Are you in town for a convention? Anything good?

Nah, pleasure. I fly into Vegas that Friday night to visit my friend who's finishing up a training course there. We take in as much of Vegas as one can take in over less than a full day, and then drive down to Phoenix to see a Hockey game. A couple days in Phoenix, then I fly into Boulder, CO to visit a friend who's in grad school out there, then a few days later I fly back to Philadelphia and sleep off the hangover/jetlag for several days. My first time ever being west of the Mississippi River, so I'm pretty psyched.