Spent three nights at Sapphire Atlanta. Didn't see or hear anything impressive, frankly, but SAP was, unsurprisingly, able to rally many partners and customers. Atlanta was better than I had expected. My first trip to a Southern city, St. Louis, didn't leave me with a whole lot of sweet memories, but that was more than 10 years ago. I had really good seafood at Atlanta every night. First at the Holiday Inn Select hotel's Grille restaurant, then the Atlanta Fish Market at Buckhead, and finally the Bluepointe at Buckhead again. The Bluepointe requires business casual so don't go there in shorts which could be tempting under the Southern weather.

The Georgia World Congress Center is huge, but a pain in the neck to navigate in. Every day we had to walk down 4 escalators from the main entrance to the conference hall, and then back. The third afternoon I went to the CNN buliding next door and took a "CNN Inside" tour. For $12, though, I didn't get to see as much as I had expected, and some of the tour equipment wasn't working. All in all, Atlanta's food really impressed me.

I spent two hours at home "deep cleaning" my aquarium. In the process the zebra botia jumped out of the bowl I temporarily put it in while cleaning the tank, and when I rescued it from the carpet this darn fella bit me. I don't know how, but I felt two sharp stings. No blood though. I don't know if it will survive a whole tank of new water, but it's been strong. It will have survived 5 full years in this tank this August. In a few days I'll start adding a few new neighbors in the tank for it.