Calgary!

I've been a bit off lately.

As you know I was in Calgary, Alberta for a few days.

I had been asked to speak.

What a great opportunity.

On Friday I'd spent the day learning about nutrition and dietary allergies.

Pretty interesting stuff at a dental conference.

Since I was to speak on Saturday, 

I made the choice to head to my hotel early Friday evening and run through my presentation.

When I finished at 10:30 p.m.,

I received the "wheel of death" and 

my hard drive crashed.

Yep!

Died. 

Right then.

Sooooooo

I had a decision to make,

I could go to the convention center and see if the evening party was still going,

find someone willing to lend me their computer

find a coffee shop that was still open

download my program from the web

download my presentation

and then go to bed . . .

and hope I would be well rested

OR

I could go to bed and pray the computer fairies came to visit.

I went to bed.

I had learned all about belly breathing as a way to help with anxiety that day in my nutrition class,

so I belly breathed away

and set my sleep cycle app,

'letting it know' I was going to bed crazy STRESSED.

And that was that.

The next morning I awoke to find the computer fairies hadn't shown up.

Wouldn't you know!

I dressed,

and prepared

my new presentation,

which would include my story of why I didn't have a presentation

just in case.

I ran into the woman, who was in charge of all the speakers, in the elevator,

she seemed to hyperventilate when she learned of my computer issues.

I assured her it would be fine.

We walked to the convention center together, where she told everyone we met

how my computer had died and I had no presentation.

I assured them all,

including the person who'd gone way out of his way to get me on the program at such an illustrious conference, that it would be fine. I would be fine. 

I found a computer guru and 

he hooked me up with a computer

the internet

and 

15 minutes later

I was ready to go

with my presentation.

There I am . . .

And there's the crowd. 

They were awesome!

The presentation went off without any more challenges.

And all I did was add to my presentation,

how to white water raft.

I'll tell you about that later.