I’s (getting) married now!

Squeeeee worthy? I think so.

To save you all from the deluge of wedding ideas that I want to share, I’ve created a new tumblr specifically for these thoughts. Follow if you like to read about wedding-y stuff.

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I’m returning from San Diego where my beautiful cousin GiGi got married to a wonderful guy. The wedding was gorgeous, despite a few snafus. For the record, if you’re in the Southern California area planning a wedding, please don’t book Clawson Photography. They’re scam artists who use a fake sample book (with pics stolen from a good photographer) plus a low price to take your money. They either never show up for the wedding or do show up but never send the pictures. They tried to scam my cousin but luckily she did some research and was able to book a great photographer at the last minute. I don’t know their names but once I find out, I’ll update this post. The rehearsal dinner was iffy due to an issue at the Dave and Busters in San Diego. Apparently medical conditions do not override their policies on headwear inside the establishment unless the general manager gets involved. Really bad form in my opinion. Aside from that drama, all went well. Congrats Gi and JR!

On the tech tip, I’ve still been playing with the new thing mentioned in my previous post, also known as the Google Apps For Your Domain Start Page. I used to work at an educational institution and if I was still there, I’d set the Start Page as the homepage on all my Firefox deployments. That would be a great way to keep students up to date with current info. Anywho, with this addition to Google Apps For Your Domain and the fun new features added to Gmail (all hail the Murd…errr Mute function!), the Google fangirl in me has been cheering loudly lately.

In other news, my move to New York is fast approaching. I go to look for apartments next weekend and I move in early December. It’s a little nervewracking but luckily its the only worry I have right now. I have some anxiety about not having a car anymore but I think I’ll get over it in time. It’s really hard figuring out which neighborhoods are the “good” neighborhoods and which are the not so good ones. I’m leaning towards parts of Brooklyn, Astoria, and Jersey City though I’ll probably end up with something I wasn’t even expecting. That just tends to be how things happen for me.

So I’m home now and just got the pop up to switch to new-ish Blogger beta. Sooo, here is my first post from new Blogger world. Everybody have a great day!

Moving along, my Memorial Day Weekend was pretty nice. I rented a car and drove up to pick up my sister and nephews and head to a wedding (congratulations Jay and Brittina!). My oldest nephew, Kevonnie, was the ring bearer in the wedding and he was way too cute…feast your eyes on the cuteness.

I brought along my MBP for the trip and my nephews were so engrossed in it. Every time I opened it, they wanted to touch _something_. This can be nothing but a young interest in computing so I’m working on getting them a computer of their own. Mind you they don’t have one in the home so they need the exposure anyhow.

I have an old Compaq Presario that I’m going to reconfigure for my nephews use. As I don’t want to put any flavor of Windows on the computer, I was looking around from some educational/kid oriented flavors of linux. Surprisingly, a search for Linux for Kids yielded bad (out of date) results. Asking around proved to be a better source of information and I was pointed to edubuntu. Mind you, I’d never heard of edubuntu before. Yes I’ve been living under a rock apparently but now that I have been enlightened? Hello, jackpot!

Edubuntu is geared towards use in schools but works in the home environment too apparently. The first screenshots I saw of some of the programs are exactly what I’m looking for; a fun, educational, introduction to computers. I’ve not installed it yet but I soon will. [Note to self: purchase KVM.] I’ll try to update later on with my experiences.

Whew so this post is way long but I have one more thing! I got my Valleyschwag yesterday! Woot! I’ll take a picture as soon as possible but for now I used my iSight to take a picture, here’s a listing of the contents:

• womens Typepad t-shirt (XL)
• womens rubyred labs t-shirt (XL)
• STICKER from ALABEL.NET
• songbird sticker
• abazab.com tattoo
• broken livejournal pencil
• perplexcity puzzle pack
• goatsesighting.com sticker
• EFF sticker (!)
• FeedBurner sticker
• 1 women 2.0 conference button
• 2 minty buttons

A nice haul I’d say. Shockingly, the womens shirts fit! Thanks for thinking of us more endowed women, schwag creators and Valleyschwag.

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