Albuquerque

I know I haven't written anything for a while, but I've had a lousy cold, so didn't have much to say beyond "Ate soup today."

But now I'm the picture of health and I'm in glorious New Mexico for a conference. The conference is not particularly well populated because the great Snowmageddon/Snowpocalypse of the East has made it impossible for people to get here, but that means that you can eat more at the receptions (which are surprisingly fancy), so I don't mind. At tomorrow's keynote address they're going to serve tea and crumpets - no joke. I'll be first in line.

I have wanted to visit New Mexico for years, and it is not disappointing. I've never been in a landscape of burgundy soil and blue-grey grasses - it seems hyperreal. More exploring to come.