I got a good solid three hours of work in before having to depart for a vendor security forum I had half-heartedly signed up for a few weeks before. Boy was I surprised at the outcome, and more than glad I went after all. Not only was the main speaker very good, but there were way more vendors than I had epxected to see, many of whom had interesting product demos. I was genuinely caught off guard by the turn-out, both with respect to the attendees and the vendors. And then there was the pay-off. FREE LUNCH.
It's always hard to argue with or complain about a free lunch (though there are those that always seem to find a way), and I feel I'm usually realistic in my expectations of that lunch. I wouldn't generally expect a feast, but rather a modest and complete in most ways meal. Little did I know in this case that I was in for yet another surprise. It was a feast. Wow I tell you. It was all Italian (my favorite) and there was loads of it. I jammed my plate full of all of it. Lasagne, bow-tie pasta (I can't think of the name), spaghetti, chicken parmesan. Yum.
After the very filling meal and the conclusion of vendor discussions, they had a drawing for door prizes, which was a further surprise for me. While I knew there would be prizes, the number of them was higher than I would have guessed. And as luck would have it, I won one of the prizes, though I'm not sure I want to divulge what I won, for fear of reprisals.
Okay, okay, okay, it rhymes with "tripod". Pretty cool, huh? Particularly when you consider that I didn't REALLY want to go to the thing initially.
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