This is the events as I remember them.. Friday ---- Gathered my stuff and loaded the car. Said goodbye to my son and promised to bring him something back from the con. Drive Got to con, wandered around, went into the speaker room where Andrew and 193(formerly NFF) were discussing the logistics of placing the projector. Andrew pointed out the interesting ceiling above the false tile one and the idea of charging people $5USD to see it was presented. Affirmed Andrews sane idea in reference to the position of the projector and then wandered out. Checked out the network room, was impressed with the tangle of cables but found no power to any of the central tables. Wandered away. Got food. None of the undead posse had shown up yet(wraith, lich) and the Denny guy who said he got rooms was there yet. In the course of the next set of wanderings heard that Amanda was not showing and volunteered to fill her speaker spot with one of my hour long tyraids about policies and proceedures and how they apply to end users. While I was working on the tyraid Andrew fill the spot with his panel discussion of AI. Since I was on such a roll writing my tyraid I decided to finish it. I was so impressed with the final project that I decided that I'm going submit a modified version of it next year entitled "Office security 101" The Denny guy showed up and I got to see the room, the small tiny room the size of two of my bathrooms. Didn't relized seven of us were going to be in it until then. Went down to the network room to play...set up the sniffer and watched in amazement as people actually logged into there pop3 mail, ftp and telnet over an unsecured LAN. Was pleased to see several people using ssh. Then someone dos'd me and I just sat there dumbfounded until someone came by and gave me a few pointers that in no way shape or form violated anyones parole. Proceeded to learn a few more things about networking. The rest of the undead posse showed up (also known as "Those old guys") and got a seperate room three times as big as the first for $20USD more. Jumped ship on the Denny guy for the larger option. At this point we began exploring the option of dropping a fifteen floor network drop. Went out to a bar and got liquered up. Came back and got to see NFF REALLY liquered up. Helped assist the "Move NFF back up to his room" project after he fell down after taking some swings at RijilV or whatever the hell his name was. Walked past the front desk en masse with NFF on a luggage rack, was buzzed in without even a second look. (This kind of thing must happen often) Observed the expulsion of the popparatzzi's by Wolfie and the next project of "Make NFF puke with a toothbrush" Was very impressed by the care and unfeeding of NFF by the group of people with him. Especially Michelle crawling into the tub with NFF and actually tring to get him to puke on her. Wandered up to my room after I felt I was just in the way with the NFF projects.(He was well cared for) Just as I was beginning to go off to sleep I heard sirens and wondered if they were for NFF, they were, went to sleep. Saturday --- Woke up watched some Trek as I waited for the tub to drain from liches shower(rotting flesh does have a tendency to stop up drains) Went down stairs and went out to get a four inch high pizza from Greektown. Ate two pieces and was full. Came back to the con and checked on NFF, that's when I heard he went to the hospital and had a vassilating BAL of 1.83 to 1.9 depending on who told me. Finally verified from him it was 1.93. Attended a couple of talks and then tried the fifteen floor network drop, couldn't find an open window to hook it into so after a few minutes gave up. Then noticed that the other side of the building looked like a spiderweb with the various network drop going to the central network room, bastards. I got to talk to Rick Forno, we swapped war stories about various thick headed CIOs and security basics. Got a pizza and then had an even better time in the lobby with Rick, Lich, Wraith, me, Andrew, some kid doing his homework and whoever else wandered by. Then some hotel denzien came over and tried to sell us "The Internet Beast" aka Win2k and offered any other software we could ever want. Lich asked for "Star Wars" for the C64, I asked for an Atari basic cartridge and I think Rick asked for An Altair basic paper tape. We were ignored. After talking to Rick I felt better about my chosen life path and actually believe I'm farther along then previously thought. More networking room chaos including the inspired by Rick, "Hey Futz! Change your password" Watched some more speakers and participated from the audience in the panel discussion. Bubonic just needs to get some years under his belt because he knows what's going on but just needs that extra little push to put it all together. I remember when I was like him...in 1986. I'm old gimmegimmegimme! Then I got to participate in the final rounds of Win NFF's t-shirt. I was on the old guys team. We lost. Even when we were mistakenly given 5000 points. Lich finally succeding in bribing someone into getting him a drink. While on the panel. Then I got liquered up again and ran around being a nusiance to one and all. Sunday ---- Went to sleep, woke up got food attended th final ceremonies and went home. Some event were ommited to protect the underage, drunk or both. I think I have forgotten alot too, but hey I'm old.