Dénouement
That’s what it’s feeling like at work. Apple has publicly given word to the press about an iPod-centric event occurring next Tuesday, September 9th. There will be be a mini-crush time in the couple of days leading up to it, though.
Been feeling a bit sick since last Thursday; I think work and the weekend SF trip caught up with me. On Saturday I gave a campus tour to Dan Chang, one of my housemates and fellow REU fellows at the University of Maryland during the summer of 2006. Dan was a rising junior at Princeton in EE at the time, and now he’ll be doing a Master’s at Stanford in EE. He arrived this weekend and we had dinner on California Ave.
The next morning I was down there too for the Farmer’s Market. I met Terrell and his fiance Kelly there — they were going to be leaving Palo Alto for North Carolina that morning. The day before they were at a jeweler in Oakland making their own wedding bands. Yeah. Pretty awesome. We took in the sights and sounds, enjoyed nutella crêpes, bought apples from my favorite vendor (Prevedelli Farms), and watched the Obama woman run their voter registration table.
We saw about half a dozen people register to vote. Later I met Jonathan and Kamal for a long lunch and we caught up with the new semester and our experiences at Apple and Rambus.
I stopped in at work for a few hours on Monday to prep a Tuesday morning delivery, then spent the rest of the evening at Luke and Dora’s cottage for a cookout. Food, drink, and company were all great. We saw Nola, their 4 month old black cat, as well as the neighbor’s cat who took a liking to Gene.
Just a great weekend to be outside. I’ve spent tonight quietly…reading the NY Times Magazine lengthy articles on power struggles between Shiites in Iraq, Rush Limbaugh, and the warring doctrines inside John McCain. Yesterday I had read an in-depth look at the motivations and ideas that inform Barack Obama’s economic policy, which if you had to use a label might be a “University of Chicago Democrat”. I also read through a recent tax policy analysis of Obama’s and McCain’s tax plan prepared by the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.
You know me, dear readers. I go wild at night.