I’m gone for the night. Y’all be good!
Drive-by posting, 'cuz it's getting late and the meetings start early (7 AM EST) tomorrow.
Not the best of weeks. Day before travel the work laptop dies (fortunately only the monitor so I could get the critical files for this trip off the HD). Fortunately found the one unused laptop not shipped to the expo (last-minute decision), so I had a machine to use. No time to configure it until I got here... whereupon I discovered it has no WiFi capability. The portable access point / WiFi client I have went on the fritz, at least in client mode. The FTP server software I set up to share files is causing problems for some committee members trying to access/upload documents for the meeting. Boss still hasn't quite understood that with this loaner laptop (NOT configured by corporate IT, and I feel slightly the ghoul because it was used by a co-worker friend whose departure was... well, never mind) I do not have access to the corporate internal network or my corporate e-mail -- even though our communications are being conducted through a personal web-mail account, which is blocking the approvals I need in order to get my visa and book my flights to India in a few weeks (a decision made the night before my flight out)... and I probably won't be able to come up for air again for a few days. (I have been so busy I only heard about the UK jet crash, though two colleagues were there and one happened to witness it from the very end of the skid on.)
Take care of yourselves; I look forward to rejoining y'all soon.