T.Rob
2014-04-24 21:09:24 UTC
.will have to happen without me this year. First time in a very long time
that I'll miss an IMPACT and it wasn't by choice. I was really looking
forward to delivering three all-new sessions, plus the BOF with Avada. I've
had a few emails asking about the new sessions and people telling me they
were looking forward to coming so I wanted to apologize in advance. I do
not know what they will do with those session slots but at the moment, I
can't even get to the presentations. When I know I'll post at t-rob.net.
My intention is to deliver this content in September at MQTC though.
For the curious, I seem to have picked up an infection that will require
medical supervision. If it doesn't clear up on oral meds, I'll need to be
admitted next week and go on IV meds. In any case, the long flight and lots
of walking, such as we do at the conference, are forbidden by the doctor who
advised keeping the leg elevated. The chance of DVT on a long flight is bad
enough without a leg that's already compromised. The presentation issues
are a bit embarrassing. I was in such a hurry to get to the Urgent Care
this morning, I neglected to check that my laptop had gone to sleep before
packing it up. It got right toasted, now it won't boot. I can recover the
presentations when I get home, using a 1-time pad that unlocks the True
Crypt drive hosted on Google but for now I'm typing on a tablet over
GoToMyPC accessing the home workstation.
The cherry on top of all that though was that I received simultaneously both
the receipt cancelling my flight to Vegas and the email telling me I'd been
upgraded to 1st class on that same flight. I'm sure it was just coincidence
but I could not help imagining someone at US Airways processing the
cancellation and saying to the person in the next cube "Watch this - I'm
gonna upgrade the guy on the flight he just cancelled!"
Kind regards,
-- T.Rob
T.Robert Wyatt, Managing partner
IoPT Consulting, LLC
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that I'll miss an IMPACT and it wasn't by choice. I was really looking
forward to delivering three all-new sessions, plus the BOF with Avada. I've
had a few emails asking about the new sessions and people telling me they
were looking forward to coming so I wanted to apologize in advance. I do
not know what they will do with those session slots but at the moment, I
can't even get to the presentations. When I know I'll post at t-rob.net.
My intention is to deliver this content in September at MQTC though.
For the curious, I seem to have picked up an infection that will require
medical supervision. If it doesn't clear up on oral meds, I'll need to be
admitted next week and go on IV meds. In any case, the long flight and lots
of walking, such as we do at the conference, are forbidden by the doctor who
advised keeping the leg elevated. The chance of DVT on a long flight is bad
enough without a leg that's already compromised. The presentation issues
are a bit embarrassing. I was in such a hurry to get to the Urgent Care
this morning, I neglected to check that my laptop had gone to sleep before
packing it up. It got right toasted, now it won't boot. I can recover the
presentations when I get home, using a 1-time pad that unlocks the True
Crypt drive hosted on Google but for now I'm typing on a tablet over
GoToMyPC accessing the home workstation.
The cherry on top of all that though was that I received simultaneously both
the receipt cancelling my flight to Vegas and the email telling me I'd been
upgraded to 1st class on that same flight. I'm sure it was just coincidence
but I could not help imagining someone at US Airways processing the
cancellation and saying to the person in the next cube "Watch this - I'm
gonna upgrade the guy on the flight he just cancelled!"
Kind regards,
-- T.Rob
T.Robert Wyatt, Managing partner
IoPT Consulting, LLC
+1 704-443-TROB
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