Man, these are LOOONG blocks!

We got our excercise today. We woke up at around noon. I intended to sleep in pretty late because I still wasn't feeling very good. I still wasn't feeling that great when I woke up, but it got better as time went on. We ate our doughnuts that we bought at Dunkin Donuts the night before and then set off for Martin's office on 26th street. We scoped it out on the map and it didn't seem too far away. Granted, our hotel is in Times Square (46th street) and we would be walking all the way down to 26th street. Yeh..only 20 blocks. It ended up being a pretty good walk, but we made it. When I got to our office, I walked in and said, "Hi, I'm Jeff from the Richmond office." The lady at the front desk didn't quite know what to think of me. I mean, if I were her, how would I know if I should believe me? I guess she knew I supposed to be there, so she told me to walk around and do whatever I needed. The place looked absolutely awesome. It had nice woodgrain floors and plenty of cool contemporary lighting. I really felt like an outside and kinda lost, even. I did a few things that I needed to do, then we left.

We caught a cab back here to the hotel, rested up and made plans to walk to the Javits Center (the site of the big conference this week). It, too, was a pretty good walk, but it gave us both a great look at New York. The closer we got to the convention center the more Apple billboards we saw, most plastered with "I (Apple logo) NY". It was just so cool to see so many Apple billboards around. When we got there, the building was also plastered with signage. I've posted a photo gallery from today's activities.

Whne we walked in, it was exactly how all of the pictures I've seen on the 'net made it look. The ceilings are really high and there were Mac posters and signs everywhere. Signs for the new iBooks, MacOS X, and nVidia were hanging from the rafters. We made our way over to the registration area and picked up Olivia's badge, since they hadn't mailed it to us before we left. We walked around so that i could get a good idea where I'm going tomorrow and then left. We walked back to the hotel, trying to take a different route than we had taken the first time so that we could see as much as possible.

Tonight, we headed north up Broadway and saw the Ed Sullivan theater, home to the Dave Letterman Show. A guy (a CBS rep.)was standing outside and offered us tickets to tomorrow night's show if we could answer a trivia question. We decided to go for it. The question was "Where is Dave originally from?" I answered "Illinois." Of course, I was correct. So, the guy wrote our names on his clipboard and gave us a blue paper that he says will get us into tomorrow's taping of the show. Now, before you all get too excited, here's the bummer: The MacWorld conferences and seminars go from 12:30 until 5pm tomorrow, and the guy said that we have to be standing in line before 4pm to get into tomorrow's taping. I sorta knew this before he offered the tickets to us, but it was worth getting anyway. After we walked away, Olivia both agreed that the guy giving away the tickets seemed rather suspicious. While we were talking to him, I even asked him if he was just some random guy off the streets posing as a CBS employee. He pulled out a Late Show badge, but I could create a CBS badge in PhotoShop. So, we're not exactly sure that he was even a CBS employee, but it doesn't really matter now. Supposedly, you can call starting at 11am each day before a taping to get standby tickets, so we're going to try to do that for Thursday's taping. I'll keep you all informed if we get standby tickets. :)

I'm so psyched. Tomorrow morning, Steve Jobs will get up on stage, in front of me and a gazillion other Mac fanatics and give his MacWorld New York 2001 keynote address. I probably won't sleep tonight. For those of you that have TechTV, the keynote will be broadcast on there and also via Quicktime streaming using this page on Apple's website. I can't wait!!!!