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Tampa 2024

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Carmelo

The day after we got back from Los Angeles, I flew out to Tampa for a leadership team Onsite. We flew our people leaders out to do some leadership exercises and have them build our strategy for the year. We also got to have them bond with everyone over activities and of course, drinks!

It was great to hang out with everyone and for them all to meet and all that good stuff. We also fed everyone. A pretty fun time, despite all the work we had to do.

At the end of it all, I got to spend a good part of the day hanging out with my Marine brother, John and his family. We had some good quality time together until I had to get to the airport. I took them to lunch and then out for chocolates, we got to see a dead body, and a cool place where they sold custom shoes. I’m also in a tiktok, but I’m not sure if that video is still up, maybe I can paste the facebook copy of it.

When John dropped me off at the airport for my ride home, I got to run into Rob who I also served with, he was visiting family in Florida. Literally got to see two Marine brothers who I served with in the early 90s at the same airport on the same day, 30+ years later.

Here’s a few pictures from the trip.

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Gallifrey One: 2024

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Carmelo

We had such an amazingly fun time at GallifreyOne. Jaime debuted her Anne Droid because we knew Billie Piper would be there… and she took a photo with us!

Our friend, Allison, got a free photo with Alex Kingston!

I got to meet Annette Badland! She’s very nice!

Aside from all our celebrity stuff, we met with so many people that we had interactions with in the past that remembered us and vice versa, also because of our being so familiar with the place, the events, the people, we were much more social with everyone.

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Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Carmelo

Jaime and I left for Gallifrey1 a day early so that we could have a fun meal at a gluten free sushi restaurant. It was a pretty sweet day!

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Allysen’ s Birthday 2024

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Carmelo

It was pretty special to attend a karaoke party that the Southwest Vocal Alliance was holding to throw a party for Allysen and another member. I got to hear some pretty good talent do karaoke! What a treat!

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Tempe LibCon 2024

Posted on January 27, 2024 by Carmelo

As usual this time of year, we headed out to Tempe for their library convention. While we met up with a whole bunch of people there, I only took one good enough quality photo of our core group. Afterwards we went out to dinner on that side of town at a pretty decent gluten free place.

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Out to Eat!

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Carmelo

I had lunch with my friends whom I used to work with, then I had dinner with Damien. I’ve been trying to have regular contact with friends and family and why not do it over a meal?

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Barret-Jackson

Posted on January 25, 2024 by Carmelo

I was invited a few weeks ago to go to Barret-Jackson from an old friend/vendor that I’ve known for years when I used to do RSA Archer stuff. I wasn’t sure and neither was Jaime, but after a little bit of discussion, we decided, why the heck not?! So we agreed and because we anticipated a buttload of traffic, we ubered it there.

It was so cool! Right when we walked in, there was a massively huge Earth Roamer, a $1.1 million dollar monster truck RV. It was ridiculous and awesome! Totally I would get it if I was a billionaire! lol.

Some of the cars were super cool. I was amazed to find some exotic vehicles were much more affordable than some others. For example, we saw a Lamborghini go for 87,000 while a Ram TRX went for 150,000. That’s ridiculous.

Because we were invited, we had VIP access and hung out in the Skybox, I ate some food, we had unlimited drinks, and had some good conversation with the vendors. We didn’t even have to talk about work or business because I already own the product! So we got to talk about cars and stuff.

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Another Build Party and Jonathan’s Dinner

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Carmelo

We had yet another build party, as a con we are prepping for is coming up quick! So we spent some time with our friends making costumes and discussing our lineups and stuff.

Personally, I’m working on ninja stars. My brother and I had the idea of doing Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, from the GI Joe series. I’ve always wanted to do this and it’s a relatively easy outfit for me anyway. Plus, I was thinking if any kids approached me, i could give them a paper ninja star if their parents are cool with it. What kid doesn’t want a ninja star? AMIRITE! lol.

Afterwards, like the last build party, we went out to eat, but this time for Jonathan’s birthday.

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Alltel Meetup

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Carmelo

I got to see my Alltel people again last night, it was really cool to catch up with them.

Some look so very different than 20 years ago, while some others, like no change at all.

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First Build Party of 2024

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Carmelo

We had our first build party of 2024, people came over and started working on their costumes for some of the conventions that we will be attending during the year.