As the sky started to pink, the moon started to set. I caught my first glimpse of the Eastern coast, something I’ll reach on my own two wheels some day.
So, I’m back. My talk went well, though I’m going to have to learn to do more eye contact. It’s very nerve-wracking to face 70+ people, but nice when they laugh. :-)
Not going to be late to bed today. I was up until 2 preparing the speech, and I’m very tired indeed. We have to figure out what we are doing tomorrow, and then I’ll call Don, and that’ll be the end of it.
It was an amazing convention, and I got to see Blue Man Group. :-)
I just got back from the meal out with my friends, which was a lovely evening out. My internet accss wil expire soon, so I’m going to just post this and get on with what I realy should do, and prepare the presentation of doom. Im tired, full of ice cream,and mellow. The convention has been over in a flash and is winding down now. I willmiss everyone very mch indeed, but I won’t miss this silly letter-munching keyboard.
It seems that I may have fried a memory chip while passing my laptop through secrity at the airport. At least, given my descriptions, that is what Don thinks, and it would explain a lot. So, no laptop for the time being.
Good news is that the fix is easy, and there is TV internet, which is a little odd and seems to randomly eat letters. But at least it lets me contact the world.
What I’mgoing to do update-wise is post something short and sweet when I can, then come bac afterwards and do photo post. It is the bst I can do.
The days are long and full from beginin to end. I managed to leave my show and tell pics at MissE’s house, so now must rush about and get them redone, which is a very interetsing thing given that I don’t have a laptop or the file I need, so Don is emaling it to me (if he can find it) and then I have to borrow Skyring’s laptop to download it, he will burn me a disk, then I haveto run about and get a copy. Luckily I kno where there are several copy shops.
(I havestopped editing out the missin letters. please deal, and smile.)
I feel loved ad cherishd here. Have enjoyed meetng new people and old. Skyring is someone I can laugh with until Icry. Thebiblioholic and family are lovely. Caffcaff is a hoot and I didn’t realise that anothe BCUKer came too, ozone-nut, was here, too. Ottawabill is soooo cool. Have spoken briefly with other lovely people: Tzuriz, Jfroebe…many others. There is such a sense of warmth in this group. I realy love it. :)
More later…it’s lte, I have a brekkie date with Caffcaff for the morning, and must sleep.
I’m too tired to think, and more than a little sun-touched too. Seven of us spent a glorious day at, and around, Niagara Falls. To be honest, I’m too tired to write a real entry, and I’m bummed that I can’t get wireless to work. I’m going to try it at the hotel and see if that is any better, but since the box to get wireless with takes roughly an hour to come up, I think that something, somewhere, is corrupted.
Very pleased to see a nice write-up about “A Little Twist of Texas” on the Book Crossing home page. It added icing to an already wonderful, happy day.
I’ll try to write something more coherent later. I’m going to attempt to get the missing piece of hardware from a computer shop tomorrow, so that if I do ever get online I could possibly upload some pictures to show you.
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So, it’s been a very very long couple of days. Have yet to manage a connection with my laptop, despite many hours in the runup to the trip spent getting it working (and it did work). So, I don’t know how well that will go. I have at least one entry that should be posted by email, so they may well be a bit higgledy piggledy. ;-)
Summary: Monday: ran around like headless chicken getting business things done. Stayed up until 5 in the morning with the wireless. Got woken up 7 am Tuesday by shipping company. Half an hour later, proofs were delivered. Ran around like headless chicken some more, dealing with the proofs. Don was a champ and stayed at home to help me with things. Left at 7pm (thanks ) for airport–after replacing bag that split just as we were about to leave. Got to airport, had dinner, started chuckling as I noticed the SFO Hall of Fame–at least a dozen markers commemorating sports figures. I took a few pics. Went to my exit, they changed the gate, walked back, chuckled to find myself back where I’d just been getting funny looks, taking pictures.
Took four and a half hour flight to Washington Dulles; long, mostly sleepless, but not too bad. Moved to new gate to pick up flight to Toronto. Flight was two hours delayed, and eventually we went on a tiny little plane — they actually had to move a few people from the front to the back to balance it out!
Did the whole customs, immigration thing; the staff at Toronto airport were as nice and friendly as at SFO, which is to say, Very. Eventually took a friend’s hint and took a limo to MissE’s house, where I am right now, updating you, fed, watered and enjoying the cat and a bit of interweb.
I’m too tired to compose anything elegant, and I can’t post photos either. But hey, the adventures are beginning. I knew I was in the right place when I peered through the door and saw a pile of goodie bags ;-)
Well, I’m sitting in Terminal 3 of SFO [??]. I’m on my way to Washington Dulles, and I had lunch, well…actually it was breakfast in the evening at some little diner in the food court, at which point I looked over to the gate where I would be and started chuckling because it would appear that there are roughly 8 or 9 different snarfs because there appears to be an aviator’s hall of fame here. So I’m going to spend the next 10 minutes or so taking some pictures because, you know, these things obviously follow me around, and then I’m going to find my gate, and I guess I’ll be boarding in roughly an hour, so I’ll see you on the flipside!
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