{"id":1764,"date":"2007-11-03T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/leaving-for-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T00:12:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T05:12:23","slug":"leaving-for-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/leaving-for-las-vegas","title":{"rendered":"Leaving (for) Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been to Vegas since January 2004<\/a>, when I helicoptered into the Grand Canyon <\/a>and was stage-side for a Tom Jones<\/a> concert at the MGM, but I’m 70 minutes from boarding my flight to this year’s ISPE conference<\/a> in the Unreal City!<\/p>\n

This trip should be less eventful than that last one, mainly because I’ll only be in the city for about 65 hours, and I’ll have to sleep for part of that. Also, the exhibit hall hours start at 7:15am on Monday & Tuesday. Ouch.<\/p>\n

Some business-related pals will also be at this show, so I foresee some decent dining (and some drunken football-viewing and -betting that will happen on Sunday). That said, Vegas itself isn’t conducive to my kinda picture-taking, so I doubt there’ll be a great Flickr set<\/a> coming out of this trip. But if there is, you’ll be the first(ish) to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been to Vegas since January 2004, when I helicoptered into the Grand Canyon and was stage-side for a Tom Jones concert at the MGM, but I’m 70 minutes from boarding my flight to this year’s ISPE conference in the Unreal City! This trip should be less eventful than that last one, mainly because … <\/p>\n

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