General - Sight Villege Prep

I have just awoken in the Novotel on Broad Street Birmingham.  Today is the start of sight village the United Kingdom’s largest technology exhibition.  It is surely going to be busy on our stand and I am looking forward to the buzz of the hall.  We have a special Trekker user group meeting today and we’re even providing some grub so I hope we get a reasonable turnout, it will be lovely to put voices to those people who I have been in email contact with over the last year or so.  Jaid and I spent yesterday preparing for the show and travelling up to Birmingham.  I also had a nice chat with Jonathan Mosen and our friends from Humanware Canada.

Ruth and Dave through a farewell bbq for friends and helpers at the Rising Sun, I was privileged to be invited and there hospitality was touching under the circumstances.  I particularly enjoyed the lamb chops and ribs and the beer wasn’t so shabby but I left rather early.  In fact its been a rather quiet weekend overall with me just lounging around the flat on Saturday and not even going out on Friday night.  I have been trying to save a little cash though as well as getting my home sorted out for the stay of Derry and Martha.  They will be joining us at sight village on Wednesday and coming on back to mine from the show.  Clare’s also coming along so it should be interesting smuggling her in to the hotel, I’m rather looking forward to that bit actually.

I’d better go and  do the old SSS routine now.