Well... By some odd coincidence, two of my worlds collided last night.

I just moved back to LA and have been trying to get my feet down on the ground here. A friend told me about an event called the conscious playground (happening on a wesak full moon) that was going down in Venice. So she pulls up the flyer online and I hear, "hey, zaadz is on here".

What?!?!

Lo and behold, our icon was on the bottom of the online flyer (albeit not linked well)

I called Brian up and asked him when we had decided to sponsor this event... "Oh, yesterday" was his reply. Apparently with our recent blast of magazine ads, we are now well known in the area, especially in LA, and these people contacted us about sponsoring the event, along with a bunch of other local, conscious businesses.

I went out to enjoy the music and the vibe at the conscious playground last night and found more than beautiful people that were there. As a result of my recent life transitions, I was feeling like my work at zaadz and the work I was doing on my spiritual path were beginning to separate from each other. The universe has been pointing me in the direction of people, events and music as of late and it's taken a toll on my ability to sit focused in front of my computer to get my work done.

My experience at the conscious playground was amazing because I felt a bridge being created between these two worlds. I got a chance to represent zaadz (in my old skool zaadz t-shirt) while being introduced to some amazing musicians and lightworkers. I have more confidence now than ever that I'm going to be able to weather this transformation with grace and bring zaadz along for the ride.

A couple of neat things to note about my experience as it relates to zaadz.

1. The post on zaadz about the event was done from a blog. That's cool but we're cooking up our own events area where you can post and search for local events in your area by date and by region and we'll be launching that by as soon as next week. I'm REALLY excited about that. I used to use tribe to find local events but with their recent shift, the volume and quality of events posted there seems to have attrophied. I can't wait to see that energy applied to zaadz!
   
   
2. When I needed to get directions for the event, I typed in 'conscious playground' in google. You won't believe what came up as the first result.

=)

Life is good.

As you may have noticed, there's a new AJAX spellchecker inside of those text boxes we use to write mail, posts blogs, send messages and other stuff. I've been waiting for this one for a while ;)

Many thanks to my brothers at TinyMCE who put together this cool editor and the peeps at Digital Ventures who sponsored the development of the spellchecking plugin.

The code was originally made in php and I converted it to ruby with the help of a very old ruby gem called raspell that interfaces with my old friend Aspell for the checking and word suggestions.

Yes... I realize there are a few oddities with certain words being marked when it might be appropriate for them not to be, but this plug goes a long way in helping those of us who are spelling challenged  ;)

I would promise the improvements to the interface and the personal user dictionaries (which I have planned) but I have to remember to focus on some of the bigger initiatives that I have on my plate right now for zaadz.

Enjoy!