CSUC09 Day 1 (The Drive Down)

Morning all,

Today is the first day of CSUC09 (Cascade Server User’s Conference 2009). I am excited about what I am going to learn today and even more excited about the people I am going to meet. I have already met @KevWorks, @nShontz, @danbowling, @brockbrown, and Beacon Technologies They are all great people and all very knowledgeable. But on to my drive to ATL.

I wanted to take the scenic route down to Atlanta since I never get to take my time and just drive to different places. The map above is the exact route I took and I would recommend it to anybody in the fall of the year. it was wonderful especially Nantahala, Nantahala is the most beautiful stretch of pavement I have ever been on. Waterfalls where on my left, a raging river on the right, and the smell of woodsmoke was in the air. Leaves piled on the road in many different colors just waiting for me to drive over them and kick them in the air. The road was windy and long. As I said before I would recommend it to anyone. Below is a map and images from my trip. Enjoy:

Picture Day Fall 09

Daniel and Zach had their pictures taken at a studio today.
They were so cute that I had to put them on here for you all to view.

The Deal

I recently made a bold statement on twitter that may cost me my dignity in the near future. I said that if I got 500 people to retweet the following tweet I would panhandle holding this sign with all money going to GSO Urban Ministries. The 500 rt’s have to be made by midnight Sept the 19th. So if your interested copy and paste the following into twitter:

RT @davidbates: the deal: rt this and I will hold http://tinyurl.com/nv7h3u for charity donations to http://bit.ly/21Ysqj must get 500 rt’s

Below is an easy way to track the number of retweets so far. Please copy and past above text instead of using retweet buttons below. Thanks

Thank you
David Bates

The Terribly Exciting Two’s

Today my son turned Two years old. He is a fabulous thing. He has made great milestones in his life and I can already start to see little glimpses of the type of man he will become. Daniel is the reason I try so hard, he has changed me in so many ways. So today I say Congrats! to my little man and here’s to another great year.

You can find more pictures over at my wifes blog: www.southernmama.com

Thanks for Reading
David Bates