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- From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
- Subject: Re: bringing family to usenix
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.080137.25979@ads.com>
- Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News)
- Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
- References: <tommy.724214172@hilbert>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:01:37 GMT
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- tommy@hilbert.att.com (Tom Reingold) wrote:
- ->I'll be at the January Usenix in San Diego. Since my company pays my
- ->airfare, I figure I'll take my family. It's a good time for a vacation
- ->and I've never seen San Diego. How do people manage this?
-
- you don't. a conference is not vacation (unless you are defrauding
- your company); it is work.
-
- ->If they stay for the entire period of the conference, they won't see me
- ->anyway since I'll probably be totally busy the whole day, every day.
-
- true.
-
- ->If, when I get to the hotel after a day of "conferring", she'll ask for
- ->a break from the kids which I will be unable give her since I'll be too
- ->tired.
-
- probably true.
-
- ->But if my wife comes at or near the end of the conference, she somehow
- ->has to take the kids on the plane by herself. They will be aged one
- ->and four.
-
- this happens all the time. flight attendants are trained to help with
- small infants when necessary. you could bring mother-in-law or
- grandmother along if this is going to be a big concern; this would
- also fix the problems you touched on earlier.
-
- --
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