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Since I so egregiously forgot to post from Athens, GA.
The Athens show went very well. We met a lot of interesting people and it turned out to be a very productive show. Now, 6 hours later, I'm posting from my balcony in a Hampton hotel watching the sun set over Mobile Bay. It's pretty here. It's a lot like Chesapeake, but with alligators. I do wish I had a digicam (for the thousandth time) so I could share this view. I can see Mobile across the bay off in the distance, and it's nothing but waterfront and mother nature in between.
They say there's a $500 fine for feeding alligators. I don't see how losing an arm isn't enough. I haven't seen one yet, but I hope to. I've never really seen an alligator in the wild. Just to add icing on the cake, drinks are free until 7PM. Truly, I am blessed.
I plan to leave out of here about 10 or 11AM tomorrow for New Orleans and IACP. This is the big show, and the tough one, since our rather mercurial co-owner, Mr. D, will be in attendance. He' s a great guy, but a bit of a hothead without much tolerance for things going wrong. Considering that I need to make some repairs to the gear tomorrow (a server decided to belly up and a new one is being shipped to N.O.) I certainly hope that everything goes smoothly and that I duck out on Hurricane Jose should it ever blow my way. I feel pretty confident, but a little apprehensive as well. Oh well, that's pressure in the business world.
The hotel has some pretty interesting pictures from when it was destroyed by Katrina,and I'm interested to see what the Gulf Coast looks like as I traverse it. I'll be passing through some of the most devastated areas, although I believe that they have probably largely rebuilt since then. I was watching Katrina come through that morning from my job as Colonial Webb (there's an entry posted from there somewhere back in this journal) by looking through traffic cams and any other web cams I could find in the area. It was a little spooky to see them drop offline one by one as the storm swept through. One cam, a bridge cam, stayed online, but was knocked from it's mount and pointed at the sky. It was, without a doubt, the angriest, scariest, darkest sky I've ever seen, and I'm from Cincinnati.
Wow, the bay is so pretty. Salmon, Orange, and Violet, and every hue in between. So far, this trip has gone well. Sirius and Garmin have made the drive a veritable breeze. I can't imagine how I got along without them.
After New Orleans, it's on to Springfield Illinois, and then to somewhere in podunk Wisconsin. Oh yeah, I'm a travellin' man. I'm finally doing something I really enjoy, plying the great highways, captain of my own ship. For once, for awhile, I feel good.
I'll be updating from New Orleans. I'll try to jack someone's digicam if I can and post pics. If anyone still reads this, I know they want pics.
Signing off.
The Athens show went very well. We met a lot of interesting people and it turned out to be a very productive show. Now, 6 hours later, I'm posting from my balcony in a Hampton hotel watching the sun set over Mobile Bay. It's pretty here. It's a lot like Chesapeake, but with alligators. I do wish I had a digicam (for the thousandth time) so I could share this view. I can see Mobile across the bay off in the distance, and it's nothing but waterfront and mother nature in between.
They say there's a $500 fine for feeding alligators. I don't see how losing an arm isn't enough. I haven't seen one yet, but I hope to. I've never really seen an alligator in the wild. Just to add icing on the cake, drinks are free until 7PM. Truly, I am blessed.
I plan to leave out of here about 10 or 11AM tomorrow for New Orleans and IACP. This is the big show, and the tough one, since our rather mercurial co-owner, Mr. D, will be in attendance. He' s a great guy, but a bit of a hothead without much tolerance for things going wrong. Considering that I need to make some repairs to the gear tomorrow (a server decided to belly up and a new one is being shipped to N.O.) I certainly hope that everything goes smoothly and that I duck out on Hurricane Jose should it ever blow my way. I feel pretty confident, but a little apprehensive as well. Oh well, that's pressure in the business world.
The hotel has some pretty interesting pictures from when it was destroyed by Katrina,and I'm interested to see what the Gulf Coast looks like as I traverse it. I'll be passing through some of the most devastated areas, although I believe that they have probably largely rebuilt since then. I was watching Katrina come through that morning from my job as Colonial Webb (there's an entry posted from there somewhere back in this journal) by looking through traffic cams and any other web cams I could find in the area. It was a little spooky to see them drop offline one by one as the storm swept through. One cam, a bridge cam, stayed online, but was knocked from it's mount and pointed at the sky. It was, without a doubt, the angriest, scariest, darkest sky I've ever seen, and I'm from Cincinnati.
Wow, the bay is so pretty. Salmon, Orange, and Violet, and every hue in between. So far, this trip has gone well. Sirius and Garmin have made the drive a veritable breeze. I can't imagine how I got along without them.
After New Orleans, it's on to Springfield Illinois, and then to somewhere in podunk Wisconsin. Oh yeah, I'm a travellin' man. I'm finally doing something I really enjoy, plying the great highways, captain of my own ship. For once, for awhile, I feel good.
I'll be updating from New Orleans. I'll try to jack someone's digicam if I can and post pics. If anyone still reads this, I know they want pics.
Signing off.
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