It’s spring here in the lovely Ville, my flowers have started coming up spreading the spring joy everywhere I look in my front yard. I’ve expanded my garden this year and I’m watching it like a hawk to try to see if any new ones have pushed their little stalks up thru the ground. It never ceases to amaze me how big they can get overnight. I know this sounds really dorky and yeah saying that makes me feel kinda old, but I just can’t help myself. There’s just something about knowing that I gave these things a place to live and bloom and flourish that makes me happy. That and I friggen LOVE flowers, all flowers, if I could I think I’d tear up ALL the grass in the yard front and back and turn it all into one huge flower bed. A1 probably wouldn’t mind that too much if it meant he didn’t have to mow the grass anymore.

In other news, I’ve just returned from Tucson where I was filming sessions for a sharepoint conference. It’s weird to know that I’ve just written and filmed these classes that people are going to pay money to watch. I am a little terrified of things like the reviews, I had that problem that seems to follow tech speakers everywhere they go, demos that just blow up. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a tech conference where the speaker has had every demo go properly every time. The nice thing about these sessions is that it’s springboarding me a little, and I’ve also been asked to start writing tech articles. This excites me, it makes me nervous, but writing at least is a little easier than in person (or in video) teaching. I am surprised that I’ve ended up here somehow, but happy nonetheless.

I did love Tucson, SarahSpace and I actually were there together, and it was a great time. I can now also cross Arizona off the list of places that I’ve been. Our favorite part was probably our rental car. It was a Grand Marquise, and let me tell you going from driving my little TC to driving the massive Grand Marquise was a bit of a shock. That car was so big I swear to you it echoed when we laughed or talked too loudly. I also got to add going thru border patrol to my list of new adventures. We had one off day which we used to visit tombstone, and for whatever reason border patrol was sitting outside of what I think may have been the only road out of tombstone checking cars. I do have to say that I was a little surprised that it was way easier to get thru border patrol than it is to get thru airport security. The only thing they asked us was if we were US citizens and if we had anything in the trunk. there was no ID’ing, there was no looking in the trunk, just answer the questions and away you go. I would have liked to have a great story about being chased by border patrol in the Grand Marquise thru the Arizona desert, but alas, no such luck for us. In fact we didn’t really have a whole lot of weird/crazy shit happen to us which is especially unusual considering how SarahSpace and I seem to attract weird and crazy shit fairly regularly.

Here’s hoping that some of my normal interesting crap starts happening soon so that I have more entertaining stories to share with you all.