The second day was long, but I gleaned a lot of good info from it. I was in the developer part of the seminar — 1 of 2 attending that, so I was able to get a lot of my own questions answered, and even learned a little Visual Basic just from watching.

On the way back we decided to visit Bruce and Brandon Lee’s final resting place. We walked around the cemetary for the better part of an hour before we finally found someone who could show us. I, personally, would prefer to be cremated if I die (crackle crackle crackle), but those were some nice headstones.
While I was not 30 feet from their graves and headed the wrong way, a very insistent crow cawed at me from a tree branch, as if trying to tell me I was going the wrong way.

On the way back we hit rush hour. Luckily I was enjoying driving our rented PT Cruiser anyway.
When I got back to the office I found that my paycheque had not been left on my desk like it had with the other guys, and there was nobody at home to come pick me up! Luckily Mellissa must have also called home, figured out that something was wrong, and came to pick me up. I collapsed into my bed a little after getting home.


Mood: :smile:

Luckily, the border guard wasn’t a jerk. Once he saw our drivers licenses and we mentioned we were going down for a software seminar he just waved us through. I was afraid we might get stuck explaining that, even though we were going down for business purposes, we weren’t going to do work.

The hotel had free wireless Internet access, so the work laptop was out of its case within 5 minutes of check-in. Not bad speeds, either.

The introductory part of the seminar was fine. We were 3 of 12 attending. The people from GO Sofware were nice, and they kept everything concise and not too boring. Then they took a bunch of us out for dinner at Wild Ginger, although it took 1 1/2 hours just to get to the freaking entree!

Afterwards, we went to GameWorks, which it turns out was just 2 1/2 blocks from the hotel! Unfortunately, I recognized a lot of the games from the last time I was there, which was almost 10 years ago, and lots of the multiplayer games were damaged. It has definitely gone downhill.