This is conference week for me first Defrag in Denver then later in the week ApacheCon in New Orleans. Tuesday I traveled from Denver to New Orleans and spent a good part of the night checking out live music on Bourbon street while periodically checking in for election results. By 11pm it was pretty clear who the winner was going to be and the street was electric with celebration.
I couldn’t help but notice that not everyone was celebrating. It was a real life excercise in demographics. Young black musicians were jamming on the street in an infectious, raucous improv band, middle aged women visiting from blue states were waving and dancing, white dudes in football jerseys and oversized beers were not so jolly looking. After the obvious there were more nuanced layers of reaction.
Regardless – it was a great place to be on an historic night.I found myself on an unexpected rollercoaster of emotion from celbrating to welling up with tear.
