Sleepless Knight

At 9pm tonight I was walking down the hallway at work and Glen Keane was walking out. We talked for a little bit. I told him that when I worked for Hughes on the B2 when people asked me what I do I would tell them that “I help kill people from very high altitudes.” Now though I get to tell people “I make millions of children all over the world happy.” He told me about the time he went to Disneyland and because he misplaced his ID and had a hard time getting in. He finally got into the park but was a little discouraged and was feeling down.
He walked by Beast and thought “Hey, I animated that charater and they wouldn’t even let me in.” Then he saw a little child run up to the Beast and was hugging and kissing him. He then remembered that it wasn’t all about him. We talked about what a priveledge it is to get to work at Disney.

Often when sending an Amazon link to someone it will get trashed in the email client.

Here is the normal link:
http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Moves-5025-Rubiks-Cube/dp/B00081RYNC/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-8255214-9421430?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1179622914&sr=8-1

Howard at work gave me a tip to shorten the link.

Start with http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/
Find the ASIN number for the product. It is normally on the product page, then add that to the url.

The small link to the same product is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00081RYNC

This is much less likely to get munged in email and is just nicer looking.

My parents wanted to get together for a San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park trip. We did it last weekend. It was really nice to spend time with the kids, wife and parents.
It wasn’t that expensive to get in. Danika and I paid $89 for a year pass for both parks. We paid an extra $24 and we also have a year pass for Josh. Since Christoper was under 3 he was free. We spent a day at each park. We enjoyed each park would go back.
There was more walking at the Wild Animal park than we thought there would be. There used to be tram to take you around the whole park. There is still a tram tour but now it’s a good bit of walking to get to it. Pictures are here.

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