I’m going to be honest – this semester has been pretty stressful for me. Lots of work, a few issues with classes I’m teaching, planning a wedding, and travel adds up to a lot of stress factors over the last few months. It’s made me kind of negative. It’s made me really complain-y. It’s made me a bit more agitated than usual. I don’t like it. So I’ve decided to change it.
With WordCamp US quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to have an informal CigarCamp US while everyone is in town. Here are the details:
Location: Ashton Cigar Bar (map)
Date: Friday, December 4th
Time: 9:00pm – 11:00pm EST
Head on over to the site and sign up! There will be cigars, scotch, and WordPress talk. And your first cigar is free thanks to our generous sponsor WP101.
**If you would like to sponsor the drinks (or second round of cigars) for the event, you can reach out to me. I would love you forever.
Here in Scranton, Fall quickly turns to Winter, and while we have been spoiled with nice weather lately, that’s bound not to last. As the weather gets colder I don’t smoke as often, but when I do one my favorite go-to Winter cigars is the Alec Bradley Black Market.
It has become a bit of a time-honored tradition for me to do gift guides around the holidays. This year I decided instead of making yet another post, I’ll create this page and child pages that I can update each year. I have some big plans for when I (finally) redesign this site, but for now, check ’em out:
What other gift guides do you want to see? I was thinking about putting together one for cigar smokers as well as some stuff I use every day. Have an idea for a guide I could make? Leave it in the comments!
I’m passionate about is teaching. I speak at conferences, write tutorials and books, developed and teach courses. Last week, An Event Apart hosted a Front End Development Round Table and the question, “What makes a senior developer,” came up. The general feeling was someone who can do and teach makes a senior developer. This reinforced what I already thought: teaching is an incredibly important aspect of any job or community. That’s why I’m super excited to announce WP in One Month.
Recently I turned 30 and I thought about writing a blog post about the ‘event’. I offer a lot of advice on this site so I figured I’d post an article called, “30 Things I Learned by 30” or something like that. I wasn’t really in love with the idea, but it was the best I had. That is, until someone referred to me as a, “Disney Freak.”
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