This year I'm blogging for the USENIX blog, so we'll see how much I actually put up here...but the thought of going w/o updating my own just makes me sad, so here we go.
Took the bus down, which was completely uneventful and pleasant. Walked from King St station to the conference hotel, which was a bit of a hike but welcome exercise. I'm on the 25th floor and have a pretty skookum view of local neon and such. Got supper and some groceries, then went out for drinks w/Matt and his wife Amy, Pat Cable (who I'm meeting in person now for the first time), Bob and Alf, and Ken Schumacher. Good times, with lots of good teasings of Matt in as well. Missing Ben Cotton, which is a shame; the two of us could pretty much get Matt to cry if we tried hard enough.
First tutorial this AM was "Stats for Ops", and it was amazing. Discovered that using a spreadsheet is a really good skill to have. I have to learn that at some point...
And now off for next tutorial.