After some calendar shenanigans, I‛ve finally been able to confirm my attendance at BlogWalk Chicago on January 22. I‛m looking forward to it, both for the opportunity to discuss organizational blogging and to finally meet some folks I‛ve read and corresponded with for years.

I‛ll be staying in Evanston, where the meeting is, but I think I‛d like to take the opportunity to drive over to Lombard and see my aunt on Sunday morning. She‛s 81 and a handful. I first met her when I was four at a family reunion, and then not again until two years ago. We‛d had absolutely no contact in the intervening 22 years, but I walked in her door and we immediately started carrying on like old friends. If she and I had the opportunity to hang out together, we‛d get up to no good very quickly. I rarely have that sort of connection with someone right off the bat, and I can‛t wait to see her again.