Evan Dodds – Non-work-related blog

Fairly regularly (at least once a week or so) for the past year or more, I’ve been posting useless bits of trivia and/or details about stuff going on in my life here to the blog. But then all of a sudden… November 5th (ironically, with a week late post about Halloween)… without a hint of explanation, all went silent.

And the answer is “no”. I didn’t fall off the face of the earth. But I did get really, really busy.

What has Evan been  up to that is so important as to distract from regular blog posts? Here’s a quick sampler:

• Trip to Vegas to present an Exchange 2007 session at Exchange Connections
• Preparation for aforementioned “Trip to Vegas to present…”
• Follow-up from aforementioned “Trip to Vegas to present…”
• Late nights catching up from the days out of the office while at aforementioned “Trip to Vegas to present…” after I got back
• Work
• Weekend day-trip to the WA ocean coast with Jodi
• Seeing Borat (here’s my mini review: It’s hilarious. Go see it. Expect to be offended. Expect to laugh.)
• Saw Demetri Martin at the Paramount in Seattle
• Got a second crown (the first one was feeling lonely)
• More Work
• Got out the humidifier since now that it’s starting to rain in Seattle, it’s dry as heck inside and you get dry throat and shocks from touching anything metal. Seriously. I agree it makes no sense, but it is what it is.
• Presented a bunch of times and did demos on the cool new Exchange 2007 console and shell for internal and external audiences.
• Finally (I’ve been waiting nearly 2 years for this) ordered a 46″ DLP Samsung HDTV. Our trusty 27″ Sony will need to find a new home shortly.
• Was surprised by how amazingly busy the 3 work days of this holiday week actually turned out to be (and also the resulting traffic) – didn’t anyone take these days off?!
• And let’s round it up with a predictable one: Even More Work

So, without getting into any more detail than the list above, you can see that I’ve just mostly been busy with work, work, and work.

Although I intend to enjoy my 4-day holiday weekend, I also will try to catch up a bit with things like my blog posts and (get this) some leftover work from this week.

Hope you have/had a great holiday!