La Salle Debain

Because I had the four boxes of T-shirts Shaleh sent me, I decided to take the car into the city. What was I thinking? I tried to be clever and take the Holland Tunnel because I know the Lincoln Tunnel is always jammed but I forgot to take into account the fact that the Jacob Javits Center (where the expo is held) is right next to the Lincoln Tunnel approaches so I got snarled up in Lincoln Tunnel traffic anyway. When I finally crawl into the center, the teamsters tell me I can't unload stuff right at the doors of the center itself and I would have to park elsewhere. And now Bloomberg is trying to plug the budget gap with parking ticket money, I couldn't risk just parking on the street. So I had to find an (outrageously expensive) garage a couple of blocks away and schlep my four (heavy) boxes and other assorted junk in the bitter cold. I had planned to be there by 12:30pm but due to all these problems, didn't actually get to the booth until 2pm.

Sun is lending us a SunBlade 100 with flat-screen monitor which I picked up from their booth. It's got Solaris 9 on it but we'll reformat and put Debian on it of course. Unfortunately I left my netinstall CD at home so that will be the first order of business tomorrow morning.

We're booth #17 in the .org pavilion. Stop by and say hello if you can.