything, it got hard to keep myself from constantly checking up on what's new.
So, went to Marine World today. It was supposed to be a double date between my brother and his ex-girlfriend (though you can't tell they're technically not dating anymore when you see them together, they just need to admit they still have chemistry and give back the title already...yeah they watch me here and may read this, so there's my opinion on the matter), and one of our mutual friends with his date. Well, the friend's date cancelled, so they called me to come in and be his "man date." It was awesome, the weather was nice albeit a bit cold at the end, and we got on all of the rollercoasters plus a scary, jerky, kids coaster, and made it to see the killer whale show, which was made better by having a dolphin performing right along with the whale. Got in that plus an hour of rock climbing in the evening, so a day well spent. Now just eight more days til I leave CA for a poker tournament stop in Vegas before driving back to TN. I want to get in a Yosemite trip, still trying to see if it will be possible.