January 8th 2012
One again Forward took all its staff to Las Vegas for the Christmas party, cheers Neil!
We stayed at the Wynn again.
Beautiful view from my room
On the first day we went carting.
The final day I went to do a skyjump off the Stratosphere (have a DVD I’ll upload when I find it)
Between that some drinking and gambling…
Random head coming out of the lake in the Wynn
Then home!
December 17th 2010
Well, I guess I need to say something about my company Christmas present to all of their ~150 staff, a three day trip to Vegas.
We flew out last Thursday and stayed for 3 nights at the Wynn, which is a great hotel.
Thursday: Arrive and sleep (forgive me I only just got back from Egypt after flying to Manchester instead of London and having to sit all night on a freezing cold coach!).
Friday: Flew in a helicopter into the Grand Canyon which was rather awesome.
Sat: Went to see Zumanity by Cirque du Soleil, it was amazing, I must see them again.
Sunday: A few of us went shooting,
An M16
An H&K MP5
A Mac-10
not firing it gangster style unfortunately.
A Tommygun
A Desert Eagle
And I did a Shotgun
And I’ve got the T-shirt to prove it
Peace Through Superior Firepower indeed
December 16th 2010
I has been a crazy few weeks, after being in the UK only 2 days after the Egypt trip I went to Las Vegas with Forward and I am just getting my head back together now.
You know you are a huge geek when you take as much space for books as clothes.
The trip was ace, a week on the M/S Hamees, Stopping at:
Valley of the Kings
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
The Colossi of Memnon
Edfu Temple
Kom Ombo, which I had not heard of but has some extraordinarily vibrant original colour remaining
Abu Simbel
Karnak Temple
Luxor Temple (we had the place to ourselves at night, it was amazing)
5 Nights in Movenpick El Gouna on the Red Sea and 2 nights in the Nile Palace
It was incredibly relaxing, nice to be incommunicado for 2 weeks and catch up on some reading and just mince around the beach. I managed to read Godel Escher Bach at last and also ticked off The Ode Less Travelled from my 101 Goals. It was weird not having my phone to distract me in spare moments, making me daydream more and think about people and events I have not thought about it ages, I should do it more often.
Pictures are on flickr
March 23rd 2008
See the flickr map view or the album.
I walked all over New York yesterday, went along the east side all the way to Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum. The place is amazing. Not quite as good as the British Museum in my view but still a great place, perhaps the architecture is better, I wish I had longer in there.
Macbeth was amazing, same director who did The Tempest that I saw in Stratford. It had very sinister nurses as the witches and Kate Fleetwood’s Lady Macbeth was incredibly erotic. Patrick Stewart was not great actually, his monologues – particularly the dagger speech – were not as good as hers. Go here and here for 2 more detailed reviews.
March 20th 2008
Landed at 2.30pm yesterday, went straight to our Wall St office and got on with helping them move office. Went and got a bit drunk to help with jet-lag (Being bladdered and knackered in 2 time zones is better than one… or something)
Got tickets today to go and see Patrick Stewart in Macbeth tomorrow. I saw him in Stratford in The Tempest as Prospero a couple of years ago, he was superb. It’s at BAM, I am looking forward to it.
Got the weekend to myself so I will take in the sights and go to the Guggenheim. I was not excited about being here till on my commute this morning I saw a real life NYPD car.