Techies,

	Lots of interesting stuff, so I'll do it a day at a time.

Thursday - Initial Chaos Begins.

	We make our way to the Hotel through gangland demilitarized Detroit.  After
getting the Eclipse eyeballed by two angry black guys in a gold-rimmed '84
Cadillac, we parked.  Without getting a baggage cart, we hauled a huge bag
of liquor, all of our clothes and tons of computer gear upstairs. The
elevators were spotless and clean. All of the hallway ashtrays were
standing. There was no writing on the walls.  Keep this all in mind for
later in the story.

	We make initial contact with Nick Farr and the other core members. All is
well. Most of the others who came Thursday were already drunk, asleep or
missing.  BSD and I
wandered hopelessly.  The whole thing was rather eventful.  We met up with
c0rr and his girlfriend Ally.  Put 70 gallons of ice into our bathtub to
keep the beer cold.  We were going go to help set up the Network room, but
the rest of our networkers were already drunk, so we had to put it off.  Got
pizza from Sicilies. Made tummies hurt.

Friday - Chaos ensures.

	Got up @ 6:15. Brian stayed up all night making the DSL work since Nick
ordered it with 32 real IPs instead of NAT.  I slept for 2 hours and got up
to find no one had a
network plan.  "Joey" (he looked and acted like Joey from hackers, but I
never caught his handle) and I ran and taped down patches for the network
room.  BSD and others made connectors. By noon, the network almost
functioned.  2:00 rolls around and I do my NT Administration speech. The
only reason I wasn't booed off stage was because I placed in equal amounts
of NT administration and Microsoft bashing :-)

	After that, I needed a drink.  The keynote speech happened.  Tons of people
flooding in.  Drinking, drugs, some bum
that AdminX let into his car bought a crack rock, more drinking, craziness
in the network room.  I got put on smoke squad and hung out in the
Mezzanine, which was filled with asbestos.  A pack of cloves and 4 other
smokeables later, I ended up hanging out in the speech room listening to a
couple of speeches. The "Blue Cross" speaker never showed up, which I wanted
to see. More chaos.  I
went to City Club and punched out a goth.  More chaos.  Hung out with Sarah.
Drank lots with her.  XDR shows up and has sex with her (I think, maybe not.
It's all speculation for now).  NFF gets
rushed off to the hospital from alcohol poisoning.  Ron comes and steals his
alcohol.  Gunfire we could hear from outside the 18th floor windows.  People
running around in the streets.  Me and the french guy drinking Guiness (in a
glass mind you).  Mobster's little boy
steals radios and other stuff.  Chaos continues.  Drinking, couldn't stand
up any longer, sleep.

Saturday - The fun begins.

	Wake up after 2 hours and 23 minutes of sleep.  Still drunk. Head hurts.
Get breakfast from the cafe. Throw it all up within an hour.  Notice that
several walls and the elevators are filled with "313" and "419" graffiti
now.  XDR is messing with someone over the Radio, who ended up being the
"419" mobsters crew.  More chaos.  Everyone drinking but me tonight because
I am still drunk and sore.  Tony, I,
adminX, bsd and others busted into the mobster's room.  Took the little
blond kid by the head and kicked his ass :-)

	Noticed that the ashtrays in the hallway are starting to disappear.  Take a
trip through the abandoned Railroad.  Went to the Casino.  Lost $8.00.  Come
back and notice that the ashtrays that disappeared are ending up in the
elevators, with more graffiti. Someone pissed in the Elevator. Then someone
broke the elevator.

	Carbon's speach was good.  Crypto's speech was really good.  Heard Jon E's
speech on Elyptical math.  I'm
confused :-(  Oh well.

	Wolf and I walked 5 miles through gettoland detroit to find a liquor store.
No luck. He had to translate my thoughts into ebonics since I was fearful
for my life.  We took the Eclipse out and went into a neighborhood that
smelled  like rotting death. It was gross. Got liquor, went back.  More
drinking.
More insanity. I stayed sober because I had a headache and felt like
throwing up anyway. Wolf got trashed and was mumbling about the American
government and how bad it sucked. Lots of projectiles crashing into cars
below. Screaming. I crashed at 6:15. a.m.

Sunday - ahhhhh...

	Woke up @ 8:09 a.m.  Two more hours of sleep are mine!  Stumbled down to
the cafe.  Cobo omlette and water. Good combination.  Everyone was running
around trying to clean up.  I claimed my box and other stuff from the
Network Room. Sold swamptrot my monitor.  Noticed that someone moved my car
the night before and didn't tell me.  Said goodbyes. Packed up and left.

Anything I missed?

Denis