It's great to be back home again! First we flew down to SF for three days of driving up and down Sandhill Road -- I feel like I really have gotten to know the construction guys at the Santa Cruz intersection: Bob, Charlie, Rafe... -- then we went back to Vancouver, picked up Dos Pesos from Paul, dropped him off at Julia's, arranged for Klaus and Esther to pick him up when they got back from Frankfurt and then off again less then 12 hours later to Munich!! Good news is it looks like I will be staying home in Vancouver for at least a month three weeks, at which point I go down the SXSW interactive festival in Austin, then ETCon, then PC Forum. I'm not planning on attending any more conferences, thankyouverymuch, or leaving town much so I can stay in one place this summer. It's just so lovely in Vancouver!

One thing that I have never been able to do is sleep on planes, and the Munich flights were particularly brutal. They were Vancouver to Toronto -- three hours in Toronto -- Toronto to Vienna -- four hours in Vienna -- Vienna to Munich, for nearly 24 hours of travel! And the same on the way back. So by the time I got to Munich I was so very very tired. And again, so tired today -- and on a different time zone.

But the good news is, having had nearly 48 hours of travel, I managed to read no fewer than 5 books! I'll write about them later. It's great to be off the internet for a while. I haven't even checked email yet, I'm afraid of the gazillion messages in my inbox. But I guess there's no more putting it off.

Oh! and Darren scanned in the whole Vancouver Sun article. That's him!

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