Morning came early after last nights bar time.. everyone looked ready to go home.

We had about 4 hours of demo-ing… and then it was time to wrap.. literally. we had to bundle up teh demos to ship back. it was a dfun group event

Once things were wrapped up.. we headed out for our last meal together.    Party fowl hot chicken .. luckily.. they had mac and cheese …. and ducks !

It wasnt only the chicken that was hot.. it was 95 in nashville.  After  lunch, most of the team headed ot the airport.. we had our own plane (Paldis pc-12)    and our freind Pooter was going to fly everyone home. I’d made my own plans to fly commercial… so Lexi and I headed back to the venue to help load out everything. >. It’s always fun to see a venue like this get taken apart.. here’s where we were.. I searched it carefully.. and actually found a tiny ball bearing I had lost.. once I find something like that.. I know we’re done 🙂 Once we’d loaded the demos into the truck for our freind Steve to drive back to VT.. 

Lexi and I headed to the airport… I was excited to go home… but the ir gods were not aligned.. my flight was delayed enough that I wouldn’t be able to get home tonight .I booked my self in a an airport hotel and went for a run.
I then orded myself soem food from the bar (grilled cheese !) and a glass of wine.. jumped in the pool and called Diane.. we had virtual dinner together 🙂

early morning tomorrow…. got a 7:30 am flight

note all, nite sam

-me

Another  day in Nashville. I spent some time looking around the conference which was fun..

Afterwards we all headed back tot he same great brew pub Monday Night to look for Allies glasses.. and they had them !!!   We had a couple of beers and played some more corn hole.. I even kind of liked it !  I loved the building though !

Afterwards, we went to another wonderful restruenat that my friend Allie had found from a local friend. I think it was called the optimist.. A few minutes after gettign there one of the waitstaff came over and said.. are you John Cohn ?”.. it was Gabes old housemate Ula K !. She’s moved to Nashville to do the whole singer songwriter thing !.. It was so great to see her !

Wwe were looking for music next.. Ula suggested Dees Loungs a great country bar where she sometimes plays 

It was a great place.. really good country/Americana  band… with a great juke box and a pool table. Turns out that several in our group.. poster, vinvcent and lexi were really good at pool !

We headed down to broadway after that.. but it was about 2 AM and we were pretty beat.. so we continued on to  the hotel for sleep.

I was grateful for that 🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me

Today was the first full day of our conference.. I got up early and took a. Run.. its pretty urban here.. but I found a railway track to follow.

I finished listening to “bomber mafia ” by malcom gladwell.. a good listen

The day at the conference was fun and interesting.. nothing I can share here though for business reasons.  🙂 …

Afterwards we headed to an amazing brewpub (again) called Monday night. it was in a beautiful wreck of a building.. .. got to practice my nascent corn hole skills !

ther another wonderful meal at a place called the optimist..
nice day !

Nite  all, nite sam

-me

Diane and I woke up early for me to airport for my flight down to Nashville this is the first business trip iPad for my gig at Beta

Pretty uneventful trip. I went straight to the conference venue when I got there to set up our demos. Everything got here more or less OK… One small repair. i  was happy to see everything working !

Once we were set up, we did a little exploring around town.. that night we went to an amazing restaurant called the bee and the butcher.

I was worried it was going to be just meat..  Put amazingly it was a Put amazingly it was a pop-up one night special from  an israeli  restaurant in Boston. It was a single orice and they kept brining us awesome middle eastern food. So great !

from there we went to a very cool outdoors  night market.. great art and a bar with rope  swings

it was very fun getting to know some of the folks from our communications team better. Such gret folks.