Charles Apple

7:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY

My back-to-back afternoon sessions seemed to go well. At the least, none of the attendees threw rotten fruit at me.

I illustrate teamwork with a page we built seven years ago at The Des Moines Register.

Lunch ran long, so my bloated slideshows pretty much filled the afternoon. We had time for a few questions and answers, but we broke in time to let folks change for the formal awards banquet.

Because I didn’t sleep much last night — and because the dinner will run very late, I’m told — I decided to beg off. I’m sitting here in the hotel restaurant, again sponging off the free wifi. Tonight, I ate a burger with a fried egg on top. Very interesting.

I discovered the charge on my camera was running quite low today. And like a total dumbass, I left my charger at home. So one of the hotel drivers took me over to the Mall of Asia to buy a new charger. We found two nice camera stores there — including one that was a Canon store.

But it appears that Canon doesn’t sell the Digital Rebel camera here in the Philippines, nor does it sell the charger I need here. So I guess I’ll go without.

At least I got outside for a few minutes. That Mall of Asia is huge. Sharon and Elizabeth would love it.

I’m really, really tired. I can’t wait to get upstairs. My impatience is heightened by the fact that I’m writing this post for the second time. My first attempt was eaten by the ether.

Thursday, I personally have a light day. Tonia speaks on 3D graphics and breaking news graphics. Kris addresses map-based graphics. And Peter talks about design as a storytelling device. And we hold a roundtable discussion on running a graphics department.

My next performance will be Friday morning, when I hit the art of scrounging. I had planned quite a bit of overlap with one of today’s sessions. However, we discovered today that most of the folks already here will be the same folks here Friday. We had expected two separate groups.

Therefore, I must completely rework the presentation I had planned to give. Not a problem or anything. But it’ll cost me a few hours’ work.

I can’t worry about that tonight. I have to go to bed.

Side note: While Peter, Tonia, Kris and I are here in Manila, Jonathan Berlin, Matt Mansfield and Robb Montgomery are in London and Spain for the big Malofiej meeting. Read about it in SND’s spiffy new blog:
http://www.snd.org/update/

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