Windy afternoon - June 30 2010

It's a windy Wednesday afternoon around here. I got home at about 3:30pm after attending the last of the sessions at the 2010 ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference at the Convention Center.

It was quite a conference; it didn't have anything HUGELY relevant for Site Support, but considering the scale of the conference, they did their best. Main problem was the demand for sessions. The took the most interesting and relevant sessions and made them by registration only. Except there was no link to click on to register for the classes in the planner on the ISTE web site. I kept asking people whether or not you really had to register for these sessions, given that there was no place to do so, and nobody knew.

So by Sunday when the conference started, most of the sessions I'd chosen in my Planner were registration ones, and I found out on Monday that this was indeed true, you did have to register for them and they were all full. So I had to go to alternate sessions, some a little relevant, some not at all. Plus I had to wait in line for half an hour just it get into THOSE. So that part of it bit, that and the fact that I had to drive into work on Sunday, 6-27-2010, to get to the Convention Center by 4 to attend the keynote speech. Everyone was supposed to go, yet only 4 of us actually showed up, including Kirk. So my Sunday got hosed for essentially nothing. And most of THIS Sunday, I'm assuming, will be spent at Chandra's for the 4th of July thing.

Anyway, if nothing else, the last 3 days have been a huge test of the new phone, and the new phone has passed with FLYING colors. I downloaded Dropbox for Android, along with a note-taking program for getting notes in the ISTE sessions. The phone did everything that was asked of it, and never ran out of battery life. I took plenty of pictures with it as well, and posted some on Facebook. What was nice too was that I even found a place of relative solitude to use it as well. Up by the exhibitor area there's a balcony, with a few benches to sit on. I chilled up there a lot between sessions; weather was perfect for it. In fact it hasn't rained since Sunday, and temps have been in the 90s.

That's why I can sit out here on the front porch in a fairly stiff wind, without being chilly. The down side is that I've had to walk back from the Convention Center to the office every day this week, and it's a hot walk in a simmering toilet of a city believe me. But its good exercise and a nice cleansing as well. All too quickly, temperatures will drop up here so that a wind like this is too chilly to be in--indeed, nights can be a bit crisp even at this time of year. But again, better this than the heat of Denver.

Well, I've got some pictures to work on from the camera, so better get to it. Cynthia's been working nights for a couple of weeks now, and has been sleeping during the day, so hopefully the dogs won't bark when I go back in!