Just about ready for Thursday's conference - we're packed and going to do a test run at the conference facility tomorrow morning to make sure the videoconference works the way I want it. I rocked out in the conference room to the Shins on my iPod while getting the materials together so I probably looked pretty silly, but it helped me decompress. Also good for decompressing - Play-Doh. We had our Team Agenda briefing meeting yesterday afternoon and I brought Play-Doh for everyone to mush while we talked. Always a crowd-pleaser, especially with the middle-aged folks.
Today we all went to District on 3rd and Townsend for another goodbye party for another future doctor. All of these parties are at such great venues - a bunch of us (including the company CEO) were really into the Brutocao Quadriga Primitivo Blend, Mendocino, CA, 2004.
Stopped at the Apple store on the way home - my sister's MacBook had some issues and she lost her OSX 10.4 CDs and needed new ones. I also got a cassette adapter for my iPod - hopefully this one doesn't get spit out periodically from my car's cassette deck like the last one I bought. They have a little hand held contraption there that allows any store employee to charge your purchases onto a credit card, and they email you the receipt. The guy helping me thought it was great that I can use my first name as my email user name - which is funny, since Dan said the same thing to me last week. He's jealous because he can't have dan be his gmail name.
As usual, I gave Bunny the core of my apple when I was done with it. Here's the video, for kicks.