Been at the Interwoven GearUP 2008 conference and the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Yes hopping back and forth has been tiring, but when one sux the other is the destination, pretty easy just dont suck. GearUp is very big enterprise corporation feeling and Web 2.0 feels like lots of kids without sound business plans but lots of creativity, obviously if someone could meet in the middle I think they would do very well.
Ah but with conferences come evening booze festivities thus this means I am drunk solid from 7-10pm each night, and pounding water and struggling to get up for the siren call of Free breakfast at 730am ack.
I've got to give the networking nod to GearUp for most friendly attendees, easy to talk to and swip info with. But the buzz with the Web 2.0 crowd is infectious even if i'm not in the inner geekdom party circle. God if i'm not even in that circle I may as well just hang it up and call it a day on the social scale right? meh long live the pariahs, I'm down with all of you standing in the back corners alone.
Been too long since I've updated the blog, anyhow last time I did so I was going to Tahoe, well I ended up coming back a big winner having taken down a small tourney and a juicy cash game, left $700 up.
The kid is doing great, she's running, baby blabbing and bringing me nothing but joy, no I understand, I finally understand. Weening from the bottle is going well thanks to the wife as I find myself wanting to cave in a bit more.
I started going back to the gym every other day, I feel a million times better already, wow did I need it. I love it when I go back to the gym from a long hiatus cause the results are so immediate. Unfortunately I go to ghetto 24hr fitness, no offense to those of you who go there too but that place is wack, period.
I've registered to go back to school, toying with the idea of hitting summer school, this is more for the kid then for me, ok maybe not, either way it couldn't be a bad thing no?
So I'm up in south Lake Tahoe, came up with my friend Frank and are staying at the Mont Bleu hotel. They gave us a "Mountain View" hotel which means roof view with just a tad of mountain on the 6th floor. Played a couple poker tourneys then met up with some really great old friends. The excuse for the get together is the college basketball final four, but to be honest I don't know much of anything about sports let alone college basketball.
I met the guys later at Sammy Hagars bar Cabo Wabo in Harveys, it's a nightmare avoid this place like the plague, it was like mtv spring break gone wrong. We ended up standing around the arcade underneath Harveys, then made the better decision to hit the Hard Rock bar. $10 patron shots and $7 whiskey sours were the norm for the Hard Rock, it was pretty dead there, it's actually pretty dead up here in general according to the staff. Then we sat in front of a god awful cover band drinking for a bit, thank god they ended their set and we got to sit comfortably and catch up.
It's 1130am now and i'm just getting up and am starving so gonna sign off for now, wish me luck at the tables.
