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Today I'll be speaking in front of a large crowd of DFW Facebook developers, 260 people have registered for the event... should be exciting.

By the time you see this, I'll probably have already gave my talk...

Here are the slides:

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So I've been working from home since November 2007, nearing 2 years... and it's been really great. I've been given a lot of opportunities to do things that I wouldn't have normally had, because I have some flexibility and freedom.

One of those is adopting 2 pups... Princess Lucy and Bentley the Regal Beagle... pictured here:

It was tough at first, but we stuck it out... and it's been quite rewarding (and expensive).

But that's not the point I want to get across... For any other dog owners, it's a well known fact that some dogs have separation anxiety. When they can't quite figure out why their owner has left and they feel anxious. Crazy things can happen. Like this:

Erratic behavior. Ultimately something your heart goes out to them for and they are forgiven quickly.

But what about humans? Would one get separation anxiety from leaving their animals?

Yes

I can fully say, that when I have plans to leave my house for extended periods of time (> 5 hours), I often have anxiety. For shorter durations during the summer, I get worried about the dogs being outside in 100F weather... For longer durations I get worried about them not having fun or missing us. Of course, mostly irrational fears, and it always works out...

But it's something that happens to me and I'm sure it's a direct effect from working from home and raising these two pups every single day for the last year or more.

I'm not quite sure how I'm going to get rid of the anxiety, but with the wedding coming up, we're going to board the dogs for 2 whole weeks. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle it. I already got nervous making the reservation. I know it's the logical thing to do as we're going to be super busy and with no fenced in yard where we'll be, we can't take them. They will be well taken care of and we're paying good money to make sure that that happens. But I still can't stop thinking about the idea of being away from my dogs for 2 weeks...

Who knows what I'd do if one ran away... Eek!

I'm getting the urge to have a complete geek movie fest soon...

I'm talking... geeked out, fritos and Tab... back to back movie fest...

Here are my options:

1) Indiana Jones Series - I've done this round once, sans the newest, but always a pleasure. DOCTA JONEZ!!

2) The Matrix Trilogy - Do you really have to ask why? Take the RED PILL!

3) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Frodo... I like saying Frodo Baggins...

4) Excalibur (1981), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Willow (1988) - Apparently my birth year saw some of the awesomest films EVER!

When should I embark on this journey and which options should I choose?

So I'm putting together another Fort Worth Tweetup...

Here are the details:

Fort Worth Tweetup Wednesday, June 3rd 5:00 PM

Blue Mesa Grill 1600 S. University Dr. Ft. Worth, TX 76107

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So here is the CL450 before:

And after a new set of handlebars and some removal of gear:

Looks a lot more mean and lean doesn't she :)

Still more work to do on her rear-end... lower seat, removal of break light, and chop the rear fender...

A-YO!

So this blog brings in more spam comments a day, than I get emails, txt messages, and phone calls combined... It's frankly discouraging.

I know it's the platform that I have chosen. I know I could update Feather and it would probably help me, but I just am too damn lazy for that :)

I've got a toy ruby site (using Sinatra) that I want to host as well...

So who knows, I want to get whoisjake.com back up as my "online landing page"... and I use my [Twitter][3] account every day, so maybe some form of hybrid "What's Jake up to" kind of feed, instead of my blog would be better. Something that merges my fun stuff (Flickr, Twitter, Blog, etc)... like a life stream... Or maybe nobody cares and I should stop worrying about it :)

Maybe I have too many things I want to do and not enough drive to get them done...

And now my motorcycle is broke.

Sorry for the "whoah is me post", but I just need to figure this out!!

Even though it only lasted one season, Rock and Rollergames was awesome!

The wall of death!!

Incredibly interesting TED talk about how bacteria communicate... and how instead of killing off bacteria with anti-biotics, we should be blocking their communication or scrambling it.

Great stuff!

Just a little bit of religion humor to start off the morning...

Btw, these lines are taken directly from a Fundamentalist Christian message board... granted they are out of context, it's still humorous...