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Ever since Brian posted the link about the press button, get bacon I am unable to go to a public bathroom without laughing. I won't lie to you it's a tad awkward sometimes. Damn you Brian!

June 1st will be a day I knew was coming but have dreaded for quite a while. Brian has decided to leave AOL/Blogsmith to go full time with his new startup called ComicMix.

To give a little history here is how I started working with Brian. (History O' Blogmsith from Brian)

When I graduated from UCF my plan was to do nothing for three months. I figured most other people took the time to "find themselves" so I could totally pull off a summer of learning how to play video games (since the last one I played was on the original Nintendo). My plan failed when after preparing my resume and talking to Alex about the trouble he was also seeing in the space we decided to launch Emurse.com.

Dear Suckers,

Attached to this letter is a picture of the view from the balcony of our hotel room. This trip has been called CodeJam Puma after the large cat like creature with the same name.

Of course it got that name from the Orlando International Airport deciding to make it easy for folks to remember where they parked by associating an animal with the floor level. We were on Level 3, aka Puma Country.

In case anyone from OIA/MCO ever trips across this blog...you're freaking retarded. A puma? Really? Why not just pick random types of snails or Chinese symbols?

Any way this trip went much better then the last one where I lost my sunglasses and all the phone numbers in my cell phone. We also got a ton of stuff done (except sleep of course) and met some very interesting people.

There are a few things that are awesome about staying at the Grand Floridian.

First is that you can wear robes all day long and people accept you. And from when we woke up to our late 4am snack runs to the 24 hour food court Mike and I were donning our robes.

Second is that everyone is so friendly. Everyone sells hello and asks what you are from.

This must have rubbed off on me because I started to chat with only other person who was around our age group when coming down in the elevator for my 4pm cookie snack break. This girl seemed nice enough and she said she was at Disney for business. I too being at Disney for business asked her what type of business she was in.

A parade, she said.

Huh.

I won't lie I was pretty focused on that cookie that was only a few steps away and said it was nice to meet you Lisa and continued on my way.

As I get back to the hotel room with chocolate all over my face and hands I explain the story of how I actually saw someone that was our age and that she was here for a parade. That's where this story would have stopped without a super smart house keeper and the Internet.

Yea...let me explain...

On codejams we really don't leave the room. A quick snack for lunch and then a quick dinner. Other 18 hours a day? Work.

It's like worse version of prison.

Either way we always get to know our house keepers as they have to do their thing while we are in the room. Normally we sit there and chat them up because if you were stuck in a room with geeks all day you would talk to everyone as well ;)

So on our way out we say goodbye to good old Fran and told her the room is all hers. She said that she was assigned to VIP guests and didn't have our room anymore.

VIP I say? More VIP then us? How can this be?

She said they were DoodleBops and here for a parade.

Hmm, a parade you say? A Doodle What?

So with that information in hand I pulled an Alex and was off to Google to see what the hell is a DoodleBop.

Turns out it's some sort of kid show.

I head over to the Who are the DoodleBops and sure enough there is DeeDee the DoodleBop named Lisa Lennox. Although in the elevator she looked less pink. Must have been the lighting.

So what would have just been some random story about meeting a girl in an elevator that was in a parade has turned into a quasi stalkerish type affair.

Is there anything the Internet can't do?!

Well I am off. I hope your week went as well as mine did. Be sure to keep in touch!

Love,

Gavin