Just Before the Big Adventure

By the Beard of Thor! The time is upon me and the Big Adventure is almost here. Even now, with so much to do I still find myself hiding my head a little bit from the reality of not being at home all week.

This seems like the only time I will have been away from my boy in his life ( more sad for me than him, I'm sure ) and the only time I've not been home to wife since we have been together ( aside from a night or two at the time of said boys arrival into the world). The preparation has been so busy and stressful I have not really absorbed the scale of the project, let alone it's affect on me personally.

To describe a little more. I am about to go to Las Vegas for the NACS Show 2009 - which is a huuuuuge venue for forecourt and petrochem companies and their major yearly exhibition. I have been part of a team organising and forming the essence of the exhibition for my current employer PetroTechnik (hi guys!). I wont delve too much into the specifics of why or what because it may distract from the experiences relevant to this blog. Go to the company site to know more, Google your self silly and track down the details. What interests me more is obviously, my part in this.

The visual design, advertising and general organisation has fallen to me and thus I have been unable to fully take in the massive scale. I know it will be big and wonderful, I know it will be successful, but exactly how successful and wonderful is yet to play out.

I will talk more about it as the days unfold, as I plan to focus on communication. Something that will become very important. So I will try and keep a diary of sorts via this blog, post pictures and so on, even record some vlogs and messages.

I will discuss time at some point, and yes I will go off on a big twisty mind rant. Time is very much entwined in these events. Not just from the time spent away but the time not spent in normality.

The reason I have not blogged for so long and the reason for some new activity is that I will be away by aeroplane, staying in big hotel, roaming the halls of Las Vegas and not be back for a little while. This may be seen as a great time for most, a holiday even for some but with my particular family it is very different, we simply do not wish to be apart. Our lives and way of living is carefully balanced and sychronised, routined and ordered to fulfill as much of our quite and modest wishes as we can.

I will have to buy a suitcase for this whole event. Thank goodness I have a passport! Plus I have this swanky new laptop so I need to make best use of it.

Now, change is not a bad thing in itself and every time we have experienced change so far, we have adapted and molded reality until it allows us to once again maintain our path.

We are a bubble, a unit, the family is one.