The Service Research and Innovation Institute’s Global Conference has finally arrived. I decided to skip all the face-to-face chapter meetings and Significant Special Interest Group meetings, so I used the first day of the conference as a travel day. The real fun should start today. They got Vint Cerf as the opening keynote speaker, so they’ve got to have something on the ball.

The research forum is on Friday. It’s from 11:00-1:00, so there’s no way I can be done early enough to take a flight home earlier than the redeye. An old friend is flying into town with his new fiancee Friday night, but I guess he’ll have to hang out with my wife and kids until early Saturday morning. Oh, well, I can spend the extra time working on the draft of my dissertation. I haven’t done nearly as much on that as I should have, but I am making progress.