NAB the Driver

Okay. Lame title. But I'm pretty much UTP@ right now. Of course, I've been UTP@ for like, well, a week or so now.

Anyway.

Yesterday I attended the NAB Convention. NAB = National Association of Broadcasters.
All the big TV, radio, internet dweebs (dweeba, dweeba!) were there. It was very very overstimulating and exhausting and boring. The Ultra Hi-Def presentation was cool. Because, you know, High Def isn't "oh wow!" enough, they had to make it ULTRA Hi Def.
But, anyway. In fifty years, when people are actually able to afford getting Ultra Hi-Def in their homes, that's gonna be some whacked out shit...tizzle. Or something.

On the way back to the station, though, was the cool part of the day. See, behind the Sahara Hotel and Casino, there is a brand new ...thing called "The Drive". It's sponsored by General Motors, and basically consists of two driving courses where people pay money to drive GM vehicles around.
One of the courses is the "precision course" where you can drive sporty-racey type of cars around a curved race track type of course.
The other is the "outdoor course" where you can drive a Hummer H2 or H3 up big old hills and over steep inclines and over logs and through flames and next to hissing cobras.

My supervisor and I were watching them from a distance, and were saying, "That looks like fun. We'll have to check it out sometime." And were going to leave it at that, but as we were leaving, we discovered that until the end of April, it's FREE for locals! Awesome!

So, I got to drive an H2 over some crazy hills, and then I got to speed around in a corvette. All for free. Hee!

It was a lot of fun, and we are thinking about sneaking back down there during lunch on Friday. I highly suggest that any Las Vegans who happen to be reading this (Hi, Miranda!) find a way to get down there before May 1st. (The price for non-locals, and once the special ends, is 10 bucks. That gives you two drives - you can do two of the precision course, two of the outdoor course, or one of each.) Only catches: You must be 18 or older (even to be a passenger, so, yeah, that sucks that the kids can't go with ya), you must have a license, and you have to pass a breathalizer test.

But, yeah. Totally fun experience.

In other news, Take Your Children To Work Day is on Thursday. So, I'm sure I'll have plenty to report on that day.

And, the biggest thing of the day - Irina took 5 (FIVE!!) steps on her own today!! EEEEEE!!