Embassy Suites has assured me that the hotel will be quiet. The rooms are as good as hotels get, but last year they were working on one of the floors on Friday. Saturday they stopped and that was better, but still, we were disappointed with the noise from the workers on Friday and again on Sunday. This year, they promised that wouldn't happen. Same thing with the conference room - Last year we were next to an evangelical bunch that were pretty loud. The seminars were sometimes "cheered on" by hallelujahs from the folks next door. You can hear them in some of the recordings of the talks. So the hotel staff promised a quiet environment for us at LSAF 2008

Speaking of the recordings of the seminars, if any of you want a copy, write to me. We saved them all on disk and have edited them down. Melissa had planned to put them on the ART radio station and announce times they'd be aired. I suppose she still might do that, but personally, I like keeping my toes tapping to the songs on the station. It might be best to make a download link to the seminar audio files, or send them to people when they ask. So let me know if you want them.