My wife and I are leaving next Thurs for an anniversary-vacation to Arizona. Great, right? Well today, I get a fax from my local Chapter of Professional Engineers regarding our upcoming monthly meeting. I rarely attend these because the speakers, material, food - and frankly, the other engineers - are so incredibly dry and boring! This month, the speaker is none other than Phil Fioravante. So what? Well, he's the Managing Director of Magnetti Marelli Motorsport!! His topic: his work on engine management, gear change control, telemetry, etc. for the 2006 F1 season!!!!

The meeting date: the day I'm leaving! Ya gotta be friggin' kiddin me ...... the one topic in 20 years that I actually have an interest in ..... and I'm out of state.

Question: should I book another flight and tell my wife I'll meet her in Arizona Friday?