I asked Amritas to write a guest post about his weekend visit.  He came through in spades, but trust me, we aren't nearly as cool as he makes us sound!  In fact, I feel like a d-bag putting such gushing about me on the front page, so click after the jump to read about our most recent blogger meet-up...
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No blogging today.  Instead, I've been Facebook updating all day about my cleaning activities.  I'm trying to get the house in order because there's a big Blog Meet-Up this weekend: Amritas is coming to visit us.  I've known him now for nearly six years, but we've never met in person.  It should be a hoot.

I had really let the house go, so a guest is good incentive to deep clean.  I even scrubbed the top of the refrigerator...

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1 OMG - you call that "let your house go"?

You are never allowed in my house again. 

Posted by: airforcewife at May 19, 2009 01:32 PM (NqbuI)

2 Uh, hate to break this to you, Sarah, but you just blogged. Bad girl! If there is one stray particle, just one, I will demand you pay my airfare back! And for a taxi, a sterile one. Who knows what neutrinos are in your car?

It's been my lifelong dream to eat atop a refrigerator. Make it happen or else.

Posted by: Amritas at May 19, 2009 01:58 PM (+nV09)

3 You can never be too clean! Oh, wait...

Posted by: David Boxenhorn at May 19, 2009 11:07 PM (uOgRs)

4 A top of the refrigerator tip.  I am very short, down to 5' now, and it is not easy to see it let alone clean it. Long ago I realized I could cover it with plastic wrap and just change that for cleaning purposes.  Yeah, so it isn't a save the planet plan but it works for me. It's quick and efficient and I know I got it all when I'm done. How often?  about every three months.

Posted by: Ruth H at May 20, 2009 04:52 PM (4u82p)

5 The top of the fridge? I would also recommend not lifing up the microwave, dangerous times my friend. Dangerous.

Posted by: Darla at May 23, 2009 08:45 PM (LP4DK)

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My husband is definitely not a blogger.  He reads Abu Muqawama, so I was excited that Andrew Exum was at the conference.  After the final panel, I excitedly asked if he'd like to go talk to him.  My husband shrugged and said, "Nah, it's no big deal."

Definitely not a blogger.

I asked my husband on the way home what he thought of the conference.  He said it was interesting.  I asked him what he thought of the content as a non-blogger, because I think that's an element that's rarely addressed in our discussion.  Are milblogs relevant?  Asking bloggers is going to elicit a different response than asking non-bloggers.  We touched on this during last year's conference, when one non-blogger audience member suggested that maybe blogging was not the highest priority for the chain of command.  That stuck with me; those who aren't completely sucked in to the world of blogging don't see the same level of importance as we do.

But it's hard for my husband to really have an opinion right now.  Even if he had the desire to blog, the job that he has now is absolutely not bloggable.  All of the interesting stuff he does is opsec, and the stuff that bloggers can write about, the non-opsec stuff, is less interesting to him.  It doesn't float his boat to read milblogs because his life is a milblog.  So he comes at the whole thing from a completely different angle than the rest of us, which I find interesting.  Someone who has no internal push to put his every thought online is always going to look at this activity differently.

But still I think he should've at least said hi to Exum.

(I will say that I impressed the heck out of him by getting a big hug and smile from Bill Roggio.  To him, Roggio is big-time, and the fact that Mr. Big-Time was all excited to see his wife, well, he thought that was pretty cool.)

(He also came home still oblivious to the fact that people wanted to meet him.  I had tried to explain that some people have been reading about him for about five years, but I don't think it sunk in until we were home.  Then he said, "Maybe I should've been more charming."  Sigh.  I told you no one would describe him as nice.)

I still want to write about the content of the conference...someday.

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