RE: Conference locations in the East

["Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

I'm sure if you took them to Rochester in the winter they would never
forgive you :-)

Chuck

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Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 1:46 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Conference locations in the East

I go to conferences for the educational content.  That IS the primary 
issue.  I don't get some spam from someone hosting a "me too" conference 
in Orlando with free passes for  the family to the attraction(s) of their 
choice and say "Man, I've got to go there."  I do often take the family, 
but it doesn't matter if the event was in Las Vegas or Rochester MN.

Now, if I can drive someplace reasonably I find that attractive.  I do not 
like flying.  No fear of flying just:
- the feel like you're being herded like cattle
- driving to airports
- having to arrive hours early
- checking luggage
- rent a car hassles and expense
- the big guy with the rubber gloves
- having your luggage full of clean underwear inspected by someone who 
just inspected someone else's luggage full of dirty underwear
- having that puddle jumper flight delayed 6 hours when you could have 
driven home in less time.
- paying for a flight from Rochester only to get put on a bus to 
Minneapolis.
- being definitely not overweight, and twice being asked to move to a 
different seat to help balance the load in one of those puddle jumpers
- putting my wife at one end of the plane, me at the other, and my 
preschool child somewhere in the middle.
- cancellations after you've checked baggage and can't get to medicine, 
toothpaste, etc
- having to check the firearms
Although I had no problems at all simply taking my leatherman tool with 
knife off of my belt, placing it in my carry on and passing that through 
the xray machine.  I did leave it in the carry on and not back on my belt 
until I landed though.

Rob