Speaking at SQL Saturday RicXXXXmond, er Boston. Or Mother Nature’s Reverse Cleveland Steamer.
Looks like Mother Nature is into giving certain IT professionals the old Reverse-Cleveland Steamer. Yep, she dropped a big ol’ pile o’ cold poo on this SQL Server Presenter’s (and other’s) chests yesterday, causing the folks behind SQL Saturday #30 in Richmond to postpone until April 10, 2010. This unfortunately coincides with Spring Break here in the Midwest and I’ll be sunning my whiteness along the Eastern shores of the Gulf of Mexico at that time.
Thanks to a phone call from Jeremiah Peschka (web|twitter) I was notified of this fact or else I would have been speaking to an empty hotel room tomorrow. (or better yet, crashing at Andy Leonard’s (web|twitter) domicile and dining the best that any surprise house guest ever dined thanks to his lovely wife, whom I’m destined to never meet, Christy Leonard (web|twitter)).
What’s a guy to do? His company paid for their lone MVP to keep up his MVP’ness by speaking at SQL Saturday and the airfare was non-refundable. Well, this cunning DBA has parlayed this into two speaking sessions for up-coming SQL Saturdays: tomorrow’s in Boston (same time, different place than the one scheduled for Richmond) and May in Portland, OR.
I’ll be taking over Adam Machanic’s (web|twitter) slot, and will be presenting my Insight into Indexes with DMVs presentation that I had planned on presenting to Richmond. The slide deck is the same as the one I just used for the West Michigan SQL Server User’s Group (WMSSUG) and is available here for downloading.
So Boston, as I sit here in O’Hare passing my time on a 3 hour layover (travel on the cheap) I say “see you soon!”