Last Conference Day

I presented my second conference paper today and I am reasonably pleased with the outcome. It is always nice to have an award. Anyway, after the conference, I was wondering where I should go in town and probably ride the Belle of Louisville when I learned that another professor was quite inclined to visit the tank museum at Fort Knox. Between the novel experience of riding on a real honest to goodness steamship and visiting a museum full of old military hardware, hell I would go for the museum any day of the week. Every ship largely feels like every other, as long as it isn't a speedboat or catamaran.

Anyway, the museum was smashing and had what was basically entire halls full of military hardware. Even though we had to hire a driver at quite some expense in order to get there and back, it was really a unique experience. It was in fact made even more unique because the museum itself was moving away from Fort Knox. Basically, that made us one of the last few visitors to the place.

The rest of the evening was largely uneventful. It was getting late, I was quite tired and overall there really wasn't a lot we could do anyway. Just a walk around the waterfront one more time, and then off to bed.