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tommy@hilbert.att.com (Tom Reingold) wrote: 
->I'll be at the January Usenix in San Diego.  Since my company pays my
->airfare, I figure I'll take my family.  It's a good time for a vacation
->and I've never seen San Diego.  How do people manage this?

you don't.  a conference is not vacation (unless you are defrauding
your company); it is work.  

->If they stay for the entire period of the conference, they won't see me
->anyway since I'll probably be totally busy the whole day, every day.

true.

->If, when I get to the hotel after a day of "conferring", she'll ask for
->a break from the kids which I will be unable give her since I'll be too
->tired.

probably true.

->But if my wife comes at or near the end of the conference, she somehow
->has to take the kids on the plane by herself.  They will be aged one
->and four.

this happens all the time.  flight attendants are trained to help with
small infants when necessary.  you could bring mother-in-law or
grandmother along if this is going to be a big concern; this would
also fix the problems you touched on earlier.

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