Well it seems like there really isn't such a thing as free beer. The beer remained stubbornly non-free at the ADASS conference reception. Normally there is at least a couple of free beers to get you in the mood before they start charging people for the stuff, but this time the cash register was ringing right from the start of the reception.
In the end I folded early under the weight of jet lag and my early start. I went to bed well ahead of the crowd, maybe I'm just getting old...
