Trade Show Day 4: It's a Wrap!
Nov. 30th, 2023 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerVegas Travelog #9
Back home! Thu, 30 Nov 2023. 8pm.
We wrapped up Day 4 of the trade show today. I left a bit early, just after 2 even though the exhibit floor was open til 4pm, to catch a flight home. The booth was much busier today than I expected. Usually by the last day of a show everyone who's going to visit the booth has already done so... and especially in the last few hours it's often deadsville. Not today. We had steady traffic at the booth all day.
I spent the day in the booth once again portraying Jenkins the Butler. Colleagues and show-goers loved it. I grabbed a few colleagues to do a bit of guerilla marketing, visiting the booths of competitors and basically taunting them for not having a super-cool personification of their products. We also took pictures of me standing in front of their logos and surreptitiously giving them the finger. 🤣
I wish I could have stayed through the end of the show today. Usually I do, but this trip the later flight I'd need was already sold out when I got the last-minute request to staff the show.
For a day that didn't feel like a long, tiring day, I was wrecked by the time my flight departed around 4:30pm. We caught a delay in the conga line of, like, 20 aircraft queued up to take off from LAS. It didn't bother me because by then I was already asleep! 😵 I slept until we landed at SJC.
Getting home was pleasingly quick. I hailed a ride with Lyft, and a driver arrived promptly. There was no rush-hour traffic at 6:30pm. (It's a reverse commute, anyway.) I was home-home just before 7. And I promptly went back out to get a light dinner. Then, once home for the night I unpacked my suitcase. I've been living out of that suitcase for most of the past 2 weeks. It's time to relax and unwind!
Back home! Thu, 30 Nov 2023. 8pm.
We wrapped up Day 4 of the trade show today. I left a bit early, just after 2 even though the exhibit floor was open til 4pm, to catch a flight home. The booth was much busier today than I expected. Usually by the last day of a show everyone who's going to visit the booth has already done so... and especially in the last few hours it's often deadsville. Not today. We had steady traffic at the booth all day.
I spent the day in the booth once again portraying Jenkins the Butler. Colleagues and show-goers loved it. I grabbed a few colleagues to do a bit of guerilla marketing, visiting the booths of competitors and basically taunting them for not having a super-cool personification of their products. We also took pictures of me standing in front of their logos and surreptitiously giving them the finger. 🤣
I wish I could have stayed through the end of the show today. Usually I do, but this trip the later flight I'd need was already sold out when I got the last-minute request to staff the show.
For a day that didn't feel like a long, tiring day, I was wrecked by the time my flight departed around 4:30pm. We caught a delay in the conga line of, like, 20 aircraft queued up to take off from LAS. It didn't bother me because by then I was already asleep! 😵 I slept until we landed at SJC.
Getting home was pleasingly quick. I hailed a ride with Lyft, and a driver arrived promptly. There was no rush-hour traffic at 6:30pm. (It's a reverse commute, anyway.) I was home-home just before 7. And I promptly went back out to get a light dinner. Then, once home for the night I unpacked my suitcase. I've been living out of that suitcase for most of the past 2 weeks. It's time to relax and unwind!
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Date: 2023-12-01 11:43 am (UTC)Immature, yes, but in a weirdly joyful and silly way.
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