First Day

I left the hotel this morning to find out that it had turned into San Francisco overnight. The temperatures had dropped down into the frigid 60s. I guess if I were sleeping on the streets or had come here for the beach (both seemingly very popular here...) I would mind, but as it was it was kind of nice not to have to always walk on the shady side of the street.
I had the walk mostly to myself today. Not a whole lot of tourists or office workers out and about on Sunday morning. This photo is of one of the buildings on my way.

The walk though the Gaslamp District the morning after Saturday night is not all that pleasant, with the smell and dirt of spent fun all around. But I got to the Convention center fine and took care of the registration and all that with no trouble.

When we finally got to break for lunch I made my way to the Harbor side of the building and stood in the sun, trying to overcome the building's AC and taking in the ever charming view.


I made it over to the Downtown Farmers Market to see if I could find something cheap to eat. I ended up doing even better than that. There was a guy there who sold what I guess you would call gourmet crepe sandwiches. He actually made the crepes to order on this special two grill setup. He'd pour batter on the first one and when it had cooked, he'd use a long spatula to pick it up and move it over to the other one, wher he'd add the ingredients then fold it up and serve it in a paper sno-cone cup. I had one with cheese, peppers, spinach, and tuna. Oh my goodness. That was one of the best sandwiches ever.

Back to the class, taught by the guy who came up with ArcHydro. I remember seeing a presentation of the first version of the software like 5 years ago and it is just amazing what people have done with the framework. It's the kind of thing that makes you have faith in power of human imagination. It's that good.

We finished at 5 and I headed back to the hotel, which is just over the top of the hill in this picture.

That was a good walk and now I'm beat and jet lagged and its time for bed.