As usual after eBay live, I'm at my desk looking at the pile of paperwork, business cards and assortment of pins and other ebay-ana that I've collected during my week at eBay live. Yeah, I've got notes on most of the business cards, but do I really want to go through them all right now, add them to my spam filter and send out a few emails? Or should I check to see if more Auctiva pins and t-shirts have been listed on eBay? Hmm...
Ultimately I'll file all the print material I've collected into an "eBay live 2007" folder and it will get filed away along with the last 5 years of eBay live paperwork I've collected. Need to know what fliers were put into the 2004 eBay live bags in New Orleans? Let me know and I'm sure I can look it up for you.
Anyway, here is my recap of day 1.
Three of our senior developers and myself drive down on Sunday to Sacramento to begin the long flight to Boston. For some reason we had decided to get a rental car in Boston, which I have to say is the worst idea ever. Within 5 minutes of leaving the rental car agency, we're lost in the tunnels of Boston. How impossible is it to figure out north from south or see what you might be close to while in those tunnels? For us, granted we'd just been travelling for around 10 hours, it was impossible and despite our Yahoo Maps printout saying we were 3.1 miles away, it took us about 1 hour to find the Westin Waterfront hotel.
This was the start of many hours spent "lost in Boston".
It's now just after 11pm and of course there is nothing open nearby to eat, except Legal Test Kitchen, which I know must be rather high end, since the VIP reception on Tuesday is at that location. But, we're starved and we walk the couple blocks (no way we're driving after the last adventure) to LTK. We luck out and they are still serving off of the late night appetizer menu. I decide to try the clam chowder and some fries. No love. They're out of chowder.
After a couple beers and some "okay" food (house chips were my favorite), we head back to the hotel, I pass off the rental car to the others not staying at the Westin (yes, they got lost trying to get to their hotel) and crash for the night with one last beer from the mini-bar.
Ack! Just realized after that initial attempt, I failed to try the clam chowder at any point during my stay in Boston.
Monday, June 18, 2007
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