{"id":32,"date":"2005-09-11T00:22:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T04:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/?p=32"},"modified":"2005-09-11T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T04:22:55","slug":"in-la-for-pdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2005\/09\/in-la-for-pdc\/","title":{"rendered":"In LA for PDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made it to Los Angeles in one piece for <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/events\/pdc\">PDC &lsquo;05<\/a>.&nbsp; I swear that every time I fly I get worse, but at least this time I had all my sim flights in my mind and knew exactly what was going on the whole way.&nbsp; I do have to remember not to sit up the back of planes though &ndash; it&rsquo;s the worst place for the ride because it bounces you around a lot more and you get much more engine noise.&nbsp; Connecting at O&rsquo;Hare was just annoying &ndash; I hate that airport.<\/p>\n<p>One fun thing &ndash; I always enjoy the flight over the Rockys and the Grand Canyon.&nbsp; Could see Las Vegas in the distance but couldn&rsquo;t quite make out the Hoover Dam.&nbsp; I have to get into Flight Sim some more and fly around that place a bit so I am sure to recognize everything next time I go.&nbsp; The guy across the aisle from me had a GPS on &ndash; should have thought of that and taken mine too!&nbsp; Would have been cool in a geek sort of way.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &ndash; I&rsquo;m here in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwoodhotels.com\/westin\/search\/hotel_detail.html?propertyID=1004\">Westin Bonaventure<\/a>&nbsp;which is a pretty amazing hotel &ndash; 5 interlinked towers and every room has a pretty good view.&nbsp; I get to see the outside elevators going up and down through my window as well so it&rsquo;s probably a good thing my wife isn&rsquo;t with me or we&rsquo;d never have the curtains open!&nbsp; Was kinda weird to go downstairs at 6pm and find none of the resteraunts open and have to get the (crazy expensive) room service, but it was a very nice meal.<\/p>\n<p>Well, PDC &ldquo;pre-sessions&rdquo; tomorrow.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll report back on what I hear that isn&rsquo;t NDA&rsquo;d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made it to Los Angeles in one piece for PDC &lsquo;05.&nbsp; I swear that every time I fly I get worse, but at least this time I had all my sim flights in my mind and knew exactly what was going on the whole way.&nbsp; I do have to remember not to sit up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}