Redux...

I was a lot more tired last night than I realized, since I drifted off around 8 pm and slept like a log until early in the morning.

In the end, Suvorov was right. All the time and energy I poured into my presentation paid off with a Saturday afternoon session that was very well received, by all accounts. I stuck around for the following sessions, which were informative.

I left Atlanta on a 9 am flight and got to Durango around 2:15 pm. While the trip from Denver took just under an hour, getting luggage took just over 30 minutes. When you factor in how we were allowed to deplane while a Mesa aircraft was taxiing (causing a clipboard to soar through the air past me), I was not terribly impressed with the last segment of the trip. On the other hand, flying to and from the conference prevented me from encountering bad weather, especially the nasty stuff that plagued the southeast yesterday with tornados and such.

The house had been plagued with power outages for the past couple of days, one of which was long enough to take out the UPS and with it, my Linux box. When everything came back up, I had a discouraging message in the e-mail. Due to some bureaucratic bungling (or perhaps deliberate bureaucratic maneuvering), my clearance - along with clearances for most of the interpretation team for the Kazakhstan trip - was either never submitted, lost, or rejected.

So it looks like I'll be home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year.

("Snatch out my eyeballs, tear out my ears by the roots," said Brer Rabbit, "But please, Brer Fox, don't fling me in that briar patch!")

Cheers...

Two for two...

The deadline for that job that came in over the cell phone as I was departing for the conference could not be extended, so I remained jobless for the day. After spending some time at the store, I went home and started to "recover" from the trip and all.

Among other things, it has become clear to me that I need to revamp my professional web site. A while ago, Zack U. highly recommended an application called CityDesk, but I never really got into it. After getting a chunk of "recovery" out of the way today, I dove back in, trying to find my way through the program. I almost made it.

Actually, I've "published" the files of the site to a test directory, and the basic navigation seems to work okay. CityDesk does not support PHP, and I did enough "previewing" (involving loading and unloading browser windows) to thoroughly mess up memory management (or something) on my desktop, so that any attempt to proceed with making changes to the PHP files inside of CityDesk was met with failure. Perhaps tomorrow, I'll dive in and make the changes before abusing my computer's resources like that.

One of the things that Atlanta underscored for me was my rather poor level of physical fitness. I need to stop talking about doing something about it, and actually do it.

Cheers...