Another whirlwind day. I started in North Carolina, flew to Dallas and then on to Shreveport, LA. I had a demo the first thing this morning and it went pretty well. Then I drove back to the airport to catch my first flight of the day, no problems. I flew on to Dallas and caught my next flight. I did land 10 minutes before boarding in a different terminal than my next flight but I ran/walked fast all the way and had plenty of time to spare. That flight was fine and I was really getting into my book, The Last Templar, so the time went by quickly.

When I was at the Raleigh Durham airport I walked by this facade of a VW peace bus. I noticed that a bunch of people had put stickers on the bus over time. It didn’t look like anyone minded much so I took one of my Mad Gringo stickers and added it to the bus. I think it works pretty well there. The restaurant was a beach themed one and Mad Gringo is perfect for the theme.

When I arrived in Shreveport I went right to the hotel and caught up with the other demonstrators as they were headed out for dinner. We went to Salt Grass over on the Riverwalk. Tomorrow when my demo is over I will go get changed and head over there to explore the place. I called it an early night and headed to the hotel. I caught CSI New York and am noticing a trend in the CSI finales this year. Spoilers and conjecture. Each one leaves you wondering about a key CSI player. I am surprised that they didn’t put Grissom in harms way as well. My predictions are that Mac will get out of this fine, Caine’s death is a fake out and unfortunately Warrick is dead.

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Today was kind of a bust. The demo ended up starting an hour and 15 minutes late because of some snafu at site. So I was to condense 4 hours to 2 hours to 45 minutes. Needless to say that didn’t go that well, even with my mad condensing skills. I’m the one you call when you want an hour demo done in 20 minutes but 4 hours in 45, well that just wasn’t happening. So after the demo I met with a person on site and discussed a second demo at a later date and exactly what they were looking to see. Thank goodness for my experience implementing the product or I would have been in bad shape.

After the demo I drove back to the airport and was massively early for my flight. I figured that there may be an earlier flight to North Carolina. I was wrong. So I went on my scheduled flight at 4:20pm which left at 5:00pm. But I did get to N.C. only 10 minutes behind schedule. I was too late to catch up with the people who were already here so I had a quick meal at Ruby Tuesday. I was going to go to P.F. Chang’s but I hate sitting at the bar, I like my own seat or table. So I walked around the mall a bit and then settled on Ruby Tuesday.

While I was at the airport I was tearing through The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury. I have to pace myself or I will have nothing to read on my next 4 flights tomorrow and Friday. I was tempted to buy Jimmy Buffett’s new book, Swine Not? and also the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Luckily I held off on both accounts because Allison just ordered both of them, one for fun reading and the other for her book club book.

I also did a bit of catching up on Geek Brief.tv podcasts. Other than that a pretty quiet day. I loved the sky in the mall parking lot tonight. And again did the cropping and slight editing of this one on picnik.

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