oddgirl’s blog

Got up this morning and spent a half hour boxing against some kick ass Miis in Wii Sports. It was a lot of fun and by the end of it I was sweating and ready for a big glass of water. I’ve been having a tough time fitting exercise into my schedule lately. Between the travelling and the conscious choice to see friends and go out in the evenings l haven’t really been putting fitness in the mix.

I’m hoping that some game developer out there is working on a Wii game that is actually a fitness game (and I’m not alone…) – I know they have those for the xbox/ps2 so I expect it will come – and with the wii-mote and nunchuk it’ll make a whole lot more sense. Gonna try and alternate the Wii/the rowing machine and yoga in the mornings for awhile, since I’m not planning on changing my social/work schedule for awhile.

I think yesterday was the worst of the jet lag. Brain and mouth were not in sync all day and right on into the evening. Either I’d say something and it came out all twisted (more during the day), or I’d say something and immediately want to cntrl-Z myself (more during the evening). Woke up today, feeling a little bit more like myself, but still tired.

I would pay cash money to hide in my house today, play games and maybe try and catch up on the rest of the work email that I still haven’t sifted thru. That’s not the day I’m going to have, but a girl can dream.

According to Google Analytics, I have a site visitor from Nashville, TN who visits my blog multiple times per day. I don’t know anyone in Tennessee so that’s kinda interesting – shout out to ya, Tennessee! The other big hits come (unsuprisingly) from SF, Oakland, Los Angeles and Palm Springs.

Getting to be time to dive into the myriad of errands before heading off to a wedding. Not enough coffee…

My last night in Munich before heading home tomorrow afternoon. In the last two nights I’ve gotten about 7 hours of sleep total – just can’t seem to get my body clock straightened out. My brain is super fuzzy. Just woke up from a nap, but don’t want to sleep more now because I’m hoping to sleep later tonight.

The business part of my business trip ended after lunch today. Might have one more shmoozfest thing we do later tonight, but I think we’re going to skip the bad food at the hotel where the meetings are. And I mean bad – really icky stuff. Hopefully we’ll go find a better place to eat and then meet up with folks for drinks later. But really, I’m here with my boss and co-workers so even tho my meetings are over, I’m still working. Almost every conversation is about work or at the very least about navigating the politics of work. Lots of execs around – found myself drinking beers at a table that had no less than 5 of my companies VPs last night. Hope to go find an interesting museum or gallery tomorrow – take my brain out of the game for a couple hours. Walked around today, tried to shop. Really cold and then it started snowing. Gorgeous. And cold. I miss my moderately-weathered home. And my cat.

Munich is pretty and kinda charming – doubtful I’ll see enough of it to really assess whether or not it’s a place I’d want to come back to on vacation or not. Somehow I doubt I’ll come back unless work sends me back for the same meetings next year. Too many other places I know I want to go. (Australia, are you listening? Amsterdam… I’m looking at you, buddy)

Hey SF, I’ll see ya tommorrow…

…and should be sleeping… but here it is at 3 am (6 pm back yesterday home) and I’m awake and kinda worried that my inner time clock will be totally shot by the end of this week. Am I getting too old for this??? nah…

I’m really looking forward to seeing this City in the daytime. When I left SF it was night. When I arrived her it was night – so looking forward to seeing the sun tomorrow (or I guess today…)

Just checked my email and realized I’m supposed to be in a 9 am meeting tomorrow. Uh-oh… guess I should make this a quick one and try and sleep. More to come…

oh… and I think this is a pretty funny parody to Second Life (and MMO’s in general: Play First Life

So heading off to Munich for a quick trip for work this week and it turns out they are having the worst weather since 1999. Good thing I don’t have a winter coat…

I got over not wanting to go and, other than the weather, I’m pretty excited about it now. I like the co-workers I’m going to be over there with and the meetings I’ll be having are best had in person – so it should be productive. And I’ll be back before I blink an eye.

This will be a good test of my new Mac. I finally got Boot Camp/XP loaded up on it, so I don’t have to take my PC laptop with me – one computer: two operating systems. Yay! This way I’ll have my iTunes library and I’ll be able to upload any photos I take to Flickr from there on the Mac side (looks like I have wireless internet in my hotel) and I’ll also be able to use all my work apps on the XP boot.

ooof. gotta run and catch muni.

I did about a hundred different things today. I won’t list them all but here’s a selection. And I know I’ve been all about lists lately…

1. I realized I knew a lot more than I thought I knew when I was in a meeting and I was able to talk about online commerce, DRM and microtransactions with a Technical Director and have him look like he was learning from me. From me! wow.

2. Yay me! I crossed a couple big todos off my list.

3. I sat in a meeting with some folks who did some focus groups and I knew what they were talking about!

4. Dinner with some cool women in my industry. Talked about work. Talked about life. They totally got it.

5. Multi-tasked in a wacky, wacky way – emails, both personal and business; budget planning; teaching someone about DRM, and about 4 IM windows open at once. I was totally on.

I should have days like this everyday.

But tomorrow. Tomorrow might be even better.

1. Eat at Range again
2. Have a day at work with no meetings (this will not happen, but a girl can dream…)
3. Not go to Munich
4. Have the panna cotta at Delfina
5. Buy Blue Bottle coffee for home
6. See The Queen, Notes from a Scandal, and The Last King of Scotland
7. Not see Primeval or The Hitcher. no way. no how.
8. Have a great date
9. Get to level 58 so I can go through the Dark Portal (I’m about 57 and 1/3 right now)
10. Figure out how to make it all ok
11. Have someone over to try out 2-person Wii boxing
12. Let the cat in. (gonna go do this one now…)

Here I sit, waiting for a pal or two to wander off north and see some elephant seals, do a bit of hiking, and get BBQ’ed oysters. I’m really looking forward to getting out of the city for the day – tho it is cold, cold, cold (for the Bay Area).

I got to see a really, really old friend yesterday – in fact she’s the person who is probably the most responsible for teaching me how to cook. Great to see her – an incredible blast from what seems like a lifetime ago. And she’s now tending bar at one of my favorite bars. This will be interesting…

ok… need to coffee up. this was a quick one.

I had every intention of going out tonight. I was invited to a bar by an aquaintance who had invited 20 of her best lesbian pals to meet her at said bar. I even had a friend who volunteered to be my wingman and come with me so I wouldn’t have to go in by myself and feel overwhelmed in a group of women where I didn’t really know anyone. A chance to meet a mess o’ new lesbians…

But here I am hanging out at my apartment with a guy I’ve sorta peripherally worked with but am hoping to get to know better as we just figured out we only live about a block apart and he’s a great guy. We’re playing games and doing computer-y things. And happy as clams. We hung out and played with the Wii for a couple hours, went to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, and because he works at my company, I can let him play a little with my game and hear his feedback.

It’s really cold out. I pretty much have plans for the next 5 days and/or nights to do “stuff” and I just feel like staying home. Cheese is curled up close by, my apartment is warm and I am perfectly content.

So… the next time I complain about how hard is to meet girls, remind me about January 13, 2007.

I just had the most vivid dream I’ve had in a long time. I was in the house in Vegas where I grew up, in the last bedroom I had (I ‘graduated’ bedrooms as my siblings moved out until I was in the largest one at the opposite end of the hall from my folks) when the wind started. I was completely panicked when I realized I had no idea what to do as Las Vegas is not really a place where the extreme weather concerns include tornadoes. It was a one story house, roof pieces started flying off, I was home alone, running around like crazy, crazy. Furniture flying about, walls falling apart. My mom’s bell collection (which she did have when I was growing up) was adding to the general cacophany of the situation, flying around and ringing in the winds. I vaguely remember thinking I was supposed to get in a bathtub and pull a mattress over me, but I didn’t do that. My dog was missing. The wind died down and my parents called and I was completely freaked out.

And then I woke up sweating, with my heart pounding in my chest.