So I will be attending a conference in Baltimore the second week of October! The catch is that one of my direct reports is also going, and I don't know her well enough to know if she's going to want "alone time" in the evenings or if she's going to want to spend that time bonding with me. In any case, I've been dying to meet LisaH, Bob, Sarameg (those are our Bmore folks, right? I feel like I am missing someone) and anyone else in the vicinity (including DC folks).
I plan to go go out east the weekend before (probably a weekend in Philly or New York) to get acclimated to time zone and visit people. I am excited!
So I will be attending a conference in Baltimore the second week of October!
!!! WOOHOO!!
What dates? Where are you staying?
I'll be at the Hilton Baltimore Oct 9-11, at very least. Maybe the 8th, too. My new company acquired a company based in Philly/Langhorne and I may need to visit my (remote) employees there, too. So I need to figure out those details.
And I have a little Harry Potter Fan in Philly I need to visit.
Wheeee!
Awesome! I will definitely be around and would love to meet up.
I am SO psyched!! My only regret is that I won't be able to catch an Orioles game while there (I can't afford to buy play-off tickets for Orioles *and* Giants!).
SFistas, if my mother is going to a wedding in Menlo Park, does it make the most sense for her to fly to San Jose and rent a car and stay somewhere down at that end? Is there much to see without heading north? She's a youngish 62 and likes art and history and shopping. And she's offered to bring me as her +1 instead of her husband (it's my cousin's wedding (reception - he got married in Capri), and I wasn't actually invited, so that's a little weird, etiquette-wise, so I might not go.)
I can't think of much art and history down there (there's always shopping). If she likes art and history, there's a lot in the city. But Lee might know better.
does it make the most sense for her to fly to San Jose and rent a car and stay somewhere down at that end?
It certainly make sense, but it's also easy to get from SF to San Jose. That's a major CalTrain corridor.
Is there much to see without heading north? She's a youngish 62 and likes art and history and shopping.
Lee would know better than I, but there are definitely those kinds of things in both San Jose and Palo Alto (with its proximity to Stanford).
And the easy train access works both ways if she wanted to daytrip it up to SF to go to the museums or walk around.
P-Cow! How was your birthday party? It looked like tons of fun. I was quite tempted to go.
She hasn't got a lot of time - so maybe just visiting Stanford would be enough of "something to do"? She spent some time in San Jose and had a low opinion of it, but as I pointed out that was literally more than 40 years ago and I suspect it has changed... she had the grace to laugh.
