Lesson from trial day 1: The haircut you got for trial in a salon at 5,280 feet and zero humidity will not look at all the same at sea level and 100% humidity.

Lesson from trial day 2: Do not attempt new and untested methods of blow drying your hair on trial day 2.

Lesson from the evening of trial day 2: We are not in Kansas Colorado anymore.  Came out of the Safeway just in time to see the Oakland police surrounding someone at gunpoint in the parking lot.  Oddly, my first instinct — from years of Law & Order and Cops — was to walk toward the scene to check it out.  It took a sec to realize that “away” might be a better direction.