Events

Heading back home. I get why people like spending time by California beaches, and yet my main priority right now is getting Cassie back, followed by sleeping in my own bed tonight. I got a little lovin' from a middle-aged German shepherd dog on the beach this morning, which helped.

The conference has ended, but I'm staying another day in the Southland. Regular posting resumes tomorrow.

As usual, I signed up for the hiking excursion at this year's conference. It did not disappoint (unlike my dying Surface and the hotel's WiFi):

As much as I'm enjoying this conference, including the History of Cyber Warfare talk a colleague just presented, the rest of the world continues to smolder:

For the third second day of the conference: breakfast at Parlor Donuts, just off the Huntington Beach Pier. No photos of the sugar and fat bomb that I ate an hour ago, and will still be digesting this time next week. But the pier itself looks good just after sunrise:

As hoped, I got out of my hotel room and walked up to the Huntington Beach Pier:

Despite all my travel issues, I managed to get to the right hotel and to all the panels I signed up for today. And I have to say, our conference planners did a great job on the location:

My flight to Boston has left the gate and I'm not on it.

Three related stories grabbed my attention while waiting for a plane to take me to Boston, which turns out to be the opposite direction from California. First, five Chicago-area breweries have closed in the last six weeks as economics asserts itself:

How it started: