Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Travel Blogging

When I first started writing about travel, I created separate blogs for each trip, which left me with a blogger home page full of cool blogs that are never updated. So I'm consolidating.

Actually, I decided to consolidate a while ago, I just didn't know how. My travel posts have been sporadic, mainly because I don't want to spend the time blogging while I'm actually on the trip, but also because they get lost among all the other things going on in my head that land on this page. But I've been working on a way to fix that. 

I started with Paris 2010 and Kauai 2010, which used to be separate blogs. I transferred all of the blog posts and listed them on a separate blog post, which is linked on my travel page. So now, instead of those links taking you to separate blogs, they take you to a post on this blog that lists all of the travel posts about the location, with separate links at the bottom for businesses and restaurants. 

I like this. It's easy. And posts can be organized from the start of the trip to the end rather than by post date. Check it out.

Next on the list are Costa Rica and Steamboat. I've already reorganized my Steamboat Restaurant Review post. When I started writing this post, I realized I never finished writing about either of those trips. You better get your layers ready because that's what's coming up, winter and summer! Swim suits and ski jackets!

Friday, April 1, 2011

A convention

Glad to report that I'm feeling much better, despite feeling old because I went to bed so early while in Ft Worth for the weekend. But, eh, I can't complain.

I'm through Day 1 of my convention. We've got "contest day" and "big group dinner" out of the way. Tomorrow, we have "advisors meeting," which is a time when all the old people get together to complain about many things, including, but not limited to, convergence, the lack of online contests during the convention, their achy feet and wild students and even the yearbook. I will probably have to defend the yearbook contests (again this year). They always pick on yearbook! I don't know why, yearbook never did anything to them except be more awesome than they are. Pufttt.

The only big things after that are "workshops" and "awards ceremony" which is last and which is where we find out that we rock, which I guess we already know, but the affirmation is nice.

I'm pulling for my ad student and my yearbook editor. In the ad design contest, they have to make an ad for a mystery product. Do you know what that product was? Lighted house shoes. Last year, it was iToast, a toaster that plugs into a computer.

Also, new allergy discovery here. May be big time allergic to macadamia nuts! Will have to figure that out more thoroughly later.

Alright. Goodnight.





- Please excuse my typos while I post from my iphone, using BlogPress of course.