This time, it’s a tour of the East Coast. The next couple of days see my department’s semi-annual planning meeting, this time in Greenwich, Connecticut, at my second-line manager’s palatial estate (or at least at his house…I’ve never seen the place, so I have no idea what it’s like). Then some quick family visits over the weekend, followed by the Global Internet Project’s Anti-Spam Workshop (I’m on the Policy panel). Then, after a day of INET 2002, I return home so I can drive to Sacramento to talk at a privacy meeting. And then I’m home for a while. I hope.

Updates may be sketchy and infrequent (so what else is new?) for a while. Worse, I’m falling behind in my weblog reading — I’m sure I’ve missed two or three controversies in the last few days already!

I have much to write about the CTRE — there were many highspots, including Wynton Marsalis giving a lecture on creativity, complete with demonstrations in jazz — but that will have to wait.

Tonight’s highlight is today’s partial eclipse of the sun. I didn’t have sophisticated hardware — just a handheld pinhole, a handheld piece of paper, and a handheld camera (yes, that did require three hands…fortunately, Diane had two of them with which to help me!), and the pictures show it, but that’s how reality is sometimes.