So starts the onslaught of teched posts. I'm sitting in a conference room waiting for Kimberly Tripp to start up her session, just too much to carry to walk around.

Flight was painless, although I get a little lost on the highways, and then stuck behind a toll that only took exact change (while the change lane was closed), with a 20$ in my pocket. So after abotu 10 minutes of steaming about that, some very nice passer by gave me 50 cents. I should of just driven through it, but I am on company insurance ;) I quickly bought a lemonade, and got back on the highway (the right way this time), where the tolls had attendants more then happy to break my bills. Thanks again to the random stranger in an explorer, although I doubt he'll ever read this.

The onslaught of swag has started already. The bag they give you is nice, and quite heavy. I haven't popped mine open yet, but have gotten some glances at others ruffling through the stuff. Looks interesting. I like the long stand of magazines, grab 1 or 2 of pretty much any tech related mag. The exhibit hall isn't open yet, so really the only thing publiclly going on that I can see are the pre-cons, and lots of people walking around, grabbing snacks off the many many tables of snacks, or sitting at one of the hundreds of random PCs setup around the conference. Oh, and that doesn't include the huge "communications center" which must have another 2-300 pcs for people to use, complete with printers and everything.

Well, have about 30 more minutes to waste. Guess I'll hit up newkingdoms, and maybe pop open that bag soon. Sorry if there are any spelling mistakes here, too far away from the access points to use my lappy here.