So, I forgot to keep people updated.
On Wednesday, I had a full day of sessions. That was fine by me, because the HP Certified prize patrol was only giving out prizes to those entering and leaving sessions. Most of my sessions tended to be in odd places, so I wasn't holding my breath about getting anything, and something like 1/2 the prizes were casino chips, which I wouldn't have used...
At 11:30, they had an Elvis Name That Tune contest. I ended up getting 9 out of 10, they drew names from the 3 people that got them all right to win a prize. (Some were very hard...) The Elvis impersonator would sing a bar or two of the song, then stop. No music, just him. Had I been able to hear the music playing a little (In my head), I would have gotten the title ok, but I just wasn't getting it from what he gave me.
We drove out to the temple in the evening down there. It was nice, but pretty sparse. While I was waiting for Tara to come out to the chapel, the officiator was having a hard time finding a couple to be the witness couple. They went and got a temple worker couple to cover it before Tara came out.
On Thursday, I had a session at 8am. I got there about 8:10. After that session, I went in to listen to the Mythbusters. (They also started at 8, but I missed the hour full of management speak, and got there about 10 minutes before they brought out the Mythbusters.) I learned several things. The Mythbusters are not gay, they have families. (They made that very clear for some reason.) They have 2 episodes coming up, one that involves a mouse and Elephant dung. They were cracking up about it, but wouldn't let us in on the secret because the episode hadn't aired. They also just finished an episode on Superheros, one of the things they did was build a number of things out of Batman's toolbelt.
At lunchtime, they had the drawings in the Expo Hall. I didn't win the $10,000 from Brocade. I also didn't win one of the 20 other prizes they gave away. (Mike D. won a Playstation Portable. Not sure what he's going to do with it, I offered him $5 for it, but he didn't take me up on it.)
I had a session at 1:30 that was supposed to go 4 hours. A few minutes into it, he said he made up cds with all his slides and demos. He gave us a break at 3pm, I went up, got a cd, and bolted.
We stopped at Appleby's in Cedar City on the way home. At first our waiter was ticked off because they didn't seat his girlfriend in his section, (we came in first), but he masked it well. I didn't order anything to drink, and refused water. (I didn't want to stop every 20 minutes the rest of the way home.) We ordered Boneless Buffalo Wings, he thought I would be begging for water, but to tell the truth, the wings weren't all that hot. The wings at ESPNZone were much, much, much better.
We got home at 11pm. I woke up early today to get to a meeting, the agenda item I was there for got shelved for lack of time until next week.
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