Hello from Las Vegas… I got here late afternoon after leaving gabe’s this morning. It was so much fun visiting gabe and helping him Fix up the house. Still a lot to be done… But I’m really proud of all of the stuff we got done. (Look at all the scratched off items on our list)

I got to Vegas about 6 PM just in time to Register for the conference I’m speaking at… And go down and see the venue. It’s always important to me to be able to see the room I’m speaking in… It makes me 6% less nervous once I’ve seen the room 🙂

A good sign is that I ran into my friend Karla about 30 seconds after I arrived.

From there I was able to go to the poster session and I am mediately started running into friends. I hadn’t been at this conference in probably eight years… But there were so many familiar faces

It felt like home sort of

I particularly enjoyed running into old friends Nagu and Viresh. .. Something about running into old friends makes me also less nervous

The three of us Took an Uber (a Tesla driven by a Bernie sanders fan !) To a party held by one of the suppliers. It was in a building where I had seen one of the best concerts of my life ( Phil Lesh) in 2015 . It brought back great memories Of hanging out there with my friend Shmuel And running into my friend Ricky from Vermont totally randomly

There were so many people there tonight that I knew that it was overwhelming. I knew I had to get a good nights sleep

so I did a quick circulation and then we headed out

OK… I have to wake up early for my talk. So I’m going to sign off now. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite Sam

– me