As I write this, I'm sitting in an airport, on my way to Chicago for the AAHAM ANI at the Hyatt Regency. I'm representing my local chapter as the president, once again, can't go. I actually like going to these things because it's the closest thing I get to a yearly vacation these days.

Sometimes I think this particular organization takes itself too seriously at the top levels. For instance, we're all staying at a hotel where we got a "deal" of $249.99 a night, and for Chicago, like NYC, I guess that's a deal. However, if we'd stayed on the outskirts of town, we probably could have gotten a deal where we'd be paying maybe $125 a night instead, and then more people would be able to come. But we usually also have a record number of exhibitors, and you need a room large enough for them because that's where the overall revenue for this event will come from, and if they can reach that $100,000+ level of profit once again, no one else will be complaining.

Oh yeah; just to mention, I'm flying US Airways, and this is my first flight since gas prices have jumped so drastically. They're charging $15 for the first bag, and $25 for every extra bag after that. I didn't know about that part, but luckily there's always credit, right? I'm trying to remember who it was on the commercials that said they didn't charge for bags still; someone help me. I wrote on Twitter that I wondered if it meant they'd treat my bags better; most people wrote back with some version of "no".

And, because I'm at the airport, which means I'm on the laptop, I finally got a chance to see what this new blog theme looked like on a smaller screen, and I have to say it didn't initially pass the test. Beverly wrote in my last post how my Adsense bar was covering 1/3rd of the screen, and I just saw what she meant. Of course, I just upgraded from 2.0.0.16 on the laptop to Firefox 3.0.3, and now everything is in line as it's supposed to be, but once again it proves just how careful coding has to be when creating sites for multiple browsers. Unfortunately, I didn't create this theme, only using it, so I'm at the mercy of the creators.

Anyway, if there are any other members of AAHAM who are going to be at this convention, I hope you look me up; should be fun.