Paris: Day #2

By Jeff – 9/8/2011 (p.m.)

It is now Thursday evening.  Set up was this afternoon.  It didn’t go well.  Due to the power issues (Europe is on 220 volts, and USA is 110) – we burned out one of our items, and one of the hotels pieces of equipment as well.  Coupled with that, we kept blowing breakers in the room. 

After a lot of messing around, we finally found the culprit that was giving us so much trouble, and removed it from the equation.  Unfortunately, it was a rather significant item.  So, with an hour left in the business day, we had to sprint down to the nearest electronics store and buy some new equipment. 

We will have to go to another store tomorrow.  That one will require a ride on the subway, and then a transfer to another train to get there.  Aye, aye!!  And you thought it was all fun and games over here!

After this evening’s run to the store – we got everything up and running and it looks good for the opening of the symposium on Friday morning.

That’s it for now.

JBD