Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Sleeping in

View off my rooms deck.

I arrived at the hotel at about 7:45 am and checked in. I went to my room and put my stuff down then spent about 15 minutes figuring out the lighting system, you have to put you key card in a slot at the door to turn anything on in the room. I then decided to take a little nap before I get prepared for my presentation (since I hadn't really slept much for the last 30 or so hours). Well, I woke up at 4:00 pm (so much for alarms) and my presentation is at 5:40 pm. Rush to get dressed and go, I got to the Thraki Palace at about 4:45 pm and registered for the conference. I then made my way to the room I was presenting at. Anton (from Sandia) was very happy to see me and said that he was worried that I might not make it there. Anyway I had about 20 minutes to look over my presentation, then Anton gave his and I gave mine followed by one more lady from Purdue. We had about 15-20 in the audience, and I was asked about 3-4 questions on my presentation (Anton helped answer a few as he knew some of the details of the chip that testing was done on). That was it for the evening session of the conference. Now I am sitting in the Egnatia Grand waiting for a BBQ in 2 hours – I am considering going back over to my hotel to shower since I didn’t get time before the conference (so since Sunday morning) and I feel dirty.

2 comments:

Justin Short said...

awesome view. Did you see many cool cars cruise by on that road?

Shane said...

Actually that road ended just past the hotel as a parking lot for the beach. The coolest car I saw on it was an S2000.