Journal smartfart's Journal: YAPC, Sunday continued... (yapcna2006)
NOTE: I apologize for the rambling and out-of-sequence data the rest of the YAPC blog entries will contain. Everything from Sunday evening on ended up being written much later. I'll try to not confuse my readers too much.
We were told that early registration would happen at MSV, an hour or so before everyone headed out to the arrival dinner at Goose Island. What they didn't tell us is that they wouldn't be ready for us ;-). We hung out for what seemed like an eternity, and at some point Josh's wife came up to me and asked if I had any scissors (duh). I told her that she might be able to find some at the 7-11. From what I understood, they had printed out the steenking name badges on large sheets of paper, but no one had cut them apart. Hilarious. Eventually someone managed to tear them apart with their teeth or something, whereupon the little slips of paper were handed out all at once.
Also while we were waiting to register, someone said that the campus wireless network went down, and mentioned something about the DHCP server falling over. Little did we know at the time that wireless issues would plague us for the entire conference.
Right after I got my badge, Uri or one of the other organizers said that we had to depart for the dinner, else we'd be too late. I put my badge in my wallet and figured I could register the next morning, and walked to the train platform with everyone else.
Sorry Uri, but Goose Island stank food-wise, just as I predicted. However, I wanted to be with my friends from IRC, so I bailed on the anti-arrival crowd and went to Goose Island anyway. I felt bad about deserting my fellow rebels, expecially since the anti-arrival dinner thing was my idea. From what I can gather, those folks mainly merged with the veggie BOF leaf-eaters and grazed together all week. I even bailed on the Chinatown outing on Wednesday, which I was really looking forward to, but Josh invited me to the speaker's party because of my help with the network, so I felt obliged to attend that, exhausted though I was.
I did enjoy hanging out with everyone at the arrival dinner. However, I became exhausted about halfway through the event, plus my back started acting up. The exhaustion ended up severely complicating things all week, and I ended up having to miss several presentations because I was simply too tired to attend them. I don't know what more I could have done to alleviate the problem.
We were told that early registration would happen at MSV, an hour or so before everyone headed out to the arrival dinner at Goose Island. What they didn't tell us is that they wouldn't be ready for us
Also while we were waiting to register, someone said that the campus wireless network went down, and mentioned something about the DHCP server falling over. Little did we know at the time that wireless issues would plague us for the entire conference.
Right after I got my badge, Uri or one of the other organizers said that we had to depart for the dinner, else we'd be too late. I put my badge in my wallet and figured I could register the next morning, and walked to the train platform with everyone else.
Sorry Uri, but Goose Island stank food-wise, just as I predicted. However, I wanted to be with my friends from IRC, so I bailed on the anti-arrival crowd and went to Goose Island anyway. I felt bad about deserting my fellow rebels, expecially since the anti-arrival dinner thing was my idea. From what I can gather, those folks mainly merged with the veggie BOF leaf-eaters and grazed together all week. I even bailed on the Chinatown outing on Wednesday, which I was really looking forward to, but Josh invited me to the speaker's party because of my help with the network, so I felt obliged to attend that, exhausted though I was.
I did enjoy hanging out with everyone at the arrival dinner. However, I became exhausted about halfway through the event, plus my back started acting up. The exhaustion ended up severely complicating things all week, and I ended up having to miss several presentations because I was simply too tired to attend them. I don't know what more I could have done to alleviate the problem.
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