So ... I stayed up until half past two in the morning to finish my wonderful, magical, spell-binding, best ever power point slide show in the history of power point slides shows for my 11:30 a.m. talk at the Big Skills conference organised by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. I arrived at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre in plenty of time; maybe eleven o'clock. It was only when I asked the techie guy to help me install my presentation that I discovered I had saved the best ever power point slide show on my PC's hard disc and not the USB drive I had brought with me.
Dummkopf!!!! As we say in my little universe called 'Almost got it right!'
Twenty frantic minutes of cutting and pasting from other presentations (which were, thankfully, saved on my USB) and some quick slide creation gave me something close to a decent talk. I don't think anyone noticed.
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Julie McCrossin sat in on my session, which she seemed to enjoy. She roped me in to the plenary session after lunch (not that it takes much to persuade me to sit in front of a microphone). Julie asked me to start my piece on the rights of people with disability with my second rendition of the day of Beethoven's 9th on my harmonica. So 400 delegate suffered the shonkiest playing you could possibly imagine but it got the point across as it always does (Beethoven never heard his own music because he was completely deaf by the time it was first performed). Not a bad day really but I did kick myself when I read the list of files on my USB. Dickhead.
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