World of Concrete 2007

My trip to the airport was horrible. This is how it started out.


This is how it went. I also took pictures of the two cars I saw that had spun off of the road on my way to the airport, but they didn't turn out.


One thing I like about flying JetBlue is that Fuddruckers is near the gate. This is where I ate dinner before I got on the plane.


I thought this was my plane that they were de-icing, but they switched the gate for my flight after I took this picture. The flight boarded 20 minutes late and took off an hour after that.


This is a picture of baggage claim in the Las Vegas airport. Any flight where both I and my bags both safely arrive at our intended destination is a good flight in my book.


This is the entrance hallway to my room at the Luxor, where I arrived shortly after 1:00 a.m. PST.


Here's the desk.


The closet.


The bed.


The bath.


The sink.


The shower.


Here's the view out my window, looking straight out.


And here's the view looking down.


I was here for World of Concrete 2007.


This is half of the registration area. I took other pictures, but you get the idea. It was a big registration area.


I took some photos on the show floor before I saw this sign. So, no photos from the floor on this blog, sorry.


This is what part of the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center looks like empty.


This is a picture taken from one end of the South Hall to the other. You can't really get a sense of the size of the space from these pictures.


This is what I saw when I poked my head around the corner of one of the walls in the registration area.


This was my ticket to the Slayer concert in the House of Blues in Las Vegas. Slayer was in town the same time as I was--how lucky was that!


This is my car when I got back to it early Saturday morning. No snow this time, only ice--how wonderful?


I saw these signs on U.S. Route 15 on my way home from the airport. In the middle of all this cold and ice, Hot Tub Expo sounds like a pretty good show to have.

Monday, January 29, 2007 

World of Concrete 2007
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

2:43 PM 

My Room At The Deerfield Hyatt

This is the desk of my room at the Hyatt in Deerfield. I was only there for one night, almost not worth unpacking.


This is the TV.


This is the couch. It was less blurry in real life.


The bed, which had lots of pillows. It was a king size bed, which is a good thing.


The sink. I guess I can call it a sink. My room this time had in-room coffee. I like that, too.


And finally, the shower. Overall, my room at the Hyatt was very nice. My stay in Deerfield was brief. I'll probably be back sometime, though! I had to get these up on this site because I'm T-3 days away from being back in Las Vegas.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 

My Room At The Deerfield Hyatt

9:50 PM 

Scene Safety Training Today

Cars are very wobbly when you set them up like this. Be sure your scene is safe!

I recommend not doing this with your own car.

Thursday, January 04, 2007 

Scene Safety Training Today

1:12 AM 

Photos from JLC Live! - Pacific Northwest 2006

JLC Live! - Pacific Northwest 2006!


The registration area


My room at the Seattle Grand Hyatt


Last show, an outhouse; this show, a well-lit toilet


It had a shower


And a tub


And a sink


Here's one last picture of the bathroom, the nicest of any hotel I've ever stayed in


View from my room, to the left--space needle is on the right


View from my room, straight ahead, space needle on the left. I was tempted to try to call the people who worked in the office building next door.


View from my room, to the right, where the construction went on all night long


View from my room, looking down on the mall

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 

Photos from JLC Live! - Pacific Northwest 2006

11:12 PM 

Photos from NACE 2006

My room at Excalibur--well, not really, more on this pic later.


Part of the registration area for NACE 2006.


A wider angle shot of the registration area, after the close of the show.


Oops. This truck was parked near the entrance to the show.


I managed to get to the Stratosphere one night. I came looking for the roller coaster, but I found out it had closed last year.


This is a view of Las Vegas from the Stratosphere tower.


This is a picture of the tower. At the very top of the tower is the Big Shot ride.


Here's a closer look at that. Since there was no roller coaster, I rode Big Shot instead. The blurry red ring is a group of lucky people racing at 45 miles per hour up to a height of 1081 feet!


Another view of Las Vegas while I was waiting to ride Big Shot.


On the way back to Excalibur, I poked my head in to take a quick look at the Star Trek: The Experience entrance in the Las Vegas Hilton. Barry Manilow and Star Trek? I guess that covers a lot of bases.


This is a Star Wars slot machine in the Hilton.


I had a red-eye flight back after the show was over, so I decided to spend a little time in the Mojave National Preserve. My original plan was to rent a Charger. This picture of Kelbaker Road in the preserve might give you some idea of why. Sadly, no Chargers--so I got a Taurus instead.


Still Kelbaker Road. I'd say I drove on the road for about 20 minutes without seeing another vehicle. There were turns in the road, but I just took pictures of the straight parts.


This is a rock formation along Kelbaker Road.


A Joshua tree along the road.


A desert plant of some sort.


This is kind of the last sign I expected to see driving through the Mojave desert.


In case you're wondering where Kelbaker Road goes, this is it--the Kelso Depot.


This is the front of the Depot.


There's one lunch room in the middle of the Mojave, and you know I found it.


Unfortunately, there's no longer any lunch in the lunch room. So I wandered around the depot, which was recently restored by the Park Service.


IT, circa 1930.


A poster from back in the day.


The second floor housed railroad workers. Down this hall was the room I took the picture of.


This is the other half of the room.


A Union Pacific train rolling by the depot.


A short drive from the Kelso Depot are the Kelso Dunes, the third-tallest sand dunes in North America. So I had to climb on them, even if I didn't have enough time to go all the way to the top.


This is an outhouse at the entrance to the dunes. Exciting stuff, I know.


This is another picture of it from on the dunes, as far as I managed to walk out on them in the time I had. It's the small white spot just left of the center of the picture.


This is where I managed to get to before I had to go back or face inconvenient things like the sun setting while I was in the middle of a desert, not being able to get back in time for my flight home, etc.


You can't really tell the sun was setting in that last picture, but this one shows it really is going down!


Did I mention that the sun was going down?


Almost back to the car!


Out of light, out of time, and fortunately, back at my car. I wound up driving over 300 miles before jumping on my flight home.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 

Photos from NACE 2006

4:05 AM