If you are anywhere in the San Francisco Bay or Silicon Valley area this post is for you. Others are welcome, but you might find the drive a little long depending on where you are.

On 3/23/2010 we are going to be holding our first DotNetNuke User’s Group here in the DotNetNuke Corporation’s Headquarters in San Mateo, CA. All are invited and encouraged to attend, it doesn’t matter if you know DotNetNuke or not yet, user groups are a great way to learn about the software, and get to meet other people using the platform for a variety of different things.

You can get more information from our website, but here is some of the basic info:

Date/time: 3/23/2010 6pm

Location: DotNetNuke HQ (Grant St)

Come out and meet fellow DotNetNuke User's from the San Francisco Bay Area held at DotNetNuke Corporation's HQ! This will likely be the one and only DNN user group meeting held in this office as we'll be moving in the near future, but we hope to have more group meetings at the new office as well (just down the street).

Topic: What are you doing with DotNetNuke?

Description: Come out and tell everyone else in the Bay Area what you are doing with DotNetNuke. Got something cool to share, please feel free to do so. If you're the quite type, don't fear, we won't make everyone talk, just those interested. You'll also get to meet some of the DotNetNuke Corp employees here in the area.

Organizer: Chris Hammond, Director of Training Programs, DotNetNuke Corporation. (recently relocated to the bay area)

Food: Pizza and Sodas provided by DNN Corp!

RSVP: So we can plan on the proper amount of food please RSVP prior to 6pm on Monday the 22nd. Send an email to info@baydug.org to let us know

 

Not in the Northern California area? Then be sure to check out the DotNetNuke User Groups page to locate a group close to you.

So it has been over five and a half years since I started a job. I forgot how nervous one can get! I’m excited, but nervous at the same time. New people, new places, new things to do. Fortunately for me, I know some of the faces, less so some of the places, and have an idea of some of the new things to do. I’m starting up at DotNetNuke’s Headquarters in the morning.

My wife and I spent today getting things squared away around San Mateo. We came in town just afternoon from staying last night in Vacaville, California, and visiting some old haunts from my high school days.

The first thing we took care of was getting my car trailer into storage, we road tripped out here over the past three days in our truck, with my car in tow. Natalie will be spending the week here looking for rental houses, and a place to board and train her dressage horse. After which time she will be driving back “home” for a while, while we wait for the house to sell back in Colorado.

Hopefully tomorrow night the real estate agent we’re meeting with will be able to point us to some potential rental homes that will work out for us. This hotel thing will likely get really old really quick!

I’ll try to post another update later in the week after things get moving along. I’m sure I will have lots of paperwork tomorrow and then getting situated within the organization. I’m excited, nervous, and anxious to get started!

Today was my last day at Engage Software as I am starting up as the Director of Training Programs with the DotNetNuke Corporation on Monday March 1st. I’ve been working for Engage for over 5 and a half years now, and I’ve been able to enjoy what I do that entire time. Back before I started at Engage i was using DotNetNuke for my hobby websites, mainly for car racing sites, but occasionally for a few other things as well. Engage offered me an environment where I could work with DotNetNuke every day, something I looked forward to. Over the years Engage became very embedded into the DNN world, providing a wide variety of services and products for DotNetNuke. During that time I was afforded the opportunity to become more and more involved in the DotNetNuke Project, shortly after starting at Engage being invited to join the DotNetNuke Core Team.

So what was going to be a single big announcement, that I’ve been sitting on for a number of weeks now, recently got trumped. So before I talk about the first announcement, I’ll talk about the one that trumped it!

Natalie and I are having a baby! So far we’re only about 5 or 6 weeks in, with a tentative due date of 10/16/2010, though I am really hoping we can pop that kid out on 10/10/10! We are most definitely excited about this, though it wasn’t exactly planned, it definitely is something we look forward to. I keep telling her I want twin boys, and my good buddy Leigh over the pond suggest that if we do we name them Jack and Daniel, I love it!

Now, for the original announcement ;) We are moving to California! Years ago I left home. I went to Missouri. I went to school. I got a job. I changed jobs (a few times). I lived in Missouri for 14 years, my parents even lived there for a while, but to be honest, I never really considered it home, it was just where I was in life. Just over 6 months ago we moved to Colorado. We purchased our first home. We love it, but even Colorado still doesn’t quite feel like home, it does more so than Missouri ever did, but there is still something missing here. (We actually love Parker Colorado, and have the best neighbors ever, they are some of our closest friends.)

I’ve always thought of home as California. I went to high school (3 of 4 years anyways) in California. I left for college, and I always said I would go back if I could make things work out. Well things are working out. Natalie and I put the house on the market two weeks ago and we are moving to California! I won’t torture everyone in the way I did with our move to Colorado (think goingtocolorado.com) but I will try to keep friends and family who are interested up to date as things progress.

I can’t go into other details just yet, what I’ll be doing there, who I will be working for, but I can tell you that I start working in California on March 1st. I look forward to catching up with friends from high school and ages past, and Natalie looks forward to winters that don’t get below freezing constantly :)

If you are interested in purchasing a great house in Parker Colorado be sure to check out ours, it is for sale!

Today marks 6 months! We’ve been homeowners and residents of Colorado for six months now, having closed on the house on 7/31/2009. It’s been fun so far, though we haven’t seen near as much snow as I had hoped!

Five years ago today (1/29) I met my beautiful wife Natalie. We went out on our first date to Applebee’s in Ballwin Missouri. It was a Saturday, we had talked online a time or two, and on the phone this particular evening. We met up for a late dinner and ended up staying until they kicked us out.

Shortly there after we both took our Match.com profiles down (yes, we met thru Match.com).

I love you beautiful!

This blog post will be gradually updated over time as I figure out how to drop weight in the 350z prepping it for STR in 2010.

So this won’t be the final post here on Project240z.com, but we are likely coming close to the end. This weekend the car sold, an airman from the local Air Force base in Denver came by and gave me a deposit for the car. I’m going to try to get the title cleaned up this week and hopefully get it to him this weekend if he comes up with the rest of the money.

I’ll post again when the car is gone. Thanks for all the interest in the car lately, unfortunately 99% of the interest came after I sold the car, not before, but oh well. For now check out my new toy, http://www.project350z.com/

So begins the latest project, Projectquattro.com has been disposed of, after the incident a few weeks ago, where it took out a light pole, it was time for the car to go. I ended up not getting it repaired, it was actually going to cost just less than we originally paid for it, so instead, we traded it in tonight!

So I’m finished up with the training for the week. It’s been a long week, standing all day doing training can really take it out of you! I went out to dinner tonight with another friend of mine here in town. We had a great time sitting down and talking about all things DotNetNuke.

I’m going to be here in California for another 36 hours or so, heading to the DotNetNuke Corp offices tomorrow, and then up towards Vacaville tomorrow night. I’m looking forward to catchin up with friends from High School that I haven’t seen in 5 years (we’re getting old), and others even longer than that!

So tonight I took for for San Francisco, it wasn’t too far, about an hour drive from my hotel down to Pier 39, maybe a little further due to traffic. I got the camera out, and after fighting with the parking meter headed off to take some photos. I hit the Pier for a while, taking a collection of photos, and then headed off to find Lombard street, the windy part. Fortunately I’ve been using my Droid (phone) for navigation this trip, and ...

So I really am looking to sell the 240z this time around. Though, the more time I spend on it, the less I want to sell it, so perhaps I’ll continue working on it while I wait to see if it sells, and then who knows what will happen after that. At this point in time I’m not looking to part the car out, that might change in the future, but for now I’ll keep from parting it out. Basics: Price: $1750 with all the spare parts (storage bins full), $1250 with the car as it currently sits. (add $250 to clean up title) Year:1973 Make: Datsun Model: 240z Title: None (can be acquired at additional cost) Mileage: Unknown Location: Parker, Colorado (delivery available at $1.25.mile up to 500 miles from Parker, CO)

Last year for New Years we hit the slopes. That was the only time in 2009 that we did. Today, for New Years 2010, we hit the slopes again, though this time it is hopefully the start of an active year for us in the mountains! We took our neighbors to Arapahoe Basin early this morning,