Mama, I'm comin' home!

It seems like I've been gone forever.

I only got a few hours sleep last night, and it will be almost 24 hrs from now when I touch down in Manchester, NH tonight. I'm hoping to catch some sleep on the plane. It's going to be a long day, but I'm going to get to the airport *plenty* early, so I won't have to rush, and I'm just going to relax and take it easy.

The presentation went okay - just okay. I had been having technical difficulties all day, and we worked on it for quite a while. They were using an old computer with older versions of the programs I was using, and when we tested it *right* before my presentation, it worked just fine. However, during the presentation, the hyperlinks I had to the tools I had developed (as the majority of the presentation) did not work. Well, one did and the other four didn't. When I tried to launch the second one, it froze the whole computer.

I ran down to my chair in the audience, because I had hard copies there, and I did my best to keep the speech flowing while I walked to and from my chair from the podium, and while I ran diagnostics on the computer. LOL - can you imagine?

I was disappointed because it looked unprofessional. I had asked the event leaders to check the links in my presentation on their computer at least 5 times before coming. They never did. It was their outdated computer that caused the problems, but the audience didn't know all that.

Oh well - what can you do! It's good practice for things going wrong in the middle of a presentation. Considering they went majorly wrong, I think I handled the situation very well. They told me they would be asking me to join their advisory board for the next year's event, so that's a nice sign.

I'm off to the airport. See you soon!! XO