Cryptonomicon

Throughout history, making codes and breaking codes has changed the world landscape. I believe none more so that the WW2 breaking of the German Engima codes. The Enigma was a machine that the German military used to communicate and was thought by the German leaders (a deranged vegetarian lunatic and an opium addicted blob) to be unbreakable. Its chances of repetition was 1:158,962,555,217,826,360,000. That's a big number. Some awesome dude named Turing came up with a way to break the codes made by Enigma using a machine called the Bombe. The only working one is at Bletchley Park where we decided to visit for a hot second. It was very cool to see such a neat piece of history.

Kenilworth Castle

Pa and I decided to take an adventure one day and flitted off to Kenilworth Castle near Coventry. It was the castle for the longest siege in English history and was incredibly important in the War of the Roses. During the English Civil War it was mostly blown up but its still wonderful and very cool to tromp around. Also included is a photo of a 3 wheel car we saw along the way which makes me wonder, "why did somebody actually make that?"

Lon-don ( I Imagine this being said instead of thunder in ACDC's Song Thunderstruck)

I got invited to my childhood friend Andrew's wedding in the UK. We started out in London which many people visit but I was flabbergasted to see that the Brits have a statue of George Washington off Trafalgar Square. If anybody knows why this is the case, let me know for I would imagine they wouldn't like him all that much.

Christmas Party

Our company has a Christmas party every year. This year it involved a dancing Elvis impersonator, lots of fake gambling, me stealing fake poker chips, playing pool and Carey! We cut a rug, wore our table centerpiece as hats, and then took a giant balloon decoration. It was a lot of fun and somehow I managed to snap a photo of Carey in the coolest pose ever.