CloudCamp

Sitting in a conference room in Amazon’s headquarters, in the old hospital up on the hill in Seattle, waiting for the conference to start.

Goals today: learn more about shared storage between Amazon AMIs, learn more about how to automate launching of AMIs, make networking contacts with other EC2 nerds.

In June 2008 I realized that life in a cubicle wasn't for me, and that a great adventure would never come knocking on my basement apartment door.

I began to actively change my life. I took a part-time, tele-commutable job and began to minimize my "stuff", attempting to disengage from the rat race.

In November 2008 I threw caution to the wind and purchased a large sailing trimaran, and in May 2009 I moved aboard her full-time.

In September 2011 my girlfriend Miya moved aboard and we set sail, headed south until the water got warm. We spent all of 2012 bouncing around the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, making friends and memories and living the dream.

Eventually we realized that we'd like to circumnavigate, and so we put the boat in dry storage and moved to San Francisco for three years to save money and build on our collection of skills and talents... but in September 2014 we sadly parted ways.

In December 2016 I left my job again and went back to TIE Fighter in Mexico, where I am currently cruising for the winter.

This blog is my journal.