Tonight

There's a large convention at the San Diego Convention Center this week -- about 20,000 people. It's the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Assocation. Some Scientology types were protesting on the first day.

I've had a lot of travelers tonight: Belgium, Australia, Poland, Germany, Anchorage, Philadelphia, Tucson, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago.

The Australians were two guys in town for the psychiatric convention. We talked politics as I brought them to the Westin Hotel on Broadway and Columbia. They don't like Howard, but have supported him because the economy has done well under him. Among the American candidates, they like Giuliani because he's a strong leader and leans right, but he's not a far-right conservative.

My German customer was a young man from Hamburg who is staying at a housing facility for international students. We talked about the ICE train, and he suggested watching "train rider" on YouTube: