I have spent more time in South Florida over the past year than I expected I would spend there in my entire life. Part of this has been the result of business decisions to learn more about and become involved with digital assets, a nascent industry largely bereft of lawyers and so a blue ocean to target as a growth area.

An even larger part of this has been my brother’s decision to work and live in Miami. It is not a decision I will make myself—I hardly visit the beach even when I stay nearby and I prefer not to be in a place with enough heat and humidity to feel like a low-grade sauna. After each of my visits, I have written in this chronicle that I have no desire to deal with Miami’s traffic or its climate. That hasn’t changed. What was different this time is that I spent a longer period of time down there, including some time during a normal work week for my brother and sister-in-law. My workday was the same, short bursts of work interspersed between meetings in whatever time zone was necessary. Their workdays were also the same, much more of a 9 to 5 schedule than I have had since I worked for the government. It felt weird being in Miami surrounded by people living a more-or-less normal life. And other than me choosing restaurants for dinner where they wouldn’t normally eat, that’s what we did. It was a nice jolt for me, just different enough to be worthwhile. I just wish that I had completed my CLE requirements earlier so that I wasn’t forced to catch up on them during the afternoons. Oh well.