CUViper

I’m in Portland for an Intel software conference this week.  I’m speaking on Wednesday, but today and tomorrow I get to just soak it all up.  I can’t share any details on what I’m presenting, but I will share the nice view I have from the hotel:

I also got to have dinner with Chris and Tonya tonight, and their baby Claire.  Millie’s going to be so jealous when I teach Claire to say “Josh” first, but it hasn’t happened yet…

When I got back to the hotel, I found an amusing sight in the hallway:

My cell phone didn’t capture this one too well, but what we have here is a bucket of empty Newcastles on the left, and a bucket of untouched chocolate milks on the right.  Methinks someone had a good time…

These election results are as good a reason as any to break blog silence — congratulations to our President-elect, Barack Obama!  And while I’m sad about California’s current results on Prop 8, overall I feel much more optimistic about our immediate future.

Obama is not the messiah, and he doesn’t have a magic wand to solve all of our problems, but he has inspired me and so many others in a way I’ve not experienced before.  I hope to see great things in the next four years…