Wow. It's been three weeks since I left the MIX08 conference at Las Vegas. I think I'm finally recovered and can start blogging again. 
I have a lot I want to say, so instead of writing one really long post I think I'm going to break it up into a series posts based on different topics. Hopefully that works, and if not, oh well.
First off, MIX was awesome. I got to meet a ton of new people, saw old and new friends, caught up with local Portlanders, played some Rock Band, watched some Donkey Kong, got a hug from Laura Foy because I said I was friends with Rory, wrote a bunch of code, attended fewer sessions than in previous years, talked to more people than in previous years, remembered how to twitter, and overall walked less because I was staying in the Venetian for the first time in 3 years. Whew!
Is that enough to wear me out? No, not really. The part that wore me out was leaving MIX early to hop on the Code Trip Bus, literally staying up all night preparing demos and presentations, presenting in Salt Lake City, presenting at the Boise Code Camp, catching a 6:40AM flight back to Portland, launching a reskinned site for Columbia Sportswear, organizing the March PDXUX.Net meeting, attending the March PDXRIA meeting (with Mike Culver), attending the March PAXNAUG meeting, launching the PDX Webfoot site, and then still falling behind on everything else that is going on (which you'll find out about soon enough). With that said, I haven't had this much fun being this busy in a very, very long time. It's amazing how much satisfaction there is at the end of a day when you're completely worn out and exhausted.