I'm in Vegas.
For YearlyKos Convention 2006.
Yeah, I'm pretty stoked. Scratch that...
I'm so flippin' excited. It still amazes me that this thing is happening. It still amazes me that people still don't get that this event was put together by some of the most dedicated volunteers I've ever worked with in my life.
I have this blog to keep track of everything. I also bought a domain name, but I didn't have the time to fix it up, so that'll have to wait for a bit. So here's a bit of a rundown.
After about 57 minutes of sleep, I landed in (ridiculously hot) Las Vegas at 8am, Tuesday morning. I tried to check in, but it was early. I parked my car at valet (across from where our Convention will be) and had the bell take my bags in. Hey, none of that liberal elitist bullshit. It's HOT, my bags are heavy and to take them from valet all the way through the hotel to registration is a hike. So, I took advantage.
Gina, Nolan and I had a meeting with the hotel staff this morning. I'm really comfortable that this team will be great to work with. We ran through the whole convention and made some changes here, tweaked some stuff there. After the meeting, I finally checked in to the hotel (the earliest you can check in is noon-ish if rooms are ready). I have a very nice room. With a hair dryer. I do not have a refrigerator in my room. What makes this annoying, is not only did I ask for and have it confirmed that I will have a fridge in my room, but everyone else has a fridge in their room. At any rate, I have a great view of the Stratosphere. No matter how thrirsty I am. I'm also having issues with my AC unit. It won't go below 75 and that's more muggy in my room. I'm hoping it's me and not my room because I've already unpacked and don't feel like moving to another room.
At any rate, it was my master plan to do some last minute shopping yesterday. That so did not happen. Since I had so little sleep, it was not safe for me to be driving anywhere. So we worked the whole time. I met siun from FireDogLake and Pontificator. It was great to see Shanna again. I got to meet our IT guy and we're so impressed it's not even funny. The stuff they were hooking up. WOW. I should have brought my other computer with me to see if they could work on that on their down time. HAHA When I headed to be at 10:45pm, sterno had just announced that he was in Vegas, so I guess I'll see him in the morning.
siun, got her first look at the convention space and was blown away. All this time talking about and it's kinda hard to wrap your head around just how cool this whole thing is. I saw the space in June of last year and again in Jan. of this year and was thrilled. Gina, Nolan, Shanna and Linda saw it for the first time in March and were very happy with the space (even the tacky carpet!)
That's it for Tuesday. Check out the photo album with it's whopping 5 pics. I'll have more pics I swear. I took lots of pictures with Nolan's and Shanna's cameras, so hopefully, I can snag those soon.
Wednesday: I met Sterno this morning for a hot second. Nice guy. Woke up, hit the ground running. Wi-Fi in the hotel room went out around 7:30, back up at 8:30. Thank goodness the convention floor isn't going to be on the hotel's wi-fi doohickey.
If ya'll got questions, I'll try to answer some of them. I'm out most of the day to pick up some crap for the convention (in fact, I'm in Starbucks right now), but I'll hope to be back in the hotel soon.