My schedule's gone all wonky anyway. I may not have the free time I thought. I'll send you a text if anything changes but not sure yet. Sorry to be so flaky!

No worries. That's the magic of having a friend who's an introvert. I'd love to see you and hang out, but staying home can sometimes be its own treat! (Plus, I have a plan B if we don't make plans). Anyway, yes, it would be awesome to hang out, but if your schedule refuses to be controlled, I understand.

I'll be in Chicago for work Thursday, April 28, but I won't know until (hopefully) later this week whether I'll actually even be free for drinks/dinner. There may be a work dinner that would eat up my free time, but they haven't decided on that yet. And then I fly home the next day.

Teppy, if you do have time I might be able to get away from tech during the dinner break (5:30 or 6ish).

Aurelia, I do have a work dinner, but I don't know what time. Basically, we have a meeting until 4:30 or 5, and then at some point dinner. I don't know if it will be soon after the meeting (like 6), or later. If it's later than 6, I could meet you after the meeting ends. I'll just have to post here tomorrow when I know.

I'll put my cell # in my profile for the day.

I've got it now, so you can delete whenever.

Got it.

Woo!

Aurelia, I do have a work dinner, but I don't know what time. Basically, we have a meeting until 4:30 or 5, and then at some point dinner. I don't know if it will be soon after the meeting (like 6), or later. If it's later than 6, I could meet you after the meeting ends. I'll just have to post here tomorrow when I know.

Hah. My work travel life, let me show you it.

I don't know if she'll be available, but I'm hoping hoping to be able to meet up with Epic for breakfast tomorrow -- at Wallis Simpson's house! Or her house when she lived in Coronado. Which we can only get to (and have free breakfast) because I got to my hotel so late last night that they had to upgrade me into the swanky part. I mean, the swanky swanky part of this already swanky place. It's a freaking gated community within a luxury resort. Crazy!

The desk person told me to keep an eye out for famous people - as she sent me to the second, separate building where they give you the keys in this part of the hotel. Since obviously I don't want my room key from the [shudder] front desk.

(And yet - no hot water this morning.)

(And yet - no hot water this morning.)

Part of its charm?

Just went and freaked out at my boss about how excited I am and she okayed my coming in late tomorrow!

Hah. My work travel life, let me show you it.

Yours is crazier than mine, for sure. Though I'm annoyed that it's 24 hours out and no one has let us know what the dinner plans are. I'm starting to think that, despite them telling us there are plans for a dinner, they're going to wait until 4:30 tomorrow afternoon to ask us if we want to go to dinner and then people will hem and haw and there will end up being no dinner, in which case I am going to have a drink with aurelia and then eat an expensive dinner in my hotel's restaurant. And then maybe use the pool. I should pack my swimsuit.