Flew our crew out this a.m. to San Francisco for a long weekend. We like to play tourists during this week and have now for several years. Southwest Rapid Rewards and an online hotel booking can make for an inexpensive but neat getaway (esp. In SF, where none of the big attractions shut down), so I am excited to show everyone the town. I spent a lot of time here in the mid 1990s doing base-closure community activism in a weird Center for Naval Analyses's project for then Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Bill Owens. There I was, organizing and plotting with activist groups and local pols in Oakland, Alameda, and S.F.--truly a bizarre detour in my career, but a neat one that taught me a lot. I also spent a week at Berkeley in 2005 as the Chester Nimitz lecturer--another cool memory. Enjoy your holidays!