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One of my coworkers sent me an email today which included a fantastically fun conjunction I’d not come across (or thought of myself) before. The context of the sentence was something along the lines of “this section is similar to all the other sections we have ever done.” Except, instead of “we have ever,” he used we’ver. We’ver = we have ever. And you know what the best part was? I didn’t even notice the conjunction right away. My brain automatically translated it into “we have ever” and kept on going. And that is what makes a good conjunction work. Yay geeky grammatical fun!

Oh, and I made it home from San Diego, by the way. No worries there. ;) I may even get around to posting a few pictures sometime. Perhaps even this weekend, if I get sufficiently bored. And “sufficiently bored” might even happen, because Amanda will be up north visiting her family all weekend. Of course, I’ll be spending Saturday evening - Sunday evening in southern Iowa visiting family of my own. So promises I will not make. I’m sure you expected nothing else.

Anyway, I know this is a short post, but I want to try and catch up on a couple of blogs of my own really quickly before I head out for the evening. Have a good weekend, all!

The conference still goes. I’m having a pretty darn good time, although it is punctuated with moments of homesickness. I’m missing the girlfriend, mostly. I spend a lot of time reflecting on the excitement I’m feeling at any given moment and wishing she were here to share in that excitement with me. Never mind the fact that were she here, she’d probably be bored to tears by the stuff I’m excited about. ;) It’d still be nice were she around. If anything, this is too big a hotel room for one person.

I’ve accidentally met some pretty cool people doing some pretty cool things. I just got done having lunch with the CTO of Gawker Media, which is one of the world’s biggest blogging media companies. Yesterday, I had lunch with a guy that works for Boeing whose job is to come up with new ideas. I’m pretty jealous of that job. I also met the guy in charge of “media” for Myspace. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of media on Myspace. We discussed various ways of implementing a service they’re planning to roll out in the future that I don’t think I’m really supposed to talk about.

I’m also enjoying myself outside of the conference, hanging out with my old friend Lorenzo. Last night we had a drink at the Top of the Hyatt (photo upwards), which gives a great view of the San Diego bay area (I’m told you can see all the way to Mexico when it isn’t so cloudy). Afterwards, we wandered around the Gas Lamp district and stopped in a Mexican restaurant called Los Pancheros for dinner. Tonight, he and I are thinking about hitting up a hooka bar, since neither of us has ever been to one. Tomorrow, we’re planning on doing lunch on a beach somewhere north of the city. And Thursday night, we’ll be partying it up in Tijuana. He’s already planning on taking Friday off of work. I’m just hoping I’m in decent enough condition to fly out that afternoon. :)

Well, break time is over. Time to get back to the learnin’. My brain is already fairly near its saturation point, so I’m hoping the afternoon presenters take it a little easier on me.

I made it to San Diego, for those of you who care (and I’m hoping that this group contains, well… someone, at the least). :)

Photo featured yonder is a snapshot of part of my room, taken from the entrance to my kitchen. Not visible: my kitchen (obviously), my giant-ass bathroom and my office. In other words, my room fairly well rocks. They were nearly full up when I got here (which is a long and adventuresome story in itself, which I hope to share some-other-day), so they stuck me in a half of a suite. Meaning, my bed isn’t much to look at (it folds down out of a faux-wardrobe), but my room is pretty rockin’. Its square footage is pretty close to my house, anyways.

Most notable moment thus far: I was walking out of the airport, towards the taxi area, and I caught myself thinking that really, San Diego wasn’t much different from Des Moines. In fact, it was about 10 degrees warmer in Des Moines when I left. So what was the big deal about California? And then I saw it: a palm tree. I’ve never seen a palm tree in real life before. :) That is how I recognized that I was no longer, in fact, in Iowa.

And now it’s time for bed. I’ve need to be up by around 7am, methinks. I’ll write towards you again when I get a chance.

In just a few minutes, I’ll be turning off my computer (it’s always the last thing to go), packing up Amanda’s car, and heading to the airport. As such, I’ll be pretty much incommunicado until at least 10:30pm central time tonight. After that, if you need to get ahold of me, I would suggest either using my cell or my gmail address. If you’re the forgetful type, you can find both on my contact page.

Adieu!