I'm back home today, after 10 days on the road. To review -- we went to Aptos, CA for the innovation@Sun conference, then to Phoenix, AZ to visit family, and then to Las Vegas, NV for the CEC conference. We are all glad to be home, but it was tough getting up this morning, after 10 days in the Pacific time zone.
As I mentioned, I enjoyed Aptos and the innovation@Sun conference. One of the people I got to meet was Tim Bray ... I think we ended up at the same table for three meals. During our first conversation, we both discovered that we were going to be speaking at CEC in Las Vegas. He said that his talk was Tuesday the 9th, and I said that my talk was Tuesday, the 9th. I expected that his talk would be before mine, but he said that it was at 3:30 -- right after my talk, which was scheduled for 2:15.
Fast forward six days ... I get an email from the CEC conference committee that my talk has been moved from 2:15 Tuesday, to 3:30 Monday. So I email Tim to ask if his talk was moved too. It turns out that he got the days mixed up, and had booked travel for Tuesday, even though his talk was on Monday, so someone decided to swap his talk and mine. No problem, except that everyone at CEC had pre-registered for sessions, so now anyone who had registered for my talk now had a conflict. As a result, my husband had to rearrange his schedule and I had a poor turnout for my talk -- my husband was more put out than I was, but Tim offered to buy him a beer to make up for it.
We didn't care for Las Vegas -- too much cigarette smoke, we don't gamble, and we had a 7-year-old with us.
On the "good" side, we had sunny weather, enjoyed our time in Aptos, and were happy to be so close to family that we could drop in on. And we're glad to be home.