On the 4th of July, Stacey and I took a Boston harbor dinner cruise on Odyssey cruises. We had a lovely, romantic dinner together, followed by the fireworks as seen from the Charles River basin. Oh, and she said yes.

… and we just lost power in Medford, MA. This will be the third time in four days that we’ve had a power outage. I thought this was only supposed to happen in California. 😛

(No, it’s not rolling blackouts. Just lots of antiquated equipment which is dying thanks to the increased summertime load, apparently.)

So I’ve been in Monterey all week for the Usenix conference, but it’s still been a productive week. On Monday, I taught a Linux kernel tutorials class. I thought my friend Stephen Tweedie was going to be there so we could tag-team teach the class, but it turned out that I had to teach it by myself. So that worked out OK, although I was pretty exhausted. On Tuesday, I spent all day with my ipsec working group co-chair to organize things for the Yokohama IETF meeting.

I haven’t updated my LJ in a while, mainly due to my being insanely busy, and not being terribly effective at work. I think it’s due to my not getting enough sleep; so that’s something I really need to work on. Last weekend two friends of mine from MIT, Carolyn and Jason, got married. The service was held at a historical estate in Canton, and both the weather and the service and the location was gorgeous.

So I get home from Linux World, and I have today to run a bunch of errands: Buy and install a new printer for my church Do Laundry Catch up with with my bills and expense vounchers Mail some very late Christmas presents …and then it’s off to get Australia for linux.conf.au. And after I get back from that, a few days later, it’s off to Helsinki where I’m teaching a tutorial for NordU 2002 conference.