Our journey thus far
Sep. 13th, 2005 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vettecatI'm typing this from a hotel room in Kennebunkport. My mother and I are, as mentioned previously, at a dealers' summit hosted by one of our printers. The hotel is interesting... it's quite dramatic from the outside, but we were surprised to learn upon arriving at our rooms that it isn't air-conditioned. This is rather inconvenient as the weather is unseasonably warm. There are also no TVs in the rooms, although honestly I might not have noticed that if my mother hadn't pointed it out. Our rooms share a connecting bathroom, which was also a bit surprising. Generally speaking, it's an older hotel, and some things are a little shaky. (Like the single, 4-person elevator.) But since we aren't paying for the rooms, we're not going to complain.
Getting online was a bit of an adventure. I decided to bring my laptop as there's some Arisia stuff I need to stay current on. I'd been told there was connectivity in the rooms. When we got here, I discovered there's wireless access, but I don't have a wireless card. So I went down to the front desk to get a cable. Then it turned out that the jack was by the bed, across the room from the desk. Sigh. Fortunately the nighttable is big enough to put the laptop on. When I tried to plug my computer in, I discovered that the wall sockets were 2-prong (power cord has 3). Back down to the front desk for an adaptor... I finally got everything hooked up, opened the laptop, and found a card from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sdavido. :-) The fact that the connection works was an additional bonus.
Dinner was interesting as well. They'd announced that they were having a lobster bake. We told them we'd bring our own food, but the coordinator insisted on getting kosher meals for us. When it came time to sit down, we wandered around looking for a place to sit - I really wanted to be outside - and wound up joining a man and a woman (business partners married to other people) from Atlanta. (There are maybe 100 people here, from all over the country.) They turned out to be very good company. Then a waitress brought us our foil-and-plastic dinners, and we started to explain to our tablemates that we keep kosher, etc... and the woman said, "oh, you don't have to explain, he keeps kosher too." Really? Turns out he does, and had requested a vegetarian meal as he didn't think kosher would be an option. So we fortuitously wound up sitting with people who understood our situation. Made dinner a lot more comfortable, as did the fact that there was only one person mauling a lobster at our table... which was interesting to watch, in an odd sort of way.
Tomorrow we get to tour the factory, as well as watching presentations and being in focus groups. Don't know whether there'll be anything interesting to report, but if there is, I'll try to let you know...
Getting online was a bit of an adventure. I decided to bring my laptop as there's some Arisia stuff I need to stay current on. I'd been told there was connectivity in the rooms. When we got here, I discovered there's wireless access, but I don't have a wireless card. So I went down to the front desk to get a cable. Then it turned out that the jack was by the bed, across the room from the desk. Sigh. Fortunately the nighttable is big enough to put the laptop on. When I tried to plug my computer in, I discovered that the wall sockets were 2-prong (power cord has 3). Back down to the front desk for an adaptor... I finally got everything hooked up, opened the laptop, and found a card from
sdavido. :-) The fact that the connection works was an additional bonus.Dinner was interesting as well. They'd announced that they were having a lobster bake. We told them we'd bring our own food, but the coordinator insisted on getting kosher meals for us. When it came time to sit down, we wandered around looking for a place to sit - I really wanted to be outside - and wound up joining a man and a woman (business partners married to other people) from Atlanta. (There are maybe 100 people here, from all over the country.) They turned out to be very good company. Then a waitress brought us our foil-and-plastic dinners, and we started to explain to our tablemates that we keep kosher, etc... and the woman said, "oh, you don't have to explain, he keeps kosher too." Really? Turns out he does, and had requested a vegetarian meal as he didn't think kosher would be an option. So we fortuitously wound up sitting with people who understood our situation. Made dinner a lot more comfortable, as did the fact that there was only one person mauling a lobster at our table... which was interesting to watch, in an odd sort of way.
Tomorrow we get to tour the factory, as well as watching presentations and being in focus groups. Don't know whether there'll be anything interesting to report, but if there is, I'll try to let you know...
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Date: 2005-09-13 05:16 am (UTC)Have a great time!
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Date: 2005-09-13 11:32 am (UTC)I love the image.
Were the kosher meals from Willet Foods, or from some local source?
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