Maggie, Emily and my mother in law are off to Germany tonight to visit Maggie’s sister there. They’ll be there through Feb 28 and then returning. I’m not going because I’ve got plenty of traveling of my own to do coming up.
First I’m going to Japan Feb 20-25. I’ll be going to Kyoto to the APRICOT2005 conference to talk about spam issues as part of my chair of APCAUCE duties. While I’m there I’ll take the Shinkansen over to Nagoya for a Dreams Come True concert on Feb 23. Then there’s the LONGEST TRAVEL DAY EVER on Feb 25 where I will start from the hotel in Kyoto in the morning, take the subway and train to Kansai International Airport (Osaka), fly to Taipei, go home and repack, clean up and grab a bite, then back to the airport that night to fly to San Francisco, getting there in the evening (still the same day but much later), drive down to Santa Clara and in all likelihood collapse into a puddle for a couple of days. The next week I’m off to Kansas for classes Mar 1-4, back to Santa Clara, followed by a drive down to Santa Barbara after that and return back to Taipei on March 13 (really it’s late night on March 12, but since it is just past midnight departure, it says March 13 on the ticket), arriving on March 14 early morning.
I’m getting tired just thinking about all that. Whew.