ECAC-SIDA: It's Begun

Conference registration began at noon and officially ended just a few minutes ago, kicking off officially the first few hours of exhibiting. For us though, it's been nonstop action since we started manning the booth full-time at 11:30. The constant stream of friendly faces was overwhelming - I'd be talking to Amie at RPI and turn to sneeze and there would be Daryl from AIC catching the brunt of it. Then Lyle from TCNJ would hand me a tissue to help clean while Joe D from Hunter was taking pictures of the whole thing. Insane.

It always is a good feeling to meet face to face with what are often just disembodied voices that ring into the office during the seasons with their questions and issues. Everyone has been just catching up with us, the latest and greatest with the software, and of course checking out the new SIDEARM DMG that we are promoting. Despite a lackluster WiFi connection and a "tweaked back" that Rubin acquired trying to single-handedly lift his car to retrieve an ICS pen that had rolled underneath it, everything has been going great so far.

Jesse just flew in from Boston (and boy are his arms tired), and so we are now at full strength - which will come in handy at the "all-vendor drinking contest" taking place tomorrow night. At least that's what I thought Ira called it...