{"id":1620,"date":"2010-12-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2010-12-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T12:00:00","slug":"ukoug-2010-my-personal-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/ukoug-2010-my-personal-account\/","title":{"rendered":"UKOUG 2010 – My Personal Account"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure whether I was very lucky this past week or very unlucky.<\/p>\n

Debit
<\/strong>It took me 14 hours to get from Edinburgh to Birmingham. That’s almost a Hotsos Symposium trip!<\/p>\n

My skin condition flared up which meant I was in a thoroughly miserable mood and had to miss quite a few presentations as I hunted down medical supplies and took care of it.<\/p>\n

In a decision which seemed ridiculous even at the time,<\/em> but was understandable, I decided that alcohol, bath-water and emollient oil were a good combination and so slipped and badly sprained my wrist which led to the rather unedifying spectacle of Alex Gorbachev tieing my shoelaces for me the following morning. It was a good job I managed the rest of my morning dressing routine myself but it was a close run thing! It seems to be getting a little better now.<\/p>\n

I had my elbow twisted into making an utter fool of myself in front of many hundreds of people in Hall 1 as part of the evening Pantomime<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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I only attended the first two days which meant, along with my unexpectedly late arrival on Sunday evening, I missed out on catching up with tons of people I planned to.<\/p>\n

Credit
<\/strong>In the end, I managed to actually get to Birmingham, then to London and then back to Edinburgh. Others weren’t so lucky.<\/p>\n

Of the few presentations I managed to attend, most were excellent. More on those in a seperate post.<\/p>\n

Thanks to many very generous sponsors and then the UKOUG’s organisation of collection buckets and depositing the funds into my Movember account<\/a>, my final fund-raising total was \u00a31,202. Many thanks to all those who contributed, including those I’m unable to thank personally.<\/p>\n

As always, the time I did spend in the company of old friends was well-spent.<\/p>\n

At least, unlike UKOUG Chairman Ronan Miles, I did not<\/em> agree to dress up as a naughty nurse. Hats off to him for joining in the fun though. I would praise Lisa Dobson but, as she pointed out, she’s a Geordie and usually dresses up like that on a Friday night anyway 😉<\/p>\n

Balance<\/strong>
On balance, as usual, it was probably just normal life, not particularly lucky or unlucky 😉<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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My skin condition flared up which meant I was in a thoroughly miserable mood and had to miss quite a few presentations as I… Continue reading UKOUG 2010 – My Personal Account<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1083,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/13\/oug-scotland-2006-conference-day-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1620,"position":0},"title":"OUG Scotland 2006 Conference – Day 2","date":"September 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Having experienced a minor panic about not having sufficient material for my presentation, I decided to stay at home yesterday morning to work on some 9i examples to go with the existing 10g ones and put together some additional slides. 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