Monday, November 28, 2005

Blogging the Annual Meeting- Day 2

Monday!!!

up early, my body clock is still set on east coast time, breakfast at my dinky hotel...missed the delegates breakfast at the resort, oh well, my loss...

At the booth early, with a long day of "meet and greet" ahead...at least they serve coffee first thing...

nice to see people, surprising how many faces you know, walked around, looking at all the tabletop exhibits, good turnout...

lunch on the outside patio, delicious southwest style, good salsa, more spicy than I normally find...

back to the booth, waves of people hit the floor when the sessions come out, while the sessions are in sessions you get the impression that there aren't very many people in attendance...then suddenly it's packed...

Anyway, it seems about the same people mix, like there's 17 consultants circling the one client rep like sharks in bloody water...great fun!!!

At one point, about group of about seven of us found ourselves standing around a table chatting...not one of us was working where we used too last time we all saw each other, and not just on the consulting side either, client side too...so it was good to catch up with people...where are you now?

dinner on the back patio/ lawn...shook hands with the new ISPE director, seems like a nice guy...had to wear a jacket, but lots of entertaining southwest-type things to do, eat, band, rope a cow, etc, etc...some safety concerns were evident...like people doing the hatchet throw event after some number of drinks...but hey, nobody bounced anything off my head...

cut out after a while, though, another long day...

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