Screw having meaningful posts with significant updates. If I’m going to write in this thing, I can’t wait for my life to be interesting. That would take waaaay too long.<\/p>\n
Except, some cool stuff has happened. My company had its yearly conference \/ drinking competition (as I think of it) this last week. We are at a very cool point where we’re small enough that I personally know almost everyone in the company and big enough and cool enough that we get partners like Symantec, Novell (Attachmate?), Citrix and IBM. Hell, I got to go to London<\/a> and get paid. See what I mean? Pretty cool.<\/p>\n It was really great to see a lot of my coworkers. Since I rarely talk to most of them and only see them once a year, we all get along really well. Aside from solving all the world’s political, philosophical and historical (?) problems one night, during the day time we had a lot of good talks about IT strategies that I hope to see implemented in the near future.<\/p>\n The day after I got back (also known as “today”), some other very cool stuff happened. Roller derby!<\/strong><\/p>\n Today was skill assessments for the Mission City Brawlin’ Betties! The assessment involved speed, controlled falls, stops, whips<\/a> and hits<\/a>. I’ll be honest, speed and hits were my favorite.<\/p>\n Even though I’m a referee, I went through the testing today along with all the nuggets. I daresay, I did slightly better than terrible. I’m optimistic about the results, so here’s hoping! Not passing wouldn’t have meant much (other than that I need to practice a lot more!) but passing may mean more time scrimmaging when I’m not reffing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new year brings my company’s yearly conference and roller derby skill assessments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,128,9],"tags":[132,166,192,130,277,129,279,165],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-roller-derby","category-tech","tag-betties","tag-business","tag-conference","tag-derby","tag-personal","tag-roller","tag-roller-derby","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}