My first WordPress meetup: Excellent experience

I attended my first WordPress Meetup last night at Emerge Memphis. These meetups happen monthly, but up until this month I hadn’t been able to attend, due to really important stuff like playing poker and drinking beer. However, now having been, I’ll definitely make an effort to go back. Otto gave an excellent presentation on WordPress post formats, and then spent some time answering general audience questions.

I filled an entire page with notes I scribbled – plugins I want to investigate, a new theme I want to try, ways to play with CSS. Seriously, if you use WordPress, these meetups are well worth your time. I got lots of ideas for my own blog, and for the Intranet site at work built in WordPress (which, by the way, officially launches this afternoon).

On a side note, my blog may be down or may look weird for brief periods tomorrow, as I play around with themes and plugins. Given that it will be sunny and well into the 80s though, I don’t plan to spend too much time with WordPress.

Apologies to the other attendees for my sniffling and sneezing all the way through. Claritin-D isn’t getting the job done; going to switch to Allegra today. Also, apologies for not staying afterward and introducing myself; I got a last-minute request to trade consulting for free beer at the Saucer, and obviously I was not going to turn that down.

Consulting meeting went well, although it was rather unnerving to have a person sitting at the window staring at us the entire time. It’s really too bad there’s not a D-league for social skills.

If you’re looking for something to do tonight, I’ll offer the following five suggestions: GRIZZLIES, GRIZZLIES, GRIZZLIES, GRIZZLIES and GRIZZLIES. Home game at the FedExForum against Sacramento at 7 PM. We win, we’re in the playoffs.