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A bunch of us went to “BD’s Mongolian Grill” for dinner, I think maybe as many at 20 were there. It was the TLLTS guys, Chad Wallenberg from “The Linux Basement”, Dave Yates from “LottaLinuxLinks”, Klaatu from “The Bad Apples” podcast and “Fedora Reloaded” podcast, I sat with my Dad, Nick, and Jim. Over dinner Nick taught me about the ‘watch‘ command which I will be trying out as soon as I can. I never ate at place like this before; you went through three salad-bar-like stations where you selected your own ingredients in a stir-fry you design. You then gave the bowl and seasoning mix you prepared to a cook and they cooked it on a huge hot iron grill, awesome! After dinner we all headed over to “Barley’s” for the Pre-Party in the downstairs “Underground”. Barley’s is a micro brewery and you could see the tanks in which the beer is brewed. I ask the bartender for “the darkest beer they made“, not knowing my beers I can only relate it to Guinness Stout, but this was better I thought, very robust, and I had two. We had a great time. I spotted John “Maddog’ Hall and Jono Bacon, I hope to meet these guys in person tomorrow, but didn’t have a chance to tonight. I met a bunch of listeners including “ChrisFromDallas”, “Timrit” and “ECLUG” all of whom I’ve talk to on IRC so it was a real pleasure to finally meet them in person. Tomorrow is the big day! The Ohio Linux Fest baby!

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We had a great breakfast at the Drury Lounge where we enjoyed sausage with biscuits and gravy and I even made my own Belgium waffles. Dad and I then did some venturing around learning the layout of the Columbus Convention Center. At one point I wandered over to an Information Booth were an older gentleman was ready to field questions from curious visitors. He said to me “Are you here for the big day tomorrow?” I said “I sure am! I’m here for the Ohio Linux Fest!” he looked at me oddly and said “No, I meant the big game, Ohio State plays Purdue tomorrow” LOL, I bet the area is going to be mayhem! Along the way we found where the OLFU was being held and we had a chance to meet Beth Lynn Eicher from The Ohio Linux Fest staff, hear Beth Lynn’s interview on The Linux Link Tech Show here. We were so impressed at the size and facilities at The Convention Center. One thing we noticed was that there were alot of people walking around looking like “Fencers”, you know, the sport of “Fencing”, so we followed them and found that The United States Fencing Association is holding a large tournament which started today and runs through Monday. But the highlight of the morning was running into Pat, Alan, and Linc from The Linux Link Tech Show, they had just checked in and were heading out to lunch; can’t wait to party with those guys tonight!

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It’s Friday morning October 10 and I’m sipping coffee while I write this post. Yesterday my Dad and I made the 500 mile trek from PA to The Ohio Linux Fest. I was warmly greeted by listener Nick who joined us for dinner and beer at Barley’s (Thanks for the beer Nick . Nick arrived early to take the “Linux Professional Institute” exam on Friday, he mentioned he used elpicx 2 (free Live DVD .iso here) which includes learning aids for preparing for the LPI exam. I hope to make regular posts to my blogs, both here and over at The Techie Geek Podcast. I am also making some recordings on my Nokia N800 that I hope to piece together a podcast with when I get home. See ya soon!

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