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SPIE conference in San Diego, CA, visit to the Advanced Photon Source in Argonne, IL — my trip to the USA is over, now I'm sitting at gate 29 of Terminal 2, SAN. Flying with AA to Dallas first, then an overnight with BA to Heathrow and finally to Geneva. Shuttle to Grenoble, hopefully no too late.

Bye!

Being in Burgerica, it's hard to miss these compliments for your palatine. Yesterday, I served as a palatine proxy for ette. Yummy!

Greetings from SPIE conference in San Diego.

I was invited to give a talk in conference 8141; today was the big day: "Partially coherent x-ray beam simulations: mirrors and more" attracted some 40 auditors. I finished my 50 slides in time, so there was enough room for a lively and interesting discussion. More perhaps later, going to bed soon.

BA 273 has landed roughly on time yesterday evening; I walked up to San Diego Lindbergh field, asked some staff, and finally got it (55 minutes after landing). If you see a guy wearing the same shirt next week — it's not me!

SPIE conference gonna start today, in ~9 hours; so in CET it already begun.

Will take some San Diego-views for you in the morning.

There's a large optics conference starting tomorrow in San Diego, California. I'm already there — but would be nice if my bag would make it, so I can take a few two-dimensional projections for you to show.

My 24 hours itinerary, given in local timezones:

• 8 heures 30: Au revoir Grenoble,
• 11 heures: Bonjour Genève,
• 1 am: London calling, not much time to make it to the next gate,
• 8pm: arriving in Chicago; have to cross the border. Officer asked two questions and I got the stamp,
• 8-thirty, waiting for my bag that has to go through customs. But no luck :(
• Local airways contact has found my bag to be on direct flight to San Diego, arriving tomorrow evening.
• Service worker says I shall claim it in San Diego and go to my connecting flight. That means US security check, now...
• I'm no terrorist and waiting at the gate. Got some jeans cloth out of the ATM.
• 11 pm, arriving at San Diego (it's 9 hours behind central Europe). Still now bag showing up, asking local airways contact. Got some receipt with a tracking number. But web page does not yet know where the bag is.
• 11pm +: Last bus has already gone; searching pacific ocean and walking to downtown. Hotel is on West Broadway, there might me some signs to help me.
• 12pm: No signs. But I actually chose the right way and got some sleep.
• 12pm: Mobile not working. Should have brought my second one; although broken, knows the US frequencies. Headset for VoIP still in London :(

Now it's 9 am in the morning and I will go shopping a plug converter and some antiperspirant.