Not much posting on Day 2.  I took in a bunch of WPF sessions but nothing that I felt knocked my socks off.  I've been dabbling in WPF for a bit now and while I am very comfortable talking about it in a decent extent, I still haven't felt that "click" moment where it all comes together.  I still find myself thinking like a WinForm-style developer rather than thinking in WPF.  I also still get some things confused or lost a bit in Blend.  I'm finally undertaking a hobby project that will be using WPF so that should finally spackle in all of the gaps in my knowledge base. 

Day 3 for me is a travel day.  I have some commitments in Minneapolis that have me leaving early.  I'm typing this at the Las Vegas airport which has free WiFi!  Now that rocks.  Vegas is one of my favorite places to visit and free WiFi in the airport just makes it all the better (Brian talks about WiFi at Mandalay Bay - I couldn't believe it either when I saw it on their logon page!)  For the millions of people that come through Vegas, I am amazed at how clean it is (better than Disney World in Orlando based on my last trip to Mickey's place) and considering the amount of alcohol and money flowing, people are generally friendly.  I stayed at the MGM Grand for the first time and have to say it is a great place.  It might not be as opulent as some of the other Strip hotels, but I have never met a friendlier staff.  Everyone from the bell desk to the poker room managers were fantastic. 

Then again, I could be a bit biased since the 4-8 Hold 'Em game at the MGM was so full of fish I could have made money playing with my eyes closed (+$800 for my three nights of playing).  I almost took a shot at some No Limit but I'm a born-and-bread limit guy (I was playing poker for years before it became the phenom it is now - one of the rare cases where I was trendy first!).  Unfortunately, the explosion of low limit no limit has really killed the limit games in Vegas.  Years ago I would play 6-12 when I came to Vegas with the occassional foray into 8-16 or even 10-20, but those games have all but dried up.  There used to be a handful of decent poker rooms, and now they are everywhere, but everyone plays no limit.  I watch the games and have an ok feel for what adjustments I would have to make to play, but I know the psychological swings would be to hard for me to handle.  To quote Mike McDermott from the movie Rounders (played by Matt Damon),"There is no other game in which fortunes can change so much form hand to hand, a brilliant player can a strong hand cracked, go on tilt, and lose his mind alone with every single chip in front of him."  Yep - that would be me.  I'm not a brilliant player but I know getting sucked out on in an all-in pot by somebody who called my head's up raise cold with 7-3 off suit would be too much for me to handle. 

All in all it was a good trip.  Connected with some guys I know, helped out at the Microsoft UnPlugged event for a while, and learned some stuff about what folks are during the Microsoft tools in Minneapolis.  Not too shabby.