This is my first time at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) and it is their 11th year. You see, just a few days ago I had no plans to attend but then Kirill Kolyshkin contacted me via IRC asking if I was available to attend to help staff the OpenVZ booth. If you haven’t heard of Kir before, he is the OpenVZ Project leader who is employed by Parallels. Having never attended SCALE I was very excited about going and checked with my two bosses (the wife and work) to see if I could go. Luckily both gave the thumbs up.
SCALE is actually FRIDAY – SUNDAY. Turns out that the Exhibit floor doesn’t open until SATURDAY. Living in Montana my flight took me through Denver and by the time I got to Los Angeles and had ridden a free shuttle bus to the Hilton it was about 3PM PST.
I was so excited about going to SCALE, I had trouble sleeping Thursday night and add jet lag to that… I didn’t have a whole lot of energy and went to bed around 8PM. Between hitting the hotel and going to bed though, I did do a few things.