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Written on the plane back from vegas:
May. 2nd, 2010 07:55 pmGentle Readers,
I'm in the air on my way home from Vegas. It has been quite the trip. I think I drank more in the last week than I have since the beginning of the year. Given some of the parties I attended that's fairly impressive/scary.
Vegas was an experience. You don't really understand the scale of what Vegas is until you've been there. I've heard it described as a disney land for adults and from what I understand of Disney, I guess that comes close. Las Vegas is like the cyberpunk arcologies where all of human exisitence is pulled into a single massive construction. Each morning while I was there, I walked a couple of kilometers from my room to the tradeshow floor. I walked past shops and restaurrantts and theaters and lakes and fountains and forests (of slot machiens, but still. Full of deer and wolves). I did this without going outside.
So there was that.
Then there was the tradeshow itself. I got to be a professional extrovert. Not just talking but doing the greeting, creating the engagement. It was both draining and invigorating. I'm still not entirely shure how I managed it. My coworkers are rock solid. Amazing people to work with and there is no way I could have done it without hacing them to learn from.
So, now I'm on my way back to the real world. This weekend I have nothing to do but detox. This is probably a good thing. Alex is planning on starting to move his stuff over and that's exciting and a little bit scary, but not in a bad way. I should also try and get rid of some more crap. It would be nice to maybe think about painting in my room but there is no way that that can happen with the amount of stuff that is still in there.
Right now it's pretty frigging warm on the plane. We've still got another hour and a half before the plan lands and I get to sit around for another couple hours, waiiting for my flight from Newark to Ottawa. I'mm going to have to find a not terrible breakfast. Of all the parts of the trip, the lack of a good breakfast place was probably the most surprising. The hash browns at the Nathan's were just terrible by which I mean disgusting and inedible. I ended up getting my breaakfasts from McDonalds so that they would be edible.
Anyway, I'm going to switch to some book reviews for a bit.
I'm in the air on my way home from Vegas. It has been quite the trip. I think I drank more in the last week than I have since the beginning of the year. Given some of the parties I attended that's fairly impressive/scary.
Vegas was an experience. You don't really understand the scale of what Vegas is until you've been there. I've heard it described as a disney land for adults and from what I understand of Disney, I guess that comes close. Las Vegas is like the cyberpunk arcologies where all of human exisitence is pulled into a single massive construction. Each morning while I was there, I walked a couple of kilometers from my room to the tradeshow floor. I walked past shops and restaurrantts and theaters and lakes and fountains and forests (of slot machiens, but still. Full of deer and wolves). I did this without going outside.
So there was that.
Then there was the tradeshow itself. I got to be a professional extrovert. Not just talking but doing the greeting, creating the engagement. It was both draining and invigorating. I'm still not entirely shure how I managed it. My coworkers are rock solid. Amazing people to work with and there is no way I could have done it without hacing them to learn from.
So, now I'm on my way back to the real world. This weekend I have nothing to do but detox. This is probably a good thing. Alex is planning on starting to move his stuff over and that's exciting and a little bit scary, but not in a bad way. I should also try and get rid of some more crap. It would be nice to maybe think about painting in my room but there is no way that that can happen with the amount of stuff that is still in there.
Right now it's pretty frigging warm on the plane. We've still got another hour and a half before the plan lands and I get to sit around for another couple hours, waiiting for my flight from Newark to Ottawa. I'mm going to have to find a not terrible breakfast. Of all the parts of the trip, the lack of a good breakfast place was probably the most surprising. The hash browns at the Nathan's were just terrible by which I mean disgusting and inedible. I ended up getting my breaakfasts from McDonalds so that they would be edible.
Anyway, I'm going to switch to some book reviews for a bit.
