{From the conference during dessert break — in which I cannot participate, dangit!} Web geeks at a conference for IT, marketing and admissions people are easy to pick out: We have the laptops. We sent in MAC addresses ahead of time. And so we, ladies and gentlemen, have wireless Internet access everywhere in the building …

DATELINE: Airspace above Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland or DC (exact location is classified), 2:32 p.m. EST, July 10, 2004 Our pilot is chatty. *Really* chatty. He gave us a fantastic “welcome” briefing with general flight description details, then repeated the whole thing a second time because one of the flight attendants said the PA system …

So let’s review! Toothbrush? CHECK! Information for homework assignment due Monday @ midnight? CHECK! Laptop Internet ready? CHECK! AC adapters for: phone? laptop? iPod? PDA? digital camera? CHECK! Rags ready to head to Chez Paul? Errrr … maybe not. 🙁 I swear, I have more electronics on my person and in my possession than should …

Well, here we go kids, Liz is going to attempt another blog/semi-regular writing enterprise. Brace yourselves, it could get interesting. As noted in the description above, the primary purpose of this little blog (for now) is to detail my adventures in DC and Maryland on my impending business trip. Of course, given that I went …