DC & Other Stuff
Well, DC was fun if you consider standing on your feet all day answering asinine questions and everything around you is soaking wet -- because you are in a tent in a parking lot.
I did have a chance to go to downtown DC for a couple hours. Stopped by Neuhaus and bought a whole lot o' chocolate. Then walked down part of the national mall, but a lot of things were closed b/c it was like 5pm. Didn't take an pictures b/c I didn't have a camera.
The first day of the show was pretty bad -- no demonstration stuff available b/c other people at the company hadn't gotten it together. There were a few people that stopped by -- and I got a little bit of market information. The second day was terrible. I didn't have access to email b/c the night beofre the hotel internet went out. It had rained that night, making everything in the booth wet -- soaking just about everything. Then the wind started to blow, not only making it cold -- but it tipped over a couple displays from various companies. All of a sudden there'd be a big crash -- "there's another one!" The wind was gusting up to 40 mph -- they definately closed the show an hour early. Good thing too, b/c there were so few people there. The second day I really only talked to people from other companies who buy/push our stuff.
The nice part of the second day was two other people from my company showed up -- so it wasn't so boring. Though, two of us did get roped into helping to interview this sales guy. Then, b/c the one guy actually lives cloes to the airport I was going out of -- we went to his house, had dinner, chilled with his wife and kids, and then he took one of us to the train station and me to the airport to fly home. It was fun to go and see what people's real lives are like outside of all teh work bullshit we put up with.
Then I got home, and slept a lot.
I did have a chance to go to downtown DC for a couple hours. Stopped by Neuhaus and bought a whole lot o' chocolate. Then walked down part of the national mall, but a lot of things were closed b/c it was like 5pm. Didn't take an pictures b/c I didn't have a camera.
The first day of the show was pretty bad -- no demonstration stuff available b/c other people at the company hadn't gotten it together. There were a few people that stopped by -- and I got a little bit of market information. The second day was terrible. I didn't have access to email b/c the night beofre the hotel internet went out. It had rained that night, making everything in the booth wet -- soaking just about everything. Then the wind started to blow, not only making it cold -- but it tipped over a couple displays from various companies. All of a sudden there'd be a big crash -- "there's another one!" The wind was gusting up to 40 mph -- they definately closed the show an hour early. Good thing too, b/c there were so few people there. The second day I really only talked to people from other companies who buy/push our stuff.
The nice part of the second day was two other people from my company showed up -- so it wasn't so boring. Though, two of us did get roped into helping to interview this sales guy. Then, b/c the one guy actually lives cloes to the airport I was going out of -- we went to his house, had dinner, chilled with his wife and kids, and then he took one of us to the train station and me to the airport to fly home. It was fun to go and see what people's real lives are like outside of all teh work bullshit we put up with.
Then I got home, and slept a lot.
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