Charles Apple

FRIDAY, 8:30 A.M.

We received a nice note in our hotel rooms:

Please be informed that the organizers had made arrangements with the hotel with regard to your airport transfer requirement. After checking-out at the Front Office Cashier Counter, please proceed to the Transportation Desk for your shuttle service.

Ah, they’ve already set up transportation to the airport Sunday morning. That’s great!

But then there’s the next sentence:

For international flights, check-out time is at least 3 1/2 hours before the flight schedule.

OK, sounds reasonable. Let’s pull out the tickets to see when I’ll need to be downstairs…

It’s a 6:45 a.m. flight. That means check out by 3:15 a.m.

Oh. My. God.

That means we’ll need to turn in early Saturday night, I said to Kris. She shot back: Or just stay up.

Oh. Yeah. That works, too.

I enjoyed a nice breakfast with Peter, Tonia and Kris. Tonia told us some great stories about Kevin Hand — she worked with him much longer than I did — and some really wild stories about herself, too. Believe me, the next time I run into her on the speaking circuit, she’s toast.

We’ll begin the final day of our workshop in about a half-hour. I start off the day talking about the art of scrounging. I stayed up late last night, after our dinner excursion, rearranging my show. I think it’ll play well.

Blogging before the morning session. Please note I’m wearing the cool Batman Hawaiian-style shirt that Sharon made me for SND/Orlando trip last summer. 

After that, Tonia talks about graphics for word people. This afternoon, Kris talks about how to use color effectively in graphics and in design.

I’m not quite sure what else we’ll be doing today. Peter was going to speak on photojournalism, but he moved that up to yesterday. We had planned a round-table discussion on various graphics and design issues; perhaps we’ll do that. And the hands-on exercise Peter conducted yesterday went over well. Perhaps we can do something else off-the-cuff.

I ran into a number of attendees last night after the session and again this morning at breakfast. Everyone seems so positive about the workshops and about what they’ve heard. I feel like we’ve done a lot of good work here this week.

I’d better get ready for showtime…

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