Hello everyone;

Life has been quite busy these last two weeks or so. I flew across the continent with my sweetie-wife to attended a family reunion that my sister had organized. That required flying San Diego to Orlando (and discovering my new favorite airline — Alaska Air), staying overnight in Orlando, then driving to the Tampa area to visit with my sweetie-wife’s relations, from there we drove across the state to the Vero beach/Fort Pierce for my relations and reunion. (during this time I discovered I really like the rental car a 2015 Chevy Sonic – it was a very decent car.) Then driving back to Orlando for the flight home, all with a five day time frame. The last day had plenty of stress, slow service at lunch, poorly selected routes, schedules missed, rough air all the way across the country, but in the end it was a good trip and good to see family again.

(Though Florida cooperated with high humidity to remind me why I live in San Diego.)

This past weekend was Conjecture 2014, a local SF convention. I participated as a panelist on four panels and had a real blast. Saw old friends, had good conversations, learned new researching skills. All in all a good, but slightly tiring weekend.

Now at work the busy season has started up and I’m expecting lots of overtime hours between now and sometime around March 2015.