westec

went to the westec trade show today in la. twas really interesting getting to see some of our products actually mounted on machines. i've never even seen a mill (in real life) before today, much less a dro's, power feeds, lubrication units, and draw bars on the machine itself. very glad i went. :)

bday!

rip and i went to bandera in newport for dinner. we've driven by it a ton of times and once we've even tried going but couldn't get a parking spot. in any case, dinner was pretty damn good. good chicken, and good steak (they're a sister resturant of gulfsteam). afterwards we were in reep's car and he was getting his sweatshirt but it turns out it was a sweatshirt for me! everytime i went to sports authority i'd look at this sweatshirt. so he got it for me. :)

altho, i wore the thing the next day and not only did it dye my white shirt green. it also left a greenish tinge on me face! yeah... we returned it. but still, twas very thoughtful.