Author Archives: Carmelo

Nutcracker Ballet 2024

We went to the Phoenix Symphony next to the Phoenix Convention Center with our friends to see the Nutcracker. We saw it at the Orpheum last year, and it was cute, but this one has a live Symphony! It was … Continue reading

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Michigan Christmas 2024

We went on our early December trip to Michigan to celebrate early Christmas with our family. This is our first Christmas of the year! We have several planned! It was about 14°F when we got there, a little cold! We … Continue reading

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Scottsdale Cybersecurity Summit 2024

My homies and I went to the Cybersecurity Summit and then went over to see Damien at his work. It was a great day! The crew came over for a bit so that I could finally introduce Jaime to them.

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Thanksgiving 2024

For Thanksgiving, we all met up at Brandee and Brent’s new place and had a wonderful and delicious time!

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Wicked

For Jaime’s actual birthday, we went to see the movie, Wicked, with our friends and it was pretty good!

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Our Birthdays, 2024

Because it wasn’t a milestone birthday, we had a joint birthday and invited a bunch of friends for dinner. It was really nice. For my actual birthday, I just stayed home and played video games for the most part. For … Continue reading

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Halloween 2024 – Dark Ones Party

Jaime and I decided to cosplay the same character from different parts of the film, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The night was fun and we got to see and talk to a lot of people and maybe drink a little.

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Disneyland 2024

We spent a pretty awesome week over in California to have some fun in Disneyland. Jaime and I got there a little earlier than our friends so that we could spend our own time wandering the park and buying stuff … Continue reading

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Horror Fest

I finally got to meet 2 more Hackers. Horror Fest was much smaller than I thought it would be. The whole con is tiny and the lines for photos didn’t even exist. I basically followed Renoly and Laurence right in … Continue reading

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Nashville Work Trip

A few months ago we planned to get our senior leadership team together for an onsite in Nashville. I flew out the night before and so did a couple of my peers. It was different than the our normal set … Continue reading

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