To the beat of the rhythm of the night

Busy, yo:

• This was my first week on call at $WORK, and naturally a few things came up -- nothing really huge, but enough that the rhythm I'd been slowly developing (and coming to relish) was pretty much lost. And then Friday night/Saturday morning I was paged three times (11pm, 1am and 5.30am) -- mostly minor things, but enough that I was pretty much a wreck yesterday. I'm coming to dread the sad trombone.

• Besides that, I've also been blogging about the LISA14 conferencefor USENIX, along with Katherine Daniels (@beerops) and Mark Lamourine (@markllama). They've got some excellent articles up; Mark wrote about LISA workshops, and Katherine described why she's going to LISA. Awesome stuff and worth your time.

• I managed to brew last week for the first time since thrice-blessed February; it's a saison (yeast, wheat malt, acidulated malt) with a crapton of homegrown hops (roughly a pound). I'm looking forward to this one.

• Going to San Francisco again week after next for $WORK. (Prospective busyness.)

• Kids are back to school! Youngest is in grade 1 and oldest in grade 3. Wow.