Next Adventure: Baja!

In April, one of my loveliest friends is coming a-visiting and I am oh so very excited. We are also planning on going to Baja, Mexico with a tour group on a 9-day adventure and man oh man, the excitement is building. We have to book the ticket etc but we have a new adventure to look forward to!

Here is the planned bus tour: (ignore the 15-day addition)

Obsessed anyone?

I have developed an obsession: Apple and the upcoming keynote. Are they or are they not? Is it or is it not?

I need to know what's going on, what they are producing, how I am going to be living my life vicariously through others. Please Mr Jobs, won't you tell me how?

Since no one tells me anything, I scan macrumors.com at least once a day, read fakesteve and go through the tech news of google.

And it seems I am not the only one, because last time I checked (admittedly a couple of days ago) the top 6 tech news of the day were Apple, Apple, Apple.

Please Mr Jobs, won't you tell us all how to be interfacing our lives with technology?

For, lets face it, Apple doesn't make a product, they "they made a narrative. A statement about how technology should interface with a life."

So yes I am slightly obsessed with this new product that seems to be a cloud of gossip and not one solid fact. But oh that cloud is so shiny and sparkly.

Tell me, are you obsessed? ;-)

Catching up and The Audition

There is a bunch of news bits over the last couple of weeks that I wanted to share with everyone (all 2.5 people who read the blog :-P) I will post them as time and memory permit.

About 10 days ago, one of the nights when I came home late and brain dead and turned the TV on and sat in front of it like a zombie, I was nicely surprised by a fabulous documentary called The Audition on PBS that...

"looks at the intense pressures young opera singers face as they struggle to succeed in one of the most difficult professions in the performing arts. The feature-length documentary takes you behind the scenes at the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions, where each year thousands of hopefuls compete for a cash prize, the chance to sing on the Met stage–and the opportunity to launch a major operatic career."

It was like a grown up, matured, interesting and talented American Idol (no offense intended since I enjoy watching AI :-). The voices were absolutely heavenly and the process of performing at the level of the MET was fascinating. If you like opera voices and want to learn how technical these performances are and how many different aspects there are to a performance, well you'll just have to watch this documentary :-)

Oh and the saddest part of all was the ending credits where one of the contestants who we learn about and learn to love is said to have passed away after a one year fight against cancer. That was just really sad. It always surprises me when any life but especially one with so much talent and vivacity and joy, is extinguished.

It's time...

... to once again open the two-way portal into the blogosphere. My theory is that updating my blog will allow me some leeway in emailing (or more to the point) not emailing.

You see I've been pretty darn busy at work the last couple of weeks with a bunch of deliverables and my emailing dropped down to abysmal numbers. New lows I tells you. I had disappeared.

Meanwhile I was checking other people's blogs to see what was going on with them. I checked out FB once in a while, saw statuses and photos, saw little new-borns become bigger and cuter and like sand through the hour glass... ahem. So I felt kind of up to date but they thought I had "unfriended" them (to quote a lovely friend! :-D

So here I am.

Blogging.

so... wassup!