rare pattern thoughts in a blog

Typically I stir around 6am, but don't wake up until I've had my tea (or sometimes coffee). In Boulder these days, the sky is lightening at 6am Mountain Standard Time, but the sun isn't quite up yet. I don't know about you, but I've always had a harder time getting up in the dark of night.

I feel like a travel amateur this week because I was having a hard time waking up early enough to hit the first sessions of DrupalCon in Boston. It's been years since I lived in the Eastern US, and I'd forgotten how profound just a couple of hours' difference can be.

This morning, without an alarm, I woke at 6:40am Eastern Standard Time. Getting adjusted!

I was concerned that by the time I fly back on Saturday I'd be adjusted to Eastern Standard Time, but then I'd just get used to Mountain Standard Time again before the shift to Daylight Savings Time in April.

Ah, but remember: Congress, in its infinite wisdom, expanded Daylight Savings Time so that this year it commences on the second Sunday of March.

That's this Sunday.

No doubt Congressional approval ratings will start to go up next week, once we're all reminded of the wonderful work they're doing to keep the sun shining.

...you might expect to see in the hotel a bedspread like this. Kate told me immediately that she could define each one. Of course I felt like a mental mouse.

So here's a challenge: What do these formulae mean? (And John and Rad, you can answer only one -- give everyone else a chance!)

Quite an auspicious way to kick off a week of Drupal, I'd say.

Drupal developers, designers, administrators and users, the time is now to submit your session proposals for DrupalCon Boston 2008.

There also are some discounted hotel rooms available, but the pricing is available only until February 18th.

Are you going to Boston? If you're not sure, consider this: You will be with nearly 1000 Drupal aficionados, including many luminaries in our Drupal community. If you have any interest and even just a smidge of passion for Drupal, and if prior DrupalCons are any indication, you will come away with a real buzz, with new knowledge about all sorts of things Drupal, with new business and social contacts, and perhaps a few new lifelong friends. For me, it's fun matching Drupal handles and faces, and wonderful to hear the voices behind what for most of us are just typed words in IRC, emails and forums.

I went to OSCMS 2007 and DrupalCon Barcelona 2007, and both times I came away with a real high. DrupalCon Boston 2008 stands to be as big as both of those combined, and with the Drupal 6 launch coming any day now, this is going to be the Drupal event not to miss!

Hope to see you there!