It is the first day of Defcon 11 and it sucks... all of the rooms are full, which means I won't get to hear any of the sessions that I wanted to. I'm stuck in a DNSSEC meeting, which in itself wouldn't be bad, however, I can barely hear the speaker over the constant hum in the background. The inhuman droning of 10,000 hackers. There had to be at least 2,000 people lined up to get into the Apollo room planning for a session three hours in advance.
Mine is a quiet soul. I left to find the peace within myself. And I ask myself the question that haunts me day in day out for months at a time:
what am I doing with my life?. Even in Vegas there is no escape. To the contrary - the stimulation of the surroundings drives me further into my self-reflection, solace-seeking internal struggle.
