Vegas, baby!

I'm leaving for Las Vegas today. Unfortunately, it's not all fun and games--I'm going for work, to cover the Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest CE tradeshow in the country? World? Who knows. All I know is it's about back-to-back meetings with marketing types, recycled air in a convention hall the size of a small city, and the gaudiness of Vegas with little of the fun. Although, the Adult Entertainment Expo is also going on at the same time (different convention hall, alas), which provides the potential for amusing stories, especially where the attendees from CES and AEE could overlap.

Christmas and New Year's Eve were fun, relaxing, and relatively uneventful. We spent NYE at a friend's house, having a low-key party. The highlight of the festivities was watching the fireworks over the Bay from the roof of her apartment in the Mission. The frustrating part was trying to explain to a very drunk man that no, the day does not start in Greenwich, England but most likely somewhere in eastern Russia or Asia and that the "mean" in Greenwich Mean Time is the same "mean" that means middle. Never try to have a logical conversation with someone who's drunk--it's an exercise in frustration.