New Gallery on my Photorama page - "Man-Sac Weekend"

FINALLY got some new photos up at the MichaelOConnell.com Photorama page (my first ones from 2008). Last month, Aaron, Russ and Tony flew into Sacramento to hang out with me, Tim, A.T. and Rich for the three-day weekend. This was the first sequel to something we started last year, when Aaron, Tony and I flew to Boise to hang out with Russ and check out his new home state and his new house. And it ended up being a weekend of drinking, cigar-smoking and way too much X-Box. You see, not EVERYone has the attractive bachelor life that I live, day-to-day. So as happy as the married dudes are, it's nice, once in a while (say, about once a year) to get away with the guys and relive some of the "glory" days. Hey...we all define "glory" differently, all right?

So last year was dubbed the "Boyz-E Weekend", and served as a reunion for the four of us that used to all live in San Diego. This year Russ decided it was time for another, and wrangled Tony and Aaron together and talked them into the trip to Sacramento (from San Diego and Seattle, respectively). So that officially made this an annual thing, and since I decided each weekend was going to need its own title, I ended up coining this one "Man-Sac Weekend" - mostly just to annoy the other guys. But Man-Sac Weekend (see how much fun that is to repeat?) had an extra bonus, being in Sacramento. That meant that our other pals (and former roommates, for me and Aaron) Tim, A.T. and Rich were right in the area. Tim, like me, took the day off from work on Friday for it, but Rich and A.T. were only going to be able to hook up with us on Saturday night. All good. We all ended up having a great time, and the tradition triumphantly continued. So next year, we're thinking about invading Seattle. And you don't want to know the name for that weekend that Russ has already come up with. You'll have to wait until next spring to find out what that is.

But for now, jump into the photos, if you please, and (I have so been waiting to use this phrase) - behold the glory of the Man-Sac!

And apologies, right here and now, to a certain Dr. K. Dude, things were so thrown together at the last minute and hectic that I totally didn't think to call you until it hit me on Sunday. My apologies, brother. What a thing to do to a fellow Slack Packer. We'll just have to make it up to you in Vegas. Oh, wait...your wife's coming. Never mind...