On the road, on another planet

Blogging with the help of hotel wifi, as I'm on a road trip to that strangest of strange lands, Washington, D.C. I'm attending a conference and have spent much of the past two days playing phone tag with an assortment of Beltway Bureaucrats. No time to go into details, but let it be said, the Capitol Hill Police are keeping America safe from the specter of commercialization. Despite that, the show must go on.