I'll be in Virgina later this week, presenting at Cross Platform Media Teams for The Media Center, and giving a talk at NPR for an old friend.
As I'm getting ready today, I realized that the conference is being held at the Hyatt Reston Regency, the Hyatt at Reston Town Center.
Back in 2001, I spent 10 months literally living at that hotel--I was commuting to Dulles from California, arriving after midnight on Sundays, leaving on Thursday night to go home. My recollection is that I would come into town, work like a maniac for 3-4 days, leave and try to recapture my personal life, which had become very part-time, then get on the plane 36-48 hours after I'd come home to do it all again.
Needless to say, it was not a great time in my life--coming back to stay, 4 years later, will be strange.

Hyatt Reston--Haunt of traveling AOLers on a budget