Home, For Now

I have been on the road almost the entire month of March. I spent 6 days at SXSW in Austin, then I spoke on a panel at an event the New Organizing Institute put on for up and coming bloggers, then I went to the Take Back America conference in DC, and then flew out to New Orleans for a conference put on by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN).

I just got back last night and will now have 5 whole days in DC before I pack up and mosey on down to Philly for another conference, Eschacon.

Today I spent the entirety of my Sunday lounging and organizing. I was up super late last night because my body clock is once again off. Being in different time zones and staying up late every night and getting up early every morning has put me out of whack. Being up late and not having any reason to wake-up early allowed me to sleep until 1:30 this afternoon. WOW - I haven’t slept that late in MONTHS. It was very needed.

The rest of the day I caught up on bills, sent some emails, updated and added all the contacts I met while at all these different events, read up on some social networking links I’ve been collecting, and investigated some new features for my blog.

Oh, and I updated my Flickr account! I’m not sure if I mentioned it, but I broke down and bought a MacBook Pro last week and it has been the most amazing purchase I have made in years. EVERYTHING I do works better on this thing. And the way the keyboard is set up makes my wrists and hands (which have been carpal tunnel hurting-ish for a while now) feel much better. Uploading my pics to Flickr is also SO much better on my Mac. Maybe it’s the new uploader, or the uploader they make for the Macs, but it is easy to use and fast.

I plan on writing up more on the conferences, my thoughts about each one, and posting some great pics/videos. For now you can check out the below sets of pics. I haven’t tagged them or put titles/descriptions yet. All in time…

SXSW - Days 1 - 5 (Click each picture to go to the set for that day)