{"id":108924,"date":"2024-07-17T23:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T03:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=108924"},"modified":"2024-08-03T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T14:09:10","slug":"wednesday-night-no-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2024\/07\/17\/wednesday-night-no-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night – No meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Got on the road mid morning.. drove through the main street of Endicott to see the old IBM buildings. THis was where the company was founded .. Now they are just empty shells.. I think they are actually due for demolition soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Driving home I got a surprise\u00a0 alert from my phone that I was scheduled to give a talk to a bunch of my old friends at ibm..\u00a0 \u00a0lots of them actually..\u00a0 Somewhere around 500 technical leaders. in the Company\u00a0<\/p>\n

I hadn’t seen it on any of my 3 calendar(s) this\u00a0 morning\u00a0 \u00a0so didn’t even have it in my head..\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0when my phone came up with a reminder.. the talk was to start in 30 minutes.. WHAT ?!?!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Diane and I did some quick problem solving.. we were\u00a0 on the Northway.. in the in the adirondack park region\u00a0 which has\u00a0 notoriously poor cell\u00a0 cervice.. so our phones aren’t working .. we got off at the first exit we could.. nothing there.. got back on the northway for several miles.. and got off again.. this time there was a sign to a gas station.. we drove a mile or so to find it.. It was a Stewert’s .. and the parkign lot was packed !. Turns out that there had been a microburst storm in the region the day before. and power (and cell service were down for all of the surrounding towns. This gas station was open because it was one of\u00a0 the few places with power.. and .. it turns out.. cell service !\u00a0

Tempers were hight there becaus there were long lines, several pumps already eampty and bad behavior of folks trying to cut the lien as they filled up their cards and gas cans for generators. People were shouting at each other… !

meanwhile I looked around the back of the store\u00a0 and found..an outlet\u00a0 (TaDa\u00a0 !).

So..

I quickly sat down, set up a hot spot, did some quick editing of the talk I was planning to give , set up my props and ,at the appointed time, joined the web meeting
and .. .. I was the only one there ..\u00a0 I frantically looked up the call leaders email, phone and slack ids.. and tried to figure out what might be going on..
It was then I found in a slack message that the meeting had been moved the night before due to the organizers travel. It had been automatically removed from most\u00a0<\/em> of my calendars.. but not my phone.

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Too funny !<\/p>\n

Nice drive the rest of the way home.. stopped at our favorite dy lilly place. and filled the car with color.. Got to Vermont only to find the main road, Route 17, still closed due to flood damage !

Got home in time to change clothers and head to Echo for the FIRST board annual meeting

nice to be home


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nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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