George Strait/Super Bowl Weekend & Beyond

These past few days have been pretty crazy...Thursday (1/31) was my last day at work - Yay!! Friday (2/1) the company took me out for a "going-away" lunch. We went to Novo in downtown SLO. Very tasty!! And then my brother, his g/f, and a good friend o' mine went to see Josh Turner and George Strait at the Savemart Center in Fresno - such an amazing concert! Glad I got to see a country legend before I ship out! That lead to a long drive back to SLO, sleeping in on Saturday morning, waking up, executing "Phase 1" of packing my crap up and moving it back to Mom & Dad's place, and then getting to Mom & Dad's place just in time for dinner; We also were celebrating Chinese New Year early (I think my sis was gonna be busy the following weekend, so we opted for this past one). Then I went to my old church and was blessed by a few close friends as they prayed over my upcoming adventure. Then I boogied off to Tracy, CA to catch a majority of the back half of the Superbowl as a few of my Sacramento friends came down to watch at a mutual friends place, which saved me the chore of driving up to Sac to see them. I spent the night in Tracy and busted down to Fresno, yet again, in the AM to see some other friends (Nick & Jeannie, and Brit, and Josh & Crystal) there as I passed thru on my way back to SLO - so much fun! I got back to SLO at about 7:30 PM to have dinner with my old roomie and his wife (Charles & Lauren) which was "payment" for watching their cat. At the same time, one of my Navy Special Warfare (NSW) mentors called me and requested that I go down to UCLA on Wednesday, 5:00 AM, to do a "dry-run" for an event they are putting on this weekend [check it out: http://sealfitnesschallenge.com]. It was a pretty cool deal, the media was there and I may have gotten a few seconds on LA's morning and midday news - I haven't seen any of it, but I suppose I can say that I was on TV, woohoo! But, I got my @$$ kicked pretty good and I'm currently a little concerned with my current level of fitness now...The guys have been real encouraging, and technically I'm in good physical standing, I guess I just wish I did better and that I wasn't so friggin' cold and cramped up. I did however impress a few of the SEAL and EOD officers and chiefs with my swim...the rest of the gig...well, let's not talk about that...Now, I'm trying to gain back the time I spent away towards packing up all my stuff - it's not going so well - I need a shower and I've been up for the past 20 hours...