InsaneJournal

I'm not
dead yet.

I spent the last week in Las Vegas at a conference and while the conference was good, Vegas is definitely not my sort of town.  I do not enjoy gambling with the exception of the occasional game of penny ante poker or possibly other stakes that can make the game fun.  I enjoy shows but like with movies, I hate going alone and so I don't.  Add to all that, my allergies were off the hook to the point of 6 Benadryl a day (for those who don't know me, I generally avoid medication unless absolutely necessary) and it made for a business trip like any other basically.  The conference could have been held in Omaha and the result would likely have been the same.

Now, please don't take it that I had a bad trip.  The conference was excellent.  I didn't hit as many sessions as normal but I did a huge amount of networking, I established some new connections and from a work/career/business perspective it was quite an excellent conference.  Interestingly enough, I spent the majority of the networking experiences with the Germans from IBM.  This is actually much better than it sounds because two of the major tools I use from IBM are out of the German labs.  I also have an invitation from one of the developers to come visit him at his house if I'm ever in the area for business or pleasure.

While there I also had the opportunity to visit with yinshu and Panther.  It was a good dinner and my body still being on east coast time was an early evening (or late for the east coast).

I am very glad to be home where my allergies have gone back into hiding, I have my cats, all 6 of them, a comfortable bed and a town I enjoy.