It's 6am and I'm sitting in the lobby of the Hilton in downtown Knoxville.  Michael and Cicelie just dragged another box of welcome kits out of the elevators and headed across the street to set up the registration desk (I'm assuming).  The drive in was beautiful and easy, and I forgot how much I love this area. 

I had trouble sleeping, some small rock under my mind kept my thoughts from settling in.  I'm nervous about the talks, but not overly so.  The Arduino talk is my biggest worry, simply for the fact that I've never delivered it before, and the number of failure points possible in the demos.  So I drifted off to sleep running through all the connections and code for the demos.  I thought through all of the hardware I brought with me.  I eventually did sleep, but something was still eating at me...

I realized what it was when my alarm went off this morning.  I have every device, every connector, except one: the USB cable to connect my Arduino to my PC.  *sigh*.  Well hey, on the bright side, of all the things I could have forgotten, I picked the one thing that I could actually buy at a local store.  I failed in the best possible way!

So I spent the last 15 minutes Googling the local Best Buys so I can run out after the keynote tonight and pick up the USB A/B cable for the talk tomorrow.  I'm just glad the talk isn't today, so I don't have to scramble and miss any of this morning's sessions.

I'll post more in a bit, time to grab some grub and joe....