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Peace and Solitude in the Most Unlikely Place

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I can really be a jerk, sometimes. I make assumptions and pass judgments on things that are important to a majority of people, when they are seemingly miserable and uninteresting to me. I don't do this all of the time; just some of the time. The best part of this is that I'm often wrong . Granted, this doesn't keep me from passing these judgments again in the future, but it does offer me opportunities for self reflection and surprise.  I'm attending a conference in Orlando - at a Disney resort. I haven't been to Disney since I was 13. There's a reason for that. I don't like crowds, lines, amusement or entertainment parks, manmade wonders, and I especially don't like paying three times the going rate for anything. I had these same feelings when I attended a conference in Las Vegas in 2012. As I have blogged about before, I was right ; Vegas and I are not a good match . If I never set foot in that city again, it will be too soon.  I was sure that I wou