Viviana’s birthday and some Fred Green with New Friends

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Carmelo

 

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Irish Kilt Run

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Carmelo

March 16th: Irish Kilt Run

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Arizona Aloha Festival 2018

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Carmelo

March 11th: Arizona Aloha Festival

Shave Ice!

 

Family! JR, Viviana and Victor!

 

Leaving with our purchases!

 

Ohana TK250G

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Jake Shimabukuro – Mesa Arts Center – 2018

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Carmelo

I was inspired to play the Ukulele in 2014, while Jaime and I were in Oahu and decided to just hit up the Ukulele festival down the road from the hotel. I was like fuck it, sure, why not? I dug some of that Hawaii music, it was okay at best. Then this one guy gets announced, and whoever he is, talked about how he didn’t sing and liked fingerstyle ukulele. He then did some fucking amazing music! Come to find out, it was Jake Shimabukuro. I didn’t even get to see him, but I sat in the grass and listened to him and was just… Just awed at what he could do on four strings.

I got an ukulele, and then started learning. I learned and learned and played a lot. Well, tonight, and 15 ukuleles later, I got to see Jake!

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Ukuleles and Jake Shimabukuro

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Carmelo

Berlin and Jake Shimabukuro

A present for Berlin

Carmelo and Jake Shimabukuro

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Scottish Highland Games 2018

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Carmelo

We went to the Scottish Highland Games in downtown Phoenix and had a blast drinking dark beers, shopped for kilts and accessories, and ate haggis.

Haggis!

The Kilt Crew!

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February 2018

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Carmelo

February 2nd: World Play Your Ukulele Day

with the Sam Ash crew on World Play Ukulele Day

February 3rd-5th: Michigan Family visits and Superbowl at Camille’s


February 9th: Vampire Ball for Valentine’s

February 17th: Renaissance Festival!

February 24th: Shay and Kellie’s House Party!

February 25th: The Glendale Folk and Heritage Festival (Phoenix Ukulele Group Concert!) more photos and video

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Booked for Nashville TN

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Carmelo

It has been many years since I lived in Millington Tennessee, I was stationed at the Naval Air Station there for Ordnance school in 1992. A fresh 18 year old, just gaining independence and I probably could have used a lot more guidance. I rarely got to travel to other parts of Tennessee (financially and mentally, I could have used more guidance!), so I’m excited about it.

I’m going to Nashville for the ISACA GRC Conference and luckily, at the same week, there is the RSA Archer Summit. They are only a couple of blocks away from each other and I have a good feeling that Nashville is beautiful too.

I do enjoy going to conferences and being exposed to new takes on using similar solutions, the “cool” hacking presentation that someone will often do for the neato bit. Networking is nice too. I hope to get a lot of useful information from these. CPE points are nice too!

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Choosing a Security Framework

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Carmelo

I had a conversation about this topic the other day, so I was pretty happy to stumble upon this video.

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January 2018

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Carmelo

The following are the best of each week within January

New Years at Camille and Randy’s with our usual crowd minus a couple.

January 5th: The Van Buren with Mindi to watch 80s Holiday Hangover. With Strangelove – The Depeche Mode Experience, The Cured – 1980’s The Cure Experience, Idol X – A Tribute to Billy Idol & Electric Duke – A Tribute to David Bowie

January 13th: Ace Comicon & 105th Meetup outside Ace Comicon. It was very expensive and very different from the convention center that we are used to.

January 21st: 105th Build Party

January 26th: A very early Hot Air Balloon Festival with Brandee and Brent for them to take a lot of photos; &

we cosplayed at the Tempe Library Comicon and hung out with our 105th squad fam &

celebrated Jasmin’s birthday at a place we should probably never go to ever again because the service was so bad.

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