Check out this strange coincidence:  Denny needs to go to a Ruby on Rails training, and it just so happens that one is being held in Dallas at the same time as my conference.  His is at a different conference center, but they’re close together and both served by the DART, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit.

The bad news is that we’re going to have to cut our Napa trip a bit short, but we’ll still be there for a few days.  The good news is that Denny will be in Dallas with me to keep me company, which will make it much more fun.  We found a pretty good deal on plane tickets, and we’re saving the office money by only getting one hotel room.

One bad part about going to all these conferences is that my workplace might realize how well they get along without me and have me rubbed out.

Just because my life isn’t all-over-the-place enough for the next few months, another kink has arisen. You know how we’re going to San Francisco/Napa in October for that wedding? Well, we were planning to come back on the 10th, but there’s this conference in Dallas my bosses want me to go to. It technically starts the 8th. There’s no way I’m cutting my Napa trip short enough to make it to the whole thing, but I’m considering cutting it one day short and flying straight to Dallas on the 9th.

This all involves some trickery dealing with airlines; I’m flying to SF free on frequent flyer miles, which of course are handled completely separately from traditionally-purchased tickets, which Denny is flying on. I don’t know yet if there are stiff fees for cancelling the second half of my trip (since I need to take a different airline from SF to Dallas). I also don’t know whether I’d be credited any of the bazillion frequent flyer miles I spent on this trip, or whether we’d be able to change Denny’s ticket too. He could always stay in SF a day longer than I do, I guess, but he prefers not to do that.

This is all very confusing.