OLS Day -2: Less drinking, more food

So I previously wrote about the fun with clearing security. My flights were reasonably uneventful. Had an overpriced, soggy prime rib sandwich on the first flight, watched "Flawless" with Demi Moore and Micheal Caine - pretty good movie, on the overhead screen. Air Canada fun in that they have the frames for the in-seat TVs, but there aren't TVs, just little cushions.

Got in to Toronto on time, dashed over the length of terminal one to get to my other flight, it's nicer now with a lot of construction finished. Stopped at the Chocolate store and bought some honeycomb toffee (the stuff inside Crunchie bars).

Next hop was Ottawa, in a small Embrauer jet. In-seat touchscreen displays, with a USB A socket, but no accessible system (it did video for the safety, then had a windows cursor on a logo).

My luggage beat me off the plane, and I picked up a folding plastic map of Ottawa. Grabbed bus tickets at the info desk, and caught the bus to downtown. Nice on dedicated busways, 25 minutes to downtown, then a short walk to the hotel.

Checked in, massive suite - nearly the size of my basement. Living room, bedroom (w/ queen size bed), bathroom, laundry (washer+dryer), kitchen (fridge, stove, microwave, dishwasher) - all old appliances, late 80s look, but functional. Not much in the cupboards, just the bare minimals.

Finished my book from the plane, showered, wrote an email to John Linville to see about the wireless mini-summit. Walked out to the elevator, and ran into John. He was recruiting a group for dinner, which I joined after doing my conference registration. Walked out toward Byward Market, trying to find a place for 14 people for dinner, ended up in the back of a Vietnamese place.

Ate a very tasty lamb, mushroom, onion stir-fry, with two Stellas to drink. Afterwards, the east coast people as well as those from Europe were all heading for bed, but west-coast folk were getting together for drinking - since it was still quite early by our clocks. Went with them, the four of us ended up at an Irish place, that didn't have mint for Mojitos or any other drinks, so we were to drink beer instead. Talking lots accidently lead to too many beers. I previously reported 7 beers, that was drunken miscounting, because we only ordered 4 pitchers, and each of the pitchers held 3.5 beers. Divided by four people, that's only 3.5 beers - added to the other two from dinner, leads to a total of 5.5.

However that was clearly too much, as it didn't sit well later, and made returns before I went to bed.