Nun travels on business.

Greetings from the antiseptic heart of Silicon Valley sunny California! I'm down here for a conference thrown by the vendor of a deployment & config management tool. I just found out on Monday that they are indeed a vendor, not a prospective vendor. They're spending a lot of time selling their product, as in general they ought, but that's wasted on me and the eight or so of my co-workers here because we're already customers. What we need is more clue about how best to use their product, and they don't have their act together as well as they could for that.

Bad: This event is a sausage party. Women here, including me, keep silently giving each other the, "Power, sistah!" greeting.
Good: Women in tech are pretty motivated to network with each other.
Good: Decent pulled pork in downtown San Jose. Sure, it all looks either brand new and soulless or sketchtastic for blocks, but there are decent eetz to be had.
Good: The woman who taught part of my workshop yesterday is a dyke who lives in Seattle about a mile from me. She mentioned having a wife during the workshop. She's probably ineligible, but ten out of ten for coming out casually.
Bad: I've been eating & drinking too much.
Good: I did sun salutations this morning with sun streaming into my hotel room. It's easy to be a California stereotype when you're in California. The conference has organized yoga, but I gave that a miss.
Bad: Speaking of California stereotypes, I forgot to ping my many Burning Man buddies down here, the Beavers. I surely won't have time because...
Good: I'm meeting up with my college chum H tonight! I haven't seen her since surgery. So. Many. Stories. It's a bit of an imposition for me to ask her to drive down from El Cerrito, so I better make it worth her while.
Bad(?): I'll be skipping the Big Party that these events always have for it.