I hear you there, I am also coming from Edmonton..... looking forward to the nice weather.

I'm just packing up my stuff, and just want to wish everyone a safe trip down, see you all monday night. Can't wait to meet you all.

Business Casual. Best way to describe the dress code.
Cargo shorts and light shirts for extra-curricular activities.
And a hat.
And sunscreen.
And sunglasses.
And a towel. (to dry off after those water based rides)

Yeah baby! Already checked into my room! Off to find some late breakfast / early lunch. Maybe a local theme park might have something to eat. LOL

LOL... I leave early Monday... See you all there.

Good news and bad news.

Good news: I visited the conference room floor. It's almost double the size from last year. The Showcase Solution room is now just a meeting room. The LARGER room behind it (the one under construction last year) is now the Showcase. HUGE!

Bad news: (1) Champs is not Champs; it's now called High Velocity. It should be High Velocity PRICES. Only 5 items are under $10 now. The decor is now more hardwood than sports-like. Oh well.
Bad news (2) Remember the problems with the door keys not working all the time last year? Same problem again. I've already got my key replaced. They're AT&T this year (Verizon last year)

That's all for now! See everybody soon!
DBB

On my way DarthBBerry. Sitting at Ohare waiting to board. I should be in paradise around 1:30pm.

yeah we hit up 'champs' last night, can't say I was over fond of the refurb either, seemed to a bit to much 'glitz' and not soo much fun... hey ho..

bb

I made it down after a long flight delay. This place is much larger than I expected.

Time to look around and fine me something to eat.

Checked into the hotel a few hours ago, found the closest 711 and grabbed a case of Miller High Life (us canucks cannot get this fantastic beer in Canada)

Planning to go and get registered up / get acquainted with the surroundings tomorrow.

Is everyone meeting up for a beer somewhere tomorrow?

BoxTone Lounge to start, at 6pm. After that, we'll make it up as we go along. We need to find a good place in the lounge/dining area for breakfast and lunch each day. As I said, we'll make it up as we go along.
G'night all, long day today. x14 knows why.

Checked into the hotel a few hours ago. Had some internet issues. Using my 8830 for a modem and I am getting horrible speeds (5kb/sec) and timeouts (think I fixed those though). I am currently on the hotel's connection ($9 a day). Anyone else on Verizon get crap speeds here? I made sure I was not routing through my BES. I have gotten 90kb/sec before in other areas, but I had a 7250 then.

Oh well. See you all tomorrow.

I'm a single malt girl. My half-Scottish blood line means I prefer the highland singles. Now if they were giving away a nice Speyside single like Glenrothes, that would be different...

Last year the in-room internet was free - I think they credited back at checkout, so I assume the same is the case this year...

Well this day could be going better. I did not know the training sessions were an additional cost as I was not included in the regestration process. My manager did everything. So here I am at the convention and I have nothing to do until 6.

On top of that I have no rental car. That is being fixed soon though. I am currently waiting outside for a cab to drive me to the rental place. Then I have a whole bunch o time to kill.

I look forward to seeing you all at 6.

So I guess thats the plan. Meeting everyone at 6PM.. I am hanging out by registration using the free wifi. If anyone wants to meet up, just post a place. I am up for it. Bored and by myself.

Being a conference n00b, not sure what to do until sessions tomorrow.

Hey all ..

Got here, checked in. Got all the registration stuff done and have been just wandering around getting to see where everything is .. I have an open afternoon so if anyone wants to grab lunch etc.

Sounds good to me. I haven't ate yet today. Where do you want to meet up?

I will laugh if we are sitting beside each other.

I actually went back to drop everything off so I don't have to haul it all around. Give me how about 12:30 and I'll come down and be by the registration desk?

*yawn*

I'm in the Admin 1 class today. It's a little more basic than I expected. I've never had any formalized training so I figured I'd start with this one.

I'm looking forward to 5:00!

I'm in admin 2 right now(just after lunch), and while it's good, it seems a bit rushed. Thank god we get a 200 page coiled text book to take home. I'm learning a lot about the actual data flow of everything, which i knew the basics of before, but not in depth. This afternoon we're gonna get into stuff like troubleshooting and logging, and I hope that that stuff is really good.

I'll try the Admin 2 next time. Admin 1 is good, its just a little slower paced than I expected.