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title: "A dream come true.. almost"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/31/a-dream-come-true-almost.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/31/a-dream-come-true-almost.html"
published: "2003-10-31T18:09:00"
updated: "2003-10-31T18:09:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I always knew my blog will get to places. Now it's gotten me into the USA. Well, sort of. People have been dreaming about me , you see. I'm so flattered that I think I'll start to dream about them back. My only wish is…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# A dream come true.. almost

By Roy Osherove October 31, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 31, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

I always knew my blog will get to places. Now it's gotten me into the USA. Well, sort of. [People have been dreaming about me](http://weblogs.blogpie.com/marcshiker/posts/172.aspx), you see. I'm so flattered that I think I'll start to dream about them back. My only wish is that in the dream I was a thin as I appear in \*my\* dreams, and of course, that I was dressed like Neo and able to fly.

Another funny thing that happened, that can be related into the community culture: I was mistakenly “pulled' into a chat with about 10 other folks. I can't remember who invited me, but suddenly there I was, in an MSN chat with 10 strangers. All of them looked just as surprised as I was. Looking at the email aliases I could recognize at least two bloggers that I know of - [Colt](http://weblogs.asp.net/coltk/) and [James Avery](http://weblogs.asp.net/javery/). While Colt went off the chat in a breeze, I exchanged a couple of words with James (although less than a minute) and it felt a little like running into him on the street, like an old friend. How crazy is that? The sense of community here is pretty awesome IMHO.

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Nov 4, 2003

    ### [A horrible discovery](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/4/a-horrible-discovery.html)

- Oct 31, 2003

    ### [Nice Blog.](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/31/nice-blog.html)

- Oct 28, 2003

    ### [Waiting for the Next RSS Bandit](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/28/waiting-for-the-next-rss-bandit.html)

- Oct 27, 2003

    ### [Regulator Coming along nicely](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/27/regulator-coming-along-nicely.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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