Thank God for the lovely folk at Movable Type / Sixapart... in the midst of SoCal summer heat and blues they have given a small cadre of us Barflies.net folk (Sandra, Tink, and I) a wonderful excuse for a spontaneous road trip to San Francisco on Thurs. Aug. 12!

Movable Type will be hosting a Sneak Peek party for MT 3.1 at Varnish Fine Art Gallery to roll out and show off the capabilities of MT 3.1.

I am excited to see the new features in 3.1 and the attendant plug-ins. As a recipient of too much comment spam here at Black Phoebe and at Barflies.net's News and Tidbits, I am excited about Jay Allen's upcoming MT Blacklist 2.0 for MT versions 3.x.

Most of all, I would like to meet up with other bloggers and geek out. Last Thursday, I took a few friends to see Virginia Postrel speak at the Art Center. Hugh Forrest sat two rows behind us. Hugh and I chatted briefly before Viriginia's presentation and ever since I have yearned for the seven months until SXSW Interactive 2005 to go by quickly.

As a person whose professional life is immersed 2/3's in the rock'n'roll world and 1/3 in the non-profit/higher education world, it is good and inspiring to talk to other computer folk and hear what is up and what people are currently into and excited about. Also, I love a good road trip, as well as having a huge stack of CDs to listen to all the way up and down the 5 freeway and then to review them.

SF, here we come!

(p.s. Alex West, come meet up with us in the City on Thursday night!)

(p.p.s. If we feel really adventurous, we will give Jimbo a call...)