I met up with my brother-in-law at the Woodley Park metro stop to go to the Office 2003 launch event at the Marriott. Good thing he knew the correct hotel.
The content was not the greatest, but we got all kinds of free stuff. I ate at least four blue berry muffins and two lunches. Yes, we got lunch! I am not one to brave crowds, but Jeremy is awesome like that. He even found me in a crowd. No wonder he works for the State Department.
Anyway, I got the following free stuff:
• A valid copy of Visual Studio.Net 2003– probably because the next release of the development environment will be released next week at the PDC.
• A valid copy of VB.Net 2003
• T-shirt – which is what I like.
• A voucher for OneNote – a cool new Office tool.
• Desktop Deployment Customer Toolkit – whatever that is.
• Code Focus magazine
• Security Readiness Kit
• Sample chapters of some book.
• Office 2003 evaluation
• Two Microsoft journals – well, that is what I use the notebooks for.
• VB.Net Resource Kit
• HP Key chain
• Ear phones – I hope are in Jeremy’s “pack pack”, as Corryn would call it. My bag was torn, so he was holding stuff for me.
• Visual Studio Tools for Office
• SQL Server 2000, Access 2003 Developer Edition
• MSDN CDs
It was a great day. I ate at McDonalds for dinner. I was too lazy too cook anything. I should have just got a drink…. I ate way too much today. Good thing I am not on the points plan!!!
The event was planned out very well except the end where we were to get the T-shirts. I made the mistake of trying to short cut the line; only to find out they had purposely created a bottle neck.
People with "pack packs", except Jeremy of course, really ticked me off and I finally shoved one and this stupid black man who was being a hypocrite by calling the Marriot guys rude because he was trying to force entry across a boundary which they had set up.
I amaze myself how strong I can be when I am mad. Fortunately I didn’t seriously hurt anyone. That didn’t even cross my mind when I sent that jerk flying. Ok, it was too crowded for him to go anywhere.
Posted by: Michael at October 23, 2003 09:57 PMHey Michael,
Did you read the voucher closely? It is for a free copy of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 AND one free copy of Microsoft Office One Note 2003. You left off the biggest freebie from your list of free stuff!!!
Posted by: Jeremy at October 24, 2003 05:06 AM