What a weekend ... Danny deserves mad props for putting on a bachelor party par excellence in Vegas. He and i flew in at 10pm on Friday night, and met up with early arrival Gary and socal auto travellers Matthew and Kevin at the Hôtel San Rémo across from the MGM Grand on the strip. The weekend naturally contained the usual ... umm ... debauchery, but we also got in some less racy activities like some Euro 2004 viewing at a local English pub. Danny informed us that he had a "mystery activity" planned for Saturday afternoon, which had the rest of us fearing jumping out of planes or taming lions. Instead, we stopped by the Gun Store and shot up Osama bin Laden targets with fully automatic M-16s and AK-47s. I woke up Sunday with a huge bruise on my shoulder from the nasty M-16 recoil ... now i know why i didn't join the Army. On the bright side, i was impressed with my accuracy ... although i was carefully squeezing off rounds at a slow pace compared to Matthew and Gary, who were going through clips in 10-15 seconds. After his turn on the range, Gary was informed by the instructor that he'd shot up the ceiling. We all agreed the AK was the superior weapon in terms of recoil.

I have to give it up to Danny again, he richly deserves the title "best man" after organizing such a crazy weekend. Now back to the mundane wedding planning and research ...

In other birthday news, i got an Xbox Live starter kit from Arlene, Alan, and Ana, so now i've got to get busy perfecting my online Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six 3 skills. DJ Jeremy also recently gave me his extra copy of Topspin for the Xbox, which as it turns out is also online compatible, so i'll get in some sports action as well. Vegas attendee Matthew also gave me the Simpsons Season 4 DVD collection and a very tasty hazelnut chocolate bar from Germany. V is buying me my present today, a new digital camera so that i can start expanding the shamefully stagnant photos section of this site. All this, and the madness of sin city, very nearly made me forget that i am now 30.