kerewin's whine cellar

A lot to be grateful for

I was bored and leafing through different bloggers's links of other bloggers, and one in particular was saying something to the effect of, "there's a lot of unhappy people (bloggers) out there." Well, in general I agree with that, but specifically I think, unhappy gets a lot more press than happy. It just reads better, so people use it more. However for what it is worth.....I had a damn good week. Mostly.

San Francisco is a fabulous city. I love going there, it is full of great shopping, good friends, beautiful sights, and a very moderate climate. What more could be better? Making money while you are there, that's what!

Now before you get all suspicious, I was working MacWorld for Freeverse. I can't think why they would ask one of their users to work the booth but I didn't want to turn down the chance to help the company.

So Sunday, January 4, 2004, bright and early I boarded a plane for the "City by the Bay." Not a lot to be thankful for in a flight that leaves at 6am, Sunday morning. Except for sleeping the entire flight due to sleep deprivation, and an airport pickup by a *VERY* good friend. We went to Target, had a blast and found everything on Miss Susie Q's list and then went back dropped off stuff, made bed and crashed while she worked. The rest of the week was a bunch of work in the daytime, and a lot of social activity in the evening. So instead of giving my 3 readers a long story I am going to break it down into the great vs. good vs. not so good list.

Great

Hanging out with Susie Q, Placebo, and sometimes Richard, all week (especially reading out loud the log that I saved from that nutcase on GS)
Meeting Remy, Swabbie, FV Ian, Merlina (and Jasper!), and John
Playing/demo-ing ToySight - I think even Remy will admit that I did pretty damn good, having first played it on Tuesday (oh yeah, and just TRY to kick my 71k best score at Volcano God!)
Sushi every other meal or so
the J. Otto bagel at the Last Laugh Café
TWO, count 'em, two "Best of Show" for Freeverse with ToySight, and BumperCar
Dinner at the Zuní Café
Meeting up with Ernie and his Significant Other (but come on....her name is CHER???)*
Meeting up with Paul and Virginie and Dino and Bella

*small side note: on meeting up with Ernie, whom I mentioned in another post, it went better than expected, although I wasn't as thin, tall, and rich as I wanted to be, and Ernie looked pretty good (bastard). His gf is gorgeous, funny, and smart....wouldn't mind having them come up to Seattle and hang - who would have thought?

Good

the Sushi at No-Name (holy shit those portions were huge and the price was small!)
wireless at SQ's
big sales at the FV booth
Being mistaken for someone "in charge" at the booth by the simple option of wearing my management clothes

Not So Good

VERY sore arms from demo-ing ToySight
Hangover after hanging out with the old Marketwavers
The extremely cold shower in the Hotel Cosmo the one night I stayed in a hotel
The long and frustrating round of diagnostics done to see if either power adaptor or battery were hosed*
Fighting with the Hub via mobile phone because of lack of sleep and possible dead laptop battery
The service at the No Name sushi place - have you ever been served by someone talking on their cell phone?
Having to get up in time to be at the Moscone Center in time for the show - UGH don't these people know I usually work until midnight?????
Having to work the restaurant about 3 hours after getting off of the plane Saturday morning
Colin not coming to San Fran due to some psychosomatic flu thing
SCB seemed on his worst behavior

*side note: both were fine, yay for resetting the power manager....umm, three frickin' times

Okay, I have bored you all long enough.....more some other day.

This frickin rocks

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