>>You may see me hobbling around since my hip replacement is scheduled for August 25th, but I figure I should be functioning at an acceptable level 6 weeks later
Nah, you'll be good! Take a pillow for the plane, though.
I wandered past the conference last year, think I might do the same this year as well.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
