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Is this thing on? Can you hear me? You can? Good.

I swear, if I keep ignoring my blog for months at a time, every single post is going to be about how I’m not dead, I’ve been really busy, I suck at bloggig, and I’m a total slacker. This is one of those posts.

So what have I been up to? A lot, and yet not very much at the same time. Mostly, I’ve been working, hanging out with friends, and mostly staying out of trouble. Oh sure, I saw my sister in February when she came to Carlsbad for spring break, spent most of the month of March in Utah for work, got to go skiing a few times, went camping and river rafting with some friends and spent a weekend in the Bay Area with my wonderful sister in June for her 21st birthday, had a couple of trips to Maryland for work at various times, and spent two weeks in China, but other than that, things have been fairly uneventful.

Ok, so maybe I have been up to a little. I actually just got back from China last Sunday, and promptly got on a flight to Maryland on Monday. To say I’ve been more than a bit jetlagged lately would be an understatement. I also brought back a cold and an ear infection from China, which hasn’t helped matters. I’m finally feeling a bit better, though neither one has cleared up completely (though I think at this point it’s mostly the cold that’s bothering me).

There’s a new WordPress client to the iPhone, so I’m hoping that makes it easier for me to blog in the future, but I make no promises. It does eliminate my biggest frustration with blogging on the phone, as I don’t need an Internet connection, and if I lose my connection or need to do something else on my phone, I don’t lose what I’ve written. In the past I tried using the e-mail postng option in WordPress, but the iPhone mail client won’t let you save a local draft, so if you’re composing an e-mail (or blog post in this case), you can’t check any new messages until you send the message you’re working on. Not exactly ideal for someone who’s trying to work on a blog post during a few idle minutes.

I’ll have more details on my trip to China soon, but I want to catalog my pictures and get them up on Flickr before I do anything else related to the trip. I’ll post some pics and details here when it’s all ready.