Well i am through security and at my gate. Just a 2 hour plane ride between me and Las Vegas. I am very excited.

I packed my bag in full conference mode. I have learned from the past that I always come back with an extra bag and 3-4 shirts I didn’t pack. This in mind I loaded up my backpack with enough clean undies and socks to make it through the week, a couple pairs of pants and a couple shorts, and a couple shirts. Through in my personal care items and I was ready.

I have been traveling more and more to provide Flex training. When i pack for a training gig, I grab my roller-board and I load up all the clothes I need. I pack away all my personal care items in that bag so everything can be checked in. In training mode I then carry on my laptop bag with my personal electronics and everything works out.

Today….today i am in conference mode. No roller-board. No bag to check. So while at breakfast with my lovely wife this morning, I over heard someone talking about not being able to take more that 3 ounce of liquid per container on the plane I realized i had made an error in my packing. We were at breakfast at an old favorite of ours that is half way between our house and the airport. Much to far to go back home and get another bag.

Well I am very happy I decided to grab a jacket today. 70-80’s in vegas, but I decided to bring a jacket anyway. At the gate when I checked in, I pulled my laptop out of my bag. Grabbed my ipod and my DS, stuffed them in the pockets of my jacket and checked in my bag. Crisis Averted. Although i am now carrying my laptop around the airport with me, and my jacket feels kinda heavy. At least I didn’t have to turn over my soap and tooth brush the TSA :)

Ok, not gonna let this little snafu kill my mood. Vegas here I come. i should get in around 3:30 and then its just a cab ride to the hotel. Tomorrow should be a pretty laid back day. Both Tuesday and Wednesday I am presenting on CFEclipse so that will be lots of fun. I am really looking forward to learning about LiveCycle and Appolo. Those are my main focus of sessions I am attending.

There are a few people I am committed to meeting at max. Ryan Stewart is one. Somehow i missed him at CFUNITED and as we are both from the Pacific NW and have a greater than passing affection for RIA’s i think he and I need to have a beer. I am looking forward to tracking down Mike Potter. I am a huge proponent of Open Source Software and in the Adobe world he seems to be the OSS advocate for the company. Not to mention the LiveCycle guy. I recently started learning Ruby and RoR and have been having fun making Flex play along. I figure if I continue down that path, he would be a good guy to know. I am also looking forward to meeting Jesse Warden. He and I have been visiting on IM for a year or so and he just seems like such a fun guy ( totally forgetting that he is an AS mastermind ). Now just because I have marked these guys out doesn’t mean that they are the only ones, but I figure if I say something here, I have a better chance of hunting them down.

Ok, enough blogging for now. I plan to post lots of good stuff I learn over the week, so stay tuned for my insights on the news from MAX.

sim out.