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As many of you already know, tomorrow I embark on my journey to Portland.  SLU is sending me up there to present a paper at the SIGUCCS conference about a different way to image computers that my fellow nerd-lingers and I came up with.  My flight leaves early in the morning, and should put me in Portland around 1pm (portland time) with an hour-and-a-half layover in Chi-town.

In a lot of ways I am really excited about the whole thing, but I am also a little apprehensive as well.  I don’t really fly well…I get nervous and anxious and whatnot.  Once I am in the air I should be fine, but until then…I have a few things to help keep my mind off of it: MP3 player, ebook reader, computer, oh and over the counter allergy medication that will make me loopy.

I’ll be up there till Thursday, so I am trying to come up with things that I can do while up there.  Obviously there is the conference, but there are some times when there is no conference stuff going on.  Portland is supposed to have a fairly cool underground attraction.  Tours are an hour long.  That is only like 3 blocks from my hotel, so I might check that out one day.  One of my friends recommended Columbia River gorge, which is only about 20 minutes from Portland.  I might rent a car on Tuesday or something and go check that out.

Here is a link to the paper if anyone is interested in reading it:  My Paper