packing packing packing!

Just in case - here's the cell phone number I'm using while I'm here: 818-298-1213.

I'm fissioning myself and all my stuff.  Going to leave some of it here at the hotel in Germany (I'm returning after the weekend in Edinburgh), and going to just bring an overnight bag (plus my computer, of course!  LOL).  

I don't have the little clear baggie thingie for carrying liquids through the airport (I always am checking bags!) - soooo do I bring toothpaste?  I don't really need that for just a few days, right?  (smiles).

I blog on the Bleacher Report now (I'm a sports writer now on the side - can you believe that??), and was surprised to discover that a colleague on that site (one of the top writers) is leaving tonight for The Gathering as well.  It is truly a happening!

Let me try that image thing again (the HUGE cathedral out my window here in Germany):

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