Today is a big countdown to takin off for SXSW tomorrow. Hey – are you there or are you going to be there for the next couple days?? If so, please email me & lemme know – we’ll meet up!

Rick & I are going together and we know a few more peeps from the local music scene that we’ll be running into as well… but I have a feeling there’s way more people going that I know, or have been to their site than I even realize – so speak up now! :) It’s gonna be a great time…

I’m bummed to have missed a lot of the interactive peeps. I’m not sure when everyone is flying back, but I know Jane, Jish, Kristin, Sarah and a bunch of people have been there all weekend. Hopefully we can catch a few people on Tuesday night after we land.

Being the music freaks that we are, we’re mostly going for the music. It’s like 5 days of music – almost 200 different bands a night are playing at over 40 some venues!!! It’ll be extremely hard to decide what we’re going to see… but we’re up for the challenge!! :)

I’m super excited to visit Austin. It’ll be my first time & I’ve heard soo many great things about it. woohoo!!!

I’m ultra delighted to be mobile there on my new macalicious, too. I actually have a bit of work to do, so hopefully I can take a couple hours a day to do it. We’ll see. I know the draw of seeing the sites of the city is going to be a powerful force.

Luckily I have someone staying with my original (and way fuzzier than titanium) baby, Kazoobie Fuzzy Pants O’Brien. Gawd, I love my kitty! He’s just the BEST!! (well, besides when he bites me, that’s not very nice – but we’re workin on it). I’ll miss his morning wake up calls where he comes up & snuggles me for awhile. Sometimes several times just to say “Hey, Mom – get up – it’s a beautiful day outside!!”

Linda is staying w/ him though – and she’s a PRO. She’s worked at the SPCA way back when – and turns out her & her boyfriend are just flying back from Japan the day I leave and need a place to stay – so it works out perfectly!! woohoo!!

However, I have an absolute obsession with leaving my place spotless for visitors, so I have to go mop the floors & scrub the tub now.

Happy Monday!

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p.s. mac update – this morning it froze on me once – no crazy pixeling this time… it was just when I was turning up the brightness on the monitor, it all froze up & wouldn’t let me do anything. So I rebooted and now it’s fine. weird.