Too Darn Hot

I’m in Williamsburg all week this week, working on the Virginia Summer Institute for Addiction Studies. I do this every year, and my job here is mostly to coordinate the AV needs for the conference presenters. This involves periods of intense activity followed by 2 or 3 hours of hardly any activity. One problem is that there are always sessions in other buildings on the William and Mary campus, and it’s always about 170 degrees this week in July, so running between buildings lugging stuff can be pretty uncomfortable. I do enjoy it, though, as it’s a week out of the office and a change of pace. Most of it involves helping presenters get all their stuff together, make sure their computer works with the LCD projectors, etc. One of the presenters today brought his presentation on a floppy disk! I looked and looked and couldn’t find a computer in the entire building that had a floppy disk drive so that I could pull his presentation off and get it onto the computer for his presentation. I don’t remember the last time I saw a computer with a floppy drive…

In other news, I was offered a job teaching middle school computer classes, which I turned down. Too far away, too big a pay cut.

I have another interview this afternoon, which would be software training for Electronic Medical Records/Practice Management software. I’m not sure how much I want it, it would be a lot of travel, but I’m certainly interested enough to talk with them.

Fret factor: Moderate.