A student wrote me an email starting with "Dead professor"! — Hey, I'm alive!

@MassimoOrtolano are you sure?

@StrongBad Given the jet lag, not really ;-) BTW, owing to the shutdown (or thanks to), I had more free time and I spent some days away from DC... sorry for not having been able to meet you.

@MassimoOrtolano did you get to do anything fun?

@MassimoOrtolano where did you go? The shutdown is really making a mess of things.

@StrongBad and @ff524 Oh, yes, I went to Pittsburgh for the Warhol's museum, Cleveland at the Rock and Roll hall of fame, Niagara's falls and Boston. I was in Boston for a day around 23 years ago, it was my first visit to the US, and it was nice to see it again for a longer visit.

@MassimoOrtolano were the falls frozen. I have been to the falls a couple of times, but never when frozen. Never been to the Warhol museum or Cleveland.