Technically good

Today... went well. Met everyone I needed to meet, had some good technical discussions. Introduced myself, was outspoken a couple of times.


Afterward, went by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum and thought a lot about James and geekchick.

OTOH, it was swarming with conventioneers from... get this... the American Chamber of Commerce Executives. How much more establishment can one get that *that*? When they started doing audience karaoke, I bailed and went to check in to my hotel near the airport. White Republican mainstream Pat-Boone-clones, trying to sing R&B songs...
run away, run away....!

up early...

an hour ago, when two sweeties still hadn't gone to bed yet, in California...

long, but productive

A 16-hour day, a bit long but productive... up at 5am EDT in Cleveland, only 4 hours of sleep, then off to the airport, flew home via Memphis on Northwest, thought about geekchick and dawnd while there. On the planes, I drafted an outline for a paper (due in a week) and wrote the first page or two.

At home in California by noon PDT... got lunch, borrowed tenacious_snail's car (mine is still in the shop, with the ongoing mysterious fuel injection problem) and went to work, met with JL (whose project has evaporated, but he has another I'm mixed about), and then went to the highbay and operated a crane and helped reassemble the DAME drill in time for tomorrow's show-and-tell. My hands smell like WD40 now, but I'm ready for tomorrow. Now off to the gym, and then home.