Getting up when I do, by the time I get to the lobby to ride the elevator there’s a nice shot of the sun rising…
Oh wow. 5 am is early when you are dead tired. I crawled out of bed only to realize that my feet were still way sore and that it hurt to walk on them, so I quickly crept to the shower. After showering I decided I didn’t care if I was late to my 5:45am breakfast (who EATS that early?!), and ran a bath to just soak my feet in—it seemed to help a lot.
Here’s the main stage where the major events are held, such as award ceremonies and general sessions.
After breakfast we headed over to the main stage area for the first General Session, one of the meetings where the people at the head of the company speak and make announcements and get all the demonstrators for our company psyched up. This year’s theme song was done by some sort of “man band†(my word for an older version of a boy band—basically the guys were too old to be called “boysâ€, hehe.) Oh brother, then the CEO and co-founder of the company comes out to praise them and say how they are hot and hunks and all this garbage. Hello? Not your style Shelli, take it easy there. I guess they’ll do anything to try to play on women’s emotions, etc. I have to say though, for as cheesy as this year’s convention theme song was, it wasn’t nearly as irritating as the one 2 years ago, which just grated on my nerves.
Here’s the queer old “man band” that sang our cheesy convention song. Aww, that’s sad…
Part of the first General Session was when then they dropped parachutes with prizes from the rafters—I was rather hoping those crazy demonstrators would freak out and try to kill each other to get to them but they turned out to be rather tame (I recorded some footage hoping to catch a maiming but was sorely disappointed). They’ve been crazy when product had been thrown out in the past. They were still crazy enough though to sprint into the meeting hall when the doors were opened… they didn’t disappoint me there.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s superman… no, it’s some crazy-ace demonstrator that’s so excited to be at convention that they have run themselves into a blur on their way into general session.
Around 11am general session ended and I headed back to the computer area to work. Man, running off a little sleep with sore feet and back makes it harder to smile but I think I still enjoyed working. Fortunately I only worked till 7:30 today… even then, I got back to my room at 8pm after eating some dinner and promptly fell asleep on my bed in my clothes still—I was beat once again. No updates, too tired.
Brandon and Ray hard at working helping demonstrators use the computers. Everyone loves Ray…