Windy Cities, Here I Come!
July 27, 2008 by Ryan Elledge
In just over an hour, my week+ long journeys to the Windy Cities begins. At 5:15 pm Central today, I am off to the airport to fly to the first windy city, Chicago. I will be attending HostingCon tomorrow through Wednesday. This is a convention geared around web hosting, the industry I work in. While I hope it will be much better than the past two years, I have my doubts. The sessions presented are never very good…they are generally companies trying to see you their products. iNET Interactive, the company I used to be an owner of and was the President and CEO of until we sold it in 2006, has recently acquired the event (their ownership begins the day after the convention ends this year). I hope they will do a much better job with the event than its current owners.
I will get back to the OP on Wednesday evening. Less than 24 hours later, Rebecca, Spencer, Braelyn and I will depart for the other windy city, Casper. We have some birthday parties to attend… my grandfather’s 80th and my grandmother’s 90th. Will be great to see a lot of the family, and I am sure everyone will be really happy to see us… well, at least Braelyn!
Speaking of family… yesterday we hosted a surprise 60th birthday party for Rebecca’s mom. Her actual birthday is July 31, but the party was yesterday. We succeeded in surprising her. Hoover and I put together a video with pictures, old and new, and this brough tears to her eyes. About 30 members of Rebecca’s family were here, and it was a good time.
Well, I suppose I should go pack my stuff and get ready for journey #1. Braelyn is blocking my office door, hanging in her indoor swing. She is having a ball. I suppose I can sneak around her. I have to pack under cover, as the Hoov doen’t like suitcases… he knows that means I am leaving. Oh well, he will be happy to see me when I get back home.
Talk to you all later. Put on your BO-repellant. The election is coming up!
–RE
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