Yes, James and I are headed to SXSW, our annual geek summer camp, where we frolic and romp with our internet friends. This year I won’t have my old social lubricant, to free up the social inhibitions, but I will have trusted pals around.
(And that’s somehow even more freeing.)

Plus, one of “my” wineries is throwing a party that I helped to engineer.
Want to rock the Bigg Digg Shindigg?
(I certainly thought you did. Also! I made that poster! Who’d a thunk?)

Other than that, life has been rolling out in front of this computer.
Life rolls out in the form of housework and chores and to do lists and tick marks. I don’t like it when my life feels painted in. That’s the state of things right now.

Yes, I understand I’m trying to put my head down and make way for baby, but there seems to be no room for wondering.
There is no room for wandering.
No room for ambling.

So this break is wonder-full for me.
Wonderful to see friends, to dream with a group, to let connections surprise me, to giggle as the universe shows me all the amazing gifts that technology can provide.

Hooray for grownups taking the time to marvel!

P.S. Have you been watching Download: The History of the Internet on Discovery Science? If you can, you should totally watch it. This show makes me so proud to have chased my dream to the West Coast, so happy to have loved the internet as much as I have.

Plus, is it true?
Did I live the dot-com dream and crash and eventual resurrection?
Have P2P networks only been around that short of time?
Did I really have crushes on all those developers over the years?

Oh man, I can’t wait to see you.