I'm in Portland!

I'm in Portland at the AAEA meetings (I have a "First Time Attendee" ribbon for my name badge. I'm sure I'll wear it tomorrow). Some travel notes:

1. I've been awake for 15.5 19.5 hours. Up at 5 am to make the 8:30 flight to Minneapolis. The same flight I took two weeks ago and valued sleep by more than $26/hour. This time, I valued sleep less than $26/hour and stayed home the night before.
2. There is no sales tax in Oregon. I bought a 6 pack ... of water, blueberry poptarts and a snickers bar and the total came to $6.66. The checkout girl said 6-6-6 and I said "you know, that's the devil's number." She said, "I know, that's why I asked you if you had your club card." I'm not a Safeway club member so I suggested that I buy something else and she said that I shouldn't worry about it. I'm trying not to.
3. I'm actually reading a novel, I forget the writers and title but it was a NYTimes best seller. More details later but I know this, I'm turning pages faster than the Egan and Herriges paper I read on the plane.
4. This is the closest I've ever been to Economist's View and the Pacific Northwest. Coming in on the plane you see Mt. Hood and the other one, and the plane is about the same altitude. Wow.
5. I think I saw Partha Dasguptha in the lobby.
6. I missed the Vernon Smith talk. I would've gone if he was at a PhD granting institution, but since he is moving to a liberal arts college I can't seem to take him seriously.