Friday was my first day back from this last trip to California. No more travel until March 7th! I was able to connect to all the right systems with work and actually be pretty productive over a VPN to Milpitas. Running an X server on WinXP and exporting windows over a VPN works pretty well, as long as you're not using a very intensive program. Fortunately, SSH with Putty works even better, so that's been my primary interface. It feels like 1994 all over again, with me working on Georgia Tech College of Computing systems from the Sun workstations in the Rich Building, but without all the obsessive xtrek players shouting out maneuvers to each other from nearby computers.
Friday night was a trip to the Hyde Park Theater with
Saturday afternoon was a screening of the Thai martial arts film "Ong-bak". The story's really lame and the acting ranged from passable to atrocious, but the actual physicality of the main actor makes this film stunning. The foot chase through Bangkok where he jumps over and through an array of obstacles was just breathtaking.
Saturday night was a really nice dinner with

Sunday was slow; I spent time on some projects for work, updated my Combee on Palm OS weblog with a few entries, and met with Charlie to go over plans for the March 5th SWNN Alamo event. I think we're going to have an interactive element to the show, with the audience influencing the clips that we'll actually show on the big screen. We've got a few really funny gags planned too, but I'm not going to give anything away just yet.
This week should be pretty low-key. Next Saturday I start improv classes down at the Hideout with the Heroes of Comedy group, and I'm getting really excited. The last time I did improv work was back in college, and while a lot of the writing for "The Show With No Name" was done in an improv style, we never did any formal training or tried to follow any of the standard forms. We were really creative, but I think the training will help me focus that creativity and use it to produce more sophisticated and more truthful comedy.
Good luck on the improv class!
You do a lot of cool stuff. If I knew about it in advance, I'd likely join you for some of it (not that you necessarily want that, but anyway :).
As far as the class goes, I don't think the level 1 class has a public performance; there's something at the end of the level 2 class, if I remember correctly.