I just read the editorial in the PB magazine about the low conference attendance. I am sorry for the disappointment, but the high fees and cost of stay is a budget breaker for me, and probably quite a few others. If more attendance is what is required, please make it more low key, and in a much less expensive place, if that is possible. Sorry for the rant, but it seems the conference was set up just for the more affluent, and not for us retired guys who have all kinds of pond time, but fixed incomes. I guess we couldn't afford much of the vendors offerings either.