Misfit Attendee Blogs

I don't even know what time it actually is. I've been travelling for almost 24 hours, after leaving new, dear friends in Fargo, North Dakota USA around lunchtime on Monday. I have crossed a dozen time zones, slept intermittently, and done my absolute best to relax and feel even remotely comfortable on this long-haul adventure.

I attended the Misfit Conference over my birthday weekend June 1. There I met a wonderful group of people. Some I already knew like Nelson deWitt and Melissa and AJ Leon. Others I knew online like Pam Slim and Justin Levy. Some I had heard of like Julia Roy and David Baeza.

How to even begin to tell this story? I will start it back in time: March 9, 2011. It was an ordinary day. I was in my cubicle, at work, in Santa Clara, CA. I was still employed at the time as a Customer Service Representative for a Semiconductor company.

Did you know that when you link to something on Facebook you can remove the link from the status box once it appears in preview and the link will still appear & get posted when you publish your status update?