I’m realizing that I’m really in desperate need of a vacation. Whenever you leave home, you get into that traveler mentality where you just seize whatever the moment provides, you take pictures, and you seem to just breathe in life a little deeper and little more meaningfully. Routines are meaningless. So with that in mind, …

Woke up nice and late again with a dog licking my face. We headed to a place called The Bongo Room to have breakfast. I had the Pear and Cranberry French Toast. Delicious. Luke and I then wandered around a couple stores again where I found a Jordan jersey for $4. That was the easiest …

Well today I was able to basically wake up and watch the Cubs win two games. The game the night before was suspended so they started from the 7th inning, won, then won the next game. In between then we got lunch from a very good noodles place. And by the way, Jamie and Davey …

Well I’m down in Chicago for a few days, and even though this isn’t somewhere exotic or somewhere I haven’t been before, I figured I could still document it. I’m down here with Luke from Sweet Japonic, and we’re hoping to check out some open mic nights and hopefully meet some people in the local …

Well, it’s hard to believe that this is my last day here. I’ve gotten so used to this place, I’m kind of sad to say goodbye. But I didn’t have to do that yet. So I got all packed up and checked out of my hotel and headed off to the last day of Linuxworld. …

Woke up like the dead returning to life, and once again skipped the keynote speaker (it was once again something that didn’t sound interesting at all). Hit up the sunflower cafe (it’s the closest thing to a routine I really have time to establish), and headed for the exhibition again. A few more booths had …

Today was the start of the actual conference seminars as well as the exhibition. Yesterday was the special hands on training courses that only special people that shelled out the extra money got to go to (or those special people’s company’s money). So I got up, worked out again, stopped by the sunflower cafe (damn, …

Woke up nice and early (6:30, but it was 9:30 in my brain) and took a few pictures of the nice foggy morning from my hotel room. Pretty cool. So I watched Sportscenter for a while, worked out, and then headed out to the conference. I stopped at a place across the street called The …

Well the first day was slightly more eventful then I had planned on. I took off from GR (realizing that I had forgotten my phone charger, but luckily Ryan and Jacqui were close enough to come quick get me and take me back to my apartment. Ah, the luxuries of actually living close to the …

Well I’m headed off to San Francisco in less than an hour, and I realized that this not only is my first real “business trip” but also it’s the first time I’ve really gone anywhere I’ve never been before by myself. For me being a type J, this is quite intimidating. I’m excited to see …