Lotusphere Day 2 - Sunday...
Category Lotusphere 2005
Sunday... The first "actual" day of Lotusphere, what with the Business Partner Day and all the Jumpstart sessions. This was also the day that Joe Litton and I were slated to do our Java For The Domino Developer session... A big day, to be sure...
I ended up waking up at 4:15 am, unable to go back to sleep. I *can't* keep doing this! I'm past my limit on existing on 5 hour nights. I read for awhile (didn't work), checked email (there wasn't any), and tried to keep from coughing and keeping Joe up (not terribly successful). My big fear was that I'd not be able to shake the sore throat and morning congestion in time for our 10:30 session. We finally ended up heading over to our room around 9:30 to get unloaded and prepped. There were 3 cases of Java books to lug over for giveaways, so the trip was a little slower than normal. :-) Things got started at 10:30, and I feel it went OK. The room was set up for about 220, and there were probably 190 - 200 there. They were lively, and stuck around for the whole session. We had to bribe them with books to do so, but whatever works. :-) I'll be interested to see the evals tomorrow...
From there, I dropped by John Head's session on Notes/Office integration. I've done some of that with Word and Excel, but John showed some tricks that I want to try when I get back. I could have hit a 4 pm session, but the stress of the last six weeks or so finally caught up with me. Back to the room, and I turned on the first of the football games. I'm so wiped out, that I even committed one of the cardinal sins of Lotusphere... I'm skipping the Sunday night welcome party. I could barely keep my eyes open lying on the bed, and they were crossing when they were open. The cold, the sleep, anticipation... it all came to a head when I got back. Time to finally be nice to myself for once.
So... perhaps I'll get a decent night's sleep and wake up on the backside of the cold. Knowing I don't have to baby the voice for any more speaking is a great relief. Just in time to start hitting all the sessions...
Sunday... The first "actual" day of Lotusphere, what with the Business Partner Day and all the Jumpstart sessions. This was also the day that Joe Litton and I were slated to do our Java For The Domino Developer session... A big day, to be sure...
I ended up waking up at 4:15 am, unable to go back to sleep. I *can't* keep doing this! I'm past my limit on existing on 5 hour nights. I read for awhile (didn't work), checked email (there wasn't any), and tried to keep from coughing and keeping Joe up (not terribly successful). My big fear was that I'd not be able to shake the sore throat and morning congestion in time for our 10:30 session. We finally ended up heading over to our room around 9:30 to get unloaded and prepped. There were 3 cases of Java books to lug over for giveaways, so the trip was a little slower than normal. :-) Things got started at 10:30, and I feel it went OK. The room was set up for about 220, and there were probably 190 - 200 there. They were lively, and stuck around for the whole session. We had to bribe them with books to do so, but whatever works. :-) I'll be interested to see the evals tomorrow...
From there, I dropped by John Head's session on Notes/Office integration. I've done some of that with Word and Excel, but John showed some tricks that I want to try when I get back. I could have hit a 4 pm session, but the stress of the last six weeks or so finally caught up with me. Back to the room, and I turned on the first of the football games. I'm so wiped out, that I even committed one of the cardinal sins of Lotusphere... I'm skipping the Sunday night welcome party. I could barely keep my eyes open lying on the bed, and they were crossing when they were open. The cold, the sleep, anticipation... it all came to a head when I got back. Time to finally be nice to myself for once.
So... perhaps I'll get a decent night's sleep and wake up on the backside of the cold. Knowing I don't have to baby the voice for any more speaking is a great relief. Just in time to start hitting all the sessions...
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