Jonathan’s Mindless Blog

I love going to conferences as long as it’s not too many in a year. This year I think I’ll only get to do one and it’s NOW! I’m in San Jose, CA for a technical conference and NES is picking up the tab. The weather is incredible and I can see why people would want to move here. The sun is out and the night time temps are about 55F, daytime about 70F and a breeze is almost always blowing. I guess this is kind of like a vacation since I get to sightsee today (Sunday). Yesterday we drove up to San Francisco and drove by all the sights, like Alkatraz island, fisherman’s wharf, telegraph point and the Golden Gate bridge. It’s a really neat old city. Today is a wine tour of the Napa Valley, should be quite interesting with the bunch of techies. Pics will be coming soon There was a huge cruise ship in port as well. It was quite a sight from up close, about 15 stories above the water line.

The best part is the ensuing true vacation, I get to see K&K in their new city of PORTLAND! And I will be priviledged enough to see Katie kick tail at a Roller Derby bout. I also found out that my new yearly (or maybe twice yearly) vacation destination has been moved from Ancorage, AK, to Colorado Springs, CO! Tom & Corinna have gotten confirmation that the next station of duty (Air Force) will be there and, I think, at the same base that is associated with the Air Force Academy. I’ll have to check that to be sure, but it sounds pretty cool to me. Tom wants to do a long backpacking trip hopefully towards the end of the summer, which will be awesome!

Oh, and Loveless Cafe, long known for thier wonderful breakfasts, I discovered, also has incredible dinners. We were out riding the motorcycle and passed by and decided to stop and eat, what a great spontaneous idea! If you’re ever in Nashville, you should make it a point to stop in.