I believe it was the night of Tuesday, June 19th, and I was about halfway through a 1.5L bottle of Smirnoff when my friend Jackie IM’d me saying that I should come visit her in New York City for the weekend. I was drunk enough that I said, “sure!” and followed up by booking a flight and hotel for the upcoming weekend despite a mere 72 hours notice.

I had never really been “in” NYC before, so I figured why the hell not. I went ahead and set myself up with a decent hotel in downtown Manhattan, the Millennium Hilton right next to Ground Zero for 9/11, and then just prepared myself the best I could for the unplanned weekend getaway.

Things didn’t start off too great, however. Here’s what I wrote about “The Plane Trip From Hell”:

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The beginning of the year was a busy time for me because I was finishing up work on APF 2K8, but I did manage to squeeze in some fun time. Things started off with a visit from my good friend and one-time Babe of the Week Erica Ramos in the middle of March. She was in town doing some modeling for Hot Import Nights and afterwards, I gave her the world-renowned Dave Z tour of San Francisco before just chilling at my place for a few days, mostly laughing our asses off doing whatever.

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Alright, so I’ve just uploaded all of the ‘07 photos that never got posted because it was during the time when I wasn’t updating the website. They cover SF visits from Erin, Andrea & Erica, plus an LA trip to see Jordanna, Kim & Nikayla, two Florida vacations and a impromptu jaunt to New York City for my first-ever visit to see Jackie, Charis, Amanda and Paula. You can see all the sexy pics in the My Photos section. I plan to post more detailed recaps of each of these events on my blog in the coming days, so stay tuned!

It was before I started surrounding myself with jaw-dropping beauties and supplying my liver with overpriced alcohol from clubs. Yet, somehow, my New Year’s Eve 2000 was by far the most fun I’ve ever had celebrating the dawning of a new year. It wasn’t even that it was my first in San Francisco and the one celebrating the start of the new millennium, but just that it was fun in the purest of forms.

I had just moved into San Francisco to work at IGN.com. While I looked for a place, Sam Kennedy (Gamespot then and 1up.com now) agreed to let me move into his 1BR apartment in the Mission District if I paid half the rent. Once I got there, Sam K & I convinced David Toole to leave is well-paid position atTarget back in Orlando to move out here on a whim because he could easily get a game industry job too. He moved. He quickly got a job with Sam K at Gamespot.

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Here’s another smallish update to the My Photos section that includes shots that were taken when I was updating, but somehow never made it live for whatever reason. With whatever reason most likely meaning I was too busy losing weight, gaining weight, playing games, watching movies or TV, jerking off, browsing the net for porn, or watching sports at the time. The updated albums include:

• BrandonCam in Orlando (11/13/04)
• New Year’s Eve ‘05 (12/31/04)
• John00Flemming @ Ten15 (01/01/05)
• Jennifer Dorn’s Cali Trip (03/13/05)

Stay tuned for more photo updates that include ones from “the greatest New Year’s Eve ever” and all the ones from the pre-re-birth of DaveZdyrko.com.

I’ve been trying to organize all my photos on the Macbook and in doing so I’ve come across a ton of old photos taken during the period that my site was up that I never posted. I’ve just posted the first batch of these in the My Photos section. They include:

• Sasha @ Ruby Skye (02/25/05)
• Random Party Photos (01/15/05)
• Partying @ Ten15 (05/22/04)
• Partying @ Ruby Skye (06/24/04)

I also have three years of New Year’s Eve photos that I never posted back in the day. My best guess is that the hangovers might’ve destroyed all my memory of me even taking them, so I couldn’t share what I didn’t know I had. Anyway, once I get through the old stuff, I’ll start posting more of the semi-new items.

I just finished up the process of moving all my old photos from Sony ImageStation, which is closing down completely on February 1, 2008, to my new My Photos that are hosted on Flickr. There’s nothing new if you had already checked out everything from before I stopped updating, but if you never got around to it or if you’re new to my blog, then some of the photos are definitely worth giving a look. That is, if you’re a fan of looking at pictures of beautiful women. Or if you happen to have a fetish for big, fat, sweaty, overly-intoxicated men…such as yours truly.

I’ll see what I can do about rounding up any photos that were taken between that last September ‘05 vacation and now and posting them shortly. There were a couple of FL trips and a impromptu jaunt to New York City that happened during that period. I’m sure there’ll be plenty of great photos to check out, both for those in the hot women camp, as well as those in the fatty fetish camp.