hursday was developers day. Despite the conference "officially" ending the day before, many people were still around for the various sessions aimed at people developing software, systems and standards.
As the sessions for this day had sold out some time previously, there were a noticeable number of people slipping into the sessions wearing dubious badges and identification.
Most delegates attention was also distracted by the heavy snowfalls that started during the morning, and got worse throughout the day. A noticeable degree of concern about getting home became evident when one of the afternoon speakers didn't appear for some time as his incoming flight was snowbound.
One mad scramble to the checking in desk ensued, followed by painfully slow allocation onto flights on other airlines leaving in the morning and a hotel room for what was left of the night. 4am sees arrival at hotel; 5:30am sees departure from hotel back to airport. Three hours of checking in later, all ready to board new plane, which promptly suffers from "pilot stranded in slush" problem. Take off two hours late; arrive back in England, at a different airport to my scheduled one, 17 hours late.
Debra - I had arranged to extend my stay for another 3 days to get a chance to explore Boston. This I did in sub zero temperatures and despite the odd bit of frostbite was very glad that I had stayed on. Especially as by this time most of the snow had gone and I (very smugly) had a trouble free flight home.