The traveling kit, version one, is about as packed as it’s going to get. I suspect I’ve got too much electronic stuff, or packed it badly, but we’ll see how it goes.

I’m still figuring out how best to distribute things between the three compartments, but I remember that changing multiple times over the course of the last trip, so it may take a while to get the system dialed in, or at least consistent.

In a stroke of brilliance, I put all of the stuff I know I’ll need for the Gen Con trip but won’t need while traveling around the UK into the carry-on bag ahead of time, so that it’s all already there in one place when it comes time.

A bunch of us got together at The Rockwood as a sort of ‘goodbye even though you’ll be passing through often and seeing a bunch of us on office communication systems’ event, which was also a slightly early birthday for Abhishek.

It was fun, but got cold as the weather took a turn for the worse, so we didn’t stay out too long. This turned out to be a good thing, because when the rain started it escalated fast; I could hear it from inside my hotel room.