Monday, March 21, 2005

Hotel Kahl--ee--fawrn--ee--ah

Bring yur ahleebyes...

I just saw a commercial promoting The Governator's education policy, featuring the Austrian goofball himself. I have officially left the country, if not the planet.

The talk went well today, if a little long. But I was smooth and the questions were good, so it's cool. I may now commence with the part-ay.

I did find out next year's meeting is in Baltimore, which is disappointing because I can go to Baltimore any frickin' weekend I want. And it won't have hockey, continuing the pattern of concentrating all March Meeting hockey fun into last year:

98 Minneapolis (before the Wild started)
99 Atlanta (we didn't go)
00 Seattle
01 Indianapolis
02 Austin (even the "Ice Bats" were out of town)
03 Montreal (OK, that was fun)
04 LA (yes there's a team that plays 5 blocks away...but we knew there wasn't going to be a season)
05 Baltimore

Also continuing a March meeting trend, the poster I specifically went to see in a poster session wasn't up. I wouldn't have walked back to the Convention Center at all except for that...

Speaking of hotels, the Wilshire Grand is current Hatblog headquarters, with wireless in the rooms, two bathrooms in the suites (nice for two people)...pretty cool. No pink champagne on ice, though. I was going to go to the pool when done blogging, but I was distracted watching my fantasy baseball team run out of healthy limbs, so I guess that makes me a prisoner of my own device.

OK, I'll take song nominations to work into the next few posts in the comments. All I've got left is "I love L.A." and "L.A. Woman." And since I don't think I love L.A...I may have to switch to movies and make some Lebowski references or something.

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