Here is a photo of the Water Sculpture in front of the Broward County Convention Center where our REALTOR Rally was held on Friday. 
2006 Fort Lauderdale Air and Sea Show
Today was the 2006 Fort Lauderdale Air and Sea Show. A whole lot of people, a lot of sunscreen, a few planes, and fewer cloths all headed to the beach.
Here the Marines where showing off. I think the action is going on about 2 miles north of where I was standing.
All kinds of people came out to watch the show.
Check out all of them private boats out there. They where kept 4000 feet away from the beach to allow the planes room to make some noise – They are almost a mile away!
Here you can see that the Blue Angels where zooming about through town. I think I even saw them circle a gas station once, but they didn’t stop in – I am guessing gas prices where too high.
Fort Lauderdale Air and Sea Show
The Canadian Snowbirds put on an impressive show. Nine jets doing all kinds of interesting areobatics. There was even a Canadian ship here for Fleet Week.
I got to see a pair of F22 Raptors. Very impressive Jets.
The Stealth Bomber was probably one of the quietest planes there today.
I walked from Oakland Park Blvd, down past Las Olas Blvd and back again today. I get home, and what goes RIGHT OVER where I live? One of the Blue Angels. He was moving so fast that I couldn’t get a photo of him – I got a photo of a pile of doggy bones next to the pool instead. This one will have to suffice, but it was also taken from my back yard.
RAGFL Realtor Rally 2006
Today was a LOOOOOOooooonnnnnnggggggg day. We had our annual tradeshow today. I was “invited” to attend – read PUT TO WORK.
I am happy though, I was given a radio this year. I only had to walk from one end to the other 3 or 4 times as opposed to the 9 or 10 times that I did last year. Last year I was chasing moving targets blind. This year I knew when they where looking for me and could hide more effectivly **grin**. Actualy, the only time that they called for me and I didn’t jump right on it was when I was eating my lunch.
I spent half the day printing up name-badges. I had suggested that we bring a laptop and a printer this year as last year we didn’t have an introduction for one of our speakers. last year and it was a big deal to get it. The big boss lady pooh-poohed the idea when I brought it up earlier this week. One of the other “big” people thought it was a good idea. So we brought one along. I also went around yesterday and gathered up digital copies of everything people had printed to bring along and put it on my USB drive. Guess what, we needed something printed off again. YAY me. Too bad the big boss man or the big boss lady won’t recognize it. so, that disaster averted, I ended up spending half the day printing out namebadges for the vendors that just showed up. Next year, I am bringing a paper cutter too. Better yet, we need to do a better job of getting vendor names before hand. I would swear that there where as many vendors as attendees judging from the number of extra badges I needed to print up.
My feet are threatening secession if the rest of me doesn’t go to bed soon. That would make wandering around the Fort Lauderale Air and Sea show difficult tomorrow.
My Mess at work.
This week has been a tough one. First, my boss got offered an awesome job that sounds like it comes with a hefty pay raise from another company. Half my friends at work have moved on now. I am going to really miss her.
Tomorrow is our annual Tradeshow, so we have been working like mad to try and make that go well.
This weekend is the Air and Sea show. The Blue Angels where buzzing around town all day today. Pretty cool. I am going to the show on Saturday with Chris and a few of his friends it sounds like.
I haven’t been sleeping well again lately, I was up at 3am programming in my head last night. I am migrating the websites to a new server, and some of the code is behaving badly.
At home it seems like I have been so busy, but I haven’t gotten anything done. I can’t even tell you what I have been doing. No playing UO, no reading of books, no nothing.
I got my hair cut tonight. Hopefully he got the lazy hairs….