YAPC::NA 2008 Day 0
This year, Chicago won the bid to host Yet Another Perl Conference which is the first Perl conference I have gone to.
I got up at 5:30 AM. The cab was scheduled to come at 7:00 AM. It was Father's day and both of my girls were in bed. Not a great start to my trip. It got worse. Just as we were pulling back from the gate, the captain informed us that due to weather in Chicago - we would be sitting still for a minimum of 90 minutes. It ended up being two hours. When I finally did arrive in Chicago, I got in a taxi to go to the hotel.
I seriously thought it was some kind of a joke when I saw the room that was nearly $200 a night. It was a closet. The wi-fi was non-existent. I was starving so I found my way to the hotel's restaurant. It was 1:00 PM and they were only serving brunch. To give you an idea of how over priced it was, a bagel with locks was $14.00. Since I got in later than planned, I decided to skip the parrot hackathon. I lounged around until it was time to go to the pre-conference dinner. I was the first one to arrive. I had a splitting head ache so I decided to start drinking the summer brew.
A few people showed up and I shot some pool and drank more beer. The buffet was $30 a head and beer was $5 a glass. I should have ate more food and drank less beer. I met a few folks I knew from online but decided to head back to the hotel around 9PM since I was very inebriated and I still wasn't sure how to get to campus the next day.
I called Jean (10PM her time). She told me that Jasmine had started going potty - literally overnight. Grrrr - this better be worth it.
I got up at 5:30 AM. The cab was scheduled to come at 7:00 AM. It was Father's day and both of my girls were in bed. Not a great start to my trip. It got worse. Just as we were pulling back from the gate, the captain informed us that due to weather in Chicago - we would be sitting still for a minimum of 90 minutes. It ended up being two hours. When I finally did arrive in Chicago, I got in a taxi to go to the hotel.
I seriously thought it was some kind of a joke when I saw the room that was nearly $200 a night. It was a closet. The wi-fi was non-existent. I was starving so I found my way to the hotel's restaurant. It was 1:00 PM and they were only serving brunch. To give you an idea of how over priced it was, a bagel with locks was $14.00. Since I got in later than planned, I decided to skip the parrot hackathon. I lounged around until it was time to go to the pre-conference dinner. I was the first one to arrive. I had a splitting head ache so I decided to start drinking the summer brew.
A few people showed up and I shot some pool and drank more beer. The buffet was $30 a head and beer was $5 a glass. I should have ate more food and drank less beer. I met a few folks I knew from online but decided to head back to the hotel around 9PM since I was very inebriated and I still wasn't sure how to get to campus the next day.
I called Jean (10PM her time). She told me that Jasmine had started going potty - literally overnight. Grrrr - this better be worth it.
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