Heading to California

For a few days, anyway. I’ll be doing my science-y kind of thing for work and visiting a partner laboratory in Sacramento to assess how they do things in an up close and personal manner to make sure they are doing things with an eye towards getting quality analytical results [spoiler alert: they probably are; this visit is mostly just ticking a box].

While I don’t have a ton of time to do much, let me know if you live in the Sacramento area and want to grab a coffee (or two). I might have time one evening or in the morning before I catch my early afternoon flight home.

My trip is largely a flight out, visit with another WordPress-er friend, sleep, wake up and visit the laboratory, possibly catch dinner with the lab (although the ethics of doing such things have changed since I last did one of these visits, so it may not happen), sleep, get up and find a way to the airport, fly to Minneapolis, drive home.

I’ll admit there was some temptation to stay another day on my own dime and just be a tourist, but I elected not to do that. I’m not renting a car, I am unfamiliar with the city and my hotel is not close enough to the tourist attractions to walk from it to where the action is. Sitting around a hotel in an mostly industrial neighborhood hardly seems worth the added cost.

Amazingly enough, California is one of the handful of states I haven’t stepped foot in yet, but I believe this visit will bring the states I need to visit to fill out my US bingo card down to seven remaining.