{"id":96,"date":"2008-06-28T03:11:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T10:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=96"},"modified":"2008-06-28T03:11:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T10:11:18","slug":"california-dreamin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/06\/california-dreamin\/","title":{"rendered":"California Dreamin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After about 12 hours in the air, 2 hours in cars, and a few extra hours hanging round airports, I&#8217;ve arrived safely in Anaheim for the ALA Annual Conference. I didn&#8217;t get off to a particularly auspicious start when after checking into my hotel (Paradise Pier &#8211; a Disney Hotel &#8211; I&#8217;ve got a Mickey Mouse lamp in my room and view of the themepark!) I couldn&#8217;t get onto the &#8216;net. Since I&#8217;d brought a minimum of paper with me, relying on access to various websites for information about the conference, this left me a bit stranded.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now with a replacement network cable, I&#8217;m online (still can&#8217;t get the hotel wireless to work), and settled in. I took a walk around the area just to see where everything is, but missed the first session I wanted to get to &#8211; the NISO\/AVIAC meeting. Oh well &#8211; plenty more to do over the next 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I&#8217;ve decided to go along to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wikis.ala.org\/annual2008\/index.php\/Programs_and_Sessions#Friday.2C_June_27\">Open Gaming Night<\/a> &#8211; mainly because I really, really, want to have a go on Rock Band, but also because I suspect some bloggers I read might be there (I know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshiftedlibrarian.com\/\">Jenny Levine<\/a> will be there), and it would be nice to meet them&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ffb43862-a83e-48c2-8f4a-1d92b03f2c8d\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ala2008\" rel=\"tag\">ala2008<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After about 12 hours in the air, 2 hours in cars, and a few extra hours hanging round airports, I&#8217;ve arrived safely in Anaheim for the ALA Annual Conference. I didn&#8217;t get off to a particularly auspicious start when after checking into my hotel (Paradise Pier &#8211; a Disney Hotel &#8211; I&#8217;ve got a Mickey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ala2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}