Archive for the 'Social' Category
A Fiesta Wedding
It’s official. I am married! What a year it has been preparing for that one special day. We had a wonderful wedding on Saturday, April 19th, the kick off weekend for Fiesta San Antonio.
As stated in a previous blog entry, Jason proposed to me on the night of March 9th, 2007 on Pier 39 in […]
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Yusuf visits from Dubai
It has been so busy lately and I haven’t had a chance to blog about a very important event that occurred 2 weeks ago. My good friend, Yusuf, flew all the way in from Dubai to visit San Antonio for a few days.
I met Yusuf 5 years ago when I studied abroad in Seville, Spain. […]
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“PEER 1 Social” - Los Angeles
As Manager of Client Loyalty at ServerBeach/PEER 1, one of my initiatives is to put together customer appreciation events on a quarterly basis in various cities across North America. I held my first event in Los Angeles last Thursday evening. I have to say that I was a bit nervous as it was […]
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ServerBeach Farewell video to YouTube
ServerBeach hosted YouTube for 2 years. They started with a single server and grew to over 200 servers in a year’s time span. I managed the YouTube account and what an adventure it was. It was almost like having a house that can only host 150 guests and 1000 show up and they are such […]
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Dog Park Disaster
April and Ruben, our friends, have been asking us to join them at the dog park one day. There is a dog park within McCallister park located down the street from April and Ruben’s neighborhood. They have taken their 2 dogs Posey (an older mix) and ChaCha (an older but hyper chihuahua) out there a […]
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Las Nuevas Tamaleras
The Susan G. Komen Foundation San Antonio Chapter held a fundraiser this holiday season by selling tickets to the play “Las Nuevas Tamaleras.” Since the play mostly attracted women, I decided to take my mom, my sister and my grandmothers. Although they all had been a few times in previous years, this was my first […]
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San Antonio’s very own Poker Superstar
The Jewish Community Center on the northwest side of San Antonio held their 3rd annual Texas Hold Em Tournament this past weekend. It was a big turn out with 90 participants all playing for the grand prize of a seat to the World Series of Poker MAIN EVENT, a value of $10,000. After 7 grueling […]
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Chalk It Up
Today was the 4th annual Chalk It Up festival, put on by Artpace, held on Houston street in downtown San Antonio. This was my first year attending and I really enjoyed it. Houston Street is closed off to allow various artists sketch and showcase their art. There are chosen professional artists to be part […]
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Adventures in Toronto
I am visiting Toronto, Canada this week. PEER 1 was hosting a leadership meeting and a customer event here. I arrived Monday and will stay until Sunday. PEER 1 activities for the week have ended and what a memorable time it was. The other half of the trip is for personal vacationing. I will note […]
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WordPress in San Antonio
So Automattic is a customer of ServerBeach/A PEER 1 Company (where I am currently employed). Automattic is more widely know for the development of WordPress. Barry Abrahamson, an Automattic employee and a native San Antonian, was visiting from San Francisco along with his colleague, Andy Skelton, also an Automattic employee, visiting from Austin, Texas. Andy’s […]
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