CES 2010 - Day 0 Wrap Up

It was a busy day for not much happening other than some meeting up with friends and meeting a few new folks. Hit up Firefly on Paradise for a little pre CES happy hour with some local Beer N Bloggers.

Firefly is always a nice treat and we enjoyed some tapas and a few pitchers of Sangria before I headed out to the Hilton to pick up my badge holder. The stop over was not long there and off to home to kill a couple hours.

Last night was the first of three Lenovo Blogger Lounge nights, co hosted last night by @SocialMediaClub. It was a really nice set up at Aquaknox in the Venitian, great party. It seemed to me that CES is already much more lively this year than last, we will see how the rest of the week plays out.

Met a lot of new folks last night, and hopefully the rest of the week and into the weekend will play out just as well. Today the real work begins!

CES Press Day

I have yet to switch my CES affiliation over to blogger as yet. So once again no press day for me, just toiling away at work. My goal for CES 2011 is to be registered as a blogger and get to cover those cool press events. Although much of it is covered online these days, with live streaming etc.

At any rate, today will be spent blogging, finalizing my schedule and other such exciting tasks. Charging cell phone batteries, laptop batteries, camera batteries... trying to keep my payload to a minimum this year though. Just the netbook, two phones and maybe the small camera.

I have both the convenience and annoyance of a car, so who knows what I will throw in the trunk. Besides tons of literature, magazines and whatever swag type stuff the vendors are passing out this year.

Enough ramble, more later.

New Year, New Methods

Hitting the ground running so far this year, with a big weekend of cooking and a lot of prep work for CES. I am hoping to do a lot of CES blogging this year, definitely a lot of tweeting from @Rally_CES account. Probably going to opt for the smaller mobile blogs that started this particular blog and take it from there.

Also going to try and get serious and start to advertise and eventually monetize this blog. Those also end up becoming de facto resolutions for the new year, let's see how it goes.

CES related blogging should begin Wed after work, with badge pick up and possibly a visit to the Lenovo Blogger Night event. Working on an invite to a Capcom event on Thursday, Friday night we have the Hilton Tweetup and going to be busy.

Can't wait!

Junior's Beer Tasting '09

We hope everyone can join us, please feel free to DM Pam or I if you have any questions.

I will be adding details to this as they emerge, for now hear is a partial beer list and some suggestions for selections you might want to bring along.

To Be Served:

Anchor - Our Special Ale 09
Deschutes - The Abyss
Hot Polish Voodoo (Mikey)
North Coast Brewing Co - Old Rasputin
Sierra Nevada - Celebration Ale 09 (Manya)
Stone Brewing - Mulitiple Selections
Widmer Brothers - Cherry Oak Doublebock

Suggestions:

Firestone - 13
Samuel Adams - Winter Lager
Sierra Nevada - Kellerweis

I am working on a cheese platter, I have some cranberry goat cheese, red wax gouda, smoked gouda, couple others I cannot recall off hand, also working on some spiced nuts and a few other snacks.

Blog World Expo 09 - Day Zero

Wow, ok no more whiny excuses about why I have not been blogging, forgetting buying my first home and moving, forget being sick, forget having a "real life" job, let's blog.

Kicked off #BWE09 with another great #Tweetup from the @LasVegasHilton, they do a great little gathering that is quickly becoming a Vegas favorite. Add Blog World to the mix and we get a ton of new folks, who were excited to meet the Vegas locals.

The best part for me was getting to befriend someone who I enjoy following on Twitter and introducing him to all the great local Vegas bloggers and social media folks.

I had to call it early tonight but it was a great start for the long weekend.