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June 15, 2006

Boston, Day Five: Half Day

I'm pleased to report that my Thursday was a heck of a lot better than Wednesday.

TechEd kicked off with a brutal 8 AM session (that's 5 AM back in the Real World) by my colleague Bill Morein, who bravely fought jet-lag fatigue to present on the wonder that is Visio 2007. I was late to the session, having woken up hard and then picked a shuttle bus that wanted to go to the Convention Center by way of Texas. (Bill admitted to me later that he'd caught a cab from his hotel to make sure he was on time. The shuttles have acquired a, shall we say, reputation among conference attendees for being, um, er, the slowest way to get between two points).

After catching a two more sessions (on SharePoint and InfoPath, respectively), I scanned the conference agenda for the day and saw ... nothing. All clear. The balance of the sessions were either repeats of stuff I'd already seen, deep-dive technical stuff on subjects I wasn't sufficiently grounded in, or (as was more often the case) stuff I didn't really care about.

So after given that it was lunchtime (and I really couldn't stomach any more conference food), Bill and I decided to cut out, find a pub, and watch England in the World Cup. This was followed by few hours of work back at the hotel, a run, and then dinner out. Bill's flight was scheduled to depart at 6 AM Friday, so we decided to get a late dinner and a drink or two. (We actually got seriously lost looking for Haymarket Pizza, a joint recommended by fellow Planner (and Boston native) Pete Card.)

It was a fitting, low-key end to a long, long week. My TechEd schedule tomorrow is similarly clean, so I'm hoping to sleep in a bit, get an early lunch and see if I can't get out to Logan and standby an earlier flight.

Posted by Gavin Shearer at June 15, 2006 8:45 PM. Posted to MSFT | Travel.

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