Jonathan, Irena and the kids visited us in Georgetown yesterday and we had a great afternoon in the city.

It was very warm so we stayed mainly in the shadow, and walking along the waterside.

Some pictures.

It's nice to live in a city for a while. We were out of coffee so I just walked to CVS to pick up some.

Many houses in Georgetown are from the colonial era. This gives the city an European feel, especially in the smaller backstreets.

I'm working from D.C. this week, from the house where Sasha is staying for her internship. It's on P Street in Georgetown, and falls under the "Zone 2" parking restrictions. Without a permit you can park on the street only for two hours.

So, every two hours I have move our car. This is funny, because there are so many empty parking spots during the day.

Petra has kindly offered that we can park at their house, a few metro stops away. If the moving becomes bothersome I'll park there for a few days.

We're in the African Department of the I.M.F. this afternoon. Sasha has to wrap some things up and I'm doing some work on my websites.

I arrived in Washington D.C. Thursday night. Friday I worked remotely; it's great to be able to telecommute every now and then. At work we're wrapping up a major release, so I'm "bug scrubbing" our tracking system and discussing bug fixes every day.

A delegation of a European customer visited our headquarters in New Jersey this morning and I spent three hours with them (through a conference call). This is a major financial institution, and they were one of the first large customers for my product a few years ago. It's great to see them using the product, and talk with them about their needs. The product is deployed in several of their data centers now and they're using it extensively.

By chance I visited a second huge customer in the afternoon. They are located in the Research Triangle which makes it easy to stop by and discuss things. That was a productive visit as well.

It's great to make software that solves real needs.