Meda and I left Honolulu late last night on a United flight to Denver, connecting to Atlanta, the site of this year’s annual conference of the American Society of Criminology. It’s Meda’s biggest professional conference each year. She’s has four official appearances on the program, and her schedule is full of meetings with co-authors and colleagues, editorial boards of journals, book publishers, special interest divisions within ASC (including the Division on Women & Crime, and Division on Critical Criminology),and so on. She’s usually conferencing from early morning to early evening.

While she’s working, I’ll be trying to relax. I’ve got one real hardcover book, several digital books, my laptop and iPad. Lots of ways to keep busy. Or not busy at all, as the case may be.

Atlanta is definitely not our favorite conference city. The conference hotels are right downtown. Not much else is right downtown. We’re told that the sprawling Atlanta suburbs have lots of attractions. Perhaps, but there’s never been time to explore them.

I would welcome any suggestions of interesting things to see in Atlanta.

But don’t worry. I’ve got a thumb drive with this week’s Feline Friday photos ready for processing, and even a few sunrise pics. About the cats–Duke was dropped off at VCA in Kaneohe this morning, but the other six cats are at home, watched over by their favorite cat sitter.

Did I mention that Atlanta has a “frost alert” over the weekend? Yikes.

In any case, stay tuned.