Willo O'Brien

Inspired by Mai’s great list, I thought I’d see just where I had gone last year. These are places I’ve spent at least a night in and * represents numerous visits, non-consecutive days (in this case, it’s just home-base).

San Francisco, CA*
Toronto, ON, Canada
Brooklyn, NY
New York, NY
Denver, CO
Nashville, TN
Los Angeles, CA
Seattle, WA (actually I technically stayed in a hotel between Seattle & Eugene somewhere)
Yountville, CA (near Napa)

My list is fairly short, but not totally bad, I suppose. Although I need to get some more exotic international travel on there this year. :) Meme it up, peeps!

We all met up at 111 Minna, and then cruised over to the Yerba Buena opening, which I loved!

me, jojo & misty @ yerba buena

Then Mai & I headed over to the Rubyred Labs celebration, which was really fun, too!

buzz, mai, chris & yours truly

There’s a few more photos here.

I’d post more detail about the night, but I gotta jet off to the Kristin Hersh show… I’m stoked, she’s performing Throwing Muses songs – woohoo! Then Ali’s having a party that we’re going to hit later on. Happy Saturday!

Yesterday I hit MacWorld w/ Mario & Joe (family friend, flew out with his Dad from FL for the expo!) for a few hours, and even got a chance to say hi to some blogger peeps at the Blogger Meetup in Yerba Buena Park (before heading off to have our own lunch @ Cafe Venue):

Photo originally taken w/ Dom’s camera – but cropped to fit on my blog – see the original photo here.
(Apologies to those of you I cropped out.)

I want the new MacBook Pro so bad!! (However, for the record I wish it was still called a Powerbook, but as Ali says “whatevs!”, I still want it!) 4x faster? Oh my god. That gives me a geek boner!

Seriously though, if I could sell my current one for around $1500… it’d only be about a $1K upgrade and I could probably split those payments over this whole year. And I could technically sell my iSight, too, since now it’s IN the book! hmm…. *deep in thought (and temptation)*.

Keep in mind for me, any expense like this is a nice little write-off towards the fat lot of cash I send to the government every year. And I don’t really have much other overhead! *justifying*

So, ya… I really want one. UPDATE: NEVERMIND!!!! I can hardly believe it, but there’s no Firewire 800 port on it! What were they thinking?!?!?! LAME. With 2 external drives that keep all my backups, music & photos on them, I would NEVER go w/o Firewire 800!

I didn’t buy anything at the event for computers, but I did end up buying a sweet stripey weekender bag! (here’s a more accurate representation of the stripe colors). I’ve needed a weekend duffle bag type of thing for a long time. Some of you may remember way back when I posted that I wanted that Le Sport one. Well, that style isn’t even available, so I was still on the hunt and I’m excited about my new one – it’s really cool! You can kinda see it here in this photo of Joe & I. :)

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In somewhat similar news, I have a brand new never opened 512GB iPod Shuffle, if anyone wants to buy it from me: $85.