Winding down

The conference is winding down now—you can just feel it. The breakouts are getting smaller and the quality of responses are getting poorer and people’s eyes are glazing over and people are thinking about how and when they will exit the conference tomorrow. I know I am. The entire last break-out session I was trying to decide if I was going to check out in the morning or leave early—before lunch and check out then. I am leaning towards the latter since the MARTA station is across the street of my hotel—however, I could just drag my stuff with me to the last sessions tomorrow and leave at the last break to get on the train back to the airport.. I am flying out at 2:15P landing in SLC at 4:15pm. I will be glad to be home. Dianne should be flying in today. I suspect she will call as she gets back to the mainland from the cruise

I feel I have been extremely luckily. I have not been stranded or fallen once in getting on or off of the bed as well as the toilet and the shower. I have used all of my A.T. equipment: hooks, and bungee cords. I have done well. My cell phone has operated Ok and the batter charger for the powerchair was worked much better then I had anticipated. The chair itself has not stayed charged as well as I would have liked: last night I forged quite a ways out looking at things and I was blinking red lights by the time I finally got back to the hotel. Of interest, last night at the orginal “Fox” Theater a locally famous rock band was having a concert and MTV was out to record…the crowds and the technology was fantastic. I did not stay too long for fear of being one of those guys who combs what little hair he has over his baldness.

I should do some more exploring this afternoon. The rest of the conference has gone on “field-trip” that would not be back until 8:30 or so. I am too tired and I donot want to be in too unfamiliar of territory. I am not sure how much energy I have to explore either. But maybe a few places on the way home. There is a huge Barnes an Nobel across the street and I could get lost there for a while.

So tomorrow I have half a day of conference and the flight back home. I have taken Thursday off and will be back in the office on Friday to take calls and return and just maybe start thinking about implementing some of the ideas discussed at this conference. With any luck I’ll get a machine open in the morning and post a thought or two and post from home on Thursday.