Phew. Sorry I haven't been posting much, but today was the big keynote demo practice day. It was, ah, entertaining.

I started with a one-hour session with Richard, speaker trainer to the stars. I got through my demo three times. The first two were flat, and I knew it. Richard told me that I had to be "faster, louder, funnier", and that did it. My third time through was awesome. I totally nailed it and it felt so good.

From there it was to the keynote room. Then it was waiting, waiting, and more waiting. And then waiting a bit more. There was lots of crew setup going on, and after a while they were ready for each of us to do a runthrough for cues. We didn't actually babble all our regular babble, we just went to places in the demo where we had to show audio, video, or swap between a wolfvision and the PC. We did that twice. Then we waited some more.

At around 5pm (I think) we were able to do a complete runthrough, back to back, in the order of the demos. The gremlins came out *laugh*. My app deployment didn't work because I botched the PC pre-setup before I went on stage. Seth's machine hung twice while trying to use intellisense. Mike ran long, and Ford didn't have devices under the wolfvision properly. To be honest, it was great we had so many things go wrong. It gave us a chance to try all our backup plans, and to get over the hump of being worried. After our issues, nothing can scare us anymore.

Now we're sitting in the back room waiting for Bill. He's supposed to show up soon, and we'll do a quick demo with him, and then we're done for the night. Casting call is tomorrow at 6:30 am. Yoinks.