Happy 4th

Hey, it’s Alister’s birthday today.

Lisa, Frisket and I walked from home to the W Hotel Union Square, I’m guessing about 2-3 miles (the Brooklyn Bridge alone is a mile). We’re staying here for the night to get Frisket away from the fireworks (and to a lesser extent, us away from the hordes about to descend upon the Promenade for the fireworks display). We’ll stay here overnight and then walk back home tomorrow.

I’m considering whether or not to return to Chicago this week for more estate management fun. If I don’t return this week then the next opportunity will be the last week of July/early August.

I’m debating whether or not I should attend Preventing the Internet Meltdown, a conference at the end of July. It’s called by Peter Denning of the RISKS Digest and several others. Could be fun to be back in a technical conference again, on the other hand it’s on the left coast and I’m not sure I should be flitting around to conferences.