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So I saw Vertigo tonight. The cool thing for me (well, apart from seeing on the big screen a renowned film from a legendary director with a fantastic cast) was that, being set in San Francisco, it was chock full of local references – the Embarcadero, Fort Point, the Presidio, Eddy Street — things that might as well have been fiction for me a few months ago became totally real. So that was neat.

Which seems a good segue into a short bridge post in the travel diary. OK, so Tuesday we had to get to work with the MySQL conference sessions, leaving little for me to report here. That night the conference held a reception with food & beer, which was followed by a vendor party with more beer, which we then followed with our one night in downtown San Jose, hitting a joint called the Mission Ale House. Nothing special really, just a regular, young working class hangout. Good place to knock back a few. Wouldn’t call it a Latin bar, but did seem to be a high Hispanic percentage there, which I guess is probably just a reflection of the local demographic.

This all led to the 3 AM realization that the hotel safe was there to protect The Ultimate Cheeseburger. I guess you had to be there. And be wasted.

Wednesday was MySQL work again, and by the time the night rolled up we were both pretty exhausted. So it was dinner at the hotel bar, a casual beer & pizza roundtable with the MySQL Cluster team, and an early bedtime. Thursday morning, work again. Finally the afternoon hit, the conference was over. Well, except for the “Ice Cream Social”, which, heartbroken though we were, we had to skip — we had a boat to catch.