Damn
Life went from really good to really complicated. I got a call from my parents tonight with the dreaded (but expected) news that my Grandpa Joe had passed away. The funeral is Friday - which meant I could fly to Beacon, NY on Thursday and (hopefully) fly back on Friday night and make it to the conference on Saturday morning. Then I looked at the agenda and found that the conference actually starts on Friday at noon. So I sent an e-mail to Jay in hopes of getting my money back. Hopefully this is an option and I can just spend the weekend in NY and then join Julie in Florida next week. Oh well, no conference, but it'll be great to see the whole fam in NY.