It has been brought to my attention that I haven't updated since returning from Belize. I've been frantically preparing for my presentation in Nashville next week. And when I'm not doing that, I've been slowly wading through all of the images (4.5GB worth) from Belize and working on the back end for my weather station. Neither of these two endeavors will be complete before I leave on Friday.

After Nashville I'm going to take a few days vacation and drive out to Charlotte to see some of my extended family. At the same time, Nina is going to be undergoing a great exodus from Connecticut—driving her car from Connecticut to New Mexico via Michigan, Indiana, Atlanta, New Orleans, possibly Canada, and possibly Charlotte. Her route is possibly more circuitious than my similar exodus in the spring of 2002.

Anyway, there's some possibility that we might see each other for a day while in the deep south and to make that work we'll definitely be needing our cell phones. Unfortunately, Nina's phone recently died. And we both hate Sprint, so the decision was made that she would switch providers to Verizon and get a new phone. Now my largely un-used cell phone is actually a rider on her plan, so when she cancelled her service, my phone ceased to work as well. This meant that I had to get a new phone as well.

Of course I took this opportunity to purchase the most ridiculous phone I could, the Treo 650 (which I have blathered on about before once or twice or thrice). In my defense, this is not the latest and greatest anymore and thus no longer costs an arm and a leg, though it is still not cheap. Hopefully all of the beyond-phone features will entice me to actually use it, unlike my previous phone which basically lived in my truck, turned off, all of the time.

So I have my phone activated and my INMM talk is almost complete so I'm ready to hit the road. I'll be in the Nashville area from July 15 to July 20 and the Charlotte area between July 22 and 25 if anyone wants to get together. I will have email access while in Nashville.