Heading for Philadelphia

The badges have arrived and it's time to get ready for the 2.5 hour drive from Long Island to Philadelphia. I'm armed with questions for the technical helpers from OCLC and Innovative Interfaces. We've lined up the party invitations - enough to more than cover Saturday and Sunday nights. For some reason, the vendors are more generous with parties at Midwinter. We still haven't been invited to the real blue chip party (if it exists) put on by Google. I'll never be known again as a young Turk, so that invitation may never arrive.

Donna is just attending as an exhibits-only. When she did that in San Antonio two years ago, it didn't hurt because the best programs were put on by vendors, and none of them cared what kind of badge she had.

We're never quite sure what to make of Philadelphia. It looks very similar to our own city, and we love their Chinatown, but it's a bit more normal than New York. One thing for sure - we always eat well there.