Drupal Camp Toronto is winding down, and tomorrow and Sunday comes BarCamp Toronto. David Crow has some interesting advice about attending a BarCamp, which helped me worry less about not having something to present about. We (my Bryght colleauges Boris, who already posted from the airport in Vancouver, Roland, who has posted some video leading up to the camp, and Mark from Raincity Studios) got in last night around midnight and I didn't get to sleep until somewhere around 3:30 AM. (That's not a complaint!) Today, as I mentioned at the Drupal Camp introductions, I felt "uncaffeinated". BarCamp should be better, as it starts later. I'll be attending the Sigur Rós concert at Massey Hall after the unconference, and Sunday is up in the air. I haven't taken a lot of photos at Drupal Camp, but the roof on 215 Spadina provided me with a nice view of CN Tower and downtown Toronto.
Toronto
In the middle of May I'll be flying to Toronto for BarCamp Toronto and Drupal Camp Toronto. It would probably help if I had a topic to present on at BarCamp. But isn't that what the month between then and now is for?
Karen and I started dating in December. We met online, sort of: she was looking at my profile on Urban Vancouver, and she thought I was someone she had seen at a lecture series, then messaged me via MSN. We got to talking, and she invited me to a movie starring Lauren Lee Smith, then I invited her to a geek dinner involving co-workers, and the rest is history (currently in progress, of course). We're such a Web 2.0 couple that we both changed our Flickr profile relationship status to "Taken" at the same time. We've even considered starting a podcast together.
She lives and works in Toronto, and I've gone to visit her twice already, once during New Years, and the second time during the week of St. Valentine's Day. She's the reason I've been snowshoeing, linking to Toronto-related articles, and along with work, she's the reason I'm happily busy.
A romantic relationship, especially a long-distance romantic relationship, has been one of the hardest things I've ever done. But so far it has been one of the most rewarding.