In a few hours I leave for San Jose to go to the BlogHer conference. On Saturday I’ll be moderating a panel on how to make money off your blog. The panelists are Arieanna Foley and the famous Heather Armstrong, better known as Dooce. I’m a little nervous and anxious, but I think it should go well. I sort of just want to get this weekend over with so I can come home and finish packing and then move. Just so much stuff going on lately that I can’t concentrate.. then add this travel for me.. and Dallas has been travelling for work like crazy.

I am excited for this weekend because even though the Bay area is far from where I lived in San Diego, this is the first time I’m setting foot on California soil since I lived there, if you don’t count transferring through an airport on the way to Hawaii. It should be fun. On Saturday night Traci, a coworker of mine, and I are going up to San Francisco and hanging out with friends of hers. Then we fly out Sunday night. I haven’t been to SF for almost 10 years. It makes me feel really old that I can say something like that and be referencing a time in 1997 when I went for work to attend a Macromedia User Group Conference… man, I’ve been business traveling for over a decade! I’m ancient. But, to balance it out, last night I was walking with Michelle and Laura on Division Street. Laura doesn’t live in the area and Michelle lives a little farther north, by Wicker Park. I was telling them about places we go to on Division and I pointed out that my 30th birthday party was at Moonshine last year. Laura and Michelle are both several years younger than me and as we walked a beat or two went by, maybe a quarter block, and Laura said “uh.. did you say your 30th birthday? I thought you were like 24. ” W00T! Take THAT decade of business travel!

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