While in San Francisco this week, I made a quick side trip to Berkeley to have breakfast with economic blogger extraordinaire Brad DeLong. It was Brad's blog that first got me interested in blogging and it was his encouragement that pushed me over the edge to get started.

In addition to having a chance to catch up with Brad and John Ellwood from the Goldman School of Public Policy, I had a chance to have coffee at Peets.  For those of you who don't know, Peets was Starbucks long before Starbucks became Starbucks but, as anyone who has attended UC Berkeley will gladly tell you, much better.  It was heavenly.

I was doing my very East Coast thing of checking my Blackberry every 30 seconds before Brad arrived and, thanks to the time difference, was having an intense e-mail exchange with a client and her counsel.  We quickly concluded that a document had to be redrafted.