Weird week
What a strange week. Monday was Christmas, and I took Tuesday off. Today the kids go for their annual overnight trip to a hotel in nearby Hyannis with their cousins and my father in law -- it's his last hurrah with the kids before he and my mother in law migrate seasonally to Florida.
On Saturday afternoon my mother takes the kids for her annual trip to Newport, RI, and she's going to keep them until Monday (New Year's Day), when we all gather at my grandmother's for a holiday meal. That's another short week, that culminates in my departure for San Francisco on Saturday.
Bonnie and I will have a nice, quiet weekend this weekend, which will be a welcome respite before I take off for the other side of the country. And the long weekends are always welcome, but there's something about the compression of days and weeks this time of year that always, always makes it fly away in the blink of an eye, and before I know it, I'll be in a hotel in San Francisco, prepping for the Expo.
I'm actually looking forward to it a bit this year, for the first time in a couple of years. Can't quite put my finger on why, exactly -- maybe it's the expectation that Apple will do something remarkable, but mainly it's because at least for me, it's *the* social event of the year. It's my one opportunity to spend quality time with a lot of people who I don't get to see at all during the rest of the year.