Cameron Olthuis

I’m leaving San Diego early in the morning headed for San Francisco/San Jose. We’re planning on going to the WordCamp Kickoff Party that sounds pretty fun. We’ll be going with Stammy. I believe it’s his last day working for Yahoo! and he’s headed home so come wish him well. If you’re in the area you should come chill and then plan on going to WordCamp the next day of course. It should be fun geeking out over WordPress.

I’ll be leaving on Friday for San Jose where next week I’ll be attending and speaking at the Search Engine Strategies conference. This is my first time speaking at this conference and I’m pretty excited about it. I also look forward to meeting many of you that will be there next week. If you’re planning to attend and we haven’t made arrangements to meet get in touch, or just come up and say hi if you see me there.

We also plan on spending a few days cruising the valley to the meet with clients, friends, and anyone else. We’d like to meet up with anyone in the area so drop me a line if you’re interested. We’ll be at Wordcamp as well.

I plan on blogging about my experience while I’m up there.

Posting has been slow for the last week and for that and I apologize. Between racing against deadlines and posting on our other blogs I just haven’t found the time. There’s been a lot of exciting things happening on the web for the last couple weeks and I plan to catch up on those. Hopefully things will return to normal by the end of this week.

I’m stoked! It’s official, I’ve signed and sent in my 9rules agreement and I’m now officially a 9ruler. I’m very honored that I was selected for the 4th round and I look forward to contributing to a great network. For those of you wondering what 9rules is…

The 9rules Network is a community of the best weblogs in the world on a variety of topics. We started 9rules to give passionate writers more exposure and to help readers find great blogs on their favorite subjects. It’s difficult to find sites worth returning to, so 9rules brings together the very best of the independent web all under one roof.

Being a part of 9rules will push me to continually improve this site and the quality of the content. Cheers! Our company blog, Pronet Advertising was also selected.

Mom, if you’re reading this I hope you’re having a great day and I want you to know I love you and think you’re the best mom in the world.

I also want to wish a happy Mother’s Day to my wife, mother-in-law, and all the other moms out there.

I’ve recently become a partner at Advantage Consulting Services where my official title will be Director, Marketing & Design. I’m very excited about working with the guys at ACS and we’re planning some great things. ACS is one of the few search engine marketing companies that truely ‘get it’.

I’ll also be blogging over at Pronet Advertising, ACS’s blog, where Neil Patel is currently holding down the fort. I’ll still be blogging here as well.

It’s been a hell of a week, like a roller coaster ride. I’ve had a couple of the best days in awhile followed up by some of the worst.

The bad news first. Have you ever had your computer crash without having a recent backup? I did the other night and it wasnt pretty. Of course it had to happen at the worst time possible, in the middle of a big project. Needless to say I pretty much lost everything and I’m starting over. It’s also pretty hard going 50 days without a check. I guess I’m learning this whole work for myself thing is hard.

Now, this isn’t my personal computer that crashed, it’s a computer that one of my clients bought for me to use while at their office. They’ve been very nice in giving me personal space away from this house if I want it. The computer has ran perfect for 9 months. Do you think it’s coincidence that it breaks down within 3 weeks of someone else using it that’s notorious for messing up computers? I guess I can’t complain if it’s not mine.

Can you believe I’ve had my eMachines for almost 4 years, the cheapest one at the time when I bought it. Seriously, my personal computer is pretty bad, if you knew the specs you’d laugh. I got it when we were first married and we didn’t have much money at the time, and we haven’t had much since. But it’s probably been one of my best computers ever. To go through the abuse that it’s been through and still be running is a miracle by itself. It’s never crashed, been reformatted, or anything. It may be slow as hell sometimes but it’s reliable. eMachines obviously makes a great product, regardless of what the price says. Who would of thought, an eMachines.

Adalyn had her 3rd birthday earlier this week and it was a blast. We don’t really have many friends with kids her age down here in San Diego so we just partied together as the family. Her cousin from Canada is coming down this week, I think they’re planning something for the birthday then. Sea World and Disney Land.

I closed a pretty big deal this week, which is always very cool. It’s just hard getting used to this contract work, going weeks without a paycheck is hard. Clients never pay on time and it’s hard getting used to. But this deal that worked out is big. I’ve partnered with a web development firm to provide search marketing services for their clients. They seem to have a pretty impressive client list so I’m excited about this.

I also got a call from a recruiter this week. I don’t really want another job but the money offered is tempting. We’ll see what happens.

It’s been a very busy week. I’ve been digging out from taking the day off for Adalyn’s b-day and the HD crash. I’m getting back on track and everything is cool.

We’re finally moving out next week, which is going to be great. The place we’re in now is just to small for our growing family.

Well that’s been my week. I’m planning on taking it slow for the weekend, it’s been awhile since I’ve taken one off so I’m just going to relax. Maybe do a little light posting, all personal stuff as I don’t feel like working right now.

Hope yours was better than mine!!