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I finally took the plunge, and purchased a new domain. I am working on getting things set up. For now, the blog is active! Every blog post and comment I’ve made on all four different places I blogged (including here) have been migrated to the new blog. From today forward, I will only be blogging [...]

I was fortunate to attend Gnomedex 8.0 last week. I was there as both an attendee, and Chris/Ponzi’s right hand girl. Every year, the conference has a theme. This year, it was “Human Circuitry”. Now that I’m home and well-rested (yeah, right. me? rest?) again, I’ve been thinking about what exactly Human Circuitry means.
When [...]

Now that it’s over, I am still having trouble gathering my thoughts to put them into words. My experience was absolutely amazing. Being a part of the “behind the scenes” workings during the planning and actual conference heightened my experience, for sure. Chris and Ponzi depended on me for a lot of things, and I [...]

Saturday started at 6am again. I had been told by the bellman at the hotel that another cruise ship was due in at about that time. I woke up and went to the window to see the ship coming in. I took some pictures of it pulling into port, and saw something in the water [...]

Friday started off extremely early for me. I was up at 6am to watch the sunrise over the Bay. What an amazing sight that was. When I first looked out the window, I automatically looked to the right… towards the mountains. I then turned my head to look left… and freaked out. There was the [...]

Day 2 for me was actually the first day of the conference… Thursday. I woke up rather early, since I had passed out so early the night before. After my shower (omg I NEED a shower like that!!), I spent some time waking up, sitting in front of the window in my room. The view [...]

My day on Wed started with me rolling out of bed at 3:45am EST. After I was showered and ready, I set out for the hotel. Both flights were uneventful and on time, and I arrived in Seattle at 10:30am PST. One of the ops from the chat room lives here in Seattle. Dave (Blaster) [...]

Yep, that picture makes it official. I am registered to attend Gnomedex. Of course, I won’t be there as a conference attendee. I’ll be running around in the background, helping Chris and Ponzi with anything and everything they think of.
The lineup of speakers for this year is simply amazing. I definitely can’t wait [...]

According to CNN, Esmin Green is a symbol of a health-care system that seems to have failed horribly. Esmin’s pastor from her church says she had been hospitalized with emotional problems in the past, and recently appeared to be in distress again. The pastor decided to call 911 to get her some help. Upon her [...]

Around 3am on Wednesday morning, I was sitting at my computer working. Some of the neighborhood teenagers were shooting off fireworks (LARGE ones) in the parking lot across the street from me. About twenty minutes later, I heard sirens that sounded like they stopped right at my door. I looked out and saw a fire [...]