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Last coupla days
May. 31st, 2008 01:00 amIgnite was kind of poor. Both floors of pub was packed, and rather than try to institute the obvious segregation of putting people interested in the talks upstairs and people interested in drinking and socializing / networking downstairs, they kept both floors' bars open, and had the PA system on the lower floor playing (VERY LOUDLY) the audio portion of the talks. I would wager that approximately zero of the several dozen people downstairs cared one whit about the talks, and that the extra audio was just an annoyance.
If I was alone I might have been into the talks, but I wasn't, so instead grabbed a table downstairs with my friends and talk-shouted at each other over the combined beery-nerdoid din and PA ruckus. It was actually a pretty good time. I ran into several other friends and acquaintances, met a person iRL for the first time whom I used to know on a MUD (ha, I don't get to say that much, lately), and even managed to make one vaguely legitimate new business contact. And the conversation was good, even if my throat was made quite raw by it.
I am fairly certain (from the PA going quiet at one point) that they did call for a moment of silence for Erik, so that was nice. (I suggested in email that they sneak in some sort of in-memoriam, and they said they'd do silence if I didn't have anything particular in mind. I said that it probably wouldn't literally happen, given the venue, but it would be nice anyway.)
Today I spent several hours going through my personal finances, all the money that's flowed through me since Jan 1. I'm a real mess right now; money's coming in but I'm still unable to pay last year's taxes. I'm not sure why this is and I hope to find out where I'm going wrong, because I'm positive I am going wrong, somewhere. (Yes, not paying adequate attention to how I've been spending my money for the last five months is part of it.)
Still not done! Should have that picture complete by tomorrow, anyway.
If I was alone I might have been into the talks, but I wasn't, so instead grabbed a table downstairs with my friends and talk-shouted at each other over the combined beery-nerdoid din and PA ruckus. It was actually a pretty good time. I ran into several other friends and acquaintances, met a person iRL for the first time whom I used to know on a MUD (ha, I don't get to say that much, lately), and even managed to make one vaguely legitimate new business contact. And the conversation was good, even if my throat was made quite raw by it.
I am fairly certain (from the PA going quiet at one point) that they did call for a moment of silence for Erik, so that was nice. (I suggested in email that they sneak in some sort of in-memoriam, and they said they'd do silence if I didn't have anything particular in mind. I said that it probably wouldn't literally happen, given the venue, but it would be nice anyway.)
Today I spent several hours going through my personal finances, all the money that's flowed through me since Jan 1. I'm a real mess right now; money's coming in but I'm still unable to pay last year's taxes. I'm not sure why this is and I hope to find out where I'm going wrong, because I'm positive I am going wrong, somewhere. (Yes, not paying adequate attention to how I've been spending my money for the last five months is part of it.)
Still not done! Should have that picture complete by tomorrow, anyway.
