Sock Summit Opening Day

SS Fail: (well, sorta, but expected) 1am arrival woke
my already sleeping roomies.
SS Win: Time zone offset at least in right direction for early wake up. Not late for anything.
SS Win: Hotel and PCC both in free transit zone. Light rail almost door to door, no fees.
SS Win: Stunned looks on staff of multiple coffeeshops faced with stampeding woolly hoards needing coffee.
SS Win: Seamless registration.
SS Win: Learned 2 new bindoffs before lunch.
Portland CC Win: Giant 4 storey high, 600lb brass Foucault Pendulum. Not at all knitting related but mesmerizing.
Portland Meh: Denny's lunch.
SS Fail: Losing Luminary panel ticket sometime after lunch and before class. NOT REISSUEABLE.
SS Win: JoAnn of ST-2 and BMFA Cust. Service Goddess rocked my sad little world and reissued it anyway, even though I interrupted her lunch.
SS Fail: I'm a weenie and actually got jitters when teacher made me cut a hole in knitting.
SS Win: It was for the darning class. Now I can fix hole.
SS Win: Watching SPM and Rachel H. conduct 2000 knitters singing "99 skeins of yarn on the wall" while they were lined up waiting to stampede the marketplace.
SS Win: The looks on the faces of the PCC staff watching 2000 singing knitters lining up to stampede.
SS Win: Marketplace. And healthy credit limits. 3 new spindles, don't tell the Him.
SS WIN: Random "may we share your table" request had us sharing dinner table with ALL 4 RAVELRY deities!!!!! Lovely chatting with M-H quite a abit.
SS Win: Every single thing Stephanie and Tina said tonight. Someone should follow them around and record.
SS Blooper: "Buck up, Newton" .... "F**k off, McPhee". Tina was a little closer to the mike than she thought.
SS "D'aaawwwww": They both cried.
SS Win: SS teacher intros interrupted by standing ovation for Barbara Walker, 2nd only to the standing ovation for ST-1 and ST-2 themselves.
SS Win: Silent auction for MSF open for ONE HOUR raised about $5700.
SS Snoooze. See ya!