I feel as though I’m laughably behind on things I need to blog about, although I suppose that would actually be entertaining. Maybe “boringly behind” would be be a more accurate term. In any case, I have been keeping a list.

I’ll start out by saying that I love my family dearly, and yet I am for some reason practically giddy at the thought of getting away for a while. Nevertheless, Jennifer and I will both have a little getaway this week as we visit Las Vegas, where I will be spending a few days at the PMA trade show. For a guy like me who loves photography and gadgets and expensing the whole trip, well, how much better could things possibly be?

Our trip to Vegas is only the meat in the busy sandwich that is the month of March¹. Currently, Jennifer’s Aunt M. is visiting, and after we return to Vegas, Jennifer’s Dad will stop in for a visit. Also, I have two outstanding requests for photoshoots to deal with in April.

We went out for a visit to SeaWorld today, but I’m pretty sure they closed the place down after lunch as a result of Anna’s nuclear meltdown. The park will probably remain radioactive until long after humanity collapses and the roaches take over. After carrying 45 pounds of wailing five-year-old to the car, I believe I finally determined that the root cause was that the Shipwreck Reef Cafe does not serve noodles, and the choices of hot dog, chicken nuggets, fries, Pepperidge Farm goldfish, granola bars, cotton candy, almonds, salad, cake, and crackers were all unacceptable. I swear that at some point I’m just going to end up serving buttered macaroni noodles and ice cream sandwiches for dinner.

I anticipate that while in Vegas I will be take lots of pictures of the latest photo gear. First on the list will be a video of the Canon 1D mkIII shooting at 10 fps.

¹ When the Pulitzer people come knocking I’m going to trot out that sentence for them to engrave on the medal.