The Bloggy-moon's Over

OK... I'm feeling the blogger's guilt. My last post was almost a month ago, and whatever happened to my goal of posting once a week? Life gets busy I guess, and other things take priority. It's not that I haven't had any good ideas about what to write -- I could tell you about the awesome new windows that were installed in our house a few weeks ago, or my business trip to Fredericton, New Brunswick -- but somehow, I just haven't found the time... No time like the present, right?

For the windows, I want to do 'before' and 'after' photos, so I'll start with my trip to the East Coast. I went to Fredericton for 4 days for the Canadian Association of University Continuing Education annual conference. A colleague and I were giving a presentation on Email Marketing on the last day of the conference, so the conference experience was not quite as leisurely as I had hoped. Instead, we spent most of our "free time" preparing our presentation and overcoming our public speaking jitters. All-in-all, it went as good as could be expected, considering that the competition (the concurrent presentation in the room next door) was giving our free wine and cheese.

The town of Fredericton is quite cute, but a lot smaller than I had envisioned. When I got off the plane, my big-city eyes couldn't believe the small airport with its single baggage carousel and the one other propeller plane on the tarmac.

Like all trips, it was nice to get away, but even nicer to come back home to my family (and the awesome new windows that were installed on the house in my absence -- more about that later!)