{"id":23113,"date":"2010-02-27T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=23113"},"modified":"2010-02-27T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T23:55:00","slug":"fire-stairs-at-the-hyatt-regency-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/fire-stairs-at-the-hyatt-regency-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire stairs at the Hyatt Regency, Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fire stairs leading down from the 16th floor at the Hyatt Regency, Cambridge. Photo by Eric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am a big fan of the fire stairs in hotels. I always make sure I try them a couple of times during any hotel stay, in case I really need them. I also count the stairs between floors, to check if they are a consistent number, or if the number varies. I took this photo after a huge mob got out of the Rob Hand lunch keynote and there was not elevator capacity for 200. The steps were marked “Staff Only,” and I gave the break bar a push to see if an alarm would go off; it didn’t, and in a moment befitting a mock of a Stephen King novel, I led a posse to escape from the 16th floor of the Tower.<\/p>\n

It was a fun day at the conference; I attended a talk that I will summarize and hopefully get the presenter in for an interview about the parallels between church dogma and astrology in the early 17th century — when the New World was being settled. As mentioned, I attended Rob’s talk on “why we do astrology” — truly fabulous as usual. My own presentation on using the minor planets was this afternoon at 4:15, and I’ve given Anatoly the MP3 to post — should be tonight or early tomorrow (check the database listed in links below — mine will be the bottom-most post, about 75 minutes long).<\/p>\n

I am now sitting in a jacket, tie and proper dress pants, about to go to the banquet and awards dinner\/graduation and Michael Lutin entertainment interlude. Back with more coverage of NCGR tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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