Today just happened to be one of those "bummage" kind of days for Jackie and I - a day where you don't really have anything planned, and you just sort of "putz" around the area. That was so us.

We started the day off early with breakfast at the hotel restaurant, and then pretty much just walked up and down the streets of the Pikes Place Market browsing and shopping. To some of you this may have just seemed like a waste of a day, but after considering that we had pretty much visited all the major tourist hotspots on last years trip (Space Needle, Seattle Aquarium, Harbor Cruise, etc.), and we had already caught a Mariners game, this seemed very appropriate and quite relaxing.

Don't worry though... today won't be all play. I will most likely be checking out the SMX "In the Park After Dark" pre-conference party sponsored by Microsoft a little later on this evening (Greg, I will be sure to tell the wonderful Mr. Bill Gates "hello" for you should I happen to run into him). That should be a few hours of really hard work.