katakat.com bytes from a participant observer

The American Library Association's annual conference was held in Anaheim the last weekend in June. I was looking forward to the conference, but not the transportation aspect of it; I waited too long to book a hotel and figured I'd just commute. I mentioned this to my aunts, who were coming from the East coast to visit my folks out here, and before I knew it, we had a road trip planned to LA. With free accommodations, thanks to one of my aunt's co-workers, who was also attending the conference and had a time share in Anaheim. Yes! In short, while I did the conference for 2.5 days, my car and sneakers had a better time without me, going to Venice Beach and doing the Hollywood Tour of Homes, among other things. Meanwhile, I did learn a lot, and enjoyed the book cart drill team world championships as well.