A while back I noticed that the London Symphony Orchestra would be in Daytona for the Florida International Festival performing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. I’ve wanted to see that performed live for years, and to have the LSO performing it just up the road was just more than I could have hoped for. So I grabbed a couple of tickets for Allison and myself–second row, just right of center–and we went to the concert.

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So some of my friends coerced me into going to the Borders release party–the “Grand Hallows Ball”, as they called it–for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (I ordered mine on Amazon precisely so that I could avoid this kind of chaos). I usually avoid trying to be “that guy”… you know, the guy who goes to the midnight release party for a Harry Potter book dressed as Dobby the House Elf.

The handsome Dementor fellow to my right is my buddy, Ben. We got a lot of attention from the kids, which was fun. We posed for a ton of photos with people of all ages.

I think the title pretty much says it all. I had my web host move my account to a server with Rails hosting, so I took the opportunity to start from scratch. I slapped together this template–its the my first Wordpress template! Yay!–just to get something up and running, but I intend to prettify it over the next few days.

There isn’t much leftover from the old blog, but if anyone is looking for the photos from Allison’s and my wedding, those can be found here.