Friday morning, and I’m sad the week is over. However, I’m a bit happy, as well. In shortly over 24 hours, I’ll be home. I love attending OSCON, but it takes its toll. For example, one of the things that makes getting to breakfast difficult is all the free beer available to us. One might ask, Why not just avoid partaking of the local nectars and get a good night’s sleep instead. To that I say, Are you crazy? There’s beer! And it’s free! As in beer!

SourceForge held a couple of parties for us last night. One was at the Jupiter Hotel and the other, branded BeerForge, was at a party venue down the block from the hotel. Obviously, we attended both—twice.

Josh and I started out at BeerForge. After a while we got hungry and found Brad, Alice, and Sam over at the SourceForge awards party. As things got too crowded, we all went over to BeerForge. As the venue grew too hot and loud, we ended up back at the SourceForge location, where we could be outside at least. After that venue closed down, Josh and I went back to my hotel room to polish off a growler—a half gallon—of beer I had picked up at Rogue the night before.

I’m now at breakfast, after a whole four hours of sleep, and extremely thankful for the coffee, fruit, and pastries that have been laid out for us. The fresh air and the walk to the convention center helped, too. This week’s festivities make me almost want to take a pass on the Oregon Brewers Festival. I said, almost.

Fortunately, there are only two sessions today, leaving me with only two decisions to make. However, after a more careful review of the schedule, the choices seem obvious.

First, Tim Bunce is giving a talk on Perl and Parrot: Baseless Myths and Startling Realities. I’m not as enthusiastic about Perl 6 as I once was, but I quite enjoy Tim’s sessions. Following Tim, in the same room, is Damian Conway. He’ll be presenting—oh, does it even matter?

I will be faced with a bit of a dilemma tonight. My flight home is scheduled for 6:40am tomorrow morning. However, the MAX light rail ends its service at midnight and doesn’t resume until 4:30am. Several years ago this may have been acceptable, but not in the airports of today. So my options are to get a couple hours of sleep followed by calling a town car, or check out of the hotel tonight and make my way to the airport before the MAX service terminates for the night. Quite honestly, arriving at the airport six and a half hours early is still shorter than some of the layovers I’ve had.

Well, I’m going to finish my breakfast and tag some photos. In just under an hour, the final day of keynotes—and thus of OSCON—get started.