It has always proved difficult for me to spend any time on reflection. It may be easy to say that there were highlights even as there were moments of angst. Margo and I have just returned home having spent a week downtown in Denver at a HPE NonStop (formerly Tandem Computers) Conference, the TBC 2023. When held at this time of year these conferences are the annual big-tent marketing affair that draws equally from the HPE NonStop team, the NonStop vendors as well as HPE NonStop customers. With the audience and speakers drawn from all quarters of the globe, these can be invigorating times even as they are exhausting. For the event this year in Denver, Margo and I had the opportunity to occupy the Hilton presidential suite on behalf of the client. With ours and clients employees present in the suite, it was also our task to entertain NonStop community members nightly which we need to explain, meant late nights for the conference duration. All good fun mind you – yes, the presidential