Ready to go home....

I've gotten lack in my blogs the last couple of days. I'm getting tired and I'm ready to get back home. Here's a quick summary of the past couple of days:

Conference: Good stuff all day Thursday. Learned a good bit, got some new ideas for work. Today we woke up with an email from Sun informing everyone that there was a virus outbreak at the Moscone Conference Center. I didn't have much scheduled today, and I didn't want to spend the entire trip back to AL in an airplane bathroom so I skipped, as did the others. Here's a link to a story about it in the WSJ:

Food: We ate at a really cool place last night called First Crush, about a block from our hotel. I had a steak (again), crab cakes, a dessert and a "flight" of wine. Very good food. For breakfast today I had the buffet in the hotel. It had the best hasbrowns I've ever eaten. For lunch we stopped at a Japanese place by the Golden Gate Park and I had Tuna sushi called 'Crunchy Roll' and a 'Kobe Beef Sushi Roll'. The Crunchy Roll was nothing like the infamous SuperCrunch Roll, but was great nonetheless. The Kobe Roll was raw Kobe Beef on a roll of rice. It was really good too. This trip has had some seriously good food.

Sightseeing: We walked across the Golden Gate Bridge this morning, got a lot of great pictures I'll put up later. After that we headed over to the Golden Gate Park to look around. In my opinion, it was nothing special. I guess if you live in an urban/concrete enviornment all the time you might want a big park with trees to go to every now and again; but to me it was like a bigger version of Big Spring Park. Meh. Tonight the other 3 are headed to watch a SF Giants game. I couldn't bring myself to watch 3+ hours of baseball, so I'm working on a plan for a night alone. I may head to play poker, or I may pack early and sleep because I'm pretty bushed. I've had about as much of SF as I can take.

Morbid: Matt and Brian witnessed a suicide yesterday after they got out of the conference. They noticed a crowd a few blocks from our hotel and walked over to see what was up. Some guy was on the 5th floor window of a building threating to jump. Well, he did.....head first. Neither saw him hit the ground, but the sound, the aftermath, and just being there freaked them out. WTF is with this town?? A couple of hours later they had everything 'cleaned up', and hundreds of tourists were walking on the sidewalk oblivious that 120 minutes prior some guy took a nose dive to the great beyond. Unbelievable.

Overall, the trip to JavaOne/San Francisco was better this year than last. And I don't quite hate this town as much as I did after last year. But I still don't like it. It's just got a wierd vibe. I've seen so many people digging through the trash its freakin depressing.

Anyway. I got a ton out of JavaOne, got to do some cool sightseeing, ate a lot of good food, and had a much better hotel experience; but I'm ready to go home and see Casie and Evie. It's not the same without them.