Thursday - The trip
Jul. 18th, 2001 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hugmeI drove down to the happy store to meet Thomas, I got there a little early so I went to my parents house first to get some water, Atlanta was 95 degrees and I was hurting because of it. I met Thomas and we headed back to my parents, hung out for a while. He gave me 300 stickers with atlanta con and our barcode on them. I go to the airport and chakecd in, I would switch planes and have a about an hour layover in Washington DC. The first leg was good. The girl I sat next to would constantly ask me questions about how the plane worked. I had to explain to her the theroy of lift along with thrust (airplane) and how the controls worked different parts of the plane. the flight was on a boing 737. The girl was loud and obnoxous.
The secound leg took me into Vegas. The crew had not revieved the type of plane they expected. it was an Airbus (didn't remember the model). The new plane was much smaller (~18 rows smaller) so many people hgot bumped (8 from first class) The food was great!! especially for airline food, Delta needs to take a hint (delta food is bad). I sat next to someone who was head of a construction company. We talked about electrical work and I gave him some advice on which palm pilot he should buy. My headphone outlet had a short in it. but I got a free set of headphones that I took home with me ;-) as we passed over the desert the scenery was beautiful. I need to go camping out there sometime. I even got a good overhead view of the grand canyon. I had never seen it before.
I got in at about 7:30 and took a shuttle to the hotel. After I was dropped off I made my way to the main pool (where we were supposed to meet) Rokit and monster were waiting. I talked to them a little and then went to get my badge. Monster brought his 2 way radio so we set up on 12-2 unencrypted (part of the fun of defcon was listening to the other channels that people were using) I left mine on scan for most of the weekend. Rockit was in the Marriott and I was supposed to stay with him but it was so much easier to to stay with Monster as he had a 2 bedroom at the Alexis. I dropped off my big bag in Monsters room and then we went to Rockit's. Most of the evening was spent meeting old friends and talking shop.
The secound leg took me into Vegas. The crew had not revieved the type of plane they expected. it was an Airbus (didn't remember the model). The new plane was much smaller (~18 rows smaller) so many people hgot bumped (8 from first class) The food was great!! especially for airline food, Delta needs to take a hint (delta food is bad). I sat next to someone who was head of a construction company. We talked about electrical work and I gave him some advice on which palm pilot he should buy. My headphone outlet had a short in it. but I got a free set of headphones that I took home with me ;-) as we passed over the desert the scenery was beautiful. I need to go camping out there sometime. I even got a good overhead view of the grand canyon. I had never seen it before.
I got in at about 7:30 and took a shuttle to the hotel. After I was dropped off I made my way to the main pool (where we were supposed to meet) Rokit and monster were waiting. I talked to them a little and then went to get my badge. Monster brought his 2 way radio so we set up on 12-2 unencrypted (part of the fun of defcon was listening to the other channels that people were using) I left mine on scan for most of the weekend. Rockit was in the Marriott and I was supposed to stay with him but it was so much easier to to stay with Monster as he had a 2 bedroom at the Alexis. I dropped off my big bag in Monsters room and then we went to Rockit's. Most of the evening was spent meeting old friends and talking shop.
