Today for the first time in my entire life I will enter the state of North Carolina. I will be speaking at
Raleigh Code Camp about Cheap and Easy Wildcard Search in MOSS (1 of the many talks) using the Query Object Model. I created the user control demo, but I decided to do the webpart demo with STSDev on the fly. I might shove a bit in about what you need to check in STSDev to make sure the webpart is working properly and deploy a webpart properly for those people trying to get started in SharePoint Development.
I am landing around 8/8:30 am in Chicago and my flights will start around 6:25 am CDT towards O'Hare, then to Raleigh/Durham where I will see Michael Lotter (and hopefully some other B&R people). I am pretty excited for the 2 hour layover in O'Hare. I lived in Chicago for 2 years from 200-2002 and attended North Central College. So I'm hoping I get to see a quick glance of the skyline and the Sears Tower. I remember taking trips every year to Chicago, because my dad grew up in Highland Park and my grandparents lived in River Forest and Skokie. I really should get back to Chicago sometime for a real trip. Navy Pier and the Science Museum are two of my favorite places. I like the $5 weekend Metra passes for unlimited rides. You can pretty much get to and from any suburb without problem. I would rate Chicago as definitely one of my favorite cities, but nowhere near the awesome of St. Louis (come on I grew up there what do you expect).
Anyway, it's time to go...Big shout out to Rachel Appell and Code Monkey...Time to head to the gate:)