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Trade Show Done, Heading Home Soon
Dec. 1st, 2022 07:29 pmIt's about 5pm and I've gotten back to my hotel. I checked out this morning but left my suitcase with the bell desk so I wouldn't have to lug it through the conference. Yeah, I could have gone straight to the airport from the show if I'd taken it, instead of trudging on foot almost a mile back to my hotel, but the waits for taxis, Lyft, and Uber from the conference hotel are crazy. It's actually somewhat quiet back here at the Resorts World... but only somewhat, as people are streaming in for National Finals Rodeo (NFR), one of the biggest events of the year in Vegas.
I worked the show all day today, 10am-4pm. I actually arrived at the booth at 9:45 when almost nobody else was there. The few who were noticed that I was early, though, and thanked me. One of my teammates didn't even show up at all today. Trade show discipline has sadly never been a priority at this company. Though maybe that's changing now with new people in the marketing events team. ...Until they all turn over again in 6 months, then who knows what comes next. 🙄
I dressed up as the Jenkins the Butler again today, after lunch. I'd done it earlier this week on Monday evening. Overall recognition of the character was poor. It's not quite the best demographic here at this show. I got a colleague to join me on making a round through several other vendors' booths this afternoon. The idea was we'd have some fun and stir up some trouble. ...Trouble by challenging competitors with a living mascot, that is. Sadly the competitors' booths didn't have many technical people in them, so few people were aware of the prank we were playing.
I did score an interview with a roving AWS re:Invent TV crew. I told them I'd just come back from the Rap Battle booth, and spat fire on a few verses live for them. The interview loved it and did a mic drop for me on camera.
I'll post more about the Jenkins cosplay soon.
I worked the show all day today, 10am-4pm. I actually arrived at the booth at 9:45 when almost nobody else was there. The few who were noticed that I was early, though, and thanked me. One of my teammates didn't even show up at all today. Trade show discipline has sadly never been a priority at this company. Though maybe that's changing now with new people in the marketing events team. ...Until they all turn over again in 6 months, then who knows what comes next. 🙄
I dressed up as the Jenkins the Butler again today, after lunch. I'd done it earlier this week on Monday evening. Overall recognition of the character was poor. It's not quite the best demographic here at this show. I got a colleague to join me on making a round through several other vendors' booths this afternoon. The idea was we'd have some fun and stir up some trouble. ...Trouble by challenging competitors with a living mascot, that is. Sadly the competitors' booths didn't have many technical people in them, so few people were aware of the prank we were playing.
I did score an interview with a roving AWS re:Invent TV crew. I told them I'd just come back from the Rap Battle booth, and spat fire on a few verses live for them. The interview loved it and did a mic drop for me on camera.
I'll post more about the Jenkins cosplay soon.
