Checking in with a child.

I’m sitting at the gate lounge waiting for my flight. Bella (my daughter) isn’t here yet, her grand parents will get her here around 4 to 5pm.

When I arrived at the airport it dawned on me that I would need to check-in with Bella, otherwise they wouldn’t give us seats next to each other (not a problem for me, but the person sitting next to Bella might have an issue with it).

Based on previous experience I thought they were unlikely to give me her ticket without her standing next to me so I was potentially looking at a long wait on an uncomfortable seat – it was then that I devised a cunning plan.

The Virgin Blue Quick Check booths were standing there, and I had a soft copy of the itinerary so I positioned the bar code to the top of the screen and fed it into the scanner. Just like clock work it gave me the option to print Bella’s ticket as well.

At this point I’d like to thank the programmers of this terminal for not encoding all the business rules into the Quick Check system. Its comforting to know that someone could abduct my child and fly them interstate without anyone stopping to question them at the airport.

Anyway – back to cutting some code.

Hands-on Day: The Deed is Done

I got on the plane this morning at 6:45am with my daughter to fly down to Melbourne to present at the Victoria .NET User Group’s Hands-on Day. Bella needed to come with me because Nicola had a prior engagement that she couldn’t cancel/re-arrange.

Obviously Bella couldn’t be at the hands-on day (she would steal the show) so her grand parents picked her up at the airport and dropped me off at the venue (thanks guys!). My bit started at about 10:40, and I went until about 11:30, then the attendees did a few hands-on labs and I wrapped up with a really quick look at some IDE enhancements.

I think it went down well, but I guess this stuff doesn’t really stick until you get to use it at work in anger.