Travel: October 2008 Archives

Man, what a week. It started off with my wife and kids getting t-boned in an intersection at home. View some photos of the carnage. I was in Baltimore, speaking at the PSDA Print Conference, the day before Graph.

Day one of Graph, I spoke on Illustrator CS4, 3D Design and Visualization with Illustrator and Esko Studio, and Variable Data Solutions. That night, I went to the Xerox PIXI awards to accept an honorable mention for our communiPix product, which beat out tons of much larger companies with much more expensive equipment. Score one for the little guys!

Day Two was pretty uneventful, with me picking up the PDF Print Engine talk in the afternoon.

Day three, I was sick as a dog, but did the talks anyway.

Day 4, I got a chance to take a brief tour of the show. Man, there are a lot of nifty new things out there, from bindery to finishing to printing. It makes me wish I had a ton of money so I could finance a whole new shop, but with credit and business capital the way it is, that's not likely to happen. We'll just have to make ComuniPix a hot item in 2009!
I am in Baltimore to present a the PSDA Print Solutions conference today, and fly to Chicago tonight to speak at Graph Expo. I got to Baltimore yesterday, and was horrified to learn at the end of the day that My wife, Rori, and three sons were involved in a car accident. They were T-boned by a driver who failed to stop at a stop sign. The impact was Rori's door, and airbags were deployed. Thankfully, everyone was properly buckled, and despite the bruises from the straps, no major injury is apparent yet.

Everyone is (so far) OK, but trauma can take some time to reveal itself. Rori and Teddy are no strangers to this; they were T-boned several years ago by a driver who stepped on the gas instead of the brake while exiting a driveway. It took a year for Rori to recover from that one.

Why do these things always happen when we are powerless to help? That is the stinky part. Here I am, stuck far afield, when my family needs me most.
US Airways put me up in a Clarion that should have been renovated (or closed!) about 5 years ago. The restaurant host won't take an order, the Lodgenet had been removed from the TV, and the "smoke free" room reeks of Febreeze.

Stuck in Birmingham

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Well, here I sit, stuck in Birmingham after a maintenance delay kept my plane from arriving on time to make a connection. At least there's barbecue.

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