[Jon Stratis]

While I was not there with my team, I very nearly left early just to find some food. The only thing that kept me there until the end was my desire to both see and show respect for the Chairman's winner. Without that, I would have left at the end of Einstein for dinner, a good two hours earlier than I ended up doing. Having had only a quick bite of lunch before noon (trying to run inspections for teams in the playoffs, extending up until Einstein started), I was rather hungry after all the delays.

I take this as a note to myself to pack a box of snacks next year to help stave off hunger on the last day! Unfortunately this year the snacks I brought were gone Wednesday when myself and some others missed lunch in our rush from the airport to the pits to work load in. What should have been an easy, leisurely lunch was thrown off when the airline moved our flight back by an hour.