(yes, this is actually a blog post – you’ll have to figure out how to read it. it shouldn’t be too hard if you have a smartphone or a phone with a camera, but give it a second to read – thassa lotta data. you can create your own massively cool QR code by going here.)
so i’ve managed to survive the majority of the convention. i’d like to tell you which convention, but i’m sure my employer will find out i posted about it and track me down, so we’ll refrain. suffice to say it’s a pretty large convention going on in san diego right now.
rolling along on expense accounts is definitely fun – for a while. after the first few days you start to become tired and irritable, and it becomes more of an expected thing than an appreciated one. i was expected to go eat with the other serfs tonight in the ‘employee dining area’, and that just seemed damn unreasonable for some reason. so i took my team out to dinner, and i’m going to expense it, but we definitely didn’t go to some local chili’s or something. we went to donovan’s, and had some pretty expensive steak. the problem is i didn’t appreciate it nearly as much as i should have, and from the looks of it, neither did my coworkers. we’re all just really…done.
so i didn’t get as many photos and videos as i would have liked, especially of my speaking engagements, but that seems to have been a moot point in retrospect, as there was a pretty huge production company documenting the convention. there were both still photographers (yes, plural) and video crews (again, plural) that took great interest in my sessions for some reason, so it seems i might have some professional footage to post here – for the one person who reads my blog and may be interested in seeing it. :)
k. it’s 11:54 pm, and once again, i’ve worked a 14 hour day. i’m wiped, and i’m going to bed. smell ya later.
i’m exhausted from today. i trained over 400 people today, and was up from 5 am until now (11 pm). i’m a bit wiped right now. however, i do have video, so i’ll have something interesting to post in the next few days to show what’s been going on and how things look from here.
holla!
okay, so i suck at maintaining a blog. however, in my defense, i’ve been working 12 hour days for the past few weeks, and that leaves me very little desire to post anything but a screaming-meemie rant at the end of every day.
so.
i’ve been nice and abstained from spreading negativity about how much i dislike my job, etc, etc, ad nauseaum. this is coming to an end (one way or other), as the past three weeks have been spent preparing for a conference i am attending and presenting at. 6,000 people? no worries.
i’ll do my best to document the conference over the next 5 (yes, 5) days and i’ll secretly post back here to let you in on the insanity.
here’s what happens when the idiotic baptist religious right clashes with the comicon geeks:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/22/super-heroes-vs-the-westboro-baptist-church/
Alabama man from Sebastian Psov on Vimeo.
i so loves me some espresso. i’m seriously considering a rancilio silva espresso maker, just because of the quality of espresso it cranks out. case in point:
Making a Cappuccino and a Espresso with the Rancilio Silvia from Marcio Cabral on Vimeo.
this is a conversation that occurred between a friend of mine and his 4 year old daughter:
Matt: Vi, how’s your quesadilla?
Violet: I don’t know.
M: You don’t know?
V: Yeah, how would I know how it is? It might be happy, or sad, or silly…
M: I meant how does your quesadilla TASTE, not how does it FEEL
V: It wants to go to India
this is why you have kids.
why the fuck is everything last minute? are we as a species doomed to not be able to plan a month out?
the wife and i were talking the other day about selling everything and moving to omaha to buy a farm and do nothing. times like this make me seriously consider it.
(sorry – this is the kind of “deep thought” material you can expect from this website.)