Go west young man

I'm off to the Resource Investor Hard Assets Conference in San Francisco for the next couple of days - look for something new here sometime on Tuesday.

The laptop is staying home as there seems little reason to pay the hotel an extra $15 a day for internet service just to read mail and complain here again about how expensive everything is.

Parking costs $50 per day, so that means that the car stays at the BART terminal about 50 miles away from the city - it's probably better that way since driving in town can't be any fun for a mountain man like me.

The hotel bill is going to be much higher than I'd like to pay and there doesn't seem to be any way to avoid the extra $20 room tax that gets tacked on - as I understand it, I'm getting off pretty easy, but, really, how can people afford to go there?

One of the highlights of the trip will be sitting down for a cup of coffee with Patrick Killea of the world famous housing crash site Patrick.net.

Oh yeah, gotta pick up some sourdough bread too.

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This week's cartoon from The Economist:

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