For people on my local filter (pretend I have a local filter okay?):

A birthday party.
Thursday April 5
Party-ish (7:30? There will be enough food to make a dinner out of)

Vino Vixens (the incredibly well-conceived wine shop and bar with the perhaps-not-as-well-conceived name and location)
2929 SE Powell Blvd (map)

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I will be in the Bay Area the weekend of April 7th. Most of Saturday is spoken for but apart from that hanging out with peeps would be cool. Places to crash would be appreciated.

To PDX people, I am scheming an event for Thursday the 5th. Dress will be semiformal / "like you're old." Details to follow, but save the date.

I baked bread.
Volity project was go, and then stop again.
No job.
Can't get a press pass to the GDC. Dammit, more stuff on hold.
Doing yoga periodically.
Working on an article about alternate reality gaming for PushWorking on a story game about undead software engineers in Alaska ( Read more... )

Vla Hemia - Break Loose ( Read more... )

Cannot currently imagine a job in my field that would make me happier. This is a problem because this one is not making me happy. Maybe it's just a bad day and I should stop complaining. Maybe my problem is that I expect better.

Still eating too much.

Cut Chemist - The Garden ( Read more... )

I am running Ubuntu on my new pretty vaio lappy ( Read more... )

Having a complete picture of your product, and revising that picture rapidly in response to change = Agile Methodology

Having no picture of your product and only maybe building one out of your responses to change = Twitchy Methodology

K and I will be in the Bay Area from the 28th through the 2nd.

Yeah, see, I've been in these jobs for a couple years that I just didn't give a flying crap about. So I let my focus muscle get out of shape. Now I need it again. I'm contracting for a great company and dammit I want the conversion, and I need to train that shit up in a hurry. So what do I do, besides feed myself crappy food?

ETA: a sense of ( Read more... )