rowanf | Yesterday's entry

Here I am at Internet Librarian. Checked in and then ran into various folks. Chatted with Richard Hulser, Roy Tennant and some of the other presenter-types. Saw Michael Porter & Michael Sauer and various folks at the Games and Gadgets event. Got a new Words opponent at the "tablet" table. I had a nice dine around at Rappa's where the topic was "web tools". The environment I work in is sooo far removed from most librarians. Ran into an old colleague from the Apple Library, Lynne Bidwell, who is now off in Idado at an academic library. That was a bit of a blast from the past.

My Day's Inn room doesn't seem to have internet I can actually access. This is a calamity as I am supposed to be keeping up with work whilst I am here and if I can't work in my room I am so screwed. I presume I'll be posting this update once I'm back in the conference hotel. We seem to have paid for wi-fi in all the function rooms and not just the Steinbeck Room this year (yay!).

The Day's Inn is a block further than Casa Munras (the furthest from the bright heart of the conference I have been ere now) and whilst my room is "accessible" it is not very. And there are hardly any outlets. I *really* miss being in the Portola... no wi-fi, no hot tub downstairs, no ability to go back to my room to pick things up. But $200 for 3 days vs $200/night wins this year. But if I can't work! Ack!! (Ricoh is paying my salary but I am paying for the conference and lodging this year.) Tomorrow I will have to carry warm clothes if I'm staying out as last as tonight. It is bloody cold. And when I got back to the room the heat was turned off. Happily it seems to be warming up.

Oh well, no interwebs, guess I'll go to sleep. Keynote comes early.