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This draft was originally written in 2011. It was unfinished. I am publishing it now unfinished. I will say that due to the wishy-washy nature and bad communication of my manager at the time, I missed going on an Alaskan Cruise with my family. The manager told us we were going to drive to Atlanta. This would take 3 days. Therefore, we would not be back from TechEd until the day after the limo left for the cruise. Then, after the cruise reservations were booked, the manager changed the plan – and did not even tell me directly, instead letting me find out through a co-worker- that we were, indeed, flying, and the return flight was the day BEFORE they left for the Cruise. I got to send everybody off in the limo as I stayed behind.. with all my TechEd swag. Which I still have the T-shirt from, and am wearing still at this very moment.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, for the first time in my life, I’m going to a big huge conference for work! It’s called Tech-Ed and it’s Microsoft’s big show-off convention. Man, is it HUGE. it takes 20 min to walk from one end of this place to the other. It’s being held in the something-or-other big-ass convention center, which I’m pretty sure you could fit every single person IN Atlanta into.<\/p>\n

So I woke up early yesterday, said good-bye to my daughter and wife, and picked up a couple of my co-workers, drove to the Bloomington, IL airport. I love checking into small airports… SO much nicer than the big ones! Case in point: I accidentally had a POCKETKNIFE in my luggage!! Small Airport: they gave me a heavy duty bubble-wrap envelope, let me write my address on it, and mailed- FOR FREE-, my knife back home! Big Airport: TERROR ALERT! GET AGAINST THE WALL!!!<\/p>\n

so upon arrival to Atlanta, I had to separate from my group, because I was late getting my hotel reservations. On the way to my hotel, I was told by my taxi driver to “not walk at night” near my hotel. Great! as we approached the area, I saw what he meant. it looked like a pretty rough neighborhood. I think I might have spotted one or two corners without graffiti or a shady bunch of guys randomly milling about. So… luckily, Taxis are easy to find: This morning, I made a call and a taxi came around the corner to pick me up less than 30 seconds after making the call, no exaggeration!<\/p>\n

Oops, battery is dying. And phone battery already dead! oh well… guess I need to find an outlet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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