So, for the first time in several years, I'm travelling though North America on a speaking tour. It's great to be back here, and I'm very much looking forward to the various Perl Monger events we have planned. I dearly wish I could get to more places around the continent, but these days I'm more-or-less restricted to the cities where I have clients or some other kind of funding.

I kicked things off last week here in Portland, where I was speaking at OSCON. That's always a great start to a tour: catching up with so many friends and colleagues, and enjoying the lovely city itself. The O…