Earning My Trip

Playtime is over (or at least on hold) and work started tonight. We met with the GWAVA folks for a quick coordination meeting this afternoon and then began setup of the main exhibit hall. Unfortunately, we started setting up before the hotel crew had a chance to setup everything that they needed. So, we pretty much had to pull all of our stuff down or out of the way and wait for a couple of hours while they got their part of the setup done.

We took our 2 hour setup hiatus as an opportunity to go roaming through the streets of Munich in search of a place to eat. In the process, I discovered three things: I have seen very little of the city so far, Munich is a really cool city, and I haven't yet been to Oktoberfest. I had previously been downtown and assumed that I was at Oktoberfest because everyone was drinking beer and singing. But it turns out that the main part of Oktoberfest isn't downtown but is somewhere else in the city where they have a bunch of beer tents setup. So, I may not actually make it to Oktoberfest until Tuesday night when all of the conference attendees are scheduled to go there to close out the conference.

We found a neat little sidewalk bistro called Lamms and got a bite to eat and a bit to drink before coming back to the hotel to finish the setup. There really wasn't that much setup to do, but due to complications we were having with the rental laptops that we brought along, we were working on things until quarter after midnight. I am once again in a position where I am probably going to get way less sleep than I should. I'm planning on getting up at 6AM so that I can workout in the hotel fitness center before grabbing breakfast and going to my 8AM meeting. My first presentation isn't until 1:30 in the afternoon but tomorrow is going to be a long and busy day anyway. I think that I am essentially scheduled for something or other from 8 in the morning until 10 at night.

So, on that note: Good night from Munich.