Greetings Everyone, Last week I attended a family history event in Arizona as a presenter. I live in Canada. I woke up presentation day with a headache. As I prepared in my hotel room to go through my presentations, I discovered I had forgotten the projector connector cord for my Mac. The cord was still on my desk at home. Slight panic attack. Fortunately, there was a computer place close to hotel that had the cord I needed. Meanwhile, my headache was progressing to the point where the light was starting to hurt my eyes. I returned to the hotel only to realize I had the wrong computer cord. I made a second trip to the computer store with my computer in hand, and purchased the correct connector cord. Whew! By this time, my headache was so bad, I thought I was going to be sick. I stopped at local Walmart to get headache medicine on the way back to the hotel. Back in my hotel room, I took the medicine with the hope that it would work. All I wanted to do was sleep, but there was no time for that. Two hours to go until presentation time. Just as I successfully got the computer and projector set up, the lamp on my projector burned out! At that point, I was starting to think that I wouldn't be presenting at all. Anyway, the conference organizers had extra projectors, and by the time my presentation began, my headache calmed down enough I could present without being nauseous. Even when we think we are prepared, there are times when things like this happen. Kathryn Lake Hogan UE, PLCGS http://about.me/looking4ancestors

That's a lot wrong happening at the same time! I've only had two "problems" of that nature. In the first, I forgot my laptop. Luckily I had saved my presentation onto Dropbox and could use the library's wifi with someone else's computer to run my presentation. The second--far less critical--my electric shaver would not charge. If anyone noticed my 5 o'clock shadow at 9am, they didn't say anything. :) So far--knock on wood--everything else has gone pretty well in my speaking engagements. Michael Hait, CG(sm) michael.hait@hotmail.com http://www.haitfamilyresearch.com "Planting the Seeds" Blog: http://michaelhait.wordpress.com CG and Certified Genealogist are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic competency evaluation, and the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. -----Original Message----- From: LOOKING4ANCESTORS Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 12:48 PM To: TGF Mailing List Subject: [TGF] Speaker troubles Greetings Everyone, Last week I attended a family history event in Arizona as a presenter. I live in Canada. I woke up presentation day with a headache. As I prepared in my hotel room to go through my presentations, I discovered I had forgotten the projector connector cord for my Mac. The cord was still on my desk at home. Slight panic attack. Fortunately, there was a computer place close to hotel that had the cord I needed. Meanwhile, my headache was progressing to the point where the light was starting to hurt my eyes. I returned to the hotel only to realize I had the wrong computer cord. I made a second trip to the computer store with my computer in hand, and purchased the correct connector cord. Whew! By this time, my headache was so bad, I thought I was going to be sick. I stopped at local Walmart to get headache medicine on the way back to the hotel. Back in my hotel room, I took the medicine with the hope that it would work. All I wanted to do was sleep, but there was no time for that. Two hours to go until presentation time. Just as I successfully got the computer and projector set up, the lamp on my projector burned out! At that point, I was starting to think that I wouldn't be presenting at all. Anyway, the conference organizers had extra projectors, and by the time my presentation began, my headache calmed down enough I could present without being nauseous. Even when we think we are prepared, there are times when things like this happen. Kathryn Lake Hogan UE, PLCGS http://about.me/looking4ancestors The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message