Where I'll Be: Washington DC

Next week, I have the distinct pleasure of visiting our nation’s capital. I’ll be taking in the sights and sounds of our government at work. Maybe meeting with our congressional representative to talk some Klingon. Also will definitely be seeing some friends. Oh yeah… and there was something else:

FREE #ConnectHR Tweetup – Wednesday January 27th at 6pm

I was invited to attend the ConnectHR event hosted by my friends at SmartBrief, Society for Human Resources Management and RecruitingBlogs.com. I am looking forward to connecting to a bunch of smart people that will be there.

Are you in the Washington DC area? Screw it. Can you drive there within a day’s time? You should come. You’re going to meet awesome people. You are going to get great food for free. Jessica Lee tells me the drinks are amazing.

If you’re in DC and you’d like to get together while I am there (26th-30th), contact me and we’ll make something happen.

Why am I going to a tweetup 3,000 miles away?

Normally, I don’t make trips like this but Laurie Ruettimann insisted I go. How much did she insist? She got me a flight out there. I’m not joking. It is good to have friends like Laurie (and not just for the free flight in a super awesome McDonnell Douglas 80). She wants me to be at events she attends because together, we make events awesomer. And I heard she has a pretty nice blog or something like that. Maybe she’ll even hit the big leagues some day.

Anyway, big props to Laurie. She’s pretty awesome.

Looking forward to seeing you all there. And don’t forget to sign up!