GeeCee's Not-Entirely-Original Miscellany

Currently hiding out in an empty breakout room at jQuery Conference, charging my laser laptop and phone and waiting for the jQuery templating/views session to start at 3:45.  Gonna skip out on the evening afterparty in favor of meeting an LJ/FB friend in person and going to find dinner someplace.  Why did the HTML5 session have to be the last one of the day?</whine> 

Since nobody expressed any interest in getting together for dinner tonight and my shoes (which literally filled with water on my walk over this morning; it was only drizzling when I left!) are still soggy, I'm leaning strongly towards staying in with room service and my "Planet Earth" DVDs. Soggy, gross shoes trump scallion pancake, apparently. [Edit: The problem with the room service idea is that I don't really want anything on the menu except for an omelette, which I can't have right now. Meh.]

I must say that the $150 cost of this conference is a crazy good value. Two full days of technical sessions (most of which have been good), swag that includes two books, a tshirt and various other stuff, catered breakfast/lunch/happy hour with open bar. So far, so good. (Although this tweet, it's funny because it's true. Well, there are more than 4 of us, but I doubt it's more than 20 out of a 300 person conference.) The Themeroller/CSS framework has been the best so far, but I gather some of the ones I missed were good as well. Seems like every time there was a conflict, I chose incorrectly. ;) I think I'm going to skip the Q&A wrap-up session tomorrow in favor of getting on the road to head home. Now I just need to figure out how to manage the car since my parking pass for the hotel expires at 3 PM.