Monday, January 02, 2006
And the new (day, week, month, year, era) begins...with the Expo.
I think it finally sunk in today that I'll be stepping on a plane a mere seven days from now for a week-long cross-country trip. I'm torn between whether the focus of this week should be primarily on preparing for the trip, or clearing out "other" stuff so that I won't have to concern myself with it while I'm out there. Here's what's on my mind:
- Rather coincidentally, this will be the second time in four months that I've flown out-of-State, alone, only to meet up with other people who hail from a different part of my home State once I get there. I guess that's bound to happen when you live in the part of the State that I do.
- I keep looking at the weather forecast and seeing that the temperatures in San Francisco next week will actuallly be the same as or higher than the temperatures here in Central Florida. But I've been to San Francisco before, so I know that there's a world of difference between forty degrees here and forty degrees there. And I can't even stand forty degrees here. I'll keep telling myself, though, that they've just got to be the same, no matter how much colder one feels than the other -- especially when I'm standing in line for the Keynote in the pre-dawn sub-human weather for hours on end Tuesday morning.
- And you wonder why it's been six years since I've been to San Francisco.
- Speaking of which, Macworld Expo San Francisco in 2000 was a good one. The Keynotee featured the exciting (the first unveiling of the MacOS X interface), the ceremonial (the dropping of the "interim" from Steve's CEO status), the incongruous (Apple investing in Earthlink), and the humorous (the Adobe guy coming onstage and having no idea what to say in response to MacOS X). It was the first, last, and only San Francisco Expo I ever attended...but that was because we still had the summertime New York Expo back then -- and at least at that time, one per year seemed enough for me. If you don't know why I chose the summertime one over the wintertime one, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to the other parts of this entry.
- With New York gone, though, I'm happy to jet out to San Francisco for the festivities. In fact, the last Expo I attended (MWNY 2002) was probably the weakest one (a Keynote full of disappointment ranging from the end of iTools to the high price on Jaguar to iPod for Windows with MusicMatch of all things), so I'm anxious to get back to Expo-land and get a cleaner taste in my mouth this time around. In contrast, I don't think there's anyone who doesn't expect this upcoming Expo to be a landmark event.
- Six days in San Francisco, and you know how much sightseeing I'm planning on? None. This will be a workweek. Reporting all day, editorial duties in the evenings, we're going to try to record some episodes of iPod Garage Radio while we're out there. Having said all that, I have yet to pencil in my "after hours party" schedule. If you've got an event happening and you'd like to do something about that, now would be a good time to holler at me before I begin to cement my Macworld schedule later this week.
I think it finally sunk in today that I'll be stepping on a plane a mere seven days from now for a week-long cross-country trip. I'm torn between whether the focus of this week should be primarily on preparing for the trip, or clearing out "other" stuff so that I won't have to concern myself with it while I'm out there. Here's what's on my mind:
- Rather coincidentally, this will be the second time in four months that I've flown out-of-State, alone, only to meet up with other people who hail from a different part of my home State once I get there. I guess that's bound to happen when you live in the part of the State that I do.
- I keep looking at the weather forecast and seeing that the temperatures in San Francisco next week will actuallly be the same as or higher than the temperatures here in Central Florida. But I've been to San Francisco before, so I know that there's a world of difference between forty degrees here and forty degrees there. And I can't even stand forty degrees here. I'll keep telling myself, though, that they've just got to be the same, no matter how much colder one feels than the other -- especially when I'm standing in line for the Keynote in the pre-dawn sub-human weather for hours on end Tuesday morning.
- And you wonder why it's been six years since I've been to San Francisco.
- Speaking of which, Macworld Expo San Francisco in 2000 was a good one. The Keynotee featured the exciting (the first unveiling of the MacOS X interface), the ceremonial (the dropping of the "interim" from Steve's CEO status), the incongruous (Apple investing in Earthlink), and the humorous (the Adobe guy coming onstage and having no idea what to say in response to MacOS X). It was the first, last, and only San Francisco Expo I ever attended...but that was because we still had the summertime New York Expo back then -- and at least at that time, one per year seemed enough for me. If you don't know why I chose the summertime one over the wintertime one, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to the other parts of this entry.
- With New York gone, though, I'm happy to jet out to San Francisco for the festivities. In fact, the last Expo I attended (MWNY 2002) was probably the weakest one (a Keynote full of disappointment ranging from the end of iTools to the high price on Jaguar to iPod for Windows with MusicMatch of all things), so I'm anxious to get back to Expo-land and get a cleaner taste in my mouth this time around. In contrast, I don't think there's anyone who doesn't expect this upcoming Expo to be a landmark event.
- Six days in San Francisco, and you know how much sightseeing I'm planning on? None. This will be a workweek. Reporting all day, editorial duties in the evenings, we're going to try to record some episodes of iPod Garage Radio while we're out there. Having said all that, I have yet to pencil in my "after hours party" schedule. If you've got an event happening and you'd like to do something about that, now would be a good time to holler at me before I begin to cement my Macworld schedule later this week.
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