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Wednesday<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So I was going to start this day off with the Diversity breakfast…but due to getting in so late, unfortunately sleep won out so I could get an extra hour. Was told it was great, bit disappointed I missed it! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Got up, had my morning cup of tea (no tea = no me…*need* tea! And I will totally remember my travel cup tomorrow!) and then headed across. First session – the best session so far, on cleaning up legacy stuff and moving on so you don’t have to worry about it. Seriously, brilliant. Simone <\/a>and Ben <\/a>did a fabulous job. The download pack they produced<\/a> should come in real handy!<\/p>\n

Spent the next session in the speaker lounger, talking with a few other speakers regarding my talk and their talks, getting a few new insights on things we’re doing at work…and some good ideas to take back! Also had an amazing talk with two lovely ladies –\u00a0Michelle Sandford<\/a> and Jessica Payne<\/a>. Rare to get a group of women speakers together to have a chat about the industry and how we think it’s going. Was a very interesting chat!<\/p>\n

Attended a couple of sessions – Orin Thomas’s<\/a> “30 Bad Habits” was awesome. I had listened to a fair chunk of this talk already, off Channel 9, when he presented in NZ…but he presented it entirely different. He’s a very dynamic and agile speaker. Tad jealous…<\/p>\n

Wanted to stick my head into Regan’<\/a>s session but HOLY BEJBUS! The room was PACKED! They ended up needing to boost the aircon, it was so hot from all the bodies. Know a few people who went, so will be sure to pick their brains…and watch the recording once it’s up on Channel 9!<\/p>\n

Tried to attend a DSC talk as well, hoping there’d be a bit more focus on how to use it to look after your servers, but it was fairly heavily Developer focused, which was a bit of a shame – wasn’t really what I expected from the talk at all. Heading out, bumped into a few people who were discussing DSC and how to look at implementing it for servers, so not a total waste! ^_^<\/p>\n

Spent some time again in the speaker lounge, doing some final work on my presentations and speaking with a few other Microsoft people. It was at this point I should note that I must’ve been distracted…I wish I could say who distracted me, so I could blame them, but I truly don’t know. I was doing work on my presentations on my tablet and then next minute I was off walking to speak to a few other people and attend a few other sessions and I must’ve left it behind…something I didn’t notice until midway through Jessica Payne<\/a>‘s session on Windows Event Log Forwarding – seriously, sorry Jess for bailing on you, it was no indication of you as a speaker, and every indication of me being a mindless idiot!<\/p>\n

Had a minor breakdown, spoke to a few people in security and from the event who were *AMAZING* in helping me out. Few phone calls later and it was discovered a tablet had been handed in to the office…a small, grey ASUS tablet. Mine.<\/p>\n

Seriously – whoever you are who so honestly and selflessly handed in my tablet – THANK YOU. This isn’t a work device, this didn’t come from my organisation, this is my own personal machine and I paid for it myself. To lose it (and all my data…and credentials!) would have been absolutely devastating, especially just before I was supposed to speak! I was so grateful it had been handed in and I was able to get it back – no kidding, I hugged it all the way back to my hotel room.<\/p>\n

For those who don’t know (or are new to this blog) – I’m very open about a lot of things, especially mental health. I suffer from anxiety, and losing my tablet is big enough to send me into a massive tail spin. I have to thank the wonderful people who look after the event for being patient and kind and understanding with me regarding this – there was no judgement about me bawling my eyes out because I’d lost a device, they took it in their stride. Huge HUGE thanks to them.<\/p>\n

After discovering I hadn’t lost my device, I was able to spend a few minutes calming the hell down (this takes a bit of effort…), was able to gather myself together, dump my stuff, throw on a pair of heels (because it always makes me feel better!) and head to the Veeam party. Glad I did, because catching up with all the people there was probably the best medicine I could’ve been prescribed! Was a really lovely chill night – only a few drinks, but enough to mellow me out \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Early night, back to the hotel for around 11pm (hey, that’s early for these kind of events people!) and then time to type a few notes from the day to be able to flesh out a good blog post before spending some time chilling to some DECENT music (none of this dancey pop nonsense :P) and having a cup of tea before bed.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow another day will dawn…and it’ll be time to present! Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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