Man, I really haven't been updating my website much, have I? :)

The CCCP just pulled off a successful benefit dinner at CodeCon 2003 thanks to help from a huge number of volunteers. It was very exciting - we were hoping for 50 people to show up and 81 did! Mitch Kapor spoke at the dinner thanks to Bram's amazing efforts - I managed to get DJ Tonic to spin music during the event and CCCP SuperHeroVolunteer Jon Dugan pulled together the catering from a local dim sum joint. Yay!

I've been learning Iaido (Japanese for slicing people into french fries efficiently) every Sunday for the last two months at the San Francisco Nishi Kaigan Iaido Dojo. Much fun, good concentration. And the kicker of it all is that we go out for ice cream afterwards! That's right - lethal swordplay followed directly by a double scoop of dolce de leche and rum raisin in a waffle cone.

I've also been dancing a lot, which is good. I'm always healthier when I dance a lot. I go to Cafe Cocomo and the Cloud 9 Motel to dance it up to funky house music by international DJs like Frenchy Le Freak, who recognizes my face at this point by my mad dancing. ;) (note: not skillful dancing.)

I put an MP3 CD player in my car, which really rocks except for when it skips, and it seems to skip a lot. But it's so much better than the radio!

There haven't been any pictures put on the site lately since my camera got stolen about two months ago. But I've got a new camera coming tomorrow and am going to be taking lots of pictures...such as during my weeklong trip to Hawaii that starts this Sunday! :) I'm so excited to be going with my most longstanding friend, Heather. We've got a cute place to stay and are quite looking forward to it. We haven't seen each other in *ages*.

I've been amusing myself with the San Francisco dating scene. After a little drama hither and thither, it's become pretty clear that the best way to approach the whole deal is to meet the other person and hope to be friends. The whole love-at-first-sight-whilrwind-romance thing just isn't real. You have to get to know someone first. That change in perspective has made things a lot more casual in meeting people; there really isn't any pressure to do anything but hang out and enjoy time together. It's a good excuse to leave work before midnight, too. I've gotten to make some great friends out of folks with whom things didn't necessarily work out romantically; we even give each other dating tips! One of my best friends is an "ex". All-in-all, the dating scene has been a win, even if I don't have a girlfriend. That will happen in its own due time.

Between work, the non-profit, dancing, dating, iaido, and friends, I've been kept rather busy, sometimes exhaustively so. (CCCP is almost at 60 servers now!!) It's hard when it feels like you have to do 40 things at once but can't really do any of them very well. It's a good thing I don't watch television or I think I'd just explode. The weird part is that most of my friends these days work even harder than I do. It's hard to get perspective around here.

I've got to get back to some wacky Microsoft MP3 streaming issues. It's raining hard, 10:26pm on a Monday night. Life is good; with any luck, I'll be starting in the Fall of 2004 at Harvard Business School. Now I just need to get in. Doing so counts as a first step towards "daring mighty things" I think.