With only a week before SQL Rally in Dallas, there has been quite a bit of excitement and commentary in the twitterverse and blogosphere.  However, I cannot attend due to other commitments.  With all the excitement in the air, I cannot contain my excitement for the PASS Summit in November.  I have never been able to attend the Summit in the past and I am not 100% sure that I will be able to attend this year, but the planets are lining up and there is a glimmer of hope for my first Summit conference.  Sitting by last year and watching all of the action from the sidelines just about drove me nuts.  Here it is six months away and I have already scoped out the hotels in the area, looked around via Google’s man on the street, and my wife is even thinking about tagging along (I think just so she can see those flying fish at the market, no wait that is just me). 

I have been to Seattle once before in my youth for the National Mu Alpha Theta math competition.  It was there that my skills in advanced math were not as worldly as I thought, even though I placed (no I can’t remember but I think third place) in the state of Florida.  But, many schools from Florida and Alabama dominated the competition awards, interesting as I am sure most of the world does not think of Alabama and Florida as math powerhouses but in the late 80s when those respective states were battling neck and neck for last place in education those two states were advanced math geniuses, but I digress.

I know I won’t be able to take another tour of the King Dome and I wonder what else has changed since grunge and coffee took over that beautiful and friendly city some 25 years ago.  I wonder if I should ask someone at the hotel if I could walk to Mt. Ranier and have them laugh at me just for old times sake.  I am also excited about riding the monorail on the awesome two block journey.  Do they still have the theme park at the needle?  Maybe I can cross another item off my bucket list:  touring Forks and seeing all of the Twilight scenery in person (really just kidding on that one LOL).

Don’t get me wrong, I want to see SQLChicken do his gorilla impression and participate in SQLKaraoke.  I want to soak up all that is SQLAwesomeness and bask in the MCM and MVP glory that is PASS Summit 2012.  Won’t you join me?